Is Your Future in SaaS? Yes, Except …
The growth of SaaS—including IaaS—was phenomenal when it came and it has become somewhat pervasive. Today, there are SaaS tools in use at just about every business, large or small. From sales ...
Update Those Ops Tools, Too
We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to ...
Why We Still Need Specialists
A few years back, I wrote here that specialists—particularly infrastructure specialists—were not going anywhere. I think it is worth updating that prediction and reminding you all that specialists across the bulk of ...
The Great Market Convergence is Coming
When you look around tech markets—almost any tech market—you can see an obvious overlap. Tons of markets that are complementary and that take different approaches to solving the same problem, or markets ...
The Problem With Security
As an IT professional with decades of experience at every level of technology and organizations—from cell phone prototyping to banking enterprise architecture, from entry-level to CTO—I can state definitively that I have ...
DevSecOps Tools: Hot Air Ahead
I, like most of you, don’t like hardcore marketing that hinges its statements on “Well, that’s technically true…” I also am not a fan of talking heads that spew predictions about the ...
Security Debt: Speed vs. Common Sense
A couple years ago, we had some spectacular security events that involved DevOps and Kubernetes, where the managing team simply redeployed containers whenever one crashed. It turned out that many organizations were ...
What We Don’t Know is Dangerous
Pop quiz: How many database management systems (be they RDBMS or NoSQL or even flat file) do you have running in your overall organization? Not actual databases, but management systems? How many ...
Turnover, Documentation and Missing Links
When employee turnover spikes, IT in general and DevOps teams in particular need to be prepared. At the time of this writing, the stock market is roiling, and DevOps compensation is bouncing ...
Sometimes, You Should Fix What Isn’t Broken
DevOps has been with us long enough now that there is a lot of legacy DevOps stuff running in all of the places I have eyes into. Ignoring items that are not ...
