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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Works on my machine!” We’ve all had that co-worker. I have had one at pretty much every company I've worked for. At several jobs, it devolved into a running joke. There is ...
Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps' problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of ...
Just about every organization I am familiar with today is using more languages, frameworks, libraries, etc. than they were a decade ago. Back then, most organizations were doing a lot of Java, ...
Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that, ...
At this point, we’ve got a ton of experience with the bits of Git that we use. And locking down Git is well-documented. Okay, it is documented; we can say that, at ...
If you’ve seen Idiocracy (Side note: I am not recommending the movie; I’m using a phrase from it we’ve all heard. The movie itself was a comedy not at all meant to ...
