In one of our regular back-and-forth breaks, Lori and I were talking shop a week or two ago, and she shared an excellent report by GitGuardian with me. Frankly, none of the ...
But don't count on it. Fellow DevOps.com contributor Bill Doerrfeld recently wrote, "Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt," a great article about trends in technical debt, and it got me thinking about some ...
We often go to restaurants and treat ourselves to unfamiliar and exotic foods made with ingredients we're only vaguely aware of. A chef and their team (or a manager and their crew) ...
The amount of testing that we could be doing is massive. Most of us don't look at testing across the spectrum and all-inclusively, but let's do that for a second. We have ...
As API use has exploded across IT departments large and small, the need to manage APIs as independent entities—both APIs themselves and calls to them—rapidly became apparent. We have been through this ...
The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we ...
APIs are the satisfaction of a long and deep need to be able to create consistent and reliable integrations between disparate systems, operating systems and datasets. As we started to use REST-based ...
While I was writing my "Dear Management …" post, something was going on behind the scenes that inspired me to write another. We all have things we wish to say to vendors; ...
My occasional reminder that "Change is good, but predictability is better," is in the form of a message to DevOps upper management. I thought it would be fun to write, and would ...
