One of the things that has bemused me from day one of the DevOps movement is how culture is viewed with an odd dichotomy. It is simultaneously DevOps' greatest strength and its ...
Why have I written “DevOps and Security” and not DevSecOps or one of the other names that floats around? Because this post is aimed to apply to everyone—not just those far enough ...
IDG and Insight Datalink recently conducted a survey into how companies were doing on their digital transformation journey. Like so much in technology these days, it is easy to feel as though ...
As DevOps functionality continues to expand, we’re looking at a new vista for freedom of applications. Our apps can be moved around as we need them; we can build-test-deploy on the fly; ...
Infrastructure is changing as more services replace the need for hardware-based architectures There has been a lot of change in the last few years, and that change shows no sign of slowing ...
In traditional DevOps, there are the complimentary forms of development operations (that I call DEVops), and development operations (that I like to call devOPS). Between them they automate the toolchain and bring ...
To continue the discussion from my last blog post, you have a box. Increasingly, you only have to ask, "What do we want to put in it?" It is interesting to see ...
Like everyone else, Sunday night I got a surprise with the pre-announcement of IBM’s intent to acquire Red Hat (I might have seen it a little earlier than the rest of you, ...
The growth of DevOps and containers has created some interesting split responsibility scenarios. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something that bears watching and fixing when it ...
We’ve come a long way. Just five years ago, with virtual machines (VMs) and decent monitoring, I would never have considered active automated system repairs for the average organization. There were many ...