The Never-Ending Story When a new process or methodology comes along—particularly when one gets a lot of attention like DevOps has—there always will be failures. I'm not talking about those always-present group ...

Every DevOps toolstack has a control point, be it a bus, an app, a management app or whatever. Something always is in control and driving the other pieces of the architecture to ...

Thought leadership is a term that those of us in the industry hear a lot. A thought leader is a person who has ideas/thoughts that push the edge and brings great ideas ...

DevOps was built around the concept of continuous everything. We even use it in many of the names—continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous integration (CI)—and it is a worthy goal to want ...

I’m a huge fan of the idea of taking our super-duper applications and deploying them where it makes most sense. I always have been. Those of us in application development spent forever ...

Anytime there is a popular movement in technology (and I would argue any other field), people get carried away. We’ve seen it over and over, and DevOps attracts this kind of attention ...

Every once in a while, it is worth revisiting a topic that flies under most people’s radar. The differences between continuous delivery and continuous deployment is one of those topics. While those ...

The consternation seen in some corners of the internet over Microsoft’s agreement to acquire GitHub is overblown and too early. For those who don’t follow me normally, I am a developer for ...

Cloud has been around long enough, and we’ve had enough breaches stemming from unsecured cloud (mostly data objects, but other items, too) that we should know better. I cringe whenever I see ...

As development moves ever faster, continuous testing can help further reduce the risk of introducing errors In IT circles, “risk management” implies information security. But in the business as a whole, risk ...