The age of functional programming is dawning. The hype cycle has heated up, and IT departments are getting both real and perceived benefits out of the idea that a function runs on ...

As the cycle of DevOps is repeated in a growing list of organizations, I feel compelled to reiterate the warning that this is not the pinnacle. Anyone who has been around for ...

There are two basic design methodologies in the software development world: top down and bottom up. In bottom up, the goal is to piece functionality together to “build up” to the desired ...

My family has been playing a fair amount of the board game Settlers of Catan lately and, as happens with me, I got to considering the balancing act of the game versus ...

Those who talk a lot about DevOps, particularly those who talk a lot about culture change, sometimes gloss over or “think it is obvious” that some roles change more than others when ...

Helping out a friend, I had reason to revisit low-code/no-code solutions and poke around a bit. The industry has been relatively quiet on the topic, but changes in systems and marketing made ...

It has become somewhat of a standard practice to tell people, “DevOps is a journey, not a destination,” which attempts to convey the fact that there is no end point that is ...

The promises of DevOps are clear. They offer faster iterations, allowing ops to keep up with agile development and make an IT organization more responsive to business needs. DevOps doesn’t make less ...

Software defects have been with us forever, and while DevOps and agile can reduce the number of defects generated, it is unlikely this number will ever get to zero for a given ...

The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way DevOps worked—particularly ...