In the quest for DevOps, there are two paths organizations can take. One is to start with automation and attempt to get as much as possible out of automation tools. The other ...

The larger the project, the more resources are generally dedicated to it. That is true of the vast majority of fields of human endeavor. Consider building the San Francisco Bridge versus building ...

Historically speaking, IT has been composed of silos. This has worked out rather well over the last half century or so, as one team developed systems, another kept them running, another handled ...

When DevOps appeared on the scene, configuration file management tools already existed. They weren’t used by everyone, but a fair number of organizations saw the power of configuration file versioning/management, and were ...

Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a ...

You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored ...

As my regular readers know, I started a series on companies that I found intriguing who were going to Jenkins World both late (a couple weeks before the event started), and ad ...

Everyone who follows me knows that I’m a fan of XebiaLabs’ Periodic Table of DevOps Tools. It was the first attempt I am aware of to arrange things in a way that ...

In this third spotlight on companies attending Jenkns World, another worth checking out came to mind, so I am taking a look at what XebiaLabs intends to do while there. XebiaLabs is ...

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I’d take some more of the people pinging me about Jenkins World 2017 and post about them. One of the companies I’ve picked to ...