Your aging mom needs a new car. You are picking it out for her because she quit paying attention to cars long ago. All you ever buy is Fords. You also always ...
Operations uses monitoring to provide early detection of issues with systems/servers/networks. Among those monitoring options is Datadog, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud service/application monitoring tool that allows Operations to be notified of issues ...
In the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one blog ...
In part 1 of this series we talked about server provisioning tools. In that post, we mentioned some of the more prominent application provisioning tools on the market with regard to integrations. This ...
We have reached the state where end-to-end data center provisioning is a reality. It’s early yet, so there is a certain amount of work involved, but today a DevOps team essentially can ...
Lori and I were discussing DevOps and surveys the other day, and in what must be described a rare occurrence, we disagreed on the best path to undertake your first DevOps project ...
Enterprises have been working through production delays and operational inefficiencies for decades. Don’t get sucked in too deeply to the ever-present mantra of “this time is different”. There is a lot of ...
It is interesting, as the triplet new waves of hype evolve - cloud, SDN, and DevOps - that we are repeatedly hearing The Voice of Reason say things like "All network engineers ...
Every great movement has its weaknesses, be the movement social, technical, or political, there are always ways in which it falls short and steps must be taken. DevOps is not some special ...
Coaching DevOps Baseball Every technology gets surrounded by hype during its maturation, and DevOps is certainly not immune to that phenomenon. If you’ve spent more than five minutes looking into it, you ...
