Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right ... But only while ...
It is pretty amusing, the number of software vendors that are selling us tools to work in our Agile and/or DevOps infrastructure but are not at all agile in their sales cycle ...
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, ...
One of the most interesting developments in security and compliance in recent years is the ability to follow a piece of data through an application from input to consumption and see each ...
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those ...
We IT folks are pretty fearless. Because it is newer technology, and change in IT is easier than in areas like heavy manufacturing, we are regularly thrown new tools, products and methodologies ...
Two criteria are used to determine pervasiveness of a new idea. Availability of an easy-to-understand solution and customer need. Given both of these items, what might be a market-differentiating feature available in ...
For nearly the entire history of application development—certainly since application development became available to a larger market with the adoption of the personal computer for expansive business use—testing has taken a back ...
I’ve made no secret of the fact that DevOps was a game-changing advance in how the business of IT was done. But people tend to get religious about the methodology and forget ...
I have written about “the right tool for the job” repeatedly. Because (again) we are absolutists in IT. My father was an antiques restorer that dabbled in flipping houses and was rather ...