Walmart OneOps Won’t Be One-Upped
One of the biggest names in retail also is kind of a big deal in DevOps. Walmart has developed its own platform, OneOps, designed to streamline operations and keep its application development schedule in check. “OneOps is an open source cloud and application lifecycle management technology platform with benefits including cloud portability so developers can […]
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 1
Stefan Thies is DevOps evangelist Sematext Group. I recently spoke with him about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Read on for part one of our conversation. David Geer: Technically speaking, for the purposes of this article, what is logging? Thies: Logging means to store the […]
7 Causes of Continuous Delirium
When we think of CD, we typically think of continuous deployment as a result of continuous delivery, which is a goal of DevOps. In this article, I coin the phrase, “Continuous Delirium,” to mean unending confusion or bewilderment in development environments. There are probably several examples that could fit the bill here, but for now […]
SaaS-Powered FlightPartner Fueled by DevOps
Private jet charter company FlightPartner is reaping the benefits of DevOps to build a powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering to keep its customers flying high with no delays. “FlightPartner does not own any aircraft but rather facilitates the travel needs of clients by offering air charter brokers (agents to the client) access to a global network […]
Legacy IT Challenges Continuous Delivery
Legacy information technology infrastructure has a strong effect on the potential success of DevOps. In environments where different teams have always used the same servers, change can be difficult due to inter-team coordination and limited server transparency and application inventories, says David Blank-Edelman, a 30-year systems administration/DevOps/SRE veteran and currently Technical Evangelist at Apcera. “Unraveling […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
How Continuous Delivery Challenges Security
Security and continuous delivery each have implications in their effects on each other. While continuous delivery can demand new security measures, traditional security can slow continuous delivery or simply not address its security needs at all. Micro Case Study Clarifies Security Conflict Amrit Williams, now CTO of CloudPassage, shares an experience that exemplifies the challenges […]
Case Study: Sauce Labs Covers Animoto’s Testing Needs
Animoto’s web and mobile platforms enable businesses and consumers to drag and drop stock and user-defined visual and audio elements to create videos via a tiered monthly subscription service. Animoto updates service features with increasing frequency—some of them several times a day. “We have a broad range of applications and features including an online video […]
Software Complexity Driving DevOps Automation
The drivers behind increasing software complexity also are the drivers behind expansive DevOps automation. As the saying goes, “Software is eating the world.” DevOps is gobbling up software, too, engulfing it in practices that are necessary to make it thrive under the pressure of the current environment. That environment and those drivers are of keen […]
How DevOps Prevents DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most pervasive and difficult attacks to prevent. The attack uses many distributed endpoints and/or systems to flood a web domain, application or service with excessive service requests or application calls. There are limits to the amount of bandwidth or the number of service requests or […]
How To Maintain Open Source Code Hygiene
To maintain good open source code hygiene in the development process, you must first establish what you mean by open source code hygiene, including good and bad hygiene. “By hygiene, we just mean is it appropriate? Is it clean for the intended use?” says Mike Pittenger, VP of Strategy at Black Duck Software. Black Duck […]
DevOps Q&A: Datalink’s Dennis Vickers on MobileApps
Companies are custom-building mobile enterprise applications to enhance employee productivity on smartphones. DevOps.com recently spoke with Dennis Vickers, director of Software Solutions at data center services and solutions provider Datalink about this trend and where DevOps fits in to the process. DevOps.com: Why does applying smartphones to business initiatives require so much additional custom-built software? Vickers: […]
Case Study: Pearson Weaves ThreadFix into AppSec, Part 2
In part one, we discussed how education content publisher Pearson applied ThreadFix to its AppSec request workflow needs. Here’s the rest of the story. The ThreadFix Implementation Senior software security engineer Matt Tesauro added ThreadFix to Pearson’s workflow in the following steps: Using FPM, Tesauro created a Debian Linux package internally to deploy the ThreadFix […]
Case Study: Pearson Weaves ThreadFix into AppSec, Part 1
Pearson is a publisher of education industry content to meet the needs of teachers and students from kindergarten/early learning through higher education and continuing education (for professionals). The company uses a mix of software, from legacy third-party software and “classic ASP apps that are on life support to auto-scaling systems on Amazon,” says Matt Tesauro, […]
QA in the DevOps Era
In software approaches that produce monolithic applications, it is not uncommon to find siloed teams, with development, testing and operations each an island unto themselves. The responsibilities of test and development are distinct from each other and are not meshed into a hybrid team as you might see in advanced DevOps shops. “QA (quality assurance) […]
SolarWinds Powers Instacart’s DevOps Efforts
Instacart is an Internet-based home delivery service for groceries. Its mobile app and website enables consumers to leverage its service, which operates in 17 cities across the country. Customers order through the app, and Instacart’s personal shoppers fulfill those orders at local stores. Forbes magazine named Instacart the Most Promising Company of 2015, citing its […]
Boston DevOps Leader Pete Cheslock Talks Accomplishments
Pete Cheslock began his leadership role in DevOps in 2009 at cloud-based email archiving company Sonian. The company was founded by friends and former colleagues of his, who called Cheslock for help when they got funding for the Sonian venture. He filled in wherever they needed him—as did everyone else in the first few years […]
Jenkins Founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks DevOps Leadership, Part 2
In part one of this two-part series, we covered the early work of Kohsuke Kawaguchi, founder of Jenkins while he was at Sun (now Oracle) and also how he addressed the project’s challenges to growth by applying extensibility/plugins, incentivizing sharing in the community, and removing barriers that can result from apprenticeships. Now let’s continue as […]
Jenkins Founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks DevOps Leadership, part 1
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, founder 0f open source continuous integration tool Jenkins, was an early leader in DevOps, guiding the development of the Jenkins Project during his time at Sun (and later, Oracle) and plotting the course it would follow. “This project started as a hobby while I was at Sun,” Kawaguchi says. “From the project’s inception, […]
DevOps Leadership: Leading a DevOps Revolution in Pay TV
The State of DevOps in Pay TV Pay TV is largely rooted in an ancient operator model. “Operators in this industry usually take a year or longer to release new code into software. Their Ops teams are focused on making sure that existing environments never fail,” says Mark Hydar, Head of DevOps, Ericsson TV Platforms. […]
BoomTown No Bust with VM Supported Parallel Testing Environment
An Introduction to BoomTown DevOps Processes BoomTown uses a specific set of DevOps processes in order to deliver websites with the latest real estate listings and housing data as well as a CRM solution and analytics tools for real estate professionals. “Our development, operations, and QA teams automate everything in sight while offloading to cloud […]
Meeting Challenges in incorporating automated testing throughout the DevOps cycle
Enterprise development teams find it difficult to perform QA tests on software in short DevOps cycles where they cannot squeeze in lengthy regression tests. DevOps teams must insert automated testing approaches to resolve this predicament. “DevOps teams need to be more selective in prioritizing tests that occur at each stage of the integration to delivery […]
Ancestry.com Brings BlazeMeter into the Fold
In order to gather and organize your lineage and the branches in your family tree, Ancestry has spent more than a generation (the company was born in 1983) wading through the 16B+ images and records buried in historical society data, government archives, and information caches of like organizations, groups, and communities the world over. Data […]