APM Prepares Prep Sportswear for Promising Growth
Prep Sportswear kicked off in 2003 and appeared either in the Inc. 500 or Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private U.S. companies six years in a row, from 2009- 2014, according to online data from Inc. Magazine. The custom sportswear vendor has achieved 130-percent growth over the past three years, says Mike Jones, Director of […]
PicsArt’s APM Transition Brings Clarity for Customers
PicsArt’s Technology Landscape PicsArt enables its creative user base to freely upload or draw, edit, and exchange digital images in a worldwide, web-based community. PicsArt works on the web and on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms. PicsArt applies state-of-the-art backend infrastructure to provide its editing applications and social reach for its community. PicsArt uses […]
The Scalable Path to DevOps Career Training & Development – A Premium Talent Marketplace
“Our company is a premium talent marketplace with on-demand leadership and clients mostly in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, New York, and other metropolitan areas,” says Tomas Gutierrez, Partner, Scalable Path, a geographically-distributed network of more than a thousand software architects and developers. Scalable Path serves clients such as tech startups and product companies by […]
The Scalable Path to DevOps Career Training & Development
“Our company is a premium talent marketplace with on-demand leadership and clients mostly in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, New York, and other metropolitan areas,” says Tomas Gutierrez, Partner, Scalable Path, a geographically-distributed network of more than a thousand software architects and developers. Scalable Path serves clients such as tech startups and product companies by […]
LinkedIn Preps Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) For Exciting Careers
Find and Fix, Sink or Swim A few LinkedIn NOC engineers including Ariel Casas had a hand in forming what the once fledgling business / professional networking company today calls its Site Reliability Engineering organization. “The main difference between SRE and devops is that SREs are basically developers who happen to be very good at […]
Test-Driven Development (TDD) Drives Smart Developers at Smartling
Supporting Swift Cyber Business Ramp Ups Around the World with Translation and Localization Sped by CD Smartling technology enables the business to quickly translate content in websites, apps, and documents into any language in the world. “We streamline all the non-linguistic work associated with the translation,” says Andrey Akselrod, CTO / Co-Founder, Smartling, a translation […]
American Psychological Association Finds CI & CD Therapeutic
The American Psychological Association (APA), the largest scientific and professional organization for psychology in the U.S. publishes the PsycINFO database with 4-million records and more than 90 peer reviewed journals, books, and other publications, starts Beverly Jamison, Sr. Director, IT Architecture, The APA. “We maintain a database of psychological tests and measures and psychotherapy demonstration […]
The Jenkins JUC is coming to Santa Clara
DevOps.com spoke with Sacha Labourey, CEO, CloudBees about the upcoming Jenkins User Conference, its value, purpose, and focus, and about CD. It’s fitting coming into the JUC to highlight Mr. Labourey’s recent accomplishments. “Last year, we announced the Jenkins workflow, so the ability to build pipelines to create Continuous Delivery environments,” says Labourey. Noting Jenkins’ […]
A Slice of Groovy’s Hip Use of JFrog Artifactory & Bintray, and of Gradle and TeamCity
Grrroooooovy, Baby! Groovy supporters describe the Groovy programming language as dynamic and statically typed, supporting functional programming and OOP as a superset that includes the Java programming language. “It’s a kind of Java on steroids if you will!” says Guillaume Laforge, an Apache Groovy project PPMC member. A few examples of common applications of Groovy […]
Q & A: AppDynamics on commercial monitoring applications
AppDynamics hired Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to produce a study about why the enterprise is plagued with numerous commercial monitoring applications that are not in use. According to AppDynamics, the enterprise is encumbered with disparate applications, resulting in vast challenges for IT teams including underperformance, monitoring gaps, and siloed tools—not to mention that many IT […]
Jut Operations Data Hub for DevOps
“You have to be able to ask questions of your data in real-time and then respond to the answers,” says Apurva Dave, VP of Marketing, Jut. Jut leverages live streaming, batch analytics, and visualization to enable enterprises to ask important queries of their operational data using the Jut operations data hub, which Jut created with […]
Loggly Derived Fields Add Structure To Unstructured Logs
The Gist of Loggly’s Derived Fields Gesture A top log management product vendor, Loggly announced an update to its tooling last month in the form of its new Derived Fields. The vendor has drilled down past the summaries in its Dynamic Field Explorer interface into Derived Fields that use metadata to structure unstructured log data. […]
Appster Must Produce Mobile Apps Using Nimble DevOps Practices (It Has No Choice)!
In order to meet the many challenges of producing loads of different app/server projects large and small in extremely rapid succession, Appster collaborates on, automates, and dashboards everything it can. “Unlike traditional product companies (i.e. one product with lots of developers) or corporate IT shops (i.e. silos of products and services that rarely change), Appster […]
Internap’s DevOps Culture: PrivateStack + CD = ? [Read On & Draw Your Own Conclusions]
Engineers at Internap, a hosting company and public cloud vendor designed a new OpenStack-based cloud platform and development environment. DevOps.com tells the story of Internap’s DevOps cultural evolution, which grew virally, interwoven with the company’s development of PrivateStack. Challenges in Internap’s Common Development Environment Challenges that slowed Internap’s cloud development process triggered a hunger for […]
GE Capital Releases Mobile App Twice Weekly, Automating Compliance at Velocity, Thanks to DevOps/CD/CI
GE Capital offers equipment leases, mobile apps, and financial products for corporate customers. GE Capital’s Matt Merchant, Global Managing Director—DevOps, spoke with DevOps.com about development initiatives and processes at the financial services giant. According to Merchant, his team leads the charge in driving (A) the DevOps cultural transformation throughout IT, (B) the adoption and expansion […]
RedHat Culture Keeping the DevOps Faith
Red Hat is readily recognized for its accomplishments with Linux and software design. The Red Hat DevOps culture itself started by design as a program built on training developers in operations skills and increasing operations’ faith in these developers. Red Hat’s IT Platform Operations Manager, Anderson Silva tells DevOps.com how internal teams initiated the cultural […]
Atlantic.Net Credits DevOps Culture to Mental Agility
Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net) is a Solid State Drive-based cloud hosting provider with locations in New York City, San Francisco, Dallas, Toronto, Orlando, and (coming soon) London and Singapore, says Marty Puranik, Founder & CEO, Atlantic.Net. The Atlantic.Net cloud system is an intuitive IaaS server environment for customers who are developers. The company backs its 24/7/365 operation […]
Netuitive’s Transformation to SaaS Delivery, Powered by Its New DevOps Shop, Part Two
In part one, DevOps.com presented Netuitive’s DevOps transformation, which helped the company to automate its product development processes. Now in part two, we take a look at that development process as it stands today. Netuitive Development & Technical Debt Initiatives “We are using a Feature Branch Workflow model with Git to isolate our work while […]
Netuitive’s Transformation to SaaS Delivery, Powered by DevOps, Part 1
“Netuitive offers an adaptive monitoring solution for cloud infrastructure, applications, and services, powered by a patented self-learning correlation engine,” says Brian Spindler, VP of Engineering, Netuitive. The engine uses multivariate regression analysis to calculate correlation coefficients between metrics based on time-series data collected, leveraging the significance of certain relationships between metrics variables across the data. […]
Step-By-Step: How DataArt Processes Application Backlogs, Converting Legacy Apps with DevOps
DataArt designs and custom builds software for industries such as travel & hospitality, media, IoT, financial services, and healthcare. “We build new products and services, improving existing solutions, re-engineering legacy systems, and providing expertise in technological and industrial domains,” says Anton Krasikov, Project Manager, DataArt. How DataArt Uses DevOps DataArt quickly delivers high quality software […]
Netskope Draws Strength from DevOps In Support Of Scrum Development
Netskope keeps enterprises and their data secure despite the unbridled mix of approved and unapproved mobile apps in the market and on employee devices. Employees use unapproved mobile apps (BYOA) on their BYOD smartphones, tablets, and laptops when connected to networks away from the enterprise. IT professionals are keenly interested in tools that help them […]
How machine learning could head off security quality failure
With so many players in the mix from operations to developers, from PMs to technical leads, to Q&A, most of their activities are automated. Systems record all their email, Wiki, and chat conversations and other notations about these activities. This gives the devops community the opportunity to learn from that data in order to improve […]
Mixcloud Makeover: Faster Development, More Confidence
“Mixcloud provides audio hosting and distribution for millions of podcasters and DJs,” says Matthew Clayton, CTO & Co-Founder, Mixcloud. Mixcloud’s developers program the site in python (Django) and javascript, and develop their native mobile apps in Java and Objective-C. The Mixcloud team grew its mammoth Django monolith application over a five year period. Mixcloud’s primary […]