Adopt DevOps Practices Organically, But Don’t “DO DevOps” (or is DevOps bullshit?)
In a post on his blog , programmer Josh Johnson points out that “radical claims of great cultural shifts, especially in technology” are usually “bullshit”. “Over time technology changes, but true radicalism is rare. Most often, a reinvention or revisiting of past ideas forms the basis for such claims. This DevOps thing was no different,” […]
Sofico Adds DevOps Approaches, Updates CD, Part Two
We recently geared up with Sofico’s existing CD process and the challenges it presented together with its search for a devops solution. Now read the conclusion as Sofico earns satisfaction through its own devops approaches. Sofico Adopts DevOps Methods / Tools Today, Sofico uses the Bamboo CI server to perform builds, deployments, and tests. Bamboo […]
Linux Containers & Security Implications
Does the word “container” intimate containment, suggesting that containers are inherently secure? If it does, any such assumption of security may be the broadest Docker vulnerability to date. “One of the biggest threats I see with Docker is its positioning and the implied security in the language. The reality is that these containers don’t contain […]
Sofico Adds DevOps Approaches, Updates CD
Yes, you can have continuous delivery without DevOps. To understand why you wouldn’t want to, follow the journey of Sofico from its CD of olden days to its CD rooted in DevOps today. A Very Brief History of Sofico Its founders started Sofico 27-years ago as a small family company. Today Sofico is a multinational […]
IBM InterConnects DevOps & Systems of Record/Systems of Engagement
There are many planes and points-of-view from which to examine how DevOps changes development. One way to look at it is to cut an application down the (more or less) middle, dividing it between its system of engagement and its system of record. Briefly, the system of engagement interfaces with the customer while the system […]
Reaching Millennials with new Mainframes and agile technology
“I’ve been with IBM for 25-years and been with the mainframe. We hear either that the mainframe is dead or that it will be retired in one or two years,” says Mike Fulton, IBM DevOps for Enterprise Systems CTO, and blogger at https://makingdeveloperslivesbetter.wordpress.com/. But IBM and Fulton have built bridges from the largely new and […]
IBM InterConnects Intuitive Themes to DevOps Challenges
IBM DevOps Evangelist, Eric Minick will leverage his slots at IBM InterConnect 2015 to help you surmount continuous delivery and automated deployment DevOps challenges, three of which include: balancing a continuous delivery pipeline; deployments in hybrid cloud scenarios; and, fitting in trickier deployments. DevOps.com spoke with Eric about these challenges and the central themes that […]
A DevOps Metamorphosis Echoes Through Reverb.com, Part Two
Last time, Dear Reader, we discovered how the Reverb.com e-commerce platform, which connects musicians who want to buy and sell gear sought to automate its workflow software development process, speeding deployment and bug fixes while satisfying customers who want to trade in an online environment that is as efficient and error-free as possible. Now, the […]
A DevOps Metamorphosis Echoes Through Reverb.com, Part One
“Reverb.com is an e-commerce platform that connects musicians, enabling them to buy and sell used gear and instruments,” says Adam Enger, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Reverb.com. As an ecommerce site, it is critical to Reverb.com that its workflows such as checkout, offers to purchase, and messaging work in tandem with its selling workflows, which include creating new […]
DevOps Transforms Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC, www.copyright.com) works primarily with business, academic, and medical institutions, enabling them to access the vital content that supports their work. CCC manages fee payments to the license holders and content creators who own the content. DevOps approaches have transformed CCC, a global leader in content rights-licensing solutions, resulting in expanded service […]
How DevOps Eases The Holiday Shopping Experience
“I have been building retail software for 15-years,” says Harper Reed, CTO, Modest, CTO emeritus, Threadless, and former CTO, Obama for America. “With the advent of DevOps, development is now about how we can make the online experience better for the customer,” says Reed. It used to be about taking care of the systems. Today, […]
Choose Digital Chooses Jenkins For Continuous Deployment
Challenge: Shrink Time To Innovate Choose Digital offers a white label media store solution (think iTunes) for enterprises that want to reward brand loyalty with opportunities to use miles, points, or cash to buy digital products. As a competitive media company, Choose Digital was eager to test and adopt innovations to its software platform as […]
How to Enhance DevOps by Supporting the Work of the Build-Release Engineer
Support Through Freedom As we’ll see, supporting the work of the build-release engineer enhances DevOps by adding consistency, easing minds, and freeing DevOps teams to do more. To support the work of the release engineer, the enterprise must set them free as well, by letting them automate everything, treat manual interventions as process failures, and […]
Separation Anxiety & the Leap from Dated IT Approaches to DevOps
Never ASSUME! I assumed that the drag on moving from IT as we knew it to a DevOps approach (with its continuous software deployment and other advantages) was due to the separation anxiety and fears of loss or change on the part of enterprises on the whole. As you may know from the 70’s TV […]
DevOps.com Examines DevOps-as-a-Service
Should enterprises buy DevOps or build their own? DevOps.com looks at the benefits and detractors of DevOps-as-a-Service. To -As-A-Service or Not To -As-A-Service Vendors are moving enterprise technologies to the cloud, adding “–as-a-Service” at the end of their titles. Such was the case when Disaster Recovery became Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service. But not everything that can be done […]
Targeting software development to SoCs / NoCs using a DevOps approach
Without hardware to run it, software is useless. Hardware influences software development, since the software must fit the hardware platform and take advantage of its strengths, abilities, and components. Network-on-Chip / System-on-Chip hardware is a relatively new platform enabling communications between network and system elements that exist on the chip at the molecular level. This […]
BlazeMeter Adds New Relic Insights to Drive Testing
BlazeMeter a performance / load testing as a self-service platform for mobile apps, websites, and APIs lets developers test mobile and API backend performance and view KPIs in a dashboard. BlazeMeter tools simplify testing, reducing the time to test while running many tests per day. Customers use BlazeMeter as a self-serve and on-demand service. “All […]
Top 3 Must-Haves in Development/IT Operations Project Handoffs, Part Two
As you may recall, in part one we uncovered 1.5 of the top three must-haves in development/IT operations project handoffs. We now know that operations really needs to know what the normal and abnormal operating conditions are for any software that development produces. We know that development needs to share the accumulated technical debt for […]
Top 3 must-haves in Dev/Ops project handoffs, Part one
There isn’t much that makes IT operations happier than receiving that brand new application neatly boxed, wrapped, tied with a bow, and outfitted with exhaustive instructions for every what-if, what-then, and what now scenario. Before you give the gift that keeps on giving in all the wrong ways, take these top three must-haves in developer […]
How Change Management Serves the Developer
Change management first comes to mind as a means to keep errant, untested, unapproved code from entering production. But did you know that what is good for IT operations is good for developers, too? Developers appreciate change management. They enjoy the change management benefits of Linus Torvald’s popular Git version control system http://git-scm.com/, which maintains […]
Internet of Things (IoT) poses challenges for DevOps and security
One of the hottest things in tech today is the Internet of Things (IoT). Everything will be connected including every gadget, kitchen appliance, wearable device and vehicle. But one of the biggest areas for IoT are controllers embedded into just about everything. These controllers will report back, generating reports and information that can be analyzed […]