
ChatOps: Communicating at the speed of DevOps
DevOps is about knocking down barriers between developers and operations teams, and in doing so reducing organizational frictions wherever possible. And that’s certainly the spirit behind ChatOps – the term for the hyper-collaborative way of running DevOps, including operating aspects of systems and infrastructure, through online chat. Proponents of ChatOps say it streamlines communication in […]

DevOps: Getting Past Audit
New business processes (and technologies) too often throw auditors into a tailspin. It’s no one’s fault, really: the decision making on what IT and process controls that need to be in place moves slow – and it is the tail to the rapidly moving technology dog. In fact, while there is no way a standard […]

A Q & A with Gene Kim: DevOps and What Separates High Performing Enterprises
We recently caught up with Gene Kim (@realgenekim) as he was wrapping up the final touches of a draft of the upcoming DevOps Cookbook. We wanted to get his thoughts on what causes IT deployment failure, the DevOp movement, and finally what separates high performing IT organizations from low performing ones. If you’re following DevOps, […]
