
Interoperability’s Impact on Transparency
We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or working flawlessly. Automated testing systems, for instance, are generally good at highlighting pass/fail results from integrated testing in the development process. Once they […]

Changing the Culture of Metrics Analysis
You could say the development and operations teams gave birth to the idea of DevOps, as it is believed the chief benefits are garnered in those two functional disciplines. Because of this, metrics nearly always are conducted from the points of view of cost reduction, speed and efficiency. This makes perfect sense when business treats […]

Measuring the Cost of Service Creation & Adoption
Adopting and implementing DevOps isn’t an overnight project. It takes time and effort to determine how it best fits into your organization—and what benefits your organization will realize as a result. Creating an enterprise-class DevOps service is typically done in one of three ways, depending on the organization, its leadership and its employees. Each has […]

DevOps and the Near-Decapitation of Variability
Not all automation scales. One of the chief impediments of delivering an enterprise-class DevOps service is the decentralization of tooling choices—or worse, the methodologies within the tool for delivering CI/CD. If the methods used to deliver automation are as varied as the last engineer who created them, the spaghetti that ensues will not scale much […]
