Todd Vernon, CEO and founder of VictorOps, has 20 years of IT management experience. He was doing DevOps before it was called DevOps. He was CTO at Raindance Communications and helped to take the company public. After that, he was CEO of Lijit Networks, which was grown into one of the largest real-time ad exchange platforms on the internet.
Last year, we launched the first ever State of On-call Report. We asked about tools, setting up on-call rotations, what team members are involved and what happens after the incident gets resolved...among ...
In the first part of this series, I explored the factors that have lead DevOps to where it is today. From a three to six month deployment period to regular weekly (or ...
Over the last 20 years, software has slowly taken over the world. Businesses that historically operated on 8-hour business days are now 24x7, navigating a global economy that never sleeps. The Internet ...
We all know that being on-call sucks. What we don't know is how other people are dealing with the problem. It's time to dig deep, ask the hard questions and collect data ...
Given that social coding is a thing, what about the other side? Operations has the same image of lone wolves solving problems in the dark. The culture of on-call is built around ...
One of the main principles of DevOps is to break down silos. What’s more like a silo than the image of a lone developer, shutting himself off from the world in order ...
Vertical collaboration is defined by Rick Defour as a team of people working interdependently toward a common goal for which they are all mutually accountable. Now that everyone is clear on the ...
Talking about collaboration in general terms is easy. I’ve done it and so has everyone else. It’s time now to dig deeper into the specifics of collaboration, meaning the different types - ...
You can’t turn around in the tech space without hearing about collaboration. Whether it has to do with the new economy being built around collaboration or the platforms designed to improve it ...
Talking about DevOps is all the rage these days. But with that conversation, it’s easy to become inundated with the amount of serious discussion around the topic. I do agree that DevOps ...