Business of DevOps
Coronavirus Update: A Slowdown Already Occurring
I have been watching the real-time regional situation reports about the coronavirus from the Chinese medical association site ncov.dxy.cn (the same site the John's Hopkins outbreak dashboard sources its data from) closely ...
Report Finds Faster DevOps Adoption in Retail
Conventional wisdom holds that when it comes to any IT advancement, technology companies lead the way followed by the financial service sector. However, Puppet has made available an industry scorecard based on ...
Launchable Aims To Improve Delivery Velocity, With Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh
A new company, Launchable, aims to improve your delivery velocity by helping you be much smarter about which tests you run and when. By applying machine learning (ML) and better use of ...
There’s No Such Thing as an Open Source Business Model
Open source technology works best when it’s adopted as a series of strategies and tactics that support a core business model—not the other way around. With all the talk about open source ...
Developers Are Gaining Clout, and We Need to Pay Attention
I’ve been watching the ascent of developers for quite some time. A few years ago, I wrote an open letter to developers in which I noted their power and collective influence over ...
DevOps Deeper Dive: SUSE Sets DevOps Course
There was a time when SUSE was considered to be the second-biggest force driving the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, after Red Hat. Then came an odyssey to rival any epic ...
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up
A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous ...
GitLab Outlines Scope of DevOps Ambitions
At the GitLab Commit event in New York today, GitLab launched an ambitious effort to extend the scope of its DevOps platform to provide a view into the software development life cycle ...
Why COBOL Still Matters After 60 Years
In the world of DevOps, the Agile Manifesto and countless other application delivery frameworks, one has to wonder how an anachronism such as the programming language COBOL (common business-oriented language) has managed ...
DevOps Experience 2019: Peace, Love and DevOps
DevOps Experience 2019 is coming, and it's gonna be groovy, man. This year's virtual event is all about peace, love and DevOps understanding, with a heavy emphasis on understanding. As with last ...
DevOps Deeper Dive: VMware Transformed
At the VMworld 2019 conference this week, VMware in no uncertain teams made it clear it wants to become a major DevOps force. Following the acquisition of sister company Pivotal Software last ...
IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition
Following the official closing of IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat today, leaders from both companies reiterated Red Hat will continue to operate independently of IBM but will leverage IBM resources ...

