Business of DevOps
DevOps resilience: going active-active with an existing application
What does it take to run an active-active architecture? It boils down to data, and how you interact with it. The most common disaster recovery strategies I encounter with folks are either ...
The DevOps master process: design
In speaking, counseling and talking to people with regard to DevOps, I often frame the discussion in terms of the DevOps master process. While all of the parts of the master process ...
Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” goes viral
Many of you reading this have probably seen the tweet or one of the thousand or so retweets of Minneapolis based Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” twitter post. The tweet and attached ...
An open letter to Jeff Knupp
Dear Jeff, First off, nice recovery. I commend your gesture to return to positivity and make what to my eyes, looks like a kind and altruistic offer to an underserved class of ...
DevOps makes coding more social, social coding makes better code
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 ...
Gene Kim interviewed by JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava
Two members of the DevOps.com Board of Advisors, Gene Kim and Rajat Bhargava filmed an interview that is on YouTube and on JumpCloud's blog. We are putting it up here and hope ...
DevOps: Security’s last best hope
Help us Obi Wan! The fact is that DevOps is security’s last best hope. The sooner the security industry realizes it the better it will be for everyone. I read George Hulme’s ...
DevOps developers; don’t be a DevGoof
There was a lot of brush back last week over Jeff Knupp's post about how DevOps is killing the developer. Frankly I wasn't shocked by Knupp's opinion that developers "are the dentists ...
Advanced Automation – Getting Your Systems to Work for You
In my previous post I discussed how to take your DevOps to the next level by taking it beyond infrastructure automation, to the automation of your deployments and code pushes, through patches ...
DevOps storytime: The tale of the secret passageway named MTTR
When DevOps practitioners and evangelists talk about adoption, they mostly fall into one of two camps. People who talk about driving devops adoption by helping people understand the core ethical reasons of ...
DevOps adoption – Enterprises (part 2 of 2)
A large enterprise has institutionalized an incredible number of processes. Their fundamental approach to IT has been built over years if not decades of experience. Their leaders may have grown up with ...
DevOps adoption can succeed where ITIL failed, if we let it
When I look at the future of DevOps adoption and acceleration I contrast it with what I feel was the failure of ITIL to really move beyond large enterprise IT shops. I ...

