DevOps Culture
Survey Reveals Slight Decline in Level of SRE Toil
The amount of routine toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) perform declined slightly in the last year even though IT environments in general are becoming more complex to manage. An annual survey ...
Does it Matter That We’re Still Working in Silos?
Seventy-two percent of business leaders believe that cross-departmental working at the enterprise level benefits their employees' experience and engagement. However, 68% of these same organizations admit to working in silos—the complete opposite ...
Using Chaos Engineering to Build Resilient Systems
Over the past decade, chaos engineering has become one of the most popular approaches in DevOps. It’s uniquely adapted to complex cloud-based systems and has the potential to succeed where more conventional ...
MediaOps Wins Two Gold Hermes Creative Awards for Video and Podcast
We are thrilled to announce that MediaOps is the recipient of two Hermes Creative Awards. TechStrong TV won the Gold Award in the video/informational category and DevOps Chats won the Gold Award ...
How Real-Time Debugging Improves Reliability
When designing and building software, service reliability is always at the top of the list of critical focus areas for development teams. Every team that builds software typically has, either directly or ...
The Gamification of Everything
Cross-pollination, for the non-scientific, is one of the key foundations of biodiversity on Earth. It is evolution in action—responsible for reinforcing the traits that make plants stronger and ensuring the survival of ...
Cortex Taps GitLab to Help DevOps Teams Manage Microservices
Cortex, a provider of a platform for tracking ownership of microservices, this week announced its platform can now import services from the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Anish Dhar, Cortex CEO, ...
How to Gain Greater Value From DevOps
DevOps is more than just deployment and management. Fully leveraging the DevOps team and their activities can actually enhance operations and improve customer satisfaction. Be Proactive, Rather Than Reactive Say you deploy ...
Get the Benefits of Low-Code Without the Risks
Today, more than 300 vendors and various platforms offer different flavors of low-code solutions. However, the majority of these low-code tools are really no-code tools that benefit individuals or groups trying to ...
What Biden’s Cybersecurity EO Means for DevOps Teams
On May 12, 2021 President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, also known as the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This EO covers a lot of ground, and like all executive ...
Chicken Soup for the SLO
Since time immemorial, humans have struggled to communicate. From myth to the modern era, our most memorable stories often involve individuals or groups seeking to be understood in order to avoid conflict ...
How to Build a People-First Engineering Team
When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead ...

