DevOps Culture
Why Modernizing Security is Like Visiting a Fast-Food Restaurant
Fast casual restaurants are taking over the food industry. Today’s consumers want quality and speed, and the brick-and-mortar model offering immediate service paired with quality ingredients perfectly fits the bill. It’s the ...
Embracing the Product Development Cycle
Nowadays, a truly successful product calls for purposeful investment in the people that will ultimately use it in their specific environments. We all know technological development is hyperactive and unpredictable. Ultimately, we ...
A Culture-Driven Approach to DevOps Transformation
One of the most challenging aspects of a DevOps transformation isn’t automating and overhauling technology. The biggest challenge of DevOps is changing an organization’s culture and purpose. You can't "buy a DevOps." ...
Principles Systems and Tools – What Shingo Can Teach Us About DevOps
In my last post, The Power of a Game: What I Learned from Facilitating the Phoenix Project Simulation, we explored how DevOps and Agile practices are built on underlying Lean principles that ...
The SRE Pressure Cooker: Balancing Velocity Against Risk
Delivering fast, reliable digital services today is a lot like Olympian alpine skiing. These services must deftly maneuver a series of perilous passages en route to end users, all while maintaining the ...
Aim to Be a Top 12% Global Testing Team
We know that you’re thinking, “Really? Another fluff post about the top people in my profession and what I need to do to be just like them?” Listen, we hear you, but ...
DOES 2019: Understanding the Effects of Burnout
If you work in the IT field, cybersecurity, the startup world or any other high-pressure job, you or someone you know has probably suffered from burnout in one form or another. If ...
DevOps India Summit 2019 (DOIS19)
DevOps India Summit 2019 (DOIS19) is a platform provided by Xellentro in India to meet and learn from the top technology and business leaders from across the globe for two days of ...
DORA Again Adds to ‘State of DevOps Report’ Slate
I’m thrilled to announce that Dustin Smith has joined DORA as an author on this year’s "Accelerate State of DevOps Report." I met Dustin last year, when he joined me in a ...
Is DevOps in the Enterprise Real?
Is DevOps in the enterprise real? The short answer is yes, but you may assume it’s only relevant to the world’s leading cloud companies because they’re the ones that make the headlines ...
Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories
DevOps has now been a thing for a solid decade. As we look back at the history of DevOps, it's worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take ...
DevOps at the Speed of Business: 5 Tips for Success
It’s an exciting time to be an engineer. With companies today moving faster than ever, engineering teams are developing and deploying new code daily, continuously improving and advancing the business. But while ...

