DevOps in the Cloud
How to “hear” OpenStack silent failures earlier and remediate faster
Troubleshooting “silent failures” in an OpenStack cloud environment has been a tough problem to solve for many production users. eBay’s chief engineer of cloud, Subbu Allamaraju, whose team has been operating PayPal ...
Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building
I've been seeing a rising interest in metal DevOps fueled by containers and scale-out data center platforms (like Hadoop, Ceph & OpenStack) that run at the metal level. While I see this is ...
Internap’s DevOps Culture: PrivateStack + CD = ? [Read On & Draw Your Own Conclusions]
Engineers at Internap, a hosting company and public cloud vendor designed a new OpenStack-based cloud platform and development environment. DevOps.com tells the story of Internap’s DevOps cultural evolution, which grew virally, interwoven ...
Launching Applications to the Cloud – It’s all about Scalability and Speed
It is not hyperbolic to state that today’s web services deal in hyperscale realms when one considers stats such as The Amazon cloud can handle up to 1 million transactions per second ...
BlazeMeter harnesses open source to deliver continuous testing for DevOps
DevOps is all about efficiency and automation—streamlining development and deployment. In order to deliver quality code quickly a culture of continuity is required—including continuous testing. BlazeMeter provides organizations with a platform for ...
3 golden rules of microservices deployments
As a developer, you value the principles of SOA. You aspire to build applications as a set of consumable services via endpoints. Remember how Amazon used SOA to build the AWS platform ...
4 Ways the Cloud Has Influenced Applications Troubleshooting
The rise of cloud computing has ushered in an era of unprecedented productivity for developers over the past several years. For those who have embraced this new world order, gone are the ...
Ignition Partners brings a little bit of Seattle to the Bay area for Microsoft Build
Ignition Partners is throwing a party! Along with four of our portfolio companies – Chef, Cloudera, Couchbase and Xamarin – we will host a special reception in connection with the Microsoft Build ...
Cyber-Ranges, Cloud Automation and DevOps
Cyber-security testing typifies some of the challenges of converting from traditional to DevOps ways of doing IT. While cyber security labs and cyber-ranges are often mission-critical investments for organizations that find themselves ...
The 8 “why’s” of Cloud
Myself and the gang have been talking about Cloud a lot recently as we are embarking on a multi-year journey. Cloud is fashionable but is this another cool toy for the techies? ...
Three tips for maximizing efficiency in the age of the hybrid cloud environment
Today’s organizations are achieving many benefits from using virtual computing resources, including increased flexibility, scalability, and accessibility. The adoption of the cloud as an addition to legacy systems has changed the way ...
Cloud or In-house with Chris Kinsman, Part 1
I sat down last week with Chris Kinsman, Chief Architect at PushSpring and a 20+ year veteran of software development, to talk about the factors that go into deciding when to migrate ...

