Doin’ DevOps
Coaching DevOps Baseball
Coaching DevOps Baseball Every technology gets surrounded by hype during its maturation, and DevOps is certainly not immune to that phenomenon. If you’ve spent more than five minutes looking into it, you ...
The Delivery Pipeline is your DevOps Signature
Where is DevOps? Searching for it is like querying a rainbow for pots of gold. No single element in a development team’s lifecycle defines them as a DevOps-enabled organization. Were anything the ...
A/B Test with Caution
When the morning news starts talking about A/B Testing of course my ears perk up, and I eat my cereal a little slower. But when it becomes a conversation about how ethical ...
DevOps, Growth Hacking & other ways to rule the world
DevOps will disrupt management styles, speed the end to ancient IT practices, and flatten away processes that don’t focus on doing more with less. But DevOps is not the only dev-led movement ...
Environment Variables – The Ultimate Gotcha
We all think that we understand variables very well. After all, if you are a coder, a variable is something you create and use every day. But when it comes to DevOps ...
Releasing your team from Release Thinking
Chris Riley | | blaze meter, load testing, monitoring, newrelic, pipeline, Release Automation, testingHow much time do you spend optimizing your delivery pipeline? My guess is none. Many teams have figured out great ways to automate their releases, and some even automate testing and monitoring. ...
Who’s side are you on anyway? DevOps Culture
Shame on you! Yes you, because there is a good chance you are thinking about DevOps all wrong. If you are a developer you might be thinking DevOps means IT goes away and ...
The Double-Edged DevOps Job Title
Last month at GWO in Atlanta I met Nathen Harvey with Chef. I liked his DevOps presentation, "DevOp With Me!", especially how he used "Walk This Way" by Run DMC and Aerosmith ...
The Cloud IDE and it’s impact on DevOps
Recently I did an interview with IBMs Ken Walker. Co-lead on the Eclipse Orion Project, a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE). My interest in Cloud IDEs peaked at the beginning of the ...
DevOps culture meets the SLA
The goal of every SaaS provider should be 100% availability - it should be ingrained in their culture. But it's far more common to see a series of nines. Numerically, these are ...
Meet Infrastructure as Code
Maybe you have already heard the terms "Programmable Infrastructure" and "Infrastructure as code". But even if you have not, if you are interested in DevOps it's something you need to know. Most ...
An outage war room primer
One aspect of the DevOps movement I've seen adopted at numerous companies is the idea that everyone supports their products by being on-call for any incidents that occur in the production environment ...
