Doin’ DevOps
Moving from Infrastructure Automation to True DevOps
Deciding on two separate teams, or an integrated end-to-end team While a lot has been said about “the right way” to do DevOps, what we’re seeing in practice are two different approaches ...
Continuous Documentation
Is documentation dead in DevOps? Yes and no. It is transformed, it is automatic, and it is actionable ...
A Puzzle – Gradle or Maven
Build Tool Gradle vs Maven (or Both) The world of build tools evolved from simple compilation (gcc) to make files, then evolution of ant(+ivy) and Maven, now the latest build tool is ...
Evolution Not Revolution – DevOps in the Wild
Ever heard these questions: What is DevOps? How do I hire a DevOps Engineer? Should we have a Director of DevOps? Am I doing DevOps? Why is DevOps failing in my organization? ...
Metrics for DevOps
Your organization is now committed to DevOps methodology. You've integrated development, operations, and QA, and you have moved drastically away from waterfall and into a fire hose of application development. How do ...
There is No ‘I’ in Team: Transitioning Engineering Teams into a DevOps Model
As the pace of development and business continues to scale, teams need an agile and collaborative work environment to succeed. Moving to a DevOps model is a critical part of setting your ...
15 must have Jenkins plugins to increase productivity
Jenkins is a vastly used continuous integration tool for the IT industry which is built and used around plugins. It's core is the Jenkins tool and there are 100's of plugins available ...
10 Top Tips for DevOps Cultural Change
DevOps is commonly recognised to be primarily about creating a culture of effective and seamless collaboration but this is often the hardest piece to enact when it involves changing an existing culture ...
AWS Best Practices – Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are ...
Waterfall to Agile to DevOps: The State of Stagnant Evolution
DevOps is all the rage. The hot IT buzzword intended to heal the expanding divide between development and IT operations is being used to sell a range of services and solutions to ...
The DevOps Scorecard
Mid-last year our team switched from doing Agile to doing DevOps. As we forayed into the journey trying to learn about DevOps and practice it at the same time, a lot of questions ...
The Dark Side of Infrastructure as Code
We spend a lot of time extolling the virtues of infrastructure as code. All of it is true. Treating infrastructure as code can add great value in terms of its ability to ...

