Doin’ DevOps
An Embarrassment of Riches
History says people rarely appreciate what they have in the heat of the moment. Our highly connected and high-speed world is no exception to this rule. The things that frustrate us are ...
Achieving Application Health Through Integrated APM
Performance and availability mean everything to application users at both the enterprise and consumer level. Think about how much we rely on technology for our everyday communication—when Slack suffered from an outage ...
Low-Code Meets DevOps: A Smart Way to Manage Modern App Delivery Demands
In a fast-moving and often fiercely competitive marketplace, companies need to embrace technology to stay relevant and drive growth. To this end, the business community is increasingly placing a high priority on ...
Aspects of Machine Learning on the Edge
Machine learning (ML) is hard. Making it work within the confined environment of an embedded device can easily become a quagmire unless we consider, and frequently revisit, the design and deployment aspects ...
Measuring Success in DevOps: Top Four DevOps KPIs
There is no news in DevOps concept. Many companies have integrated DevOps to improve and accelerate software development and help drive their digital transformation, and that number continues to grow exponentially. There ...
The Impact of DevOps on Database Monitoring and Management
The rise of DevOps has broken down silos and brought database administrators (DBAs) and application developers closer together to deliver software faster and in a more agile manner. This near-constant change driven ...
BMC Extends DevOps Reach to Db2 Databases
BMC Software is extending the reach of its campaign to bring DevOps to the mainframe to the IBM Db2 databases that run on the venerable platform. John McKenny, senior vice president, ZSolutions ...
Software Compliance Teams Can Learn a Lot from DevSecOps
Many argue that application security should be the responsibility of a security team. However, while security professionals can contribute, developers are usually the only ones with the technical ability to fix software ...
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 ...
Focus on High-Level Policy Requirements to Accelerate Network Processes for DevOps
Network operations traditionally has been the missing piece in DevOps processes. It’s not difficult to see why. Network management has lagged behind server and workload automation. Updating network policies and configurations typically ...
How Low-Code and No-Code Solutions Compare to RAD
Low-code and no-code solutions help line-of-business workers to create applications more quickly and advance business needs. But how do low-code solutions compare to the rapid application development (RAD) tools of yesterday for ...
Consider the Role of Programmers as Storytellers
Every time I speak with the programmers of our team in casual conversation, I ask what they're working on. Every time, I get the same kind of answer, "I'm building a dashboard," ...

