Doin’ DevOps
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Angie Jones, LexisNexis
Automated tests are an important part of continuous integration, but if they're not reliable, they can cause more problems than they solve. This problem is not new to Angie Jones, who works ...
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools
Carmi to present a live coding session on testing responsive sites Testing responsive sites and applications can be quite a challenge for development teams. We are fortunate to have Adam Carmi, CTO ...
Is Site Reliability Engineering the True ‘Ops’ in DevOps?
I recently had the privilege of attending the SRECon conference in San Francisco. It’s in its third year and 650 attendees gathered to learn and share their experiences, insights and site reliability ...
DevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still ...
How Cognitive Bias and ‘HumanOps’ Affect Dev Teams
Does your team take into account how the human element can affect development practices? It’s often overlooked, but critical to consider. Jason Hand of VictorOps, DevOps.com’s Top DevOps Evangelist for 2016, writes ...
9 Lessons Learned: Getting Value Stream Insights in Only 2 Days
Gene Kim, Jez Humble and other experts say that understanding and improving your value stream is really what it takes to bring your software delivery organization to the next level. While almost ...
From Artisanal to Factory: The IT Pendulum is Swinging Back
Splunk Vice President of IT Markets and Chief Technology Advocate Andi Mann sees DevOps moving from an artisanal approach to an IT factory. This represents a reversal: Historically, developers operated in a ...
Challenges in DevOps Standardization
Many organizations still face challenges in their Devops adoption journey enterprise-wide, especially when there is no standardization in tools, non-repeatable processes and adhoc practices and culture barriers. Here are some of the ...
Preventing the DevOps Dilemma
Clayton Christensen, in his bestseller, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” first outlines how innovation occurs, and then why large incumbents often fail to recognize, leverage and invest in new innovations in their industries. What ...
When IT Disaster Strikes, Part 2: Who You Gonna Call?
In Part One of this series, I provided a high-level overview of what an efficient incident response process entails from start to finish, including general framework for an incident response team. Now ...
Advancing DevOps with Diagrams
The Application model can be incredibly useful to map out application features, planned changes and current flaws, and even for roadmapping. The model takes organizational time and effort, and can only be ...
The Tester: Saving Your Soul in a DevOps World
Software testers have seen their careers go through some ups and downs in recent years. In the days of Waterfall, the tester’s job was clearly defined. Like other functions of software development ...

