Doin’ DevOps
The Code Doesn’t Lie, and Other Operations Mantras
As engineers, we spend a lot of time talking about things such as release processes, QA environments and deployments. But at the end of the day, most software systems fail because the ...
Best DevOps Practices for 2017
Because the idea of DevOps is still so new, we’re continually having to hone what we view as best practices. At the start of the new year, many people make their own ...
Automic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle
Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing websites into a DevOps organization. As ...
15 DevOps Expert Opinions on Continuous Integration and Delivery
We at Shippable recently approached some DevOps experts and asked them what they really think about continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). The responses were just amazing, proving that CI/CD's future ...
Using Guilds to Combat Information Silos
At xMatters, our group of 100 or so talented engineers is subdivided into teams tackling everything from front-end work to release automation to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). As is ...
Breaking the Cycle of Dependency
While technology is an important component of DevOps and accelerating delivery, there are other aspects of process and culture that are critical to keeping the cycle moving to realize the goals of ...
How Continuous Can Integration Be?
My blog, "7 Pillars of DevOps," identified seven essential best practices areas that make up successful DevOps. One of the seven pillars is continuous integration (CI). The blog explained that the pillars ...
Confessions from Fannie Mae, Liberty Mutual and Capital One
Learn from real-world stories from presenters at the All Day DevOps conference ... True Story Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in which it delivered software. Deploys increased ...
DevOps Survey Says! State of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation
What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including application owners, ...
Adding Usability Testing to the CD Pipeline
Do you include usability tests in your continuous delivery pipeline? If not, you could be making a big mistake. Usability testing, which entails having actual users test an application for user-friendliness, intuitiveness ...
A Ferrari and DevOps: More Similar Than You Might Think
In a world where customers aren’t short of options, all businesses are characterized by the need to achieve customer delight. From a technological standpoint, a large part of that hinges on fast-tracking ...
Infrastructure Management in the Age of DevOps
DevOps has emerged as the de facto cure-all for all that’s wrong with enterprise IT, breaking down silos and replacing them with agile and transparent relationships between developers and operations and seamless, ...

