Doin’ DevOps
Mobile Testing Delivers Big for Pizza
Mobile applications have been disrupting industries worldwide. For some industries, the disruption focuses on business internals, as enterprise apps enable manufacturing processes to be restructured and streamlined. In other industries, the disruption ...
Follow the Simple Path of Nirvana to DevOps
Perhaps the title of this post is a misleading, as nothing is truly "simple. But there is a well-defined pathway to achieving DevOps goals for any size company. Just follow a step-up ...
Give Test Automation the Respect It Deserves
One of the key mantras of DevOps is “continuous.” Effective DevOps relies on automating routine tasks. Any step in the process that requires human intervention or manual input becomes a roadblock that ...
It’s Time to End the Automated Tests Arms Race
I grew up during the end of the Cold War. During that time, I remember hearing that there were enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 20 times over. That always seemed silly ...
5 Reasons DevOps Needs NetDevOps
Networking’s role in DevOps is not accurately defined. Up to this point, networking has been integrated into DevOps through infrastructure as code (IaC), which has been around since the beginning of the ...
Doing Nothing is Hard Work!
If you really want to know how good your software delivery process is, try doing nothing. Yes, you read that correctly, do nothing: Go through your normal release process without any requirements, ...
Redefining Product Value in the Continuous Economy
The internet is now more than 20 years old. It’s older than my kids, which is a scary thought. It’s older than Kendall Jenner. It’s older than Uber, Grey’s Anatomy and the ...
Do You Continuously Deliver Your CD Pipeline?
If your job is to build and maintain the continuous delivery (CD) pipeline for your organization, do you feel you can't keep up with your development counterparts in innovation? Everyone is raving ...
What Happens to Test in a DevOps World?
I am always surprised by the urban legends around DevOps. One of my favorites is, If you implement a DevOps methodology, you can stop doing test. People famously quote that Netflix only ...
Where’s the Heat? Talking DevOps, Use Cases and More
Transitioning your organization from a traditional IT infrastructure into the world of DevOps is certainly a journey. Sometimes a long one, with many obstacles, but undoubtedly a voyage with a worthwhile prize ...
How DevOps is Killing QA
If you work in software quality assurance (QA), it’s time to find a new job. The overall software development process has always consisted of the following core activities: Creating a requirements analysis; ...
DevOps: Shift Left to Reduce Failure
DevOps is all about increasing the feedback loop from idea to customer and back again. Tremendous gains have been achieved in automation and tools to drastically reduce the amount of manual labor ...

