It’s not often that my emails turn into full-blown conversations on DevOps. But when it happens, it’s a great time to take advantage of the insights. John Purrier of Automic and I ...

Day 2 of DevOpsDays London 2016 kicked off with a presentation from the legendary Gene Kim. The theme that dominated today's proceedings was the "human factor," (fitting, as we finished Day 1 ...

When I got started as a professional software developer, I thought awesomeness in development was measured by the lines of code (LOC) per day and how quickly code got to QA for ...

We haven't had a DevOpsDays event in London since 2013. The audience size was about the same at this year's event, held April 19-20, as I remember from last time, but about ...

From a business’ sales strategy to the type of coffee it decides to stock in the company lounge, every decision boils down to this: How will it impact this year’s earnings? That's ...

In the IT industry, where we are exposed to various levels of incompetence, it is quite tempting to become a little cynical. A few years ago we hit rock bottom. Our patience—not ...

In the push to adopt DevOps among enterprise IT organizations, cohesion has been one of the biggest challenges in collaborating effectively. Historically, departments within a business existed in disparate locations, or silos ...

How do you balance the need to “go fast” with the need to test everything and deliver high-quality software? With applications the driving force in today’s economy, the quality and release cadence ...

In Part 1 of this series, I covered why it’s important to be aware of your product’s health and how you can do so. I covered the user experience and technical types ...

In the DevOps Era, teams increasingly are turning to a variety of tools to integrate, accelerate and automate. Speed and efficiency are critical. This is especially amplified in continuous delivery (CD), which ...

My earlier blog, "From Laboratories to DevOps: Factories for Continuous Testing," discussed the importance of and suggested practices for a fully automated, orchestrated software DevOps laboratory infrastructure, akin to a modern factory ...

Managing mobile customer feedback effectively could be the single-most important success factor for your company and customers. Call it addiction or habit, but every passing day we encounter new data confirming the growth ...