Doin’ DevOps
Mobile Testing’s Role in Staying Alive
Have you ever forgotten to take your pills? You’re not the only one. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of the people prescribed medication eventually stop following their ...
Does DevOps Improve or Undermine Quality?
In my earlier blog, "From QA to Continuous Testing," I explained that “several industry developments converged to make continuous testing the winning method for software engineering quality assurance (QA)." The "combination of ...
DevOps Without Scale, Part 1
When most people think of DevOps, what comes to mind first are continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines. While they are arguably the most important parts of DevOps, they are ...
Culture Change: Metrics, Tools Make a Difference
Change is in the wind. This time of the year, as winter weather gives way to springtime renewal, this concept isn’t a cliché but rather a concrete, visceral experience. You go outside, ...
Our Sprint to Agile Success
Adoption of the agile methodology is essential to the success of a DevOps culture. This is not revolutionary, but is an important foundation. We view agile as the tool for developers to ...
Puppet Labs Launches Annual State of DevOps Survey
Puppet Labs has announced its 5th annual State of DevOps Survey. In the past five years, we’ve surveyed more than 20,000 technical professionals around the world, spanning all industries and companies of ...
The Forgotten Fourth Question
A very well-written paragraph about DevOps appears in Mike Loukides' book, “What is DevOps”: … Modern applications, running in the cloud, still need to be resilient and fault tolerant, still need monitoring, ...
DevOps Days returns to London
On April 19, after a break of nearly two and a half years, the DevOps Days conference is returning to London. Expect great things: All DevOps Days events are extremely interactive, making ...
The DevOps Equation: Agility + Empathy = Quality
I had the chance to catch up with Jeff Sussna (@JeffSussna), founder and principal of Ingineering.IT, ahead of his keynote address on continuous design, scheduled for DevOps Days Atlanta, April 26-27. He discussed the ...
‘Don’t Make Me Code’: Affordances for Developers
Thanks for listening to "Don't Make Me Code," a Heavybit podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. Don't Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, ...
Git: One Giant Leap Toward DevOps
If you work in an organization that has not yet embraced DevOps, then you might be wondering where to begin. Fortunately, there are many good answers. But I want to introduce one ...
Case Study: Sauce Labs Covers Animoto’s Testing Needs
Animoto’s web and mobile platforms enable businesses and consumers to drag and drop stock and user-defined visual and audio elements to create videos via a tiered monthly subscription service. Animoto updates service ...

