Doin’ DevOps
Survey says network agility is still immature
At least that’s the word from SDx Central’s Cloud Management, Orchestration and DevOps 2015 Report in which 76% of respondents said the network was the most immature component in the cloud management ...
Free Your Metrics
If you're not collecting metrics, how do you know how your organization is doing? Metrics provide the data to get to the root cause of an outage or uncover a bug that ...
Analytics from a Developer’s Point-of-View
As a developer, I have found that most systems analytics tools can be both an important asset and an unnecessary expense. Their usefulness, in my experience, is ultimately determined by the size ...
DevOps Connect: cdSummit at Austin Innotech
Last week I was down in Austin, Texas for the DevOps Connect: cdSummit @Innotech show. With almost 1900 people registered for Innotech, we had a solid 150 folks specifically for cdSummit. I ...
Creating Dev Environments With Docker Compose
The Slack notification popped up on my phone at 2pm Friday afternoon. “Argh. This is never good” I thought to myself. The message said “do you know anything about Vagrant?”. It was ...
State of On-call Survey 2015 – Help Needed!
Last year, we launched the first ever State of On-call Report. We asked about tools, setting up on-call rotations, what team members are involved and what happens after the incident gets resolved...among ...
HomeOps – Learning DevOps At Home
When I took a job as Technology Evangelist for StackEngine, my wife's first question was, "Why would someone pay to fly you around the country and talk about how you work?" My ...
Ten things you need to know before starting a career in DevOps
So you’re considering a shift to DevOps, Forbes recently reported that highly skilled DevOps specialists with just a high school degree earn a median salary of $106,734. A recent study of IT ...
Lean for DevOps: Is it OK to move the banana?
There is an urban legend about a Lean deployment which, in the process of applying the 5S to a workshop, drew lines on the desk to indicate where each worker should keep ...
“Culture” isn’t a swear word
I've heard a number of lazy criticisms of DevOps recently particularly where individuals talk about culture and that gets my goat. "It's fluffy" "It's in-actionable" "DevOps is just automation" "Cultural change isn't ...



