Doin’ DevOps
To Be Continuous: Evolution of Continuous Delivery
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar discuss the evolution of continuous delivery. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Edith ...
The Women of DevOps
No, this isn't about some new calendar featuring scantily clad IT chicks. In fact the fact you even thought that is half the problem. This article arises out of the fact that ...
Do You Need Your Ticketing System for Real-Time Incident Management?
The term “operationally mature” characterizes companies that understand how incident management affects both employee well-being and business impacts. Operationally mature companies have a process in place with built-in reliability and accountability that ...
Roll-up your sleeves – Launch a SAFe® Agile Release Train
Most organizations often begin their agile transformation with a series of low risk, stand-alone pilots. While these pilots may prove that teams can adopt small team agile practices such as “Scrum” or ...
LinkedIn Preps Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) For Exciting Careers
Find and Fix, Sink or Swim A few LinkedIn NOC engineers including Ariel Casas had a hand in forming what the once fledgling business / professional networking company today calls its Site ...
Are we really back to “just reboot it”?
The server infrastructure management style of pets vs cattle was originally coined by Bill Baker of Microsoft though Randy Bias of CloudScaling further popularized it in 2012 and revised and clarified in ...
The Sea Change that is DevOps – How it all started: Part 1
Over the last 20 years, software has slowly taken over the world. Businesses that historically operated on 8-hour business days are now 24x7, navigating a global economy that never sleeps. The Internet ...
App Dev: Stop Spinning Wheels on the Spinning Wheel
When it comes to websites and apps – speed matters; today’s consumers want everything yesterday. Recent studies show that there is no surer way to lose the trust of a consumer than ...
The 3L rule, a general piece of advice
What I am going to describe will sound elementary to most of you, even trivial but I know that there is a difference between being aware of something and actually doing it ...
Steer SAFely – So how do you do it?
This is the third blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the previous blogs, we discussed the characteristics of a successful enterprise agile transformation and provided specific guidance on applying ...
Why I became DevOps Certified
I usually do not care too much about diplomas or certifications. To me, one’s value isn’t reflected by a piece of paper but rather by his or her actions, dedication, motivation and ...
Defining On-Prem
Sometimes, the meaning of a word or a phrase changes so quickly that you don't even notice that it's changed; at some point, you just realize that you've been using it differently ...
