Doin’ DevOps
Code Review – Write your code right
Writing code is definitely subjected to individual thinking, logics and perspective. How one writes code is completely depend on their technical and logical skills. Two different people can write the same code ...
The Second “S” To A Successful App: Simplicity
When developing an app for the first time, there are important factors that need to be taken into consideration, such as scalability as previously discussed. Ensuring the app can scale with a ...
DevOps Empathicus – Where is your organization on the evolutionary scale?
Ok, I admit it - I sometimes cry when watching sad movies or as real-life events play out in the news. I put myself in the position of other people, sharing their ...
The Pros and Cons of Remote Work in Ops
Remote work in Ops is divisive. The perks of working from home, your local coffee shop or wherever can be quite obvious to engineers and contributors. But some team leaders and company ...
Steer SAFely – Driving collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams
This is the second blog in the DevOps – Scaled Agile series. In the first blog, Scaling Lean and Agile for the enterprise: All hands on keyboard!!!, we discussed the characteristics of ...
Starting with DevOps from Day 1
The Not So Minimal MVP In the ever evolving startup space, developers often skip crucial steps in their haste to get to market. Even more so, in the dynamic app development market, the ...
DevOpsDays MSP 2015: Minneapolis is a Tech Hub?
I stopped in the Minneapolis Airport to make a connection earlier this year. I never spent much time thinking about Minneapolis given its reputation for snow and ice. I hadn’t ever planned ...
Benefits for the Product Team in Working Support Cases
An increasingly popular practice that’s being adopted by DevOps groups are developers working regular shifts in front line support. The thinking behind this exercise is pretty sound. When exposed to the real ...
Tailoring DevOps to your IT: A case study for SAP
I am frequently asked if DevOps principles can be applied to legacy environments such as SAP. They clearly can, with some tailoring. But you should be aware of certain constraints. An agile ...
Essential Ingredients for Continuous Deployment
To build the system to automate the build and deployment (continuous deployment) process there are few main areas which need to be covered. Following are our prerequisites. - Source code - Builds ...
The Three “S’s” To A Successful App, Pt. 1
Developing your first app can be a daunting task. Many first-time developers may overlook, or over think, certain aspects of building their first app. Through scores of conversations and interactions with developers, ...
#HugOps in Practice: Empathy Skills for DevOps
Get it together! Why is your service always down?!” We think we’re doing the whole DevOps thing right — new hires can deploy on day one, Travis CI is humming along, and ...

