Doin’ DevOps
2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
In April of this year, I embarked on a six-week journey diving deep into an analysis of the world’s software supply chains. I evaluated the practices of 106,000 organizations, the 100,000+ suppliers ...
DevOps and QA: What’s the real cost of quality?
As continuous delivery and DevOps speeds the cadence and volume of development, quality assurance professionals and the groups they work in must find ways to transform their roles. Because in order for ...
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked ...
DevOps Leadership Series: Compliance, Testing, and Rugged
This past week, I headed to London for the Rugged DevOps event, where I had the chance to catch up with a few more industry thought leaders. First, I caught up with ...
5 Ways Continuous Integration Reduces Risk in Development
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, "Continuous Testing," by our friends at Parasoft. There’s a lot of talk about DevOps and Continuous Integration in the tech ...
How DevOps could save the world; like your colleagues’ day
DevOps is about a few things but above all, it’s about communication and understanding each other. In that spirit, I decided to create a new day to celebrate: “Like your colleagues’ day” ...
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from ...
DevOps for non-engineers
If you’ve scrolled through LinkedIn or companies’ career pages, you’ve probably seen the term “DevOps” used as a part of a job title. DevOps Engineers and DevOps architects are everywhere, and many ...
Imperative or Declarative? The question of DevOps in the network.
A significant amount of bandwidth is spent discussing automation and praising the value of APIs within the broader DevOps umbrella. These concepts are particularly important in the context of CI/CD and the ...
Where is the DBA in the DevOps conversation?
In reading case studies, surveys, and research articles on DevOps I am reminded of a cartoon I saw taped to my high school physics teacher’s file cabinet. Two scientists stand in front ...
The DevOps-Price of Segregation of Duties.
Segregation of duties will change because it must change. It has a tremendous impact on our motivation, time to market and IT Security. It influences many parts of an organization. Most organizations ...
Performance Monitoring, another view
This is my first post to DevOps.com, for those who haven’t read my other writings, I currently work as the VP of Market Development and Insights at AppDynamics. I joined in February ...

