Doin’ DevOps
Repex – Regex Management Simplified
Our Versioning Complexity Cloudify is a Python shop. Our REST service is Python. Our Workflow Engine is Python. Our Plugins are Python. We have different version formats and different dependencies across different ...
Technology is All About the Business
In 2011 I joined a company as their fifth employee. They had been in business a little over a year. They had a product. They had customers. Oh, and the other four ...
Yes, I said “Culture” again
“Culture”. Any time that two or more people get together to do anything -- whether it's DevOps, or marketing, or just eating lunch -- they form a culture. Even if they pointedly ...
Expert, like Master, can be a Dangerous Word
William Sealy Gosset was a mathematician that published while working at Guinness. The company was concerned about trade secrets being leaked so all brewers had to write under a pseudonym. Given he ...
6 Common Causes of Conflict DevOps Sets Out to Solve
It’s a very exciting time to work in Information Technology – as John Willis* put it: “DevOps finally proves how IT can be a strategic advantage that allows a business to beat the ...
Evolution Not Revolution – DevOps in the Wild
Ever heard these questions: What is DevOps? How do I hire a DevOps Engineer? Should we have a Director of DevOps? Am I doing DevOps? Why is DevOps failing in my organization? ...
The Business Value in Software Quality
Software is taking over the world. You would be hard pressed today to find a company without dedicated software development efforts. But even in traditional business models, this is not confined to ...
Metrics for DevOps
Your organization is now committed to DevOps methodology. You've integrated development, operations, and QA, and you have moved drastically away from waterfall and into a fire hose of application development. How do ...
There is No ‘I’ in Team: Transitioning Engineering Teams into a DevOps Model
As the pace of development and business continues to scale, teams need an agile and collaborative work environment to succeed. Moving to a DevOps model is a critical part of setting your ...
15 must have Jenkins plugins to increase productivity
Jenkins is a vastly used continuous integration tool for the IT industry which is built and used around plugins. It's core is the Jenkins tool and there are 100's of plugins available ...
7 Tips for testing the usability of mobile apps
Of the one million mobile apps, only half are used more than 5 times If you study any random cross-section of successful mobile apps and games you’ll find that they have one ...
DevOps answers to high availability
Everyone want’s their application SLA to be 99.99999%. However with some applications it is not a desire, it is mandatory. The Consequences of failure in mission critical applications are drastic. And with ...
