Doin’ DevOps
DevOps – what does “good” look like?
I've blogged a lot about my definition of DevOps and what it means to me. I've always thought it much larger than "Dev" and "Ops" and that there isn't really an end ...
DevOps Resolutions For The New Year
As we welcome in the New Year, it’s natural for us to set both personal and professional goals. While many are adding the obligatory eat healthier, spend more time with family, and ...
Breaking Builds II – The Butler did it
As editor-in-chief here at DevOps.com and writing for several other publications I see more than my share of contests, promotions and other marketing campaigns (not to mention pitches from PR agencies), but ...
Tips to change culture (at least in your team).
DevOps is all about automation, enhancing the Application Lifecycle Management and culture change. In the last few years there have been tons of conferences and articles about the benefits of a cultural ...
Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
A question comes to mind in what exactly do we need to do to move forward with Continuous Delivery and Continuous deployment, How should we start or rather where we should start ...
Service Virtualization – Window into “Advanced” DevOps
The new style of IT is pushing DevOps teams to reinvent software building, validation and delivering processes with an aim to shrink development cycle time and reducing defects in production. But in ...
10 Top Tips for DevOps Cultural Change
DevOps is commonly recognised to be primarily about creating a culture of effective and seamless collaboration but this is often the hardest piece to enact when it involves changing an existing culture ...
DevOps: What It is and How to Cook It
What is DevOps? DevOps is a funny concept.I have spent the last few months trying to find an accurate explanation of what it is, reading books, articles and participating in discussions which ...
DevOps: As critical for the Systems of Record as for the Systems of Engagement
There is a lot of talk about DevOps, and how it improves the process of delivering business value. Much of the discussion of DevOps has been focused on web based companies such ...
SQL vs. NoSQL – Unsettled Debate & DevOps Pitfalls
Big Data, a relatively new phenomenon driving the industry hype-cycle is a mainstay in the database business. IT companies are convinced over the endless value proposition of the operational insight that comes ...
AWS Best Practices – Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are ...
You Asked for Quality, You Got Alienated QA
The role of Quality Assurance (QA) is creating a bit of a buzz these days, because even as teams and budgets are shrinking, the demand for better quality is increasing. The chilling ...

