DevOps Practice
EP 13: Observability and Performance Testing
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel is joined by Christine Yen of Honeycomb, Paul Bruce of Tricentis and Mitch Ashley from ASG/MediaOps to discuss how to effectively test the performance ...
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment ...
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different ...
5 Ways to Reduce DevOps Toil
Over the last several years, DevOps has become a bit of a buzzword. It has become simultaneously a practice, a culture, a team, a job title and a vendor product. You can ...
CircleCI Survey Shows the Need to Prioritize DevOps
A CircleCI survey of 2,013 business leaders in the U.S. and UK published today finds nearly all respondents (97%) recognize that the success of their business within the next year depends on ...
The State of DevOps Is Just Fine
There is a growing amount of hand-wringing about the state of DevOps; that adoption is not progressing apace, or that the full benefits of the methodology are not being realized by the ...
From One-Click Deployment to One-Click Feedback
What makes a group of individual contributors a team? You can look at today’s product development teams as an ensemble of craftspeople from different disciplines. Code builders, design artists, storytellers, and an ...
DevOps Database Platforms Slash DX Bottlenecks
An enterprise with many databases and various data requirements for DevOps continuous delivery presents a problem. For example, test data provisioning is a challenge today, particularly in pre-release testing of database updates ...
Stop Hiding the Cloud From Your Developers
If you say a person or organization “goes to great lengths” to achieve something, it means they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things to accomplish their goal. One example I've ...
Programmability is Key to Agile Transformation
Enterprise agility has rapidly become one of the most crucial variables for a business’s long-term resiliency. With the COVID-19 pandemic, never-ending disruptions to the global supply chain and nearly every industry’s typical ...
Could Full-Stack Observability Help Lessen IT’s Burden?
The year 2020 was a landmark year for many reasons, other than the obvious. The IT world saw the first time that cloud service revenues dwarfed spending on data centers. Across the ...
Puppet Survey Suggests DevOps Adoption is Stagnant
Puppet today published an annual State of DevOps report that suggests overall adoption of DevOps practices has stagnated. The survey of 2,650 IT, development and information security professionals finds 83% are implementing ...

