DevOps Practice
Threat Modeling: The Why, How, When and Which Tools
You may have heard of threat modeling as a structured activity for identifying and managing threats. Threat modeling can be applied to a wide range of things, including software, applications, systems, networks, ...
Artificial Intelligence: Coming to the Rescue of ITOps
According to McKinsey's Global Institute Report of 2018, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create an annual value of $3.5 billion to $5.8 billion across different industry sectors. Today, AI in ...
The Importance of Soft Skills in Engineering
In college, professors regularly told us that in the real world, we need to be able to work in groups. As a young skeptical undergraduate, I naturally rolled my eyes every time ...
An Easy Way to Optimize Network Performance Monitoring
Network performance monitoring, and especially network optimization, is more of an art than a science because there are so many factors that figure into network and application responsiveness. In addition, because there ...
Kubernetes Jenkins Master-Slave: Scaling the Scalability Issue
LinkedIn, Sony, Dell and many other companies use Jenkins as a CI/CD tool and builds happen with substantial code bases that run 365 days in parallel. Generally, you may not have as ...
Digital Transformation Strategy? Think Cloud
A few years back companies used innovation and digital transformation mostly to differentiate themselves and to stay competitive. The drastic growth in digital and cloud computing over the last couple of years ...
DevOps in the Age of Blockchain
The current state of software development results in a lot of redundant efforts. The same functionality is built repeatedly, which is a waste of time and resources for a company. Open source ...
Why Digital Transformation Can’t Happen without Experimentation
A sure sign of a company's successful digital transformation is when it can leverage data to optimize every area within the enterprise. As Forrester puts it, for a company to realize the ...
SDN/NFV DevOps: Release Automation for Network Operators
A powerful force is waiting to be unleashed. Software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are already acknowledged as exciting possibilities in the world of telecom and media. Leading providers, ...
DevOps’ Role in Developing a Robust and Secure IoT Framework
Creating a secure IoT infrastructure is a challenge for developers, requiring a holistic approach. It requires a dynamic framework that is capable of collecting data from a cloud back end as well ...
Hunting Down the Mythical High-Quality Code
The definition of high-quality code is hard to pin down. Depending on who you talk to, there are a lot of different theories on what makes code good or bad. Sometimes, this ...
TechRepublic’s Bombshell Survey: A DevOps Fiasco?
This month, I chose to share the findings of a TechRepublic’s recent survey on DevOps not only because it’s a bombshell within the IT community, but because it brings out two eye-opening facts: ...

