DevOps Practice
How DevOps Helped One Firm Get GDPR Right
There has been a lot of press about how many, if not most, enterprises are still unprepared to comply with the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just days before ...
The Role of DevOps in the Financial Services Industry
We are living in a fast-changing environment where unexpected technological, economic and political changes can be expected and where it is necessary to adapt quickly to these changes. This statement is especially ...
As Business Speeds Up, Testers Must Adapt
It should be no surprise to anyone working in software today that delivery speed is the name of the game. Irrespective of business sectors or B2B/B2C focus, global competition in application development ...
Reducing Risk in Applications Using Docker Containers
Docker. It seems like in this day and age you are either using Docker containers or you are going to use Docker containers. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, check ...
Code Delivery: Pipeline Automation for the Speed to Innovate
Many developers steeped in the world of agile startups view continuous delivery pipelines as an accepted standard requirement for software development. Yet many companies, particularly large enterprises with traditional infrastructure, still struggle ...
200 Billion Downloads Can’t Be Wrong
Laurie Voss, COO and co-founder at npm (@seldo), tweeted recently that JavaScript packages downloaded from their repository has topped 4 billion. On an annual basis, that would be more than 200 billion ...
Bridge the DevSecOps Experience Divide with Cross-Functional Teams
Last week's DevOps Connect event at RSA Conference offered up a ton of wisdom and real-world examples of the power of DevSecOps. With its best-ever attendance after several years and impressive participation ...
Trust and Safety in the Age of Automation
“As with any new technology, it’s really important that we be thinking now about how to do [it] ethically and responsibly.” —Robert High, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Here’s ...
DevOps Transformation: Leave No Ops Behind
In adopting DevOps, it's easy to forget what you know Have you ever found yourself struggling to explain something that you know how to do without a moment’s thought? I'm not talking ...
How Python is Transforming the DevOps Landscape
DevOps is the combination of operations and software development which reduces or almost eliminates the disconnect between systems administrators who run the infrastructure and software developers who develop applications. During software development, ...
Monitoring Your Data Center Like a Google SRE
Back in the early '00s, when Google was beginning to expand its portfolio of services beyond search, it encountered a combination of challenges. Some of these emerged from familiar, classic disconnects between ...
Agile and DevOps: Where the Rubber (Literally) Meets the Road
Do Agile and DevOps methodologies apply outside of technology? More specifically, can we apply them to sport? I decided to answer these questions by analyzing the application of Agile and DevOps principles ...

