DevOps is not necessarily a “natural” process. Asking people to function outside of their comfort zones and prescribed roles is a challenging task for any organization, and requires a shift in organizational ...

The DevOps approach has several clear-cut benefits with the value centered in several key business areas: improved market agility, increased quality and revised culture of cooperation and effectiveness in staff operations. By ...

Almost since the beginning, there has been a tug-of-war between whether better toolchains or increased communications were “real” DevOps. The answer to that question is, Yes. Better tools undeniably speed the delivery ...

Maintaining the integrity of a software supply chain is an issue that has long bedeviled IT organizations. With the rise of microservices based on containers, however, this issue has become more acute ...

It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to ...

Awareness and anticipation of operational management, best practices can improve your app at every stage of its life cycle How important or interesting you find the “operations management” aspects of DevOps methodologies ...

 DevOps is the marriage of application development teams with system operations teams, their philosophies and actions. In an agile environment, development, testing and operations all must work together to meet frequent iterations, ...

Need to brush up your knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated security, modern infrastructure or cultural transformations? All Day DevOps just released its Summer School program offering 57 online sessions delivered ...

Software testing and QA is sometimes given low priority during development. The idea of treating software testers as adversaries by the developers seems old-fashioned and is short-sighted. It’s hard to believe that ...

When Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management, performed a two-year in-depth analysis of the General Motors corporation in the 1940s, he undertook what may have been the world’s most ambitious ...

Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues, and engineering fixes code-related issues ...

Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as ...