DevOps Practice
10 Rules for Writing Automated Tests
Over the recent months many of our customers asked for our guidance and building their test suites properly. Performance, ease of management and scalability were key priorities for them. We decided to ...
New Relic Delivers on AI Promise to Automate IT Operations
New Relic at a FutureStack 2017 conference unveiled an instance of its monitoring tools that employs machine learning technologies and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide advice on how to ...
With DevOps, Traditional Service Providers Adapt to New Industry Realities
A dive into the technologies that help networks adapt to changes in market needs, improve service quality and reduce the costs of developing new services The benefits of DevOps are clear, but ...
Speaking for the Dead: Are ‘Agile’ and ‘Monolithic’ Actually Good?
What if Agile is the product of getting bored at work, microservices are the result of us needing a challenge and scrums are the result of an obsessive project manager? Do we ...
Liberty Mutual: Taking an Organic Approach to DevOps
Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His ...
Quest Software Extends DevOps Reach to MySQL Databases
Thanks mainly to the rise of DevOps, the number of open-source database deployments in the enterprise has risen sharply in the last two years. The driving force behind those deployments has been ...
NodeSource, AppDynamics Ally for Node.js DevOps
The prevalence of Node.js as the most widely deployed instance of JavaScript is putting a lot of pressure on DevOps teams to find ways to automate the management of Node.js applications. To ...
DevOps and Security is Like Smoking Meat
It isn’t everyone who thinks, “Doesn’t Ubuntu remind you of wild boar?” Or labors over his pit of slow-roasted pork shoulder while contemplating containers. Or dwells on e2e testing while mesquite smoke ...
Incorporating Performance Engineering into DevOps
Performance testing historically has been a challenge for most IT organizations. It is highly misunderstood, from executives down to the few resources allocated to perform an extremely difficult task. Most companies consider ...
Understanding the Data Scientist’s Role in Cross-Functional Teams
In our previous article, "Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud," we discussed that evolution is key if you plan to grow your business. You can start with ready-made solutions, then, in ...
Redefining NoOps to Better Inform IT Decision-Making
It is safe to say that since the term NoOps escaped from its confines as an assembly language instruction (NOP or NOOP mnemonic for no operation) and in microelectronics (NoOps or null ...
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security ...

