"What's in a name?" wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous ...

Think of DevOps tools as stepping stones to releasing new functionality into the hands of your customers faster and more frequently. Working together, tools automate processes and help companies become modern software ...

I spent a large portion of my career in the networking industry, marketing routers, switches and other gear that makes the internet work. Networking—like many industries—is currently undergoing a revolution that is ...

Trying to integrate applications on your own can eat your project alive. A seemingly simple project may look harmless when you start, but in the end do-it-yourself software delivery tool integrations can ...

You know the feeling: You’ve put in hours of work developing a new feature. It has gone through QA, been tested and passed all stakeholder inspections, and now you’re ready to deploy ...

As cloud and DevOps have heated up, enterprise need for cloud portability and deeper DevOps integration have become pretty clear. The need for portability to avoid cloud lock-in has been a desire ...

This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required ...

Much of the initial focus on DevOps has been on accelerating the rate at which applications are built and deployed. But once those applications are deployed, it’s not too long before the ...

Networking in the enterprise has always stood apart. It might take two minutes or less to spin up a virtual machine, but it can take two weeks to set up the network ...

Much of the inherent conflict that exists between developers and IT operations teams often comes down to how IT automation processes are implemented. IT operations teams generally have their own preferred tools ...

Many developers are not so great at documentation. Ask anyone who’s been thrown into a large code base. Changes aren’t documented well, tribal knowledge thrives in the code comments, and anyone who ...

Businesses are increasingly developing software solutions that can drive innovation and digital transformation. As the number of developers increases in the organization, the ratio of developers to IT also increases over time ...