DevOps Toolbox
An Operational Approach to Benchmarking Microservices
Benchmarking microservices often falls behind on the engineering team’s to-do list. However, those that aren’t are missing out on a key component. The fundamental goal of benchmarking is to better understand the ...
Top Reasons to Use Node.js
When considering the architecture of a new web app, it might be a good idea to include Node.js in the discussion as a key part of that architecture. Node.js could provide you ...
Are You Paying a ‘Wait-Time Tax’ on Your Global DevOps?
Business increasingly is global, so DevOps has become global as well. In fact, for many enterprises, DevOps entails collaboration between development, test/QA and ops teams across multiple continents. This is in part ...
5 Reasons Why Companies Should Analyze Their Logs
At first thought it might seem as though analyzing logs is something that only affects the IT portion of your business. However, nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, log ...
Mainframe Apps and the Long View of DevOps Strategy
IT is constantly under intense short-term pressures. Line of business (LOB) executives demand a competitive advantage in digital customer engagement now. Marketing leaders demand better customer analytics now. Legal demands better audit ...
From the Trenches: Zesty.io’s Google Cloud Migration
Zesty.io recently migrated its sites to the Google Cloud Platform from Rackspace—a process the company believes will make it more agile while streamlining its operations. Zesty.io community manager Phil Ballew recently spoke ...
How Agile Are Your User Stories?
Around the world, enterprises are adopting the concept of Agile development. This methodology is based on a set of principles for software development by which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative ...
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that ...
How the Lure of an ‘Easy Button’ Installer Traps Projects
As preamble for this post, I wrote about the Unicorn Installer challenge. The challenge is that user needs are too deeply heterogeneous for good reasons to create a vertically integrated way (aka ...
Get to Know the New DevOps Stack
Deploying software has always been manual and labor-intensive. That’s fading into the past as continuous innovation has become a competitive differentiator for companies of all stages and sizes across every industry. DevOps ...
Alerts Keep DevOps Teams Responsive, in Sync
Continuing our five-part series on "Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM," this blog post will talk about how alert notification can help DevOps teams be more productive and agile. Amid ...
Industry Alignment: Supporting Real-World DevOps Workflows
In our ongoing work to advance the interests of customers around adoption of Agile, DevOps and continuous delivery, the theme of evolving workflows to better suit human-scale work cycles often comes to ...

