You often may have more questions than answers as you progress along your DevOps journey. Which tools should I choose? Do these tools work well together? What have other people done in ...

When disasters make headlines, corporate executives often have knee-jerk reactions and call for business continuity solutions to be implemented immediately. However, when push comes to shove, those very same executives tend to ...

While the precise definition of DevOps is an evolving matter, a simple way to describe it is this: DevOps is a change of mindset toward an agile and inclusive approach to IT ...

The best tool in the DevOps continuum is the sticky wrapper that holds it all together. It is the workflow that binds it and makes sense out of the term “continuous.”  CIOs ...

As organizations adopt DevOps, they not only release smaller changes sooner, but they also change the way they develop software. Additionally, applications no longer are seen as giant monoliths, but rather as ...

Jenkins World 2016, the world’s largest gathering of Jenkins users, is coming to the Santa Clara (California) Convention Center, Sept. 13-15. The lead organizing sponsor is CloudBees, along with a number of ...

Even experienced programmers can sometimes be thrown for an infinite loop–or other code failure–with these common MySQL mistakes. When a database application goes belly up, the cause often can be traced to ...

Automation is key to success in the cloud. When your entire infrastructure is accessible via an API, it doesn’t make sense to configure and install your applications by hand. This is where ...

NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database provides linear ...

Times are changing rapidly in the world of IT monitoring. A once stable landscape consisting of just a few monolithic solutions has exploded and fragmented as a new wave of tools better-suited ...

Cassandra is a popular next-generation database system (NoSQL) that powers the back end of high-performance web-scale applications in enterprises. It is database software for cloud applications that accelerates the organizations' ability to ...

One of the biggest challenges for an organization is producing IT response models that accurately reflect real-world scenarios. It’s pretty straightforward to establish protocols for predictable situations. We call these “standard” scenarios ...