DevOps Toolbox
What Does DevOps Mean to Test Teams?
It wasn't long ago that the Dev and test teams would work late hours, focused and rushed to meet a deadline: rapid fixing, reprioritizing and deferring bugs to close out the bug ...
What is JSON? How Do I Use It? Does It Beat BSON?
TL;DR: If you've ever wondered about JSON—what it is, how to use it or what it has to do with BSON—then you've come to the right place. In this article I'll explore ...
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal "easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their ...
Will MariaDB Soon Replace MySQL?
MariaDB is a database growing in popularity. Its lead developer is Michael "Monty" Widenius, who was part of the team that created MySQL. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle, Widenius and some ...
Development Tools Sprawl and the Impact of Open Source: The Herding Kittens Survey
DevOps.com and Automic partnered up to conduct a survey back in February and March of several hundred respondents regarding their use of development tools, their use of Open Source and their rate ...
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 2
In part one of my conversation with Stefan Thies, Sematext DevOps expert. we spoke about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Let’s continue ...
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 1
Stefan Thies is DevOps evangelist Sematext Group. I recently spoke with him about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Read on for part ...
Top 10 IT Management Tools
contributor | | application monitoring, automation, clustering, containerization, dashboards, IT management, IT operations, IT service management, network monitoring, toolsStaying up with the latest IT management tools is akin to keeping up on the latest Starbucks drink options. We simplify it here through a look at the most useful tools, from ...
DevOps and ITaaS: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Philippe Abdoulaye | | agile culture, AWS, bigdata, business of DevOps, Chef, cloud, digital transformation, Internet of APIs, Internet of Things, ITaaS, Jenkins, PaaS, PuppetIt seems IT practitioners haven't realized yet the scale of digital disruption. Mired in the old IT thinking, they firmly believe that sophisticated tools are all businesses need to survive the ongoing digital ...
Integrated Testing Without Integrated Migraines
Kristian Nelson | | automated monitoring, DevOps Testing, integrated monitoring, integrated testing, sdlc, test automation, test lifecycleI am always amazed at how many practitioners (or, rather, managers of) tout the benefits of test-driven development (TDD). This inherently changes the role of the traditional developer to one of developer ...
The Two-Month Hello World
How Project Onboarding Can Undermine DevOps Efforts at Large Organizations A “hello world” application is the most basic program a developer, typically a beginner, will write to learn a new language. It’s ...
Herding Kittens: Developer Tools Trends From Our Survey
Back in late February we launched our latest survey in partnership with Automic. The survey sought to understand how developer tools are selected and used within organizations. We wanted to have some ...
