People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start.  Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices.  In April, I ...

While we have been building our SaaS company, we have been investing much time in researching and deciding which tools to include in our DevOps toolkit. We’ve based these decisions on our ...

Lean and Agile methodologies are nothing new, but in the last few years we have seen the emergence of several frameworks combining elements of both. The IBM DevOps framework is one clear ...

The Next Evolution of Software Delivery Automation In the 1980’s and 90’s, the business software landscape was dominated by a diverse list of cutting-edge companies such as Best Software, i2, Brock Control ...

Software development, at its most complex and dynamic is a full-court press of effort, knowledge, patience, and hard work. Anything that can reliably and cost-effectively reduce the huge number of tasks, redundancies, ...

Deployment automation is critical to practicing effective DevOps. Without deployment automation, releases still require a lot of manual steps and processes. Processes and steps that aren't reliably repeatable, are prone to human ...

Milk spoils.  Iron rusts.  And in software, good code goes bad.  Yet the difference is, with the first two, you know the change has occurred.  With software, those changes are not always ...

Where is Hadoop? Just a few years ago, it was everywhere. Internet heavy hitters such as Facebook and Yahoo boasted about the size of their Hadoop clusters and applications. It was easy ...

News from the AWS Summit in NYC today is that Chef is now available as a one click install on AWS via the AWS marketplace. While the ability to use Chef on ...

Open source and DevOps go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or like milk and cookies (these metaphors are making me hungry). Basically, they’re inseparable and—while each is good in and of ...

Back in my days at StillSecure a major problem we had with our vulnerability management platform was managing vulnerabilities over a large number of hosts. How can you effectively manage so many ...

In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes, a Scrum failure if you will—not because the agile framework is flawed, ...