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, ...

DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ...

ElasticBox announced a new version of their product today that enhances Container support. In yet another example of how important Containers are becoming to today's software development scene, ElasticBox will now allow ...

We have all seen the nice circular diagrams of a DevOps methodology for application lifecycle management (ALM) like the one above. We interject some automation, make the two halves work closer together, ...

DevOps teams have turned to containerization in a big way in order to help improve their efficiency. But many enterprises have run into problems scaling containers across their infrastructure to account for ...