Many business leaders are planning to make DevOps the cornerstone of their IT transformation strategy. But, as surprising as it might sound, skepticism abounds regarding how major vendors address the DevOps transformation challenges—they confuse DevOps with continuous ...

This article will provide an example delivery pipeline used through continuous integration, as well as the DevOps tools involved in the automation of building, testing and deploying code through your software development ...

In "The Phoenix Project," a 2013 novel about an IT manager rescuing a late, over-budget IT initiative, Gene Kim demonstrates how collaboration between IT operations, development and business users can impact the ...

Recent IT disasters suggest gaps in hardware testing, backup system testing and inadequate disaster recovery plans. Although the summer often is the most profitable season for most airlines, this past summer wasn’t ...

"Who am I?" It is perhaps the most basic question of consciousness. The answer could be subdivided by aspects of my life story … my career, my family, my beliefs, my education ...

Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the "age of the ...

Scrum is, by far, the most popular way development teams are organized and work. In fact, well over 70 percent of Agile teams around the world use Scrum. But for those unfamiliar ...

By now, surely everyone has seen cooking competition shows such as “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Top Chef,” in which people compete to create and serve the best dishes as quickly as possible. These ...

Similarity breeds consistency, giving way to predictability and, thereby, dropping costs of operations and quality from a lower number of incidents and a shorter duration to resolve them. But at the heart ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) and DevOps are not mutually exclusive. Actually, DevOps wants SDN, whether it knows it yet or not. Why? If software is going to eat the world, then SDN is ...

In a time not so long ago, but long enough to be before the mainstreaming of magical ideas such as “configuration as code” or “platform as a service (PaaS),” in a period ...

What Agile means to your typical operations staff member is, "More junk coming faster that I will get blamed for when it breaks." There always is tension between development and operations when ...