Enterprise DevOps
What to Expect: DevOps Enterprise Summit London
After the success of the first two years of the U.S. DevOps Enterprise Summit, people have been asking us to host a similar conference in other locations, specifically in Europe. This summer, ...
Legacy IT Challenges Continuous Delivery
Legacy information technology infrastructure has a strong effect on the potential success of DevOps. In environments where different teams have always used the same servers, change can be difficult due to inter-team ...
The Transience or Permanence of Provisioning
I realize the title of this article may conjure up ideas about the impacts of entanglement from quantum computing, but no, we are not there yet. Instead, I am referring to the ...
The New Age of “Operations” in a DevOps Enterprise
My encounters with commercial clients in the DevOps space have been exciting, curious, political, and challenging. What most don't realize is that DevOps is not just about infusing tool automation into a ...
Optimizing an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are often cited as pillars of successful DevOps. To establish and optimize the CI/CD development model and reap the benefits, companies need to build an effective ...
Release Automation: Bigger than DevOps
Why DevOps is not for everyone and how release automation helps in bimodal world So am I really going to write a blog calling DevOps a big hoax? Well, not exactly, but ...
Changing Compensation Before it Kills Success
Have you ever seen the sign, “Will work for food”? If you deconstruct the premise a bit, we all work for the rewards systems that interests us. We “trade” our labor (ideally, ...
DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Not the Same
DevOps and continuous delivery are the same thing, right? Far from it. We peer through the fog to understand the difference between the two related but distinct methodologies. We live in an ...
FLAP, Part 2: Application Provisioning
In part 1 of this series we talked about server provisioning tools. In that post, we mentioned some of the more prominent application provisioning tools on the market with regard to integrations. This ...
Intuit’s DevSecOps: War Games and Culture Hacking
If you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number ...
DevOps’ Cultural Myths and Logical Fallacies
Remember that guy you knew in college who was working on his fifth or sixth degree with no plans to stop? At some point the idea of real work must have terrified ...
FLAP, Part 1: Server Provisioning
We have reached the state where end-to-end data center provisioning is a reality. It’s early yet, so there is a certain amount of work involved, but today a DevOps team essentially can ...

