Enterprise DevOps
Interoperability’s Impact on Transparency
We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or ...
InterConnect 2016: Culture Matters
The recent IBM InterConnect 2016 focused on plenty of tools and technologies, from cloud/SaaS solutions to containers and automation, but there was another popular topic of conversation heard in the halls—the culture ...
Trick Question: What is DevOps?
DevOps suffers from the lack of a clearly defined definition. A Google search displays results that state that DevOps is empathy, culture or a movement. There are also derivations of DevOps, such ...
Changing the Culture of Metrics Analysis
You could say the development and operations teams gave birth to the idea of DevOps, as it is believed the chief benefits are garnered in those two functional disciplines. Because of this, ...
In DevOps, Standardize to Minimize Architectural Debt
I recently reading a great Q&A with the Etsy CTO John Allspaw over on The New Stack, which contained some nuggets of good advice that increasingly are important as we continue the ...
DevOps and Agility for Multi-Speed IT
Let’s step back for a moment and look at the IT world a bit differently from the traditional technology-centric lens through which most of us IT peeps tend to look at things ...
Building a Business Case for DevOps
You can get your DevOps vehicle as fast and fine-tuned as you like, but until you provide an effective business case to the board it will remain in the garage. To get ...
Gartner Evaluates APM Tools for DevOps
In 2009, Gartner analyst Mark Nicolett created the Critical Capabilities report. Over time, this document became paired to individual Magic Quadrant reports, and in 2014, Gartner mandated that Critical Capabilities be paired ...
Embracing DevOps in the IoT Era
To those of us struggling to cope with the challenges of delivering software over the Internet of Things (IoT), DevOps can be the savior. Delivering software over the Internet is no easy ...
Taking Stock of DevOps: Where to from Here?
Have you noticed how every technology trend goes through a series of stages on the path to mainstream adoption? First comes doubt and denial, then tacit acceptance and finally acknowledgement that it ...
Measuring the Cost of Service Creation & Adoption
Adopting and implementing DevOps isn't an overnight project. It takes time and effort to determine how it best fits into your organization—and what benefits your organization will realize as a result. Creating ...
Software Complexity Driving DevOps Automation
The drivers behind increasing software complexity also are the drivers behind expansive DevOps automation. As the saying goes, “Software is eating the world.” DevOps is gobbling up software, too, engulfing it in ...

