When I visit clients to talk about DevOps, I usually ask them what their monitoring strategy is. Too often, the answer I hear is "We use Nagios". I think Nagios is a ...

Talking about collaboration in general terms is easy. I’ve done it and so has everyone else. It’s time now to dig deeper into the specifics of collaboration, meaning the different types - ...

It is not often the case that a security vulnerability can get the entire Internet talking. And not just the security community on the Internet, but everyone. End-users and IT alike are looking for ...

DevOps is an interesting movement. As with any effort of this magnitude, there will be many opinions on what is entailed in adoption and implementation. The issue is that businesses are so ...

Yes, Virginia, there is a difference. One of the things devops practitioners are tasked with is the provisioning and configuration of all sorts of infrastructure.  Application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxies ...

Does your bank offer the ability to deposit a check by taking its picture with your smartphone? When that feature debuted a few years back, I remember thinking it was interesting and ...

The DevOps evolution (Revolution!) has a great story; a story of winning the hearts and minds of people of all experiences who all anxiously strive to achieve their goals in amazing new ...

What is DevOps, and how do we do it? It’s a question I’m often asked, with confusion around job titles, team structures, tooling, personnel responsibilities, office layout and more as potential ingredients ...

You can’t turn around in the tech space without hearing about collaboration. Whether it has to do with the new economy being built around collaboration or the platforms designed to improve it ...

One of the biggest misnomers about DevOps is that since it's all about process and communications there aren't any costs associated with adoption. Sure, you can probably gain some improvement by simply ...

As much as seasonal increases in demand for on-line resources are discussed, the one day that's often overlooked is April Fools Day. It's the day the Internet loses its mind and your ...

Back in 2008 I was part of a startup that had success and sold to large company three years later. During the startup years, there was three of us in IT plus ...