Enterprise DevOps
Shhhh! It’s a Secret
In one of our regular back-and-forth breaks, Lori and I were talking shop a week or two ago, and she shared an excellent report by GitGuardian with me. Frankly, none of the ...
A New DevOps Database Platform is Needed
The diverse number of database platforms, deployment environments and data variants needed to support the plethora of applications and services required for rapid DevOps continuous delivery lead times, coupled with the challenges ...
BMC Extends DevOps Reach from the Mainframe
BMC today announced it has extended its DevOps platform for mainframe environments to provide integrations with GitHub Actions, a framework for managing workflows, and HCL Launch, a continuous delivery platform from HCL ...
Best Practices for AWS Tagging With Yor
On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best ...
Leveraging the Cloud for Mainframe Access
Now more than ever, organizations around the world are looking to extend their existing mainframe investments as part of larger digital transformation initiatives. As core systems of record and reliability, mainframes continue ...
Continuous Testing Practices Gap Assessment
Continuous testing is an essential part of DevOps. To get the maximum value from continuous testing, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap ...
Managing Cloud Governance Costs Collaboratively
For those responsible for managing infrastructure, the concept of governance is common, especially as it relates to cloud services. For cloud services, it’s defined as a framework that guides how end users ...
The Forces Massing Against the Data Center
We've come a long way over the last few decades. A ton of stuff about IT has changed, even in the last five years. And it is true in IT that the ...
Continuous Testing Practices – Part 3
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help with understanding what continuous testing ...
Continuous Testing Practices – Part 2
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help explain what continuous testing is ...
Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous ...
Some Technical Debt is Self-Resolving
But don't count on it. Fellow DevOps.com contributor Bill Doerrfeld recently wrote, "Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt," a great article about trends in technical debt, and it got me thinking about some ...

