Enterprise DevOps

Cattle, Not Kittens – Revisited
The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we ...

Oracle and Allies Launch ARM-Based Cloud Service
Oracle announced today it will make available for the first time ARM-based processors on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that will also be supported as targets for deploying applications using GitHub, GitLab ...

Le Morte d’Arthur— A DevOps Engineering Journey
The stories of King Arthur have fascinated me from the time I was young. Now that I am old DevOps_the_Gray, I enjoy relating the story of King Arthur to my experiences with ...

Our API Mess is Coming
APIs are the satisfaction of a long and deep need to be able to create consistent and reliable integrations between disparate systems, operating systems and datasets. As we started to use REST-based ...

Despite Cloud Adoption, Enterprises Demand On-Premises Software
A recent report from Dimensional Research reveals that the demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud. The report, which was commissioned by Replicated, a company specializing in on-premises ...

Dear Vendor: Letter to Technology Vendors
While I was writing my "Dear Management …" post, something was going on behind the scenes that inspired me to write another. We all have things we wish to say to vendors; ...

The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% ...

SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity
Anybody paying attention to world news will notice that the threats and risks perpetrated by cybercriminal actors, in many forms, is a serious problem on the rise, affecting individuals, organizations and nations ...

Why We’re Swimming in Dashboards and Drowning in Data
Knowing how to use a dashboard is table stakes in the enterprise. Information technologies generate countless volumes of data from multiple sources, and dashboards are meant to harness all of that information, ...

Survey Illuminates Long Dark Road to Hybrid Cloud
While hybrid cloud computing will play a critical role in enabling digital business transformation it turns out most IT organizations lack the skills and technologies required to achieve it. A survey of ...

Dear Management: Letter to DevOps Leaders
My occasional reminder that "Change is good, but predictability is better," is in the form of a message to DevOps upper management. I thought it would be fun to write, and would ...

More and More Enterprises Go Headless
IT faces high expectations for building and supporting omnichannel digital experiences. Simultaneously, web developers hold an evolving toolkit of architectural approaches to deliver content. One such framework gaining mindshare is headless, a ...