Enterprise DevOps
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 ...
How to Spot SRE Adoption Barriers
It’s no secret that site reliability engineering (SRE) adoption is growing. The operating model, it seems, is pivotal for digital transformations across the enterprise. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills ...
DevOps Practices Gap Assessment
Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important ...
‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’
These days, software programmers are increasingly estranged from hardware. Most millennials and Generation Z developers have never had to mount physical servers. They have never been lulled by the gentle hum of ...
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we're very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new ...
IBM Unifies Cloud Services to Simplify App Dev
IBM announced today that an IBM Cloud Code Engine service that unifies the cloud platforms on which applications are built and deployed is now generally available. Built on top of a serverless ...

