Enterprise DevOps
Why Your Test Automation Is Failing
If you have been investing in test automation, but it’s not getting you where you think it should, it could be that you approached it superficially. One of the most common issues ...
Citizen Developers Drive Productivity and Innovation
It was once written that “software is eating the world,” “APIs are eating the world" and “APIs are eating software.” In 2019, a more accurate statement might be, “APIs (or application programming ...
IBM Extends z/OS Toward DevOps Again
A few months ago, I wrote about the release of Zowe, the first Open Source project based on z/OS. Zowe is a framework for including z/OS in your applications with less pain ...
Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines
I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation," by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation ...
Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture
What initially drove the need for embarking on the DevOps journey in your team or at your company in the first place? Was it: Market shift? New leadership or an acquisition? New ...
The Essential Toolbox for DevOps Analytics
With DevOps teams under constant pressure to improve software delivery cycles while maintaining—and improving—quality, many have turned to continuous testing (CT), implementing it as part of their overall development strategy. CT offers ...
DevOps Security Champion: Who, What and Why?
In general, DevOps is a process and culture of organizations to get applications out the door faster and with higher quality. To do so, security champions are essential. In DevOps, security champions ...
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud ...
CTOs Should Embrace, Stick to a No-Meeting Day
You know the feeling: You open your calendar in the morning to find a completely booked day, back-to-back meetings and not even 15 minutes of time to complete any of the items ...
The Role of Bots in DevOps
DevOps has evolved from its infancy into a mainstream focus area for a majority of CIOs. DevOps has become a main focus and has been shaping the world of software and infrastructure ...
The State of Low-Code Development
As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to ...
The Terrain of DevOps is Strewn with Pitfalls
As Gene Kim, one of the leading thinkers in DevOps, once said, “DevOps is not about what you do, but what your outcomes are.” What he’s telling us is that DevOps is ...

