Enterprise DevOps
Sneckdowns In IT Operations
What IT operations professionals can learn from the actual paths people take through tools and processes, and the differences from the expected usage model. It has been a snowy winter across much ...
Defects: Pay More Attention to What, Less to Who
Software defects have been with us forever, and while DevOps and agile can reduce the number of defects generated, it is unlikely this number will ever get to zero for a given ...
Mainframe Computing and the API Economy
The API economy has come a long way since the days when I worked at a very well-known automotive website back in 2007. Back then, APIs were the thing that application programmers ...
Top 5 Considerations for DevOps Success in 2018
Top tips for maximizing DevOps effectiveness Whether you are well into your DevOps journey or still thinking about getting started, there’s always room for improvement and an opportunity to learn from each ...
DevSecOps: If You Build It, They Will Come
Spring training for Major League Baseball in the United States has begun. Millions of people share my love for baseball; however, the same can’t be said for security and compliance—well, at least ...
Standardization, De Facto Style
The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way DevOps worked—particularly ...
Continuous Delivery: No Excuses
Jez Humble’s (@jezhumble) career has spanned roles through coding, infrastructure, and product development across three continents and organizations of varying sizes. To say he knows a lot about continuous delivery is a ...
Application Discovery and the Value Proposition of IBM Z ADDI
Discovering how an application works can be a difficult, expensive undertaking. That’s why architectures based on REST are so popular. The architectural style provides an easy-to-implement interface that allows consumers to use ...
DevOps Heals at NIH
Cancer sucks. But with folks like Sarah, DevOps is helping make a difference in the race to a cure. Sarah Elkins is not curing cancer herself, but she is employing DevOps practices ...
Dev vs. Ops Needs for Large-Scale Version Control Systems
Distributed version control systems (DVCS) such as Git (introduced in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) rapidly gained worldwide acceptance by the global software development community. DVCS offer very fast, ...
Why DevOps Principles Fit Well in Highly Regulated Industries
DevOps is best suited to digital start-ups with minimal regulation and few restrictions, right? Initially the DevOps movement stemmed from the agile, innovative, born-on-the-web companies that were able to change their way ...
Top Challenges When Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise and How to Conquer Them
Preparing to adopt DevOps can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Scaling DevOps and bringing it to an enterprise demands a special strategy. Use these tips to build yours. DevOps ...
