Variable Speed DevOps
Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
Richi Jennings | | agile, scrum, The fault is not in our stars—but in ourselves, The Long View, waterfallIn this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture ...
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, COVID-19, Devops for z/OS, Great Resignation, ibm, IBM Cloud, IBM Wazi, mainframe, mainframe security, remote working, The Long View, Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know, WFH, work from home, z/OSIn this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...
Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language
As we close out 2018, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018 ...
IBM Z: It’s Not the Dog. It’s the Trick
There’s a piece of conventional wisdom that runs rampant in the tech-o-sphere: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Supposedly, once people become enamored with a technology and use it for ...
IBM Z: An Architecture That Scales for Modern Computing
The architectures I like best are the ones that are built to scale. I can’t tell you how many time I’ve run across applications that have hit the wall when the request ...
DevOps Chat: IBM z14, Built for DevOps from the Ground Up, with Hayden Lindsey
IBM recently GA'ed perhaps its biggest zSystems mainframe release in the last decade or longer. The z14 mainframe from IBM has also been designed from the ground up to be DevOps-empowered. From ...
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
Aditya Vadaganadam | | aditya, architecture, automation, CD, ci, collaborator, continuous integration, development, devops, devops adoption, ibm, iseries, legacy, loosely coupled, RDZ, re-engineering, software development, testing, tools, vadaganadam, zseriesThe word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
The Perfect Combination: Imperative Orchestration, Declarative Automation
contributor | | applications, components, declarative automation, deployment, devops, imperative orchestration, workflowThere are two fundamental approaches of how to design automation processes, declarative (also often known as model) and imperative (also often known as workflow or procedural). The purpose of this article is ...
Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the "age of the ...
Multi-Speed IT versus Bimodal IT
I wanted to continue our revue of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas last month. We kicked off the revue with the release of our first videos from the show ...
The Art of DevOps
Sanjeev Sharma | | culture, devops culture, devops process, ibm, Productivity, trust, variable speed it, variable-speed DevOpsThis is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps ...
The Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps ...
