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What Can Conway’s Law Teach Us About DevOps?
I first heard about Conway's Law from reading the "DevOps Handbook" (an excellent read, by the way, if you want to dive head-first into DevOps). I was intrigued by how this idea ...
What Developers Can Learn from Apple’s iOS Woes
Apple's decision to delay new features in iOS to address performance and quality issues is a setback for the company, but it also holds valuable lessons for software developers and dev teams ...
The ‘Mad Men’ Approach to Pitching DevOps
It’s been said that the mark of a good salesman is having the ability to sell ice to an Eskimo. And, if you’re familiar with the 1960s-era T.V. hit "Mad Men," you ...
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence, Part II
This is the second installment of a two-part Q&A series on artificial intelligence (AI) with AJ Abdallat. It covers AI’s potential significance to computing; how AI affects jobs; the employee specializations needed ...
Age or Experience: Which is Better in Hiring a DevOps Engineer?
In such a rapidly shifting space as the DevOps talent market, many employers find themselves challenged with deciding what type of DevOps engineer to hire. Do I choose the junior talent with ...
Hopes and Fails in DevOps 2017
At the end of 2016, DevOps enthusiasts and evangelists alike predicted and even declared 2017 as “The Year of DevOps.” DevOps evangelist J. Paul Reed put more eloquently when he said in ...
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence
AJ Abdallat is a serial entrepreneur who worked on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and commercializing smart sensors at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1998 until ...
5 Key 2018 Tech Predictions for the C-Suite
The most important digital trends for C-level business leaders to consider in 2018 relate to digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and cybersecurity ...
What is an Agile IT Organization?
Agile IT is the new sexy. Don’t get me wrong. It has always been around. But with the rise of digital transformation, it has taken on a renewed urgency. For example, Domino's ...
Outsourcing DevOps? Here’s What to Look For
DevOps synthesizes methods, processes and tools with the goal of improving your company’s velocity at which you deploy applications, which serves your customers better. Teams using DevOps best practices and tools to ...
5 Biggest Ways to Fail at DevOps
The mission of DevOps is simple: Ship software, do it frequently, do it well and reliably. Repeat. Repeat. Every day, more organizations are turning to DevOps to deliver more frequent software releases, ...
K’NEX’s Big Shift Online
The tagline for U.S. construction toy maker K’NEX is "Building Worlds Kids Love." Today, the multinational toy seller, which was founded in 1992, estimates that 90 percent of its interaction with consumers ...

