NoOps

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Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter

Richi Jennings | October 11, 2023 | ARM, ARM processors, Exascale, microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NVIDIA, Python, scripting, supercomputer, The Long View, VBScript, visual studio, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, windows

In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink

Richi Jennings | August 3, 2023 | Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window management

In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...

WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)

Richi Jennings | February 23, 2023 | agile, Hybrid Work environment, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, scrum, The Long View, waterfall, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from home

In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure ...

Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why

Richi Jennings | January 3, 2023 | agile, scrum, The fault is not in our stars—but in ourselves, The Long View, waterfall

In 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 ...

DevOps Principles, Implementations and Culture

Stefan Thorpe | October 17, 2022 | CloudOps, devops, gitops, noops

When organizations begin using DevOps for application development, many only reference DevOps as part of their infrastructure and select a subset of DevOps before understanding the cultural and process changes needed for success ...

NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner

Alan Shimel | August 25, 2022 | AIOps, IT operations, noops, SRE

Once again, we are seeing an uptick in the use of the term NoOps. I always felt that NoOps was a misleading and, in fact, empty phrase. I don’t care what magic ...

How Does IT Management Govern EverythingOps?

Bill Doerrfeld | February 1, 2022 | cloud spending, DevOps tooling, devsecops, FinOps Foundation, ITOps

The number of tools engineers use to provision software architecture in the cloud is starting to get a little out of hand. There are many competing ways to do one thing. Most ...

Key NoOps Insights From DevOps Leaders

Darren Broemmer | March 31, 2021 | Administration, application automation, it automation, noops

NoOps is coming, in some form or another. Whether you have homegrown DevOps or outsourced DevOps, it’s time to realize that a simpler way is coming: NoOps automation. We spoke with a ...

Could No-Code Enable Everything Ops?

Bill Doerrfeld | March 2, 2021 | automation, low-code applications, no-code development, RPA

It feels like DevOps principles are permeating every discipline, creating new buzzwords by the minute. DevSecOps. DatabaseOps. SalesOps. FinOps. MarketingOps. This “JargonOps” is clearly encouraged by marketing campaigns (and bloggers, wink, wink) ...