CloudBees Appoints New CEO to Drive Next Level of DevOps Growth
CloudBees announced today the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO, taking over from Sacha Labourey, who will become chief strategy officer. Labrourey said after leading the company for the past 10 years, and after a banner year that saw the company generate more than $100 million in revenue, the time was right to […]
Best Free Virtual DevOps Conferences to Attend in 2021
New year, new beginnings and new conferences. It’s that time of the year again, to review and research upcoming events for 2021. Of course, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll cover only virtual conferences. Here are the top five best DevOps virtual conferences you can attend for free. Just sign up, reserve your seat and […]
Transforming Your Digital Transformation
Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […]
Pilot Testing DevOps in a Pandemic
Savvy organizations are using the pandemic to drive innovation by pilot testing DevOps. As health experts brace for an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases across the nation and vaccine distribution ramps up, many states and cities are still implementing significant measures to reduce the virus’s spread. As shutdowns impact cities coast to coast, organizations are […]
The State of Digital Innovation, One Year Into the Pandemic
It’s obvious COVID–19 accelerated digital reliance for many companies. And it’s no surprise that, according to a recent study, 89% of tech leaders believe digital experiences are critical to addressing new COVID–19 challenges. In this race toward 100% digital business, agile innovation is the new elixir of life — without it, a company may face an […]
Ambassador Insights: Enterprise Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has been on the minds of many organizations for a few years now, but since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year the need to transform IT infrastructures has taken on a sense of urgency. The rush to work from home coupled with the shift to online everything has pushed organizations to […]
Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations
A Strategic SRE Assessment is critical in helping organizations successfully transform traditional IT operations to SRE Site reliability engineering (SRE) is rapidly becoming more important to organizations that need to scale IT operations while maintaining or improving reliability and security, and to modernize operations to match the growth of DevOps in the organization. Without sufficiently […]
The Weakest Link in DevOps for Financial Services
Many companies in the financial services sector are making huge investments in IT transformation these days. They are embracing DevOps and agile best practices, modernizing legacy applications and moving their infrastructure to the cloud. In many instances, though, this significant investment of time and resources simply isn’t producing measurable outcomes that matter to the broader […]
Low-Code To Become Commonplace in 2021
A new study finds 85% of engineer leads predict low-code and no-code will soon become common New findings from an Internal-endorsed study suggest 2020’s software development challenges will undoubtedly carry into 2021. Many businesses are making immediate transitions to a digital-only economy, forcing a ton of new app development requirements. Yet, hiring top engineering talent […]
Linux Foundation Exam for Certified IT Associates Available
A while back I wrote about an upcoming certification people receive from passing the Linux Foundation Exam. Now that it is available, I’m circling back as promised with more information. For those unfamiliar, this certification is specifically targeted at people who are newer to their IT career or just launching it. The goal is to […]
Out of the Silo: Big Data and DevOps Meet in the Middle
Given the myriad benefits they provide, it seems crazy that big data and DevOps have been implemented independent of each other If you have been working from home during the recent lockdowns, you probably don’t feel like you are making many new connections, but when we come to look back on this time in a […]
Global SKILup Festival: Not Your Ordinary Conference
Global SKILup festival offers the Humans of DevOps a career fair, numerous upskilling opportunities, and a full-day conference, featuring keynote speakers Mirco Hering and Patrick Debois and many more 2020 has been the year focused on the human. As the pandemic unfolded, the Humans of DevOps worldwide did their part to help mitigate the many […]
BVSSH and the Digital Zeitgeist
I like the book, “Better Value Sooner Safer Happier” (BVSSH), by Jon Smart with contributions from Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie and Simon Rohrer. It is not only a punchy title that captures much of what we do in IT, but it also has the depth and nuance that is sorely needed. It focuses on outcomes […]
The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy
While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams that have been employing Slack to collaborate for years is significant. Salesforce owns both Heroku and Force.com in addition to providing developers with […]
Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations
Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […]
3 Steps to Turn a Data Deluge Into Actionable Intelligence
Digital transformation is creating even more data for organizations to manage effectively. Here’s how to find the intelligence needle in the data haystack Data and analytics transform how companies across all industries identify and act on opportunities to gain a competitive advantage. But many organizations are discovering that ever-growing volumes of the former make the […]
Survey Sees Pace of IT Investments Continuing
A survey based on responses from 230 IT operations and DevOps executives in the U.S. and UK with at least 500 employees and $5 million in annual IT budgets published this week indicates large enterprises are continuing to make IT investments despite the downturn in the economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the […]
JFrog CEO Sees Slight Slowdown in New DevOps Projects
Following the company’s filing of its first quarterly report as a public company, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim said this week the rate at which new application development projects being launched since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring has declined. While most existing application development initiatives launched prior to the pandemic are […]
DataOps: The Key for Real-Time Data Application Development
Data engineers and developers face challenges every day to help their organizations digitally transform. To do this, they must deliver real-time data applications faster, better and cheaper. With businesses in every industry now data-driven, data professionals must work more efficiently and accelerate time to market for their products. That’s where DataOps comes in. Development of […]
Nobl9 Ties Business Goals to Observability Data
Nobl9 today announced it has made available via an open public beta program a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for correlating business goals against data collected by observability tools. Unlike observability platforms that only aggregate metrics, the Nobl9 Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform applies that data to specific reliability targets defined by the business, company CEO Marcin […]
How to Build a Highly Qualified Cloud-Native Team
If you’re reading this, you more than likely are aware of the struggles involved in recruiting and building a team of technical professionals skilled in cloud-native computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and service mesh. The Linux Foundation and edX’s “2020 Open Source Jobs Report” found 93% of hiring managers are having difficulties filling […]
How To Foster a Culture of Citizen Developers
What can leaders do to encourage a thriving environment of citizen developers in their organization? Over the last several months, businesses of all sizes have had to embrace rapid change, as have their workforces. When it comes to IT departments, even before the pandemic many were fielding requests to implement new technology, customize solutions to […]
BizOps Coalition Publishes Manifesto
The BizOps Coalition, which advocates for fundamental change in the way IT teams and business users collaborate during software development, today published a BizOps Manifesto framework that identifies 12 principles that focus organizations on business outcomes versus merely attaining and maintaining service levels. The goal is to close the historic divide between IT and the […]