5 Ways Wireless Technology Will Evolve in 2019
2019 will be a transformative year for the wireless world, with landmark developments in 5G, cloud computing and hardware. From stadiums and retail buildings to airports and even street corners, there’s no place that won’t be affected by the rapid evolution of wireless technology. And if you’re not up on the edge, you’re sleeping on […]
The Biggest News from Google Cloud Next ’19? Better Capabilities for Big Data
Data analytics is about to become a whole lot easier. Google’s annual Google Cloud Next conference brought plenty of new announcements and innovations. But the search giant’s focus on data has stolen the show. Partners of the tech titan such as Fivetran, DataStax and Hammerspace are bringing unprecedented data capabilities to the Google Cloud Platform […]
CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud to Advance Continuous Delivery
CloudBees announced it has acquired Electric Cloud as part of an effort to extend the reach of its DevOps portfolio further into the realm of continuous delivery and application release automation (ARA). Announced at the CloudBees Days event in San Francisco, the deal follows CloudBees’ acquisition of Codeship, a provider of a cloud-based continuous integration/continuous […]
Python’s Popularity Continues: Examining the Top Use Cases
Python continues to be one of the most popular coding languages in use. In fact, the TIOBE index of programming language popularity named it the 2018 Language of the Year. Its usage and adoption continue to grow and proliferate into additional use cases. Python’s popularity and growth are in part because it’s flexible and easy […]
Lessons from a Successful Large-Scale Agile Transition
Completing a large-scale agile transition can seem intimidating for any business. Agile pushes teams to change their cultural expectations and work processes—a combination that is tough on any work environment. Larger organizations, however, often face an especially daunting migration. The good news is that businesses don’t have to face these migrations alone. In my work, […]
7 Ways to Introduce DevOps in Your Work Culture
As many industries are going through a wave of digital transformation, a number of key technologies and principles are being deployed to business advantage. One such principle is DevOps. This collaborative principle is proving to be extremely helpful for businesses in their pursuit of customer satisfaction and beating their competition. The DevOps trend is growing, […]
Integrating the Impactful Immersive Experience Team
Immersive: providing, involving or characterized by deep absorption or immersion in something (such as an activity or a real or artificial environment) — Merriam Webster Dictionary We immerse a teabag into hot water to brew tea, but when we speak of the “immersive experience” we’re not planning to boil anyone. We may, however, make them […]
SoulCycle Flexes Its Muscles with DevOps and CI/CD
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Acquires Shippable
The big news in DevOps today was the acquisition of Shippable by JFrog. This adds a CI/CD solution to the JFrog Enterprise+ platform and further expands JFrog’s end-to-end DevOps offering beyond Artifactory and more. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Shippable CEO Avi Cavale, JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim and JFrog VP of Marketing […]
Survey: DevOps Progress Slow, but Steady
Atlassian has published the results of a survey of 500 IT and software professionals that suggest now is the best and worst of times when it comes to DevOps. On the plus side, the survey found that more than half of respondents (57 percent) are encountering fewer bugs and outages after deploying a continuous integration/continuous […]
Break-Even Analysis: Understanding the Impact of Automation
Determining whether automation is helpful beyond the CI/CD pipeline can be easier through a break-even analysis The pursuit of automating away all the operational tasks in your organization doesn’t stop after you finish building a solid CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using the myriad tools available and making it stable. There are many more one-off tasks not […]
‘DevOps Engineer’ Title Lands in Top 5 of Dice Salary Survey
The position of DevOps Engineer is gaining some serious respect, and with that comes cash. In Dice’s recently released “2019 Tech Salary Report,” DevOps Engineer now ranks in the Top 5 of all tech salaries, with an average of $111,683. The survey is based on the responses of 10,780 technology professionals conducted between Oct. 22 […]
Collaboration Between Competitors is the Future of Enterprise Technology
Mark my words: 2019 will be the year enterprise technology companies go back to kindergarten and realize that sharing really is caring—about their customers. Several key moves last year point toward a future full of collaboration between large and small technology vendors—even those that compete against one another. Companies rarely use a single vendor for […]
Customer Education Through DTV, the YouTube Digital Transformation Channel
One of the most valuable functions a services provider can perform for its customers is education. High-level education about industry and technology trends is generally not part of any contract, but, as odd as that may seem, keeping customers apprised of important industry trends can help them make wiser choices in the selection of products, […]
How Nailing Predictability Can Double the Size of Your Business
In a rapidly changing world, predictability has never been more powerful. It’s also never been so underrated. While it is easy to think about predictability in terms of repetition or even monotony, predictability in business means being able to correctly estimate how long it will take to complete a project and how risky it is. […]
Don’t Let Your DevOps Transformation Be a Parade of Tools
Choosing the right DevOps tools should be a careful, thoughtful process. On May 12, 1848, a store owner named Sam Brannan held a “one-man parade” to announce the start of the San Francisco Gold Rush. “Gold! Gold from the American River!” Brannan shouted up and down the market street in San Francisco. He held his […]
Today: Predict 2019 Virtual Summit
Predict 2019 Virtual Summit is finally here! The summit is happening today, Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 10 a.m. Eastern. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from Mirco Herring, Rich Mogull, John Willis, Chenxi Wang and other industry luminaries as they offer their DevOps and security predictions for 2019. If you have already registered, then go here […]
Fintech: A Profitable and Growing Developer Career Path
What do you think when you hear the word “fintech”? It’s been around for almost five decades, yet it has only just been officially recognized as part of the English language. In the Merriam Webster dictionary, the word is defined as: “Products and companies that employ newly developed digital and online technologies in the banking […]
Why Hiring Top Web Developers is a Good Idea
Web developers are a great addition to every organization. Having your own web developers to help you create web applications and websites can be invaluable to companies of every size. If you happen to be a software development team, they are indispensable members of your team. Because web developers are in such high demand, hiring […]
Reigniting Business Culture: Is Marketing Crippling DevOps?
DevOps, as we understand it, is a set of protocols and value-systems that enable development and operations teams to work in perfect harmony within an organization. Surveys of DevOps response teams reveal that the strategy of building bridges between developers and marketers has helped organizations speed up software release cycles, improve product quality and augment […]
10 Years of DevOps—Transition, Growth and the Future of AIOps
When software development became a cumbersome task of repetitive coding, testing and glitches, organizations had to come up with a solution. The solution? An organized approach that would not only eliminate the endless cycle of repetitive tasks but also would establish proper coordination and execution in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That very systematic […]
IBM and Red Hat: Now, That’s an Interesting Combination
Like everyone else, Sunday night I got a surprise with the pre-announcement of IBM’s intent to acquire Red Hat (I might have seen it a little earlier than the rest of you, as a friend from IBM shared it as soon as it was public). I’ve been mulling this over and checking out the information […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Expands Platform with Trainologic Acquisition
It’s always great to see companies in the DevOps space grow and expand their breadth of services. JFrog is the latest to fit that description. The company last week announced its acquisition of Trainologic, a Dev and DevOps technology consulting company, to expand its reach by helping new customers start their DevOps journey and supporting […]