Embedding Ownership: A DevOps Best Practice
From where I sit in the DevOps community, there is often more focus on dev than on ops. Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) of SimplifyOps sought to change that with his talk, “Ops Happens: DevOps Beyond Deployment,” at the All Day DevOps conference. Damon dove right into the primary, systemic force behind most DevOps problems: silos. The […]
Dev & Ops: These Are Reconcilable Differences
The new world of IT requires a different approach from what worked in the past. As usual, the technology is the easy part, but without people and processes being aligned, it won’t deliver value. When evaluating how data science and machine learning can help manage highly dynamic IT environments, old reflexes may be actively harmful. By […]
The Emergence of UI and UX in DevOps Tools
Most of the popular DevOps tools on the market such as Puppet, Chef and Jenkins, are open-source and require a high level of proficiency. With the complexity comes the challenge of learning new frameworks and paradigms, a benefit to those who want to challenge themselves and learn new skills. But while these tools have become widely […]
Using DevOps to Be an Innovation Champion
Innovation, which increasingly is cited as the competitive advantage businesses need to meet their digital challenges, is widely misunderstood; it’s mistakenly reduced to the sophisticated features of a technology or a service. As a competitive matter, innovation is more than that; it’s primarily the process of translating ideas or inventions into high-value technology features or added-value services. […]
5 Interview Tips To Help Developers Land Their Dream Job
CodeFights recently launched Interview Practice Mode, a new mode on its website that enables developers to prepare for job interviews with technical questions asked by top tech companies. Interview Practice Mode marks the latest step in CodeFights’ mission to transform the way companies hire with skill-based recruiting. This feature will help developers from all backgrounds, […]
Help Us Understand CI/CD, DevOps & Job Scheduling
While plenty of vendors tell us what they think is happening in the market, the only way to really learn is from you, our readers. So we are asking you to take a few minutes to take this important survey on the adoption of CI/CD, DevOps and job scheduling. We will be giving a $50 […]
What Is DORA and Why Should You Care?
Many of you may already know that Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Dr. Nicole Forsgren launched a new company called DORA. DORA stands for DevOps Research and Assessment. Some of you probably also know that DORA and the individuals behind it have been providing a lot of the science and analysis behind the State of DevOps […]
Be Here Now – Agile and DevOps in the Current State of Synergy
If there’s one thing that our culture does not lack, it’s a litany of pithy catch-quotes meant to remind us to focus on the task at hand; yet, this often runs counter to our tendency to fixate on matters of the past and future. While we are so often encouraged to “live in the moment” […]
DevOps for Small Organizations: Lessons from Ed
Ed was demoralized. He had just heard a speaker who would change his life. He knew he needed to change, and he knew what the end goal was. He just didn’t know how to get there. He needed fresh air. He needed endorphins. What better way to do that than go on a six-hour run […]
35+ Tools Every DevOps Expert Must Know
List of DevOps tools and resources: Here is the set of tools and resources that help every DevOps enthusiast must know. Learn coding: Code academy: Learn to code interactively, for free. Code school: Interactive programming courses and guided projects. Treehouse: Learn Web Design, Coding & Much More. Lynda: Technology and Creative Skills taught by industry experts. Tuts+: Thousands of free tutorials […]
15 DevOps Expert Opinions on Continuous Integration and Delivery
We at Shippable recently approached some DevOps experts and asked them what they really think about continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). The responses were just amazing, proving that CI/CD’s future is just bright and long in the software development process. Perhaps this insight might be of help to organizations, regardless of whether they […]
Australian DevOps Company to Open US Office in 2017
Australia-based DevOps as a managed service provider base2Services is preparing to establish a U.S. office in mid-2017. Despite being based in Melbourne, Australia, base2Services already has five customers in North America—including media company All Day and online video specialist Sardius Media—that contribute nearly 20 percent of the company’s revenue. Further expansion in the region will […]
Compuware Buy Aims to Enable DevOps on Mainframes
How do you bring DevOps to mainframes? Eliminate the need for developers and admins to have mainframe expertise. That’s the strategy mainframe specialist Compuware is following as it seeks to break into the DevOps market. On Dec. 6, Compuware announced its acquisition of Standardware Inc., adding Standardware’s COPE IMS virtualization software to Compuware’s portfolio. That’s […]
How DevOps Optimizes Use of Resources
How is DevOps changing the way we compute? One big DevOps innovation is helping developers and admins consume exactly what resources they need to deploy an app—nothing more and nothing less. Traditionally, using (and paying for) only what you need has been tough in all parts of life. If I want to park my car […]
DevOps Survey Says! State of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation
What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including application owners, configuration managers, middleware specialists and database administrators are managing infrastructure configuration change with manual processes, spreadsheets and scripts. They are spending a lot […]
FRESHeTECH FRESHeBUDS Pro, Even DevOps Can’t Help A Bad Product & Company
At DevOps.com we spend a lot of time talking about the many companies who are making tremendous progress building better apps and products, being more profitable and serving their customers better. But every once in a while we need to remind ourselves that not every company, not every product or app works like it should. […]
Making Performance More Than a Best Practice
Yes, you read that correctly: SRE means that strong application performance—speed, reliability and availability—no longer is simply a best practice. It is a must. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is a term Google coined several years ago, and while there is no universal definition, SRE can be thought of as a discipline that blends software engineering […]
So Long to Configuration Management Systems?
When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
Top 5 Traits of High-Performing Teams
DevOps is here and it seems to be what everyone in IT service management (ITSM) is buzzing about. So what are the goals and how do we know it’s not just the next hot kitchen color for this year? DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and […]
Digital Transformation Top of Mind at PagerDuty Summit 2016
Digital transformation may seem like the enterprise tech buzzword of the moment, but it completely came to life for attendees at the inaugural PagerDuty Summit. C-level executives, industry leaders, developers and IT operators all came together to discuss why and how companies are navigating our digital world with operational maturity and excellence. PagerDuty Summit was […]
Let’s Talk About Ops: An ITSM Crowd Special
The ITSM Crowd is a regular hangout hosted by DevOps training provider ITSM Zone that covers many different IT and management topics. On Aug. 11, host Claire Agutter was joined by IT Skeptic Rob England and James Gander from Gander Service Management to take a deeper dive into the impact that DevOps is having on […]
Unconventionality within Constraints
What do dependency resolution, situational awareness and superheroes have in common? Meet Chris Corriere, a DevOps/software engineer at Autotrader speaking on creative ways to maximize usage of all of the above. Mark Miller, community advocate and senior storyteller at Sonatype, caught up with Chris to learn more about what his team is up to. […]
DevOps: Keep the Business in Business
I remember when data centers were not the multipowered, multitelecommunication, hardware, software and people buildings they are today. My first was on the fifth floor of a parking lot and the cars drove around us. The importance of IT, while seemingly crucial to the business functioning of the third largest bank in the great state […]