Separate but Equal: Not Equal and Not the Right Way
The DevOps Enterprise Summit in London provided another opportunity to speak to many clients about their organizations’ DevOps transformations. The key message is, “It’s all about people and culture,” but how do you make those changes? In session after session it was clear the source code manager (SCM) is central to this transformation. All clients […]
DevOps Can Counter Brexit Aftershocks
On June 23, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum. The impact was immediate. The value of the pound has plunged. Stock markets around the world tumbled. Share prices for U.K. companies that trade internationally have recovered fairly quickly, but smaller companies in the FTSE 250 are […]
Transforming the Annual Budgeting Process For DevOps
The annual budgeting and planning cycle is the one process that touches all of IT. It has impact on how decisions are made, teams are organized, work is delegated, projects are started (and/or ended) and responsibilities are allocated Yet, few people think about realigning and transforming the budgeting process for DevOps. The Problem with Current […]
What is DevOps’ Business Value?
Intro: DevOps is About Business Performance It is important understand that DevOps philosophically has a system-level view of a business’ performance. You don’t hear this much—it’s more difficult to write about than, say, the latest tech, but it’s always there under the covers. And, granted, the frequent focus for DevOps grassroots discussions is about tooling, […]
‘DevOps is a Lifestyle, Not a Title’
“DevOps is a lifestyle, not a title.” This is a quote from Ron Melanson, of Amazon, and I hope he won’t mind me sharing it here. It struck a chord with me, and this blog explains why. I have spoken about DevOps on a few occasions. Some audiences are not from a development background, so […]
Pay Down the Skills Debt Before the Technical Debt
When we talk about DevOps, we talk about addressing technical debt. We talk about how modern delivery processes and solutions might help you cure that technical debt of monolithic systems that are built on obsolete technologies, using antiquated development methodologies. But that jumps past the first critical step toward transformation, as technical debt is not […]
State of DevOps Survey – The Ultimate Feedback Loop
If there’s any consistent criticism of the larger DevOps movement, it’s that the talking heads and industry gadflies are driving the conversation, not the people in the trenches. All the thought leadership panels and “how-to” content (including the written and AV materials on this very site) make for great watercooler discussion, but lack the input […]
IBM BlueMix OpenWhisk Takes Infrastructure Out of the Equation
Thousands of people descended upon Las Vegas last week for the annual IBM InterConnect conference, where IBM shares its vision with customers and developers and makes big announcements. One of the biggest things Big Blue unveiled was BlueMix OpenWhisk, an event-driven programming service designed for a serverless computing environment. OpenWhisk uses an event-driven model, automatically […]
Make Presentation and Training More Effective
Providing effective training is an art form. It requires much dedication and skill to engage your students so they believe they have benefited. Simple presentations can feel dull and unengaging, making the topic less interesting and many times leading to little or no knowledge transfer, even if the subject was covered correctly and the information […]
Performance Testing is a Team Sport
Performance testing is a vital component of any developer’s working process. The performance of your website or app can be judged by a lot of people in your organization, both technical and non-technical. Developers, operators and performance engineers are on the front lines when it comes to the development of a functioning site/app, but there will […]
In DevOps, Business and Operations Metrics Both Matter
Proponents of adopting a complete DevOps approach to application delivery and deployment often note that DevOps includes a change in culture. And not just a change in lateral change in culture—improvements in the way teams across (and within) silos communicate and collaborate—but also horizontal change that permeates every aspect of the organization, from the top down. […]
3 Ways Manual Processes are Risking Your Development Cycle
During my two decades in IT, I’ve seen the demand for Agile and its associated methodologies grow. At the same time, however, I’ve witnessed the database being left behind. DBmaestro, where I am co-founder and CTO, recently conducted a survey titled, “Database Deployment & Development Risks,” to gain insights into the risks associated with various […]
Ten ways DevOps will benefit your IT department
When implemented properly, DevOps can transform your software engineering process and create value for both employees and customers, producing business performance and value. A fully working DevOps methodology will bring the following benefits: Increased service quality Perceived service quality and reliability depend on both the availability of a service in the absence of error (MTTF: […]
DevOps will bring about the end of the human race
DevOps will mean the end of mankind. Sure, it seems great now. Organizations can operate more efficiently. Routine tasks are automated. Development, deployment, integration, monitoring, and testing are all happening in continuously continuous harmony, freeing people up to focus on larger, more important things and continue to grow the business. What’s not to love about […]
Open source and Samsung take center stage at Red Hat Summit
While much of the DevOps world was focused on DockerCon in San Francisco this week, there was also big news happening on the east coast. While DockerCon was shaking things up with the announcement of the Open Container Project the Red Hat Summit in Boston held its own share of big news and much of […]
Rancher Labs hopes to help DevOps teams rope in container management
DevOps teams have turned to containerization in a big way in order to help improve their efficiency. But many enterprises have run into problems scaling containers across their infrastructure to account for issues like networking and load balancing. Rancher Labs, a Cupertino-based cloud software startup, is hoping to help organizations address the scalability with a […]
Software-Driven Economy Drives DevOps
Venture capital scion Marc Andreessen predicted years ago that software would eat the world. Now his instinct for prescience is backed up by hard numbers as experts from Oxford Economics reveal the results of a new study today. Commissioned by CA Technologies, the global study shows how important applications are becoming in establishing competitive advantage […]
GE Capital Releases Mobile App Twice Weekly, Automating Compliance at Velocity, Thanks to DevOps/CD/CI
GE Capital offers equipment leases, mobile apps, and financial products for corporate customers. GE Capital’s Matt Merchant, Global Managing Director—DevOps, spoke with DevOps.com about development initiatives and processes at the financial services giant. According to Merchant, his team leads the charge in driving (A) the DevOps cultural transformation throughout IT, (B) the adoption and expansion […]
ProfitBricks shakes things up with new Docker hosting platform
Organizations and developers that want to leverage Docker containers have a variety of cloud platforms to choose from. Rackspace, Amazon, Azure and others all support Docker containers. There’s also a relative newcomer in the mix looking to shake things up. ProfitBricks is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that believes it has a unique value proposition for […]
Secrets to win over DevOps buyers
In its recent report, Tech Go-to-Market: How to Win With DevOps Buyers, Gartner Research looks at the buying process of DevOps-centered organizations. And Gartner makes an important point. For technology providers to sell to organizations with a DevOps culture, traditional sales approaches don’t fly. In fact, developers and operations teams—whose synergy we collectively call DevOps—eschew […]
Communication: Who is to blame for misunderstandings?
Communication is everywhere and it is far more than only the spoken word and its origin meaning. Communication is one of the most complex and also complicated topics in human relationships: most of the time very thrilling, sometimes frightening but always important! As we all grew up with communication, you might think, we should be […]
IT doing more faster is the DevOps way
My friends at JumpCloud asked me to contribute to an Ebook they wrote on “Doing More Faster now with IT control”. The idea was to take the concept made famous by David Cohen and Brad Feld in a book and as the mantra for Techstars and apply it specifically to IT. I was part of […]
DevOps and the Case for ROI to Executives
DevOps is hot and likely top of mind for your executives. Every IT analyst firm now has a point of view (POV) on DevOps. International Data Corp. (IDC) for example believes that DevOps will be adopted (in either practice or discipline) by 80% of Global 1000 organizations by 2019 (read: IDC MaturityScape Benchmark Assesses DevOps […]