Docker closes C round for $40m
An old adage of business is if someone offers you money, take it. Another is strike when the iron is hot. Few things in tech are hotter than Docker and they have taken in another round of investment. This one is their biggest to date, $40m led by Sequoia. The release is below. Some additional […]
First speakers announced for Camp DevOps Houston, October 28th
We are very happy to announce the first group of speakers for Camp DevOps Houston on October 28, 2014 at the Norris Conference Centers. There are still a few days left to submit your abstract and join this stellar line up. Email [email protected] if you would like to join us deep in the heart of […]
Culture Debt
There has been a lot of talk lately about IT’s accumulation of “technical debt’. Technical debt describes necessary work from a prior deployment that was deferred in favor of other tasks. As technical debt grows, the ability to make future changes is hindered because of a backlog that was not addressed. I have […]
The DevOps Diet (Getting Lean)
IT has gotten fat – fat silos, fat processes, fat procedures. Adopting DevOps is a great opportunity to look at some of our unhealthy habits and identify where we can eliminate unproductive waste from our process diets. DevOps will ultimately teach IT how to exercise more with less effort, trim the fat and get lean. According to […]
New CEO wants to take MongoDB where NoSQL has gone before
MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database company that has raised about $220m in venture funding so far, announced a change at the helm today. Max Schireson who has been with the company for 4 years, first as President and then about two years ago taking over as CEO from founder and chairman Dwight Merriman, is stepping […]
DevOps’ weakness and what it does best
Every great movement has its weaknesses, be the movement social, technical, or political, there are always ways in which it falls short and steps must be taken. DevOps is not some special case that is pure, and if you’ve worked in it, you know how very true that statement is. From meetings that are a […]
Docker acquires Orchard, makers of Fig
First acquisition by Docker bring tools, talent and geography to hot container start up. Docker today announced that they are making their first acquisition. Docker is acquiring Orchard. In terms of scope of the acquired company they didn’t have to look to far. Orchard was an early member of the Docker community. They operated a […]
Web-scale IT drives Chef momentum
Chef today announced a series of metrics and features showing their support of and success as a result of what they call the shift to Web-Scale IT. As the picture below shows the Web-scale IT era has given rise to an exponentially larger, more scalable IT infrastructure. What is Web-sclae IT? According to Chef: Web-scale […]
DevOps Days Tel Aviv Strikes Again
It’s no secret that the technology scene in Israel is at the forefront of innovation, and so it’s certainly no surprise that the DevOps community in Israel is simply booming. And well, it’s that time of year again, and me and my awesome co-organizers have rolled up our sleeves and started working on DevOps Days […]
DevOps Rock Star dinner
I have been so busy running from conference to conference lately. Next on the agenda is the Velocity conference in Santa Clara, Ca. While I am sure the conference is going to be great, I am super psyched about attending a dinner on the 24th that promises to be a blockbuster. It is a “State […]
The web-scale avalanche
Old-school businesses may not like it, but they’re competing with Google, Facebook, Amazon and other Internet powerhouses because those players have grown from day one with an eye on rapid, scalable, cloud-based and continuous IT operations. Companies have been running application delivery aligned to an aging model based on low frequency release cycles. For […]
Sold out Dockercon highlights Dockers coming of age
Docker grows up with release of version 1.0 There is little doubt that Docker is one of the hottest names in tech. Anything written about them seems to be a magnet for readers. When Solomon Hykes, CTO and co-founder keynoted the recent Gluecon 2014 conference it was standing room only. It’s pretty much the same […]
Is Ops the quarterback of the DevOps team?
Without stepping too deeply into the charged debate on whether or not developers are at the pinnacle of the IT food chain, I’ve recently observed that many of the DevOps leaders I’ve been speaking with are from operations. For me it begs the question – are the ops folks quarterbacking the DevOps process at most […]
Dev + Ops + ???
If there’s one thing the DevOps cultural and professional movement taught us, it’s to question the status quo for the betterment of our customers, businesses, and ultimately, our teams. The combination of improved tooling, questioning structural barriers between teams, and a “shared outcome” culture have been powerful forces to date. Granted, we’ve seen the most […]
From Orwellian Nightmares To Unicorns: Why I’m All In On DevOps
Over the years I’ve helped literally thousands of customers gain efficiencies in their data centers. I’ve met and become friendly with a lot of IT pros but I’ve got to admit – I never envied them. Well, maybe I envied some of the views in NY and Jersey City. And some of the toys they […]
Master Meetup Calendar is up and running!
Since we were first planning DevOps.com part of the vision was to have a master Meetup calendar of all of the DevOps Meetup groups. My thought was you could go to one master calendar and see where and when local DevOps groups were meeting and on what topics. Doing this has proved easier said then […]
What’s new @DevOps.com
All of us here at DevOps.com have been very busy. In addition to adding some new writers and great new content, we have been working “outside the 4 walls of the website”. Here is an update on what’s new: 1. Camp DevOps – We held our first Camp DevOps event last week in beautiful Boulder, […]
Let DevOps be a business process
I just returned from an amazing time at the first Camp DevOps in Boulder, CO. It was held at University of Colorado, Boulder and in conjunction with Gluecon 2014. This is the first conference I have attended that was singularly focused on DevOps. I found the three track format at the show had something for […]
User pragmatism is stronger than ever
This is the third of a series of posts about why we thought the world needed another DevOps oriented company and so invested in and started StackStorm. I hope we are touching on general themes that can help others understand the rapid disruptive shift towards DevOps approaches to building and operating technology. When starting […]
Let’s keep the countdown going: Reason #2 for StackStorm to join the fray
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It’s co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth. This is the 2nd in the series of posts from Powell’s thoughts and experiences as a new DevOps company comes to market.f In […]
DevOps resilience: going active-active with an existing application
What does it take to run an active-active architecture? It boils down to data, and how you interact with it. The most common disaster recovery strategies I encounter with folks are either “hope and pray” on a single location for running an application, or “we have a backup facility we can switch to in a […]
The DevOps master process: design
In speaking, counseling and talking to people with regard to DevOps, I often frame the discussion in terms of the DevOps master process. While all of the parts of the master process are important, one aspect very often is overlooked. I call this often overlooked aspect the design stage. The design stage includes the gathering […]
Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” goes viral
Many of you reading this have probably seen the tweet or one of the thousand or so retweets of Minneapolis based Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” twitter post. The tweet and attached pic are below: Printed up some DevOps Against Humanity cards, as one does. pic.twitter.com/TX09SqiFMQ — Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) May 1, 2014 For those […]