DevOps makes coding more social, social coding makes better code
One of the main principles of DevOps is to break down silos. What’s more like a silo than the image of a lone developer, shutting himself off from the world in order to code more and interact with people less? “I’m just here to write code and that’s all I do.” There’s nothing collaborative or […]
Gene Kim interviewed by JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava
Two members of the DevOps.com Board of Advisors, Gene Kim and Rajat Bhargava filmed an interview that is on YouTube and on JumpCloud’s blog. We are putting it up here and hope you enjoy it. News Editor
DevOps: Security’s last best hope
Help us Obi Wan! The fact is that DevOps is security’s last best hope. The sooner the security industry realizes it the better it will be for everyone. I read George Hulme’s story today about proceeding with caution and going slow with DevOps. Of course it was no surprise to me that those cautioning to […]
DevOps developers; don’t be a DevGoof
There was a lot of brush back last week over Jeff Knupp’s post about how DevOps is killing the developer. Frankly I wasn’t shocked by Knupp’s opinion that developers “are the dentists in the dental office”. In my 30+ years of involvement in the IT industry my experience is that developers often think of themselves […]
Advanced Automation – Getting Your Systems to Work for You
In my previous post I discussed how to take your DevOps to the next level by taking it beyond infrastructure automation, to the automation of your deployments and code pushes, through patches and updates. And then I promised to make it interesting…so here is the next stage – actually using the extracted data to get […]
DevOps storytime: The tale of the secret passageway named MTTR
When DevOps practitioners and evangelists talk about adoption, they mostly fall into one of two camps. People who talk about driving devops adoption by helping people understand the core ethical reasons of improving the world for those who work in it (I’m usually in this camp with Gene Kim). Others talk about driving DevOps adoption […]
DevOps adoption – Enterprises (part 2 of 2)
A large enterprise has institutionalized an incredible number of processes. Their fundamental approach to IT has been built over years if not decades of experience. Their leaders may have grown up with these methodologies and approaches. In this article I wanted to continue the thread I started in my last article about how different organizations adopt […]
DevOps adoption can succeed where ITIL failed, if we let it
When I look at the future of DevOps adoption and acceleration I contrast it with what I feel was the failure of ITIL to really move beyond large enterprise IT shops. I am of the firm belief that DevOps has the legs to succeed and soar where ITIL sort of crashed and burned. OK if […]
DevOps Needs a Tsunami To Jump The Chasm
All start up business endeavors must go through the phase of crossing the chasm. Most of those business endeavors usually fall prey to the chasm. The chasm is this black hole that everyone claims to understand but no one truly does. We have all seen businesses cross the chasm or fail to cross the chasm […]
The Failings of Multitasking
I often find myself coaching colleagues (and reminding myself) about managing down the number of simultaneous tasks or work assignments. Everyone in IT knows that demand always outstrips the capacity of IT to take on work. IT is in demand by all parts of the organization, often at no direct or hard cost to departments […]
THOUGHT LEADERS OR NAVEL GAZERS?
I get tired of hearing what is DevOps? It just tells me that no one really has got it exactly right, but everyone longs to be the authority on the topic. Everyone writes their perceived answers ad nauseam. Reading all the different definitions is kinda like listening to infomercials. An individual puts themselves out there […]
Don’t Fear, Testing Team! DevOps is here!
I love Gene Kim’s analogy about how all unicorns used to be horses; its a great visual that I use all the time when encouraging IT organizations to change from thinking “why not” to “why not us” when it comes to starting their DevOps transformation. If culture is really one of the greatest enemies to […]
DevOps Adoption – Startups
This is part 1 of a 2 part article DevOps is somewhat unique in that it has applications to both large enterprises and to startups. The way DevOps is adopted in startups is incredibly different than how it happens in large organizations. The profile of how DevOps is adopted in each of these cases is the […]
Operational Overhead – or why hubris is bad.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A guy walks into a meeting and says “We need a system that does something”, and the engineer in the room replies “Oh, we can totally build that”. Most of the punchlines to this joke go “we can totally build it, and now we have to own its […]
DevOps Dirty Little Secrets
By all outward appearances DevOps is gaining real velocity within IT shops worldwide, Duh tell you something you don’t know. I have read much on this topic as I am sure you have, but I never seem to read much with hard data results, other than we are doing great with some very broad metrics. […]
Don’t let automation be the tail wagging the dog
There is quite a bit of talk right now about DevOps and how important automation is. This could be compared to GM in the 1980s when the company tried to transform the way they built cars through automation and robot. In the early 1980’s GM spent $90B dollars in an attempt to speed up the […]
Is DevOps a Title?
So, I’ve wanted to write on this topic for a while as I think it deserves a little attention! I’ve heard numerous times that you shouldn’t have DevOps in your title or that job reqs shouldn’t be “DevOps Engineers”. This came up again at the DevOps State of the Union event that we hosted in […]
Survey Says: Positives and Negatives of DevOps are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Isn’t that the way it always works? A person’s strength can also be their weakness. A company’s killer product becomes their Achilles heel as the market shifts. As more and more companies make the shift to DevOps, it’s interesting to learn what’s working, what the opportunities are, and what the impediments are. As many of […]
The DevOps Journey
Maintaining a constant thirst for learning is essential for anyone dedicating their career to the IT, computer and networking industries. It’s more than just learning about the latest technologies, rather, it’s imperative we embrace new methodologies and paradigms for doing work, thinking about problems and creating solutions. Enter DevOps, which is a healthy mix of […]
Step One Of DevOps Ignores Technology
I’ve spent a bunch of time talking with Adrian Cockcroft, former cloud tzar at Neflix, and listening to his various talks and presentations. I’ve also spent a bunch of time looking around the various rooms within which he presents and seen the dazed look of attendees who have rightly assumed that just seen a picture […]
Why you can’t buy DevOps in a box
Companies will often believe they can buy their way out of technical debt without making any substantial changes. They often think they can buy DevOps in a box. Well, unfortunately, devops isn’t for sale. For an organization to embrace DevOps it will need to adopt cultural change, adopt tools which enable automation, and change processes […]
You Can’t Sell DevOps
A few days ago, I made an introduction for colleague Jason Dixon (@obfuscurity) over email, and described Jason as “a leading supporter of the DevOps movement”. A mere 17 minutes later, Jason replies to me, “Are you trolling me?”. I was aghast. Granted, I haven’t known Jason terribly long (measured in months), but I’ve been […]