DevOps Chat: The Modern Software Factory and CD Pipelines w/ Scott Willson, CA Automic
This DevOps Chat features Scott Willson of CA Automic talking about CD pipelines and the modern software factory. The concept of a software factory may be new to some, while others may have heard the term but not really thought about what it means and still others may be very familiar with the term and […]
Study Traces Cybersecurity Issues to Lack of App Supervision
A global survey of 400 application developers conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Veracode, a unit of CA Technologies that provides software development lifecycle tools, shines a light on how big an issue cybersecurity has become because of organizations failing to update components. The survey finds only 52 percent of developers using commercial or […]
Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms
Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to “DevOps.” With this, transition to DevOps has become one of the key points of discussion across many IT firms. This article gives you an overview of the demand and […]
Continuous Delivery: No Excuses
Jez Humble’s (@jezhumble) career has spanned roles through coding, infrastructure, and product development across three continents and organizations of varying sizes. To say he knows a lot about continuous delivery is a total understatement. In 2010, he and Dave Farley literally wrote the book on continuous delivery—and if you have not yet read it, I […]
Understanding the Mobile DevOps Process
In today’s current technology scenario, mobile app developers are always on the lookout for the latest IT innovations to stay on the competitive edge. To make the process of developing mobile apps more efficient, mobile service providers have adopted mobile DevOps. Mobile app development adopts the latest trends, technologies and tools for developing intuitive mobile […]
CA World 2017: DevOps As Far As the Eye Can See
The show floor for CA World 2017 had one inescapable, very obvious feature: There was DevOps as far as the eye can see. No kidding. It was a stunning reminder that this multibillion-dollar-revenue company has gone all-in on DevOps and related technologies. While we know CA has spent almost a billion and a half dollars […]
Continuous Testing: Crushing the Testing Bottleneck
The practice of continuous delivery has been with us for many years, but it has started to see real adoption in the last couple of years. Continuous delivery is about automating and simplifying the process of delivering new features to the market at any given time, accelerating delivery and helping bring Dev and Ops together […]
Finishing the Pipeline: Monitoring, Tools, Automation and …
It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to develop and deploy applications now has a DevOps angle to it. For example, the Jenkins update center is kind of overwhelming. While I […]
Get the Full DevOps Picture with our Continuous Delivery Map
Automation and continuous delivery are shifting from being industry trends to becoming industry standards for fast and effective app deployment. To compete in today’s market, organizations must adopt technologies and applications for more rapid deployment. But with so many tools available, this is incredibly challenging without knowing which specific tools and methodologies are most effective. […]
Electric Cloud and the Deployment Dashboard
As my regular readers know, I started a series on companies that I found intriguing who were going to Jenkins World both late (a couple weeks before the event started), and ad hoc. That meant that companies I talked to on a regular basis came to mind, simply because I knew what they were up […]
Automic Chart Maps Out Its DevOps Ecosystem
Everyone who follows me knows that I’m a fan of XebiaLabs’ Periodic Table of DevOps Tools. It was the first attempt I am aware of to arrange things in a way that helped DevOps teams navigate the increasingly bewildering world of DevOps toolsets. In fact, my friend Colin Walker over at ExtraHop and I have […]
DevOps Chat: The Continuous Delivery Map w/ Scott Wilson, Automic
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the entire continuous delivery topography laid out in a nice map that shows how they are all interconnected? Sort of like a subway or metro map? Well now you have it and it is interactive! The good folks at Automic, a CA Technologies company just released their Continuous Delivery […]
XebiaLabs Shows Off ARA, More at Jenkins World
In this third spotlight on companies attending Jenkns World, another worth checking out came to mind, so I am taking a look at what XebiaLabs intends to do while there. XebiaLabs is one of the leading application release automation (ARA) vendors, and has a long history of working with Jenkins, so it’s a little more […]
Don’t Underestimate the Work
It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and the organizational system doing it, the further off estimates can be. This was one of the drivers for both Agile and DevOps: to […]
Automation: Critical Missing Pieces in the CD Puzzle
As enterprises accelerate the frequency with which they develop and release new code into production to meet the ever-mounting demands of their consumers, there’s growing pressure on networking and security operations teams to keep pace with their DevOps counterparts. And it’s not hard to see why. According to Forrester, nearly four out of five business leaders […]
Yahoo7 Uses DevOps to Speed Website Redevelopment
Yahoo7 is a joint venture between Yahoo and Australian entertainment and TV company Seven West Media. Seven is one of Australia’s three major TV networks. The company has completely replaced its technology stack and is in the process of revamping its seven consumer sites to take advantage of the new platform. The first cab off […]
Moving from ‘Tester’ to ‘Quality Enabler’
Speed versus quality. Can you really have one while the other exists? When Agile came on to the scene, it pushed to get development teams to create code as quickly as possible. Then DevOps came on as a practice that helped these Dev teams and the Ops side of the house to interact and collaborate […]
Lack of Continuous Testing Mastery Slows DevOps Progress
Progress in achieving the maximum benefits to be gained from investing DevOps processes appears to be held in check by a failure to master the art of continuous testing. A new survey of 923 IT and testing professionals published this week by CA Technologies suggests that only 20 percent of the respondents could be classified […]
Manual Intervention or Release Automation? That is the Question
When it comes to launching nuclear weapons, there are a variety of steps and a variety of fail-safe mechanisms, all designed to ensure that those pushing the button really want to do what the nuclear launch system is designed to do. I fear it is some sort of mini-Godwin argument to equate nuclear warfare with […]
NetOps: Thorn in the Side of Continuous Deployment?
Over the last few years, we have definitely gotten continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) down. We now can maintain a relatively constant flow of deployable code sitting and waiting for the actual deployment step to take them to production. Moving to production has been the point at which caution is introduced into the system, […]
CircleCI Injects Workflow Flexibility into CI/CD Platform
Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations. Aiming to provide IT organizations with a more flexible approach to DevOps, CircleCI has updated its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software […]
Application Release Automation: Why and Not
You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery engines such as CloudBees or Blue Ocean are designed to trigger the execution of CI workflows across the dev, test and prod environments. […]