DevOps Chat: Aruna Ravichandran, Co-Author, DevOps for Digital Leaders
Our first podcast of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. Of course when not authoring books or helping financially challenged but gifted students attend college, Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Aruna before on DevOps TV and discussed her career that has seen her […]
Customer Demands Outpacing Business Requirements
As more organizations adopt agile and DevOps, many recognize quickly that the related gains are significant but further business efficiencies can be realized. IT and the business now are working closer than ever. No longer is the business throwing requirements over the wall into the IT “sausage factory”—they’re now an integral part of the entire […]
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 […]
Closing the Gap on Continuous Delivery Metrics that Matter
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” I would take a step back and say, If you can’t measure it, you can’t get it off the ground. Many companies that I work with are amid digital transformation initiatives, such as the adoption of DevOps and continuous delivery. […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
How Often Should You Release with Continuous Delivery?
If you do continuous delivery, you could release software updates as frequently as you want. But should you? Here’s what to consider when deciding how often to release. Although the terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing. Under continuous delivery, you prepare all software updates as […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
Should Continuous Deployment Be Renamed?
I’m a technologist turned into a word person. For those of you who know me, I started as a developer, learned ops and security as it was needed, and eventually my love of talking about technology lead me to writing, tech marketing and evangelism. I still develop, though; I can’t stop that—it’s kind of a […]
DevOps Chat: Jeff Schaeffer, CA Technologies, on Everything Continuous
I recently had a chance to sit down with Jeff Schaeffer, senior vice president and general manager of Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Jeff before, most recently at Jenkins World, where we did a video on our DevOpsTV YouTube channel. Jeff is a great interview who always gives […]
Overcoming Objection to DevOps Adoption
The advent of the application economy has made software arguably one the most critical and valuable assets of organizations across a broad spectrum of industries—financial, telecommunications, entertainment, and government, just to name a few. In the era of “app store ratings” and an unprecedented ability of the consumer to easily switch suppliers of whatever they’re consuming, […]
When Technology Doesn’t Matter
Over 10 years ago, Nick Carr wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review with the title, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” As you might expect, an article with a title like that generated a significant amount of controversy. CEOs from leading technology companies and other writers at the time panned Carr’s premise in a way that, […]
Webinar: Using APM to Turbocharge Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery have dramatically accelerated the rate of innovation within both large and small organizations – allowing teams to build and deploy software faster than ever before. Yet, as release automation accelerates the volume, variety and velocity of application changes, an entirely new set of challenges have appeared. Let’s state the obvious […]
Interview w/ Aruna Ravichandran, CA
Always a great interview, Aruna Ravichandran of CA is one of my own personal heroes. She is woman who has accomplished so much in her career. Having written literally a million lines of code in products before continuing her education with advanced degrees and moving to the business side of the house, Aruna is someone […]
Interview with Jeff Scheaffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies
At Jenkins World 2016, DevOps.com caught up with Jeff Scheaffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. Jeff spoke to us about the importance of CD and DevOps at CA. Jeff also I thought gave us the best explanation and reasoning for DevOps Express. With Jeff’s leadership, we should see […]
Welcome to the CD Neighborhood
Today we opened a new neighborhood or section here on DevOps.com. It is called the CD neighborhood and it will feature content on CD and related content. The neighborhood is sponsored by CA Technologies, who will also contribute content to the new neighborhood. CA authored content will be clearly marked. CA employees have contributed by […]
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
“Continuous” is one of the most popular words in the DevOps lexicon. What does it really mean, and what is the difference between continuous delivery, continuous deployment and continuous integration? Keep reading for some perspective. Like many technological concepts, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment are terms that DevOps teams tend to use without […]
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
Continuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are discovered early on and have minimal impact. Plus, finding and fixing such errors is much easier with fewer changes per release—software is released […]
Why PR, Legal and HR Matter for Continuous Delivery
By most definitions, DevOps involves making developers and IT Ops teams work better together. But integrating other parts of an organization, such as legal and public relations, into DevOps is also important. Here’s why. DevOps has become popular because it helps to speed the delivery of software. The goal is to reach continuous delivery, which […]
7 Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Deployment Success
One of the key advantages of cloud-native applications is the ability to quickly push updates into production for specific microservices—giving developers the ability to respond rapidly to changing business requirements without having to upgrade the entire application. Successfully doing this requires far more than just leveraging a continuous delivery platform. Everything from the culture of […]
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But that’s a mistake. As an example of conflation of the terms CI and CD, take this page, which purports to be a “history of CI/CD […]
21 DevOps and Docker Reference Architectures
When building DevOps or continuous delivery (CD) practices relying on Docker, you can learn a great deal from others. Reference architectures reveal what choices people made, what practices they put in place and how they connected the dots. We at Sonatype pulled together a set of 21 reference architectures for folks building CD and DevOps […]
The ‘Continuous’ Illusion
Continuous delivery is an illusion. That doesn’t make it insubstantial—illusions can have a tremendous impact. Like the first motion picture: the locomotive felt so real to first audiences that they fell from their chairs, screaming. But of course, the locomotive was an illusion, merely rushing past on screen. A good magician, like a good inventor, […]
The Big Shift: The State of Continuous Delivery
I wanted to call out a new report that we have just released here at DevOps.com. The State of Continuous Delivery: The Big Shift by George Hulme, contributing editor here at DevOps.com. In this report George takes a look at the current state of Continuous Delivery and how it is helping to transform software development […]