TechStrong TV: How to Build and Refine Your DevOps Skills with OpsCompass
The role of DevOps is constantly evolving as new technologies and trends keep emerging and reshaping the business. It is critical for DevOps engineers to continuously learn about the latest tools, best practices and technology, and be able to adapt to change. There are many ways for DevOps teams to refine their skills in order […]
Plutora’s Bob Davis: Work From Home and Value Stream Management
American writer Orison Swett Marden said, “Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” After the year that’s passed, with operations and development teams forced to scatter and work remotely, it’s a sentiment DevOps teams […]
Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards
This is the moment you have all been waiting for. It is time to announce the honorees for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the names of the most outstanding leaders and tools in the DevOps community. Although, I must say, all the finalists have done an amazing […]
4 Ways to Scale DevOps in 2021
January is a month often dedicated to planning, setting intentions and preparing ourselves professionally and personally for a fresh year. In my own capacity as a DevOps and SRE leader, many of the clients I work with will reinvigorate internal efforts to streamline how they work in Q1. I often advise clients to make very […]
How MLOps Can Help Get AI Projects to Deployment
Did you know that most AI projects never get fully deployed? In fact, a recent survey by NewVantage Partners revealed that only 15% of leading enterprises have gotten any AI into production at all. Unfortunately, many models get built and trained, but never make it to business scenarios where they can provide insights and value. […]
Best of 2020: Don’t Do Agile and DevOps by the Book
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2020. In software development, we talk a lot about the importance of Agile and DevOps. Agile aims for rapid releases, positively encourages involvement from customers […]
Best of 2020: 5 Project Management Skills Every Developer Should Have
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our series of the Best of 2020. The days of the siloed project manager and “skilled” development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of […]
3 Ways to Support DevOps Teams in Remote Work
As we settle into remote work for the long haul, it’s crucial to consider how best to support DevOps teams. While DevOps employees face similar challenges working remotely as any other department, they also face increased pressure to deliver as IT professionals, supporting the entire organization through an ever-changing work environment. By nature, remote work […]
Global SKILup Festival: Not Your Ordinary Conference
Global SKILup festival offers the Humans of DevOps a career fair, numerous upskilling opportunities, and a full-day conference, featuring keynote speakers Mirco Hering and Patrick Debois and many more 2020 has been the year focused on the human. As the pandemic unfolded, the Humans of DevOps worldwide did their part to help mitigate the many […]
What Children Can Teach Us About Coding
Redgate’s Code Club for kids ended up teaching their parents to love coding again Like lots of people in IT and other office-based jobs, I’ve been working from home since the pandemic started to hit in March 2020. In some ways it’s been hard because I’m the technical lead on a software engineering team, and […]
Linux Foundation Adds Professional DevOps Certificate Program
The Linux Foundation this week made an addition to its professional certificate program that trains IT professionals on the fundamentals of best DevOps practices. Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux Foundation, said the goal is to increase the number of IT professionals that have been exposed […]
Two-Part Training Required for Developers to Slay the Security Beast
Developers’ defensive qualities are only as good as the training they receive The playing field between the heroes and villains in cybersecurity is notoriously unfair. Sensitive data is the new gold, and attackers adapt quickly to circumvent defenses, exploiting security bugs large and small for potential paydirt. The volume of code being produced is too […]
Building (and Nurturing) a Product Team During a Pandemic
Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In early 2020, everything changed. For months now we’ve been scrambling, adapting to a new normal that none of us had the foresight to […]
Value Stream Management: Treat Your Pipeline as Your Most Important Product
When it comes to accelerating customer value, it’s dangerous to focus only on the development and delivery of a digital product. For many enterprises, most time is invested before a single line of code has been written. That explains the recent focus on value stream management (VSM)—it’s forcing us to think beyond Agile and DevOps […]
Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020
2020 will be a year we all remember for so many reasons. It has been a year full of uncertainty and confusion, and also one in which misconceptions abound. In the world of software engineering, we feel this acutely as all eyes are on the engineering team to continue building innovative new products and solutions—maintaining […]
The Sociotechnical Path to High-Performing Teams with Charity Majors
Every DevOps team wants to be successful, but how can you measure this success? What exactly defines a DevOps high-performing team? How can you help your team function at an elite level? In this interview, Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, explains what it takes to be an elite performer, how DevOps teams can […]
Bootstrapping DevOps for the Internet Computer
All startups face unique sets of challenges and issues at each stage of their existence. The DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss-based not-for-profit with the remit to extend the functionality of the internet, is no exception. Like any new organization, we have had to evolve and adapt our DevOps and other practices in response to different obstacles. […]
Why It’s Time for Site Reliability Engineering to Shift Left
By adopting a multilevel approach to site reliability engineering and arming your team with the right tools, you can unleash benefits that impact the entire service-delivery continuum In today’s application-driven economy, the infrastructure supporting business-critical applications has never been more important. In response, many companies are recruiting site reliability engineering (SRE) specialists to help them […]
Best Practices for Managing Remote IT Teams
With IT teams around the world adjusting to remote working while still struggling to maintain productivity and workflows, ensuring DevOps and Agile practices are in place has never been more important. And while typical DevOps professionals probably have significantly better remote desktop setups than most of their business peers, it’s how IT leaders manage these […]
Should Conway’s Law Be Applied to DevSecOps?
Strictly adhering to Conway’s Law could lead to less innovation and the inability to keep up in a fast-changing market When it comes to determining how an organization should be structured, the 1967 Conway’s Law provides a plausible direction that many software companies could follow. However, in today’s ever-changing cloud environment, it is arguable whether […]
Recruiting Pro Tip: Treat External Recruiters As If They Work for You
The best recruiters are salespeople. Just because you have hired a salesperson does not mean they are going to know how to sell what you have to put out on the market. So many people believe that once you have hired an external recruiter the job is done—they will go out and find the right […]
Linux Foundation Adds Entry-Level Certification
The Linux Foundation has announced the development of a new entry-level certification exam to complement their existing Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) exams. This new certification, the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA), targets people just moving into systems administration. The certification will focus on the test taker’s knowledge […]
New ASG Report Looks at COVID-19’s Impact on Software Development
We are all trying to adapt to a new world created by COVID-19. As the coronavirus continues to spread, the economy and businesses everywhere have been severely impacted, and no one really knows what the so-called “new normal” will be. For now, most organizations have gone remote, not knowing when—or even if—employees will be able […]