DevOps at Scale
According to Accenture‘s APAC practice lead for Agile, DevOps and Test Automation Mirco Hering, there is general agreement that DevOps at scale is a good thing, but the problem is getting from where organizations are to where they want to be. Obstacles include having plenty of technology skills but little or no technology management (i.e., […]
Embracing DevOps into Your Company
Some companies are embarking on a new adventure in DevOps. As organizations start to consider the possibilities of implementing DevOps, they need to think about what problems it solves and what role it will play in their organization. Company Culture and DevOps DevOps is both a cultural and technological shift in the enterprise, offering a […]
Education in the Age of Automation
Automation is changing the nature of education and the ways people learn. More schools are using online learning to supplement in-class activities. In fact, some schools are completely online. Distributed computing on the internet and the automation that drives it makes this possible. Everything changes when the formal education process becomes embedded in the internet. […]
Manual Processes and Silos Complicating DevOps Deployments
The DevOps concept largely originated in 2009, as software and IT organizations were beginning to adopt Agile methodologies. It came on the heels of a movement to integrate lean manufacturing concepts and infrastructure as a service into IT organizations. Rapid development was the goal, but application and infrastructure teams were still working independently, creating barriers […]
Revisiting My Bet on DevOps
On Dec. 29, 2015, I bought some stock. It was a bet on DevOps that my wife kindly tolerated. Since then, the S&P 500 has risen 31 percent and my DevOps portfolio is up 113 percent. This blog is a retrospective on a bet that worked out. I was inspired by Nicole Forsgren’s talks and […]
A Right DevOps Approach: Assess Organizational Readiness
Driving business in this fast-paced world is maddening as owners have to remember customer preferences, beat market competition and similarly cater to different things within the organization’s radius. How a business owner manages all this defines the business success, which is gauged through outcomes in the form of smart products, point-on services and almost-immediate feedback. […]
9 Ways DevOps Success or Failure Is Like Baseball
The baseball season is in full swing. There are 30 major league teams competing for a playoff spot, but, as I write this, only five of them—or 16.67 percent—qualify as elite performers with a winning percentage over .600. The number is strikingly similar in DevOps, where, according to one survey, just 17 percent of organizations […]
Successfully Integrating DevOps while Deploying Cloud Applications
Transforming to a high-performance DevOps environment can provide competitive advantages, but it requires change—and that doesn’t come easily to most organizations. DevOps requires cultural changes that are inherent to automating previously manual tasks: They are perhaps intimidating to those involved and they require flexibility and enterprisewide buy-in to get right. Furthering these people-side transformational complications […]
DevOps: Build a Continuous Improvement Culture
DevOps was built around the concept of continuous everything. We even use it in many of the names—continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous integration (CI)—and it is a worthy goal to want to improve the places that form bottlenecks in your software delivery systems and processes. But what about the bottlenecks in the DevOps systems […]
DevOps Adoption: The Driving Force of the Industry
DevOps has transformed from a mere idea on paper to the way processes function in the face of an immediate requirement. Development and Operations together make for one of the most successful collaborations today. As per a research report, people have now begun to understand what DevOps is. When asked how familiar they were with […]
Are You a Product Team in Name Only?
A simple litmus test can help determine whether a product team is the real thing or wearing a different name. Marketers have been trying to dress up spam, ever since the odd can-shaped meat was invented. It has been called “special processed American meat,” “shoulders of pork and ham” and even “spiced ham.” But, no […]
How to Cultivate a Loyal Developer Community
With the number of developer focused companies and products growing, building communities among engineers has become a key strategy to stay competitive. Augmenting and often surpassing traditional marketing techniques, this approach—although challenging—can be an incredibly effective way to engage users and get engineers excited about a product. Since our inception over six years ago, DigitalOcean […]
What Comes after DevOps? Two Possibilities
People have been talking about the “post-DevOps” world since at least 2014. But have we actually arrived in the post-DevOps era? If so, what comes after DevOps? Let’s explore those questions. The DevOps concept is more than a decade old. DevOps has seen widespread adoption across companies large and small. “DevOps engineer” is now a […]
Puppet Report Sees Long DevOps Journey Ahead
A recent report published by Puppet suggests the level of DevOps maturity within most organizations is still relatively slight. In fact, most of the respondents reported high levels of manual work still occurring across configuration management, deployment, testing and change approval processes. Alanna Brown, director of product marketing for Puppet, said the “State of DevOps: […]
For DevOps, (Organizational) Size Matters
When it comes to DevOps, size matters. The number of people in your organization, as well as the size of its infrastructure, play a huge role in shaping how and why you adopt DevOps. The importance of company size may come as a surprise. Few conversations about DevOps mention the role of organizational size in […]
The Past, Present and Future of DevOps Infrastructure
Infrastructure automation enables organizations to set up operating frameworks that allow smooth functionality with enhanced usage, minimal scope for error and faster deployment of code. The process of infrastructure automation eases development and operations processes by introducing good deployment practices such as computerized testing and versioning. The need for automation was realized when the demand […]
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 […]
With DevOps Culture, It’s Mind Over Matter
There is quite a bit of conversation about tools versus culture, and sometimes, those constantly involved in the back-and-forth forget that not everyone is so steeped in the finer points of the conversation. Tools is the easy part. There are a ton of tools available to optimize IT operations, from small bespoke products such as […]
Sometimes It is More Than Culture, It’s About Gains
Almost since the beginning, there has been a tug-of-war between whether better toolchains or increased communications were “real” DevOps. The answer to that question is, Yes. Better tools undeniably speed the delivery process and streamline operations. Anyone who claims differently is not living in the real world. Jenkins alone can make your development world a […]
Barriers to DevOps Culture Change
In the quest for DevOps, there are two paths organizations can take. One is to start with automation and attempt to get as much as possible out of automation tools. The other is to start with culture change and use tools to address what increased communications uncovers. Both scenarios are happening in the wild, and […]
Understanding is Key to Achieving DevOps Culture
Historically speaking, IT has been composed of silos. This has worked out rather well over the last half century or so, as one team developed systems, another kept them running, another handled security and yet another managed the infrastructure. But it was never nirvana. Working well is not the same as cannot be improved. The […]