ChefConf 2018: Chef Grows Beyond Infrastructure to Apps

May 23, 2018 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

Here I am in Chicagoland for my third ChefConf. I caught the keynotes today with Nathan Harvey, Barry Crist, Adam Jacob, Corie Scobie and more. The big news at this year’s event is that Chef is focused on more than just infrastructure and compliance—Chef is bringing automation to apps and the entire software delivery life […]

Dev vs. Ops Needs for Large-Scale Version Control Systems

February 1, 2018 by Marc Hornbeek 1 Comments

Distributed version control systems (DVCS) such as Git (introduced in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) rapidly gained worldwide acceptance by the global software development community. DVCS offer very fast, lightweight and local software change control capabilities that support many parallel code branches across large project code bases. These are compelling benefits for […]

Barriers to DevOps Culture Change

October 13, 2017 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

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

October 3, 2017 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

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 […]

15 Things Your Competitors Know About DevOps

August 11, 2017 by contributor 1 Comments

It’s no secret that DevOps is revolutionizing IT, helping organizations do more, faster. DevOps success is now essential for organizations in their quest to remain competitive. According to the “2015 State of DevOps Report” by Puppet, organizations utilizing DevOps deploy software 30 times more frequently and have lead times that are 200 times shorter. Plus, […]

Jobs-as-Code: The Business Processing DevOps Forgot

August 7, 2017 by Joe Goldberg 1 Comments

Developing web and mobile apps is cool. But in the words of a longtime ballad: “Don’t forget who’s taking you home and in whose arms you’re gonna be …” It’s the back-end services that underpin a lot of those cool apps and make them possible. So yes, servers and relational databases and enterprise applications and […]

Jenkins World: Q&A with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey

August 4, 2017 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

The Jenkins Community and DevOps professionals around the world are excited for Jenkins World, coming up in just a month, Aug. 28-31 in San Francisco. CloudBees, the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, is the lead organizer and premier sponsor of the event. We sat down with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey to discuss everything Jenkins […]

Why Your Manager Will Want to Send You to Jenkins World 2017

August 1, 2017 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

Jenkins World 2017 is right around the corner. The conference will be held in San Francisco Aug. 28-31 and will be the biggest event of the year for Jenkins users, with approximately 2,000 people expected to be in attendance! You will not want to miss out on this event, full of learning and networking opportunities. […]