How Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Can Help DevOps

July 18, 2018 by Subramonian Krishna Sarma (Subbu) 2 Comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help the humans in DevOps break free from focusing on simple activities. One aspect of DevOps is automating routine and repeatable actions, and AI and ML can perform these activities with enhanced efficiency to improve the performance of teams and business. There are algorithms that can perform […]

DevOps Chat: Post-DOES Workshop w/ Gary Gruver & Helen Beal

June 13, 2018 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit UK is just a few weeks away, June 25-26. While DOES UK this year is shaping up to be a must-see event, there are also some great events taking place around DOES. One is sponsored by Electric Cloud (also a founding sponsor of DOES). It is a post-DOES workshop, featuring […]

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 […]