DevOps Practices Gap Assessment
Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s […]
DevSecOps Practices Gap Assessment
DevSecOps practices are essential to deliver software safely and securely withinDevOps value streams. To get the maximum security protection from DevSecOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevSecOps and determine a strategy for […]
Unified Enterprise DevOps Platforms Eliminate Bottlenecks
Nearly all enterprise digital transformation projects include moving software to DevOps processes and platforms. The effort, cost and time it takes to be successful with these transformations depend on a lot of factors, but one thing stands out: as indicated in my white paper Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform Why? How? And What?, “An enterprise with many […]
Continuous Testing: The Quest for Quality at Speed
The DevOps goal to reduce lead times by accelerating software deliveries presents a serious challenge for assuring the quality of the software that is delivered. As I indicated In my SlideShare post, “The Quest for Quality at Speed,” testing activities span end-to-end software value streams and often account for more than 50% of bottlenecks. The […]
How lulu Became a Lemon: A Digital Transformation Fail
Many people sometimes have a tough time figuring out what exactly digital transformation is and why it’s so important. I want to tell you a real-life story of how a once-respected brand, lululemon, has failed the digital transformation journey and, as a result, may fail in a new retail landscape. The story starts innocently enough […]
Languages and DevOps: To The Cloud!
Cloud and DevOps are almost a match made in heaven. Cloud started truly gaining steam in the age of DevOps and Agile, and has adapted – or grown up in it – well, depending on your viewpoint. If not for the combined issues of data gravity and data (im)mobility, we might have gone even farther […]
Progress Unveils First Update to Chef Automation Portfolio
Progress today announced it has enhanced its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and released a new version of Chef Infra Client that promises to make the programming language on which EAS relies more accessible. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for Progress, said the latest versions of both offerings are the first updates to the […]
Cooperative Gaming: Software Teams’ Secret to Success?
Trust falls and team backpacking trips are out — cooperative gaming is in. Don’t think embarking on group Minecraft missions could help deliver great software products? Think again. A 2019 BYU study found a 20% increase in office productivity after just 45 minutes of gaming. Software engineering is a mentally taxing endeavor, and many developers are […]
Languages and DevOps: Traditional
For quite a while now, all the cool kids have been going on and on about “full stack development,” “API first,” and a ton of similar methodologies/practices. And yet, a huge swath of applications are still targeted at a single system to do a specific job. There are fat clients, there are internal servers, there […]
Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges
When I think about the challenges of DevOps transformations, I love the viewpoint expressed by Ryan Harmon, strategic accounts manager at Trace3: “DevOps is a complex maze that has many leaders frustrated. In many large enterprises, ‘DevOps’ is simply a buzzword they are striving to achieve but struggle with what the end state looks like […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Patch Management
Patch management has been a thorn in IT’s side for decades. While it is undeniably necessary for security and stability purposes, the staggering array of patches that are available make managing them effectively nearly a full-time job – or a job better left to users. Few IT professionals want to be the “patch person,” and […]
Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations
A Strategic SRE Assessment is critical in helping organizations successfully transform traditional IT operations to SRE Site reliability engineering (SRE) is rapidly becoming more important to organizations that need to scale IT operations while maintaining or improving reliability and security, and to modernize operations to match the growth of DevOps in the organization. Without sufficiently […]
Best of 2020: Cybersecurity: What Programming Language Is Better for Your Career?
As we close out 2020, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our series of the Best of 2020. As a novice developer, you may be thinking about learning a programming language and starting a fantastic career. In fact, this question on Reddit […]
Leading Effective Incident Response Without Interminable Bridge Calls
There are easier ways to manage incident response without creating war rooms and packing IT staff onto bridge calls Your phone vibrates at 11 p.m., and you know that can only mean another major incident with one of the business’ critical systems. You get geared up for the war room, dial into the bridge call […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: ServiceNow and DevOps, One Year In
It’s now been a year since ServiceNow launched its DevOps integration initiative. Since then, thanks to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the way organizations manage IT has utterly changed. With more employees now regularly working from home, more organizations have shifted toward relying on IT service management (ITSM) platforms that, like ServiceNow, run in […]
Design Systems: Development Choices for Meeting User Expectations
Modern software development trends involve design systems and modernization, and if we drill down further, the trend within the trend is about creating better user experiences. This means improving usability, emerging technology and performance enhancements. This is easier said than done. What does it mean for developers? Employing Design Systems What a designer sketches, a […]
The Future of Application Development
What lies ahead for application development? Can we look forward to a less hierarchical system? The current state of application development has an often overlooked problem: It’s inaccessible. Top tier companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook are at a major advantage. With their large capital, they can invest in innovative development tools and […]
Gravitational Becomes Teleport to Streamline Access Management
Gravitational today announced it has changed its name to Teleport and launched the Teleport Unified Access Plane, an open source security gateway that comes in the form of a single binary that acts as a proxy for remotely accessing Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters. Teleport Unified Access Plane (UAP) for managing those gateways can be […]
How to Cut Design Sprints in Half
Any company that has created a product in the digital sphere will no doubt be familiar with the purpose of design sprints. Traditionally both back-end and front-end developers, designers, marketing teams and other stakeholders in the company come together over the course of five days to prototype ideas, gather insights on users and validate them […]
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 […]
Winning DevOps in the Finance Industry
DevOps is making its impact on almost every software-powered company these days. Companies in the finance domain, however, have been perhaps the slowest to embrace DevOps because of concerns regarding governance, security, compliance and regulatory regulations. But it is safe to say that they are currently leading the digital innovation in this era of cloud-native […]
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 […]
Do Cloud Desktops Have a Place in DevOps?
If you were asked to name the most important cloud-based tools and services for doing DevOps, chances are that cloud desktops would not make it on the list. Your mind would probably instead go to IAM frameworks, cloud-based CI/CD suites and cloud IaC tools. But for DevOps practitioners, as well as the end users they […]