Survey Sees Need for More Consistent Approaches to DevOps
DevOps is arguably one of the most disruptive forces driving transformation of IT processes in recent memory. But a new survey finds that while IT organizations are making progress, adoption of DevOps processes remains uneven at best. A survey of 2,419 IT professionals conducted by OverOps, a provider of code analysis tools, finds that 82 […]
9 Pillars of Continuous Security Best Practices
Without proper consideration given to security best practices, the continuous delivery of software changes facilitated by DevOps is risky. On the other hand, DevOps provides an opportunity to reduce security risks if security is integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline according to best practices. This blog enumerates best practices for security across nine pillars of […]
DevOps and Agile: Your New Year’s Resolution
Don’t apply Agile principles to DevOps. That’s not how it works. We in the west often celebrate the new year with a promise to do more or less of something in the coming year. While these promises are often broken, they can occasionally be transformational. And it’s time your organization had a transformational one: More […]
What To Do When Your DevOps Initiative is Failing
These days, it is difficult to find someone who hasn’t heard of DevOps. Statistics show that in 2017, just 6 percent of developers worldwide had never heard of it, and in 2018 this number decreased to 3 percent. You have to wonder who these 3 percent of developers are! Companies have been embracing DevOps initiatives […]
Should Your Company Hire Remote Full-Stack Developers?
Is your company seeking to hire a qualified full-stack developer? It seems like an easy enough task—create a job listing, read resumes, conduct technical interviews and make the hire. Finding engineers who understand every layer of the stack is difficult, however. Companies compete for the best and brightest full-stack developers and, unfortunately, they are in […]
What DevOps Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations
High reliability organizations are organizations that work in areas that are very hazardous or complex, and yet manage to have a lower accident rate than what would be normal for that environment. So what can DevOps and DevOps practitioners learn from the research of high reliability organizations? David Woods and Sidney Dekker both have done […]
Cisco Looks to Build DevOps Community
Cisco Systems is making a concerted effort to create an era of détente between networking professionals and the rest of the IT operations teams that have embraced DevOps practices. Susie Wee, senior vice president for the DevNet community at Cisco, said the goal is to provide network operations (NetOps) teams the skills required to programmatically […]
Back to DevOps School: What Tools are in Your Backpack?
The 2018-19 school year is in full swing, and just like the kids are going to the bus stop with their new backpacks and shoes, it’s time to refresh your DevOps tool chain and look to the future. Remember, just like education, DevOps never ends. It’s a lifetime pursuit that constantly improves your life. The […]
Low-Code Application Development: A Catalyst to Digital Transformation
Low-code and no-code software development platforms have emerged as a focal point for CIOs, and it’s easy to see why. With an increasing emphasis on market disruption and continuous innovation across industries, tools such as these fit the bill in simplifying application development. Capabilities such as drag-and-drop integrations, out-of-the-box user interface (UI) templates and easy […]
Unlocking the Power of AIOps
AIOps is becoming quite the hot topic lately. It seems as though everyone is realizing that Ops is difficult. As we have to deal with more big data at greater velocity with more automation and complexity, there is no way humans alone can tame the beast. AIOps seems to be the answer. I recently sat […]
How to Find and Hire Android Developers in 2018
A brilliant app idea demands no less a brilliant mobile development team. That means you have to take the time to search and recruit skilled Android developers and, correspondingly, overcome lots of challenges for this. Here are some tips to help you overcome the difficulties and mitigate possible problems in finding qualified Android developers. Roles […]
Speed Rules in Chef’s DevOps Survey
DevOps is all about streamlining and accelerating. Organizations that embrace DevOps are driven by a focus on maximizing the combination of efficiency and effectiveness—which explains why speed is the central theme of Chef’s “The State of Enterprise Applications” survey. Chef surveyed nearly 350 application and operations professionals in an effort to understand trends in DevOps, […]
How Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Can Help DevOps
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
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
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
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
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 […]
15 Things Your Competitors Know About DevOps
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
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
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
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. […]
Kanban for Operations and Traffic Court
Howard stepped off the elevator and into the lobby. His eyes were puffy and felt like someone had scrubbed them with sand paper. Looking around the office, he made a beeline for the coffee machine. It was one of those fancy jobs where you use a touch screen to select all the different flavors, textures […]