Using DevOps to Avoid Architecting Application Slums
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Devops freestyle friday
Following up with yesterday, today marks my favorite day of the work week. It’s Friday, which means another round of #DevOpsFF (Devops Freestyle Friday). In order to be considered to win you must create a captivating/funny/intelligent short freestyle/rhyme, in a style of your choosing. Whether that be a meme or a text tweet to display […]
Devops throwback thursday
Today marks one of my favorite days of the work week, besides Friday, my favorite of course. It’s Thursday, which means another round of #DevOpsTBT (Devops Throwback Thursday). In order to be considered to win you must create a captivating/funny/intelligent throwback thursday entry, in a style of your choosing. Whether that be a meme or […]
Force Multiplication
Recently, I have found myself reflecting on the statement, “Be a force multiplier.” This usually comes to mind when faced with some sort of burnout: hearing it indirectly from a colleague or friend, or experiencing it firsthand. The intent is good and aligns well with some core tenants of DevOps. Force multiplication fits into the […]
Don’t Make Me Code Podcast: Onboarding Developers
Thanks for listening to Don’t Make Me Code, a podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. Don’t Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. In this episode of Don’t Make Me Code, Steve and David talk about some of the […]
Virtuoso: Focused on Quality as the First Step in DevOps Innovation
I’ve found that those who have been most successful with DevOps do not actually care for the phrase. What they care about is the ability to automate, respond to, and improve their software delivery chain, as well as the tactics of moving faster and improving application quality. Another common attribute of those committed to DevOps […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: The Clash in Open Source
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Edith and Paul talk about the clash in OSS between developers looking to get paid and software companies looking for things for free. This podcast is brought to […]
Unifying Applications into One System
Let’s talk about a real problem that all of us have faced at one point or another: keeping track of a single thread of work across many disparate tools. Regardless of the industry a company operates in, as a company grows it accumulated back-office applications that support of the business. Many knowledge-based companies have some […]
Testing: Mind the DevOps Gap
If DevOps is a continuum, it starts with planning and development, and ends with deployment into operations. Much of the focus in DevOps and within the DevOps toolchain has been on application build automation (development) and deployment of apps into operations. But, for DevOps to pay off, there must be a continuous flow and automation […]
You Say You’re Doing DevOps, But What Does That Mean?
From recent conversations I have been having, it is clear that DevOps is top of mind for many. Out of the 40 or so customers I have spoken with recently, the overwhelming majority brought up DevOps during our conversation. They believe they ought to do DevOps, but they wanted me to help them define it […]
Release Engineering vs. Release Management
Release management and release engineering are two terms in DevOps that often get confused. They look and sound similar, but their functions are completely different in what they do and how they are implemented. That said, both serve the same purpose in the bigger picture of software releases. Release Management According to Wikipedia, release management […]
Don’t Make Me Code Podcast: A New Heavybit Series on Developer Experience
Welcome to Don’t Make Me Code, a new podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges you face when building developer facing products. Don’t Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: How Do You Deal with Your Data?
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Peter van Hardenberg about about continuous delivery in the context of organizational structure, databases and pricing. Peter is a co-founder of the Heroku Postgres product team. For more than […]
How Mature Is Your Automation Strategy?
Working in Operations can sometimes feel like walking up a down escalator. The business puts relentless pressure on your team to overcome bottlenecks, accelerate the overall delivery process and grow the volume and frequency of deployments. You’re also faced with a growing number of service level requirements and demand for higher release velocity—all stretched across […]
Can We Stop Talking About DevOps?
I first heard the term “DevOps” from a friend in the software business when I was working at Dell HQ in Round Rock, Texas. He recommended I read “The Phoenix Project,” by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. I did read it and I found it a fascinating story, but as a longtime network […]
How DevOps Helps Improve Application Security
The DevOps trend is gathering pace, evolving from a niche to a mainstream strategy. Organizations are overcoming the barriers to successful implementation and finding real benefits in terms of speed and efficiency. But there are lingering issues to solve with regard to security. As companies look to push more changes to production more quickly, risks […]
To Be Continuous: Empathy in Software Development
Thanks for listening to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Sam Stokes about empathy in software development, how mini-services are the new microservices, and constantly updating software in […]
Chronos, Kairos, & Janus: It’s Time to Seek Balance
We conflate idealism with naïveté and pessimism with ‘just being realistic’. But to deny the existence of perfection is to deny the evidence of our own lives. Was 2015 a win or a loss? It can be tough calling the winners and losers. The mathematics department I studied in had a habit of calling out […]
A Year in Review: Top Developer Tools Trends in 2015
The ability to ship software quickly is now a competitive advantage for every business. As a result, continuous delivery, distributed microservices, containers and asynchronous computing have become the norm. With these changes, come new complexities, markets and dev tool players. It’s clear that the biggest levers for business success rely on developer productivity. Great developer […]
A Force Awakens
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