Three Ways Dev and Ops Teams Can Manage the Integration Lifecycle
Many enterprise organizations did not invest enough money into integration as they built their cloud or hybrid infrastructures. As if integrating on-premise systems and applications wasn’t tough enough, in today’s cloud era with the rise of hybrid environments, connectivity has only gotten more complicated – especially when combined with the increased speed of deployment. Puppet […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps
This past week, I had the opportunity to catch up with some more industry thought leaders at the DevOpsDays DC event in our nation’s capital. This was the first major DevOps Days event to feature a large audience of government participants. It was an awesome event and is certainly going to be on my must-attend […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps (Part 2)
During my second day at DevOpsDays DC, I had the opportunity to catch up with a couple more industry thought leaders. First up, John Willis, (@botchagalupe) DevOps Days core organizer and co-author the upcoming “DevOps Cookbook”. In this episode of DevOps Leadership Series, John highlights his first introduction to DevOps and the journey it has taken […]
Continuous Delivery and The Proof of Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is critical in Continuous Delivery. Every change we commit to the common source repository is a release candidate. That’s why we test our code before we release it. We find out whether objectives has been met or not. Unfortunately, testing is a discipline that many try to avoid and it’s one of the […]
2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
In April of this year, I embarked on a six-week journey diving deep into an analysis of the world’s software supply chains. I evaluated the practices of 106,000 organizations, the 100,000+ suppliers they relied on, and the billions of software components that fueled their agile, continuous delivery and DevOps practices. The facts I discovered and […]
DevOps and QA: What’s the real cost of quality?
As continuous delivery and DevOps speeds the cadence and volume of development, quality assurance professionals and the groups they work in must find ways to transform their roles. Because in order for businesses to truly get value out of the applications they’re delivering through DevOps automation and iteration, they don’t just need to attain speed […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Compliance, Testing, and Rugged
This past week, I headed to London for the Rugged DevOps event, where I had the chance to catch up with a few more industry thought leaders. First, I caught up with Gareth Rushgrove from Puppet Labs, who also runs the DevOps Weekly newsletter. In this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Gareth […]
5 Ways Continuous Integration Reduces Risk in Development
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. There’s a lot of talk about DevOps and Continuous Integration in the tech space right now, but sometimes the implementation of those methods can be tricky. An effective Continuous Integration strategy requires DevOps teams to manage […]
How DevOps could save the world; like your colleagues’ day
DevOps is about a few things but above all, it’s about communication and understanding each other. In that spirit, I decided to create a new day to celebrate: “Like your colleagues’ day”. The rules are simple: The first rule of like your colleagues’ day is: You do not talk about Fight… Each year, on the […]
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from doing something about it. Organizations that have DevOps teams in place can just smile because they are enabled to be in control of […]
DevOps for non-engineers
If you’ve scrolled through LinkedIn or companies’ career pages, you’ve probably seen the term “DevOps” used as a part of a job title. DevOps Engineers and DevOps architects are everywhere, and many people are surprised to find that those titles aren’t correct. It sounds innocuous: After all, isn’t DevOps something that you do? If you’re […]
Imperative or Declarative? The question of DevOps in the network.
A significant amount of bandwidth is spent discussing automation and praising the value of APIs within the broader DevOps umbrella. These concepts are particularly important in the context of CI/CD and the evolution of application architectures toward decoupled, service-oriented systems. Automation is used for build and test, to drive the workflow that moves an app […]
Where is the DBA in the DevOps conversation?
In reading case studies, surveys, and research articles on DevOps I am reminded of a cartoon I saw taped to my high school physics teacher’s file cabinet. Two scientists stand in front of a complex proof scrawled on a chalkboard. Separating steps 1 and 3 of the proof is the statement, “Then a Miracle Occurs.” […]
The DevOps-Price of Segregation of Duties.
Segregation of duties will change because it must change. It has a tremendous impact on our motivation, time to market and IT Security. It influences many parts of an organization. Most organizations have started with DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment and it is only natural to think about segregation of duties at one point […]
Performance Monitoring, another view
This is my first post to devopsy.kinsta.cloud, for those who haven’t read my other writings, I currently work as the VP of Market Development and Insights at AppDynamics. I joined in February 2015 after being at Gartner for 4 years as a Research VP covering all things monitoring. During my time as a Gartner analyst […]
Lean Value Stream Mapping for DevOps
Value Stream Mapping is a crucial step in assessing an organization’s DevOps capability. We create a value stream map of the software development lifecycle early in any DevOps engagement, because it helps us to- Provide context for our architects and technical experts who are, in parallel, examining tools and technology. Establish a performance baseline, against […]
Moving from Infrastructure Automation to True DevOps
Deciding on two separate teams, or an integrated end-to-end team While a lot has been said about “the right way” to do DevOps, what we’re seeing in practice are two different approaches being tried to enable development and operations to work together as a team. On the one hand, there’s the approach to create an […]
Documenting DevOps: Agile, Automation and Continuous Documentation
Chris Riley former GigaOm analyst, O’Reilly author, devopsy.kinsta.cloud featured writer and founder of Fixate I/O has written an outstanding report on the key role documentation must play in the modern software development lifecyle. Agile or DevOps, automated or not, we live in a continuous IT era. So why shouldn’t documentation be continuous as well? Riley’s […]
4 Ways DevOps Teams Create Value.
Sven Malvik – I’ve written thousand of lines of code based on lies, lies I hoped were the truth. The truth is that we make false assumptions. Assumptions that kill our business. I’ve built software that was too expensive, I’ve built software nobody wanted, and I’ve built software that never saw the light. If you […]
Is DevOps on the cusp of Disillusionment?
If you are familiar with, or buy into the idea of the Hype Cycle, you are familiar with the Trough of Disillusionment. When it comes to adoption of pretty much anything, there seems to be a point, just after the peak of enthusiasm, where those in the know are disappointed with the practicality and adoption […]
DevOps Teams: Containers Will Help You Become Future Ready
Container frameworks are emerging as a superior choice to create, manage, and run distributed applications in a scalable and secure fashion. Docker’s growth is testimony to the fact. There are 100 million downloads of the Docker Engine, 75,000 Dockerized applications, 770 contributors, and 50,000 third-party projects on GitHub using Docker in less than two years. […]
Social Skills for DevOps: Whose responsibility?
In his post “DevOps developers; don´t be a DevGoof” on devopsy.kinsta.cloud Parker Yates pointed out, that developers have to become more social. Devs should better realize that they need to become a normal part of the business social structure. That is really true and extremely necessary to make DevOps more efficient. But is this the […]