5 DevOps Techniques to Improve Software Hygiene
Thinking about frequent food contamination outbreaks, perhaps the old adage, “You are what you eat,” should be modified to, “You are what you eat—as assembled across an unknown supply chain.” Even foods advertised as fresh and healthy can be quite the opposite. And it could be because of just a single unhygienic practice hidden within […]
Don’t Make Me Code: Environment Protection
Thanks for listening to “Don’t Make Me Code,” a Heavybit 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, Steve and David are joined by Sean Li, lead product […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: Have We Forgotten How To Code?
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Paul and Edith discuss the fallout after the widely covered “left-pad” incident, and while they agree that these sorts of moments move the entire open source community forward, they […]
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal “easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their small differences expand combinatorially. That divergence turns the idea of a prescriptive reference architecture into a destructive myth that limits community and ecosystem […]
Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB
This blog is the first in a two-part series about MongoDB backup and recovery. In this first part, I will discuss the motivations for protecting data that resides on MongoDB and the existing backup and recovery solutions. In the second part, I will discuss how to solve this problem. In the era of big data, […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: Open Source Economics
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode of To Be Continuous, Edith and Paul are joined by Sean Byrnes, CEO of Outlier.ai, and Nadia Eghbal. The group discusses open-source economics and […]
FLAP, Part 3: Full Data Center Provisioning
In the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one blog is hardly a thorough evaluation of strengths and weaknesses—I strongly suggest you do more research), knowing how they work together is the point […]
FLAP, Part 2: Application Provisioning
In part 1 of this series we talked about server provisioning tools. In that post, we mentioned some of the more prominent application provisioning tools on the market with regard to integrations. This post will focus on the application layer of full layer automated provisioning (FLAP). Application Provisioning Who’s Who Application provisioning technologies most likely are […]
FLAP, Part 1: Server Provisioning
We have reached the state where end-to-end data center provisioning is a reality. It’s early yet, so there is a certain amount of work involved, but today a DevOps team essentially can turn on the automation and move on to other DevOps priorities. It takes some effort, depending upon the solution chosen, but the end […]
Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
I am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile “top five” lists for every conceivable occasion, openly mock the tastes of people, and, every so often, sell a few records. In the spirit of a […]
How To Maintain Open Source Code Hygiene
To maintain good open source code hygiene in the development process, you must first establish what you mean by open source code hygiene, including good and bad hygiene. “By hygiene, we just mean is it appropriate? Is it clean for the intended use?” says Mike Pittenger, VP of Strategy at Black Duck Software. Black Duck […]
DevOps Chat: Rachel Reinitz, IBM Bluemix Garage Method
In advance of InterConnect next week in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down with Rachel Reinitz,Distinguished Engineer & CTO of IBM Bluemix Garage. I have met Rachel several times and it is always a pleasure to catch up on all of the innovative things her and her team are doing with Bluemix […]
DevOps Stack on a Shoestring Budget
There are competing products, both open source and licensed, in any DevOps area that you can think of. The Operations groups in companies tend to accumulate such applications over time as determined by ongoing projects. Team members’ familiarity with a certain application could be a factor in adding it to the tools stack. Companies, therefore, […]
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 […]
Open Source software license and security management with WhiteSource
With the growing speed and availability of open source components, it becomes easy to add features and integration of software with other components which makes software development easier. But there are a few points to be remembered while using any open source component. Security vulnerabilities Licensing risks of open source component. Outdated open source components. […]
9 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love
While we have been building our SaaS company, we have been investing much time in researching and deciding which tools to include in our DevOps toolkit. We’ve based these decisions on our years of experience in the IT industry, dealing with infrastructure for the most part. From building a petabyte-scale, data analytics infrastructure, our architecture, […]
Commercial vendors gift to DevOps
Open source solutions are usually brought to life because of someone’s yearning to solve a problem and share the solution with the rest of the world. Or perhaps when inventors are merely trying to get more eyes on the code for help with hidden bugs and fixes. This is not a pitch for open-source. Rather […]
DevOps: It’s All Open Source’s Fault
Blame DevOps on open source. After all, it was the open source movement that gave developers the idea that they were free to code, free to build applications and other software for their companies without needing prior approval. It was open source that crowned developers kingmakers. It was open source that gave developers the freedom […]