Lessons from a Successful Large-Scale Agile Transition
Completing a large-scale agile transition can seem intimidating for any business. Agile pushes teams to change their cultural expectations and work processes—a combination that is tough on any work environment. Larger organizations, however, often face an especially daunting migration. The good news is that businesses don’t have to face these migrations alone. In my work, […]
Comparing Nuclio and AWS Lambda
With serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you—the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the […]
DevOps: Embracing the Telco Cloud
Ongoing developments in technology have led businesses to look to the cloud for greater flexibility, scalability and processing power. The telecoms industry is no different. Under growing pressure to meet the demands of the internet of things (IoT) and 5G, service providers are increasingly adopting cloud and virtualization technologies such as network functions virtualization (NFV) […]
6 Examples of Digital Transformation at Adobe Summit Keynote
We’re attending Adobe Summit 2019 to research the intersection of DevOps and marketing. Follow along for more stories. In a recent article, we described how DevOps is transforming retail from brick and mortar into an omnichannel “brick and click.” At Adobe Summit, we garnered more insights, discovering how other institutions are implementing an innovative convergence […]
The New AI Overseer Role in DevOps
Robot overlords are the stuff of science fiction fantasy. Today, with more teams implementing artificial intelligence (AI), DevOps teams need a hard, continuous look at reality. An AI overseer watching apps at work could make the difference between sadness and euphoria in your efforts. We’re seeing AI misses more and more often. Facebook recently admitted […]
How to Successfully Bring the B2C Frictionless Model to the Enterprise
Consumers expect to be able to do anything, anywhere and at any time in our digital world. They’ve grown accustomed to this level of speed and efficiency because business-to-consumer (B2C) companies have been delivering a frictionless customer experience for years. PayPal and Venmo are great examples of frictionless transactions and instant gratification through digital platforms: […]
Using Spark and Jenkins to Deploy Code into Hadoop Clusters
This article illustrates how to deploy an application into a Hadoop cluster using GitLab/Jenkins/Spark application. In this article, we will cover the following: Auto-triggering Jenkins build when code is committed in Git. Pulling the latest code from the repository through Jenkins. Building, compiling and packaging the “.jar” using SBT tool. Uploading the .jar to the […]
7 Ways to Introduce DevOps in Your Work Culture
As many industries are going through a wave of digital transformation, a number of key technologies and principles are being deployed to business advantage. One such principle is DevOps. This collaborative principle is proving to be extremely helpful for businesses in their pursuit of customer satisfaction and beating their competition. The DevOps trend is growing, […]
How DevOps Orchestration and Feedback Loops Can Enhance Your DevOps Pipeline
DevOps orchestration and feedback loops can significantly impact and improve your organization’s delivery pipeline. In this post, we’ll define and illuminate the importance of DevOps orchestration and feedback loops, and how together they can make a difference in your pipeline. DevOps Orchestration Although people widely use the terms “automation” and “orchestration” interchangeably, their scopes vary […]
DevOps: Assessing Behavior Flows Through an Organization
I’ll admit it, this article is a little strange. It is an experiment. But DevOps is all about experimentation, right? This article explores how information and behaviors in fact “flow” through an organization. It is based upon my observations with literally hundreds of DevOps teams. I have used the Three Ways of DevOps to show […]
SRE: How Do You Get to Blameless?
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the companion to DevOps. If we take my normal divisions of DEVops versus devOPS, traditional DevOps is mostly the developer side, and SRE is mostly the Ops side. This isn’t a perfect comparison, but it is a good starting point, and for this blog, I’ll run with it. While DevOps […]
Blameless Launches DevOps Platform Based on SRE Principles
Blameless has emerged from stealth to launch a platform for managing DevOps based on the site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices defined by Google. Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, the Blameless platform provides across-the-board visibility into the complex network of application programming interfaces (APIs) and applications distributed across an organization, said […]
SolarWinds Adds Ability to Profile Live Code to APM Platform
SolarWinds is advancing its campaign to become a leading provider of DevOps tools by adding the ability to profile live code to SolarWinds AppOptics application performance monitoring (APM) platform. Keith Kuchler, vice president of engineering for SolarWinds, said live code profiling provides a breakdown of the most frequently called functions and methods in a transaction, […]
Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps
DevOps tooling seems to be in a never-ending state of self-transformation. The continuing evolution of infrastructure and the tools that go with it are forever creating new ecosystems. On the infrastructure side, we saw VMWare, Citrix and other companies bring to market massive virtualization in the late ’90s and early ’00s. This, of course, prompted […]
G2G3 DevOps Simulation: Lessons from the Facilitator POV
The G2G3 DevOps Simulation is a three-round game that gives a complete immersive experience to the participants. It has software that’s controlled by the facilitator and used to see the performance and improvement in each round. As a facilitator, I help on the retrospective at the end of each round, as the participants share about […]
Atlassian Adds Business Planning App by Acquiring AgileCraft
Atlassian announced it is acquiring AgileCraft to give business leaders visibility into strategic projects in a way that is closely mapped to IT projects being driven by DevOps processes. The value of the deal, expected to close next month, is estimated to be $166 million. Many DevOps teams already make extensive use of the Jira […]
5 Steps for Successful Continuous Testing Implementation
Continuous integration (CI) calls for code to be always working. Continuous delivery (CD) and continuous deployment mean that we must be able to roll out a working configuration to production at any time. As DevOps becomes the norm, bugs in production are now a developer’s personal problem. Developers (and their managers) want to know immediately […]
Integrating the Impactful Immersive Experience Team
Immersive: providing, involving or characterized by deep absorption or immersion in something (such as an activity or a real or artificial environment) — Merriam Webster Dictionary We immerse a teabag into hot water to brew tea, but when we speak of the “immersive experience” we’re not planning to boil anyone. We may, however, make them […]
The 5 Core Principles of Lean Management
Lean project management is rooted in cost-saving manufacturing methodologies. The ultimate goal of lean methodology is to reduce waste. Companies in all industries have adopted lean principles into their own processes, but lean is most suited toward physical manufacturing, engineering and related industries. Regardless of your company’s size or the activities of your organization, lean […]
5 Practices That Will Help Drive Successful Robotic Process Automation Deployments
Enterprises have begun to invest considerably in robotic process automation (RPA) in recent years. RPA is one of the critical technologies that enterprises now are leveraging to automate their business processes to make their businesses more agile and efficient. When properly deployed and managed, RPAs can automate everything from mundane tasks (such as organizing files) […]
How CI/CD Can Fast-Track Next-Gen Media Rollouts
Using CI/CD can help digital service providers move as quickly as over-the-top content providers Online video consumption has been increasing tremendously with rapid change in consumer expectations to have seamless viewing experience across various digital devices. To capture this growing demand, it is critical for digital service providers (DSPs) to deliver fast-track rollout of next-gen […]
DevOps Chat: Doing Agile, with AgileCXO’s Jeff Dalton
Agile has a bit of a longer history and subsequent maturity than DevOps. Despite this, how can an organization say that it is in fact an “agile organization”? What does that even mean? Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Jeff Dalton, founder of Broadsword consulting, author of “Great Big Agile” and founder of AgileCXO. […]
Query Your Network Like a Database
Network process automation is an often-overlooked component of DevOps. Incorporating DevOps philosophies toward networking, or DevNetOps, can lead to even greater process improvements and more flexible deployments. Fortunately, it’s becoming even easier to automate network tasks with evolving standards and open data models that are allowing more programmatic access and insight to the network infrastructure. […]