‘DevOoops’ Moves: Poorly Defined KPIs
DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But, it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call a “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. The following is a discussion submitted by product […]
Survey: DevOps Progress Slow, but Steady
Atlassian has published the results of a survey of 500 IT and software professionals that suggest now is the best and worst of times when it comes to DevOps. On the plus side, the survey found that more than half of respondents (57 percent) are encountering fewer bugs and outages after deploying a continuous integration/continuous […]
Automation: We Have Not Yet Achieved Balance
I’m going to start this week’s blog out with a very clear statement that regular readers will already be aware of: I fall on the automation side of the DevOps equation. I see DevOps as automation first, process second. The problem is getting to that “second” part. The act of automating the entire pipeline should, […]
Survey Finds Wide Gap Between DevOps Adoption and Success
A recent HBR survey shows there is work to be done to advance DevOps in organizations A survey of 654 subscribers to the Harvard Business Review found that while 86 percent of respondents said it is important for their organizations to be able to build and deploy software quickly, only 10 percent said they are […]
Open Mainframe Project: Zowe Ready for Prime Time
There is a lot of interest in updating mainframe technology/interfaces across traditional enterprises. As development environments and toolsets have evolved outside the mainframe, there is a struggle to keep up—partially because backward compatibility requirements make wild changes difficult and partly because the very architecture of mainframes is different. There have been several fragmented efforts over […]
Python Benefiting From Increase in DevOps Use
DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […]
Break-Even Analysis: Understanding the Impact of Automation
Determining whether automation is helpful beyond the CI/CD pipeline can be easier through a break-even analysis The pursuit of automating away all the operational tasks in your organization doesn’t stop after you finish building a solid CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using the myriad tools available and making it stable. There are many more one-off tasks not […]
Help a Student Out and Advance DevOps in Academia
Those of us who attended university know the pressures students face every day. Between attending classes, completing homework, figuring out what they really want to do with their life and all of the other assorted adulting they have to manage, college students have a lot going on. That’s why a little help can go a […]
DevOps Disillusionment? 4 Behaviors to Get Your Team to the Other Side
For most teams, the adoption of DevOps and an agile mindset involves many twists and turns on the path to maturity. It’s not uncommon for teams to experience a “trough of disillusionment” period as: Initial euphoria and “us-against-the-world” team mentality ushered in by adoption of new work patterns wanes with time. Client demands and pressures […]
How Software Outsourcing Can Empower Digital Transformation
Businesses are constantly readjusting themselves to become more agile and innovative while maximizing their opportunity in today’s digital economy. This is especially true for up-and-coming businesses with limited budgets that need to think ahead of the curve to find additional resources to fuel their digital transformation. Software outsourcing is no longer perceived as a choice […]
Cisco Opens IoT Development Center
Cisco Systems this week launched an IoT Dev Center as part of an effort to foster development of a new generation of applications that will be deployed at the network edge. Announced at the Cisco Live EMEA event, the IoT Dev Center provides access to sandboxes and tutorials for building highly distributed IoT applications that […]
Minor Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Age of Automation
Giving automation the power to detect crime and enforce punishment has ramifications, even for minor infractions In November, I broke the law. I crossed over a solid white line to make a right turn at a traffic intersection. At the time I was unaware of my violation. I was on my way to a shopping […]
SauceCon 2019 Speaker Profile: Melissa Benua
This is the second in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. SauceCon […]
APIs and DevOps
As always, there are interesting trends in DevOps, and I wanted to point out one that is starting to bother me: the “API economy,” and how it impacts DevOps decision-makers. Traditional infrastructure—SAN, LAN, physical systems, etc.—were generally controlled the best from the command line. While there are a million of them, Cisco IOS is probably […]
SauceCon 2019 Speaker Profile: Dave Haeffner
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. SauceCon […]
Implementing DevOps? Start with a Strategy
Organizations today are focused on improving the IT delivery process and taking it to the next level. DevOps plays a key role in achieving this goal, if it’s done right. But while the concept of DevOps is not new—it’s more than a decade old—a significant percentage of organizations have not yet implemented or are facing […]
Hooked on Service Metrics
We live in an increasingly “as-a-service” world. From software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) to functions as a service (FaaS) and SaaS-delivered applications, service delivery has become paramount to business goals and practices. In today’s DevOps landscape, microservices—the cloud-native approach to designing scalable, independently delivered services—allow teams to prioritize each […]
DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Testing with Ryan Lloyd of SmartBear
The testing landscape in DevOps is a big one, with lots of established players feeding the machine. SmartBear is one of those companies. The force behind Swagger, SoapUI and others is perhaps not as well-known as its brethren in the DevOps testing space, but it cuts a wide swath. And, with its recent acquisition of […]
Go Big: Scalability in the Age of DevOps
Achieving hyperscale is a work of technical art for any business. As companies grow and customers begin to rely more heavily on your service, ensuring reliability during peak business times is mission-critical. An enormous amount of work goes on behind the scenes to ensure scalability, and oftentimes it becomes necessary to redesign or rethink processes […]
Want a Successful Software Build? Just Say No
It is a truth which should be universally acknowledged that the most important skill for a customer-facing job in what we laughingly call “information technology” is a cast-iron ability to say no—and make it stick. The misguided desire to please other humans by attempting to deliver on their every request has sunk more projects than […]
Accelerating MVP Development Performance Through DevOps
The core concept of minimum viable product (MVP) is to get maximum learning and understanding regarding what customers want about a product. Learning and understanding is a continuous process requiring a development process that is incremental in nature. That makes DevOps a favorite for CIOs and everyone else who dabbles with MVP development. How can […]
VR Development Guide: Choosing the Right Engine
Creating virtual 3D worlds has been a dream of programmers for many decades. Virtual reality, once a faraway fiction, is becoming a reality. Failures such as Nintendo’s infamous Virtual Boy are now a distant memory, and major successes including PSVR and Google Cardboard have become the norm for the emerging technology. In fact, Statista projects […]
How to Automate HIPAA Compliance with DevOps
DevOps can help make HIPAA compliance more achievable Automating the provisioning of HIPAA-compliant server infrastructure enables compliant hosting service providers with the ability to provision and deploy infrastructure-as-code with minimal human intervention. Providing the automated process is thoroughly tested, revised and updated, it can offer a healthcare organization huge flexibility when enforcing a HIPAA-compliant server […]