Building Amazing Apps, Part 1: Optimizing the Front End
There are millions of apps available today, and it’s incredibly easy for any user to download and install any of them with just a few taps on a screen or click of a mouse. If you want to build and deliver an app that will amaze users, you need to be able to differentiate from […]
9 Pillars of Continuous Security Best Practices
Without proper consideration given to security best practices, the continuous delivery of software changes facilitated by DevOps is risky. On the other hand, DevOps provides an opportunity to reduce security risks if security is integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline according to best practices. This blog enumerates best practices for security across nine pillars of […]
DevOps and Retail: Transforming Brick-and-Mortar to Brick-and-Click
Brick-and mortar-retail is rapidly transforming with the digital age. As physical storefronts turn digital, it’s safe to say that traditional retail is quickly becoming a mesh of “brick-and-click.” So, how are retail giants surviving in this new landscape? Interestingly enough, the remaining brick-and-mortar retail are reinventing themselves by applying helpful DevOps principles. In this post, […]
Feature Flagging Poised for Wider Adoption
Feature flags, also known as feature toggles, provide a means for DevOps teams to test and add new capabilities to their applications without having to take the entire application offline. The downside is they generally result in more branches of applications that need to be carefully managed within the context of a DevOps process. A […]
7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019
We all learn from mistakes, right? But it would be better if we learned faster and didn’t repeat them in our future exercises. And this is exactly what we will discuss here in this blog. For a while now, we’ve been overwhelmed by the idea of the DevOps principle. We love how the collaboration between […]
What To Do When Your DevOps Initiative is Failing
These days, it is difficult to find someone who hasn’t heard of DevOps. Statistics show that in 2017, just 6 percent of developers worldwide had never heard of it, and in 2018 this number decreased to 3 percent. You have to wonder who these 3 percent of developers are! Companies have been embracing DevOps initiatives […]
How to Troubleshoot CPU Problems
Diagnosing and troubleshooting CPU problems in production in cloud environments can be tricky. Your application might have millions of lines of code, so identifying the exact line of code that is causing the CPU to spike might be the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. This article shows how to find that needle […]
CloudBees: 2019 to Be Year of DevOps Metrics
While DevOps has come a long way in terms of understanding and adoption, 2019 is going to be marked by a concerted effort to applying metrics to DevOps processes. Applying those metrics will not only substantiate the value of adopting DevOps, they also will provide the impetus many organizations need to close a variety of […]
The Limiting Factors of Microservices Also Apply to FaaS
In enterprise development and deployment, the pattern is easy to detect. A big monolithic application is targeted for re-architecting as a microservices architecture. People excited about microservices get together and break up the design to make it far less monolithic and far more loosely coupled. If your organization is lucky, it is at this stage […]
Logging: Turning Good DevOps Teams into Great Ones
The competition is on for DevOps teams that are expected to rev up production on a multitude of projects, with teams and companies aiming to stay atop the global software product marketplace. The complexity of code creation and the pace of deployment has picked up in recent years, and DevOps managers are starting to face […]
Using Trade Studies in Vetting Tool Stacks
Adding to your tool stack should entail more thought than, “Start your free trial today!” It’s great when there is an application need and cloud-based tools are easily grabbed with a few clicks. However, surveying alternatives before making a tool stack change can prevent costly mistakes. Trade studies can help vet best-fit tools for evaluation. […]
Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework
AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]
5 Ways KPI Analysis Helps DevOps
Four Vs drive big data solutions: volume, velocity, variety and veracity. Volume and velocity are technical considerations usually receiving a healthy dose of attention among architects and coders. However, variety and veracity often determine success or failure, and they tend to sneak up on teams who haven’t fully considered them. Key performance indicator, or KPI, […]
Demystifying Crucial Phases of Project Management
With competition becoming more intense for development companies, project management is becoming a more integral part of every project. It’s no longer limited to the actual creation of a new project. Now, it’s about planning, communicating, collaborating and analyzing. With so many moving parts, it’s difficult to understand all of the important phases of project […]
CollabNet VersionOne State of Agile Survey: Join the Fray
If you follow the news on Agile software development, topics such as adoption, scaling, Kanban, Scrum or certifications, it’s likely you saw statistics in your reading that were taken from the “State of Agile Report.” For the last 12 years, CollabNet VersionOne has been surveying the Agile software development community and providing this valuable body […]
The Third Way of DevOps: Stacking the Cards in Your Favor
In the Third Way of DevOps, change is as much attitude as it is behavior In our first post, “The Third Way of DevOps – From Knowing to Being,” we shared our thoughts on effectively applying knowledge to put the Three Ways of DevOps into practice. This blog explores a complementary dimension: How to build […]
Bots: ‘Like a CLI on Steroids’
Overheard in a Palo Alto coffee shop: “… so, we tokenize the utterances, lemmatize the tokens, vectorize with StarSpace embedding, and run the featurized input through the neural net. The softmax activation layer tells us what the user intent was.” “Sorry, you what the what and then what?” “Or, you can say the user types […]
DevOps and Collaboration: Fraternizing with the Enemy?
DevOps is all about collaboration, we hear. “You must collaborate,” say managers initiating DevOps adoption programs. HR make new posters declaring the corporate values “We value Collaboration & Teamwork.” Can’t fail! Then when it appears not to be as effective as we had hoped we tell teams they are “Empowered” to collaborate. Blank stares! When […]
The Third Way of DevOps: From Knowing to Being
Why is the Third Way of DevOps so difficult to master? We all know the feeling. You’ve seen an opportunity to improve things and genuinely want to do something about is. But you soon feel the clarity and anticipation draining out of you. First there’s the pressure of the day job. Then there’s the inertia […]
Why Banks Must Ditch the ‘Build vs. Buy’ Mentality and Embrace a Platform Approach
The past decade has seen digital transformation change nearly every aspect of our lives, and banking has proven no exception. Indeed, proprietary data from Avoka shows that in mid-2017, mobile overtook desktop as the most popular channel for applying for new deposit accounts at one top 10 U.S. bank. Banks have accordingly ramped up their […]
The DevOps Role: Not a One-Person Job
This is actually a follow up of the article I wrote a little while ago on LinkedIn titled “DevOps is NOT Jenkins.” In that article, I ranted about how many people and companies confuse automation tools with DevOps. Now I want to address another misconception that I come across quite often: “DevOps is a role.” […]
DOES18 Las Vegas: Video Interviews, Day 2
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (DOES18) in Las Vegas was a three-day bonanza of all things DevOps, with conversations spanning the entire DevOps ecosystem, from processes to tools to culture. In my two days at the Broadcast Booth (aka “The Fishbowl”), I had the pleasure of meeting with some very smart people and having some highly […]
10 Years of DevOps—Transition, Growth and the Future of AIOps
When software development became a cumbersome task of repetitive coding, testing and glitches, organizations had to come up with a solution. The solution? An organized approach that would not only eliminate the endless cycle of repetitive tasks but also would establish proper coordination and execution in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That very systematic […]