Stop the Domino Effect by Joining Build Engineering and DevOps
As DevOps has become more common, these teams are tasked with uniting everything from coding to deploying and monitoring applications. Build Engineering forms the foundation for all those processes and is essential for building code. Its tools vary according to the operating system you’re building on and by programming language. DevOps needs to work with […]
IBM Allies with ServiceNow to Bridge DevOps Divide with ITIL
IBM and ServiceNow today announced an alliance under which IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) will collaborate with ServiceNow to make DevOps processes and events managed via the IBM Cloud Migration Factory visible to a cloud-based IT service management platform from ServiceNow based on the ITIL framework. Jim Comfort, general manager for cloud services at IBM […]
So Many DevOps Tools, So Little Time
I’ve received thousands of emails, ads and sales pitches for tools for every stage of the app life cycle, from automating infrastructure buildout to release planning to building and testing, to delivering applications. If you’re building or rearchitecting an application, you have a surfeit of choice of DevOps tools. Ironically, when an organization invests in […]
Common Hidden Dependencies and How to Uncover Them
It’s no secret that a truly Agile approach minimizes the risk organizations assume with waterfall or other traditional project management methods, by letting teams iterate and inspect and adapt as they go. But many companies lack clear visibility into real-time dependencies at the team level—even with daily standups, iteration and release planning, and a regular […]
Using Netflix’s HubCommander to Automate GitHub Organizations
Netflix owes a great deal of its exponential growth to its phenomenal tech stack. Throttling its content through a single internal API, the company was able to deliver content agnostic of device type and quickly disrupt its contemporary competitors in the consumer entertainment industry. We’re intrigued, then, when Netflix exposes some of its internal architecture […]
Image Management 101: The Web Developer’s Guide
How understanding the user experience can help web developers in managing images effectively Online experiences have in many ways supplanted in-person experiences. Today, no one would hesitate to buy a luxury watch online instead of from a jewelry brick-and-mortar store. But as these online experiences become the norm, user expectations for a seamless and “in-person […]
DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from startups to public entities, Evan has had a great track record of success. Influx Data is yet another success for Kaplan. Building on […]
Steps for Migrating Code Between Version Control Tools
Code migration can be tricky if you’re not prepared. Follow these steps for a worry-free migration. Almost all source code contains some format of delicate information, whether it be configuration-related information such as database credentials or information on how the web application functions, such as a web template. If such information is disclosed, this information […]
How DevOps Can Nurture the IoT Brownfield For Results
Your latest IoT project sailed through proof-of-concept but started running into problems during rollout. Fortunately, your DevOps superhumans got things running. Now, perhaps a year or more later, you’re seeing more and more issues crop up as the project grows. If this scenario sounds vaguely familiar, or you’re worried you may be headed there, you’re […]
DOES18: Challenges and Enablers for DevOps Success
“What happens in Vegas, doesn”t stay in Vegas” … a great quote to end the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (DOES18) in Las Vegas, urging attendees to take and share the new insights and knowledge gained. This article is an attempt at sharing my discoveries. This article contains a summary of the challenges that delegates […]
Simplifying Through DevOps in Banking
There are a great many assets available on the internet that talk about what DevOps is and how far DevOps adoption has come. So we will not repeat the “what” and the “how far.” Instead, we will focus on the road ahead and future of simplification and transformation at banking organizations and the role DevOps […]
The Importance of Instant Feedback in Analytics
A feedback loop is essential for every part of the modern DevOps environment. From continuous integration and deployment to application development to infrastructure monitoring to team dynamics, feedback is the most important piece of the DevOps puzzle. But feedback is of little to zero value if it is not timely. And in the modern development […]
IBM Acquires Red Hat to Create DevOps Behemoth
In a move that has massive implications for DevOps teams across the enterprise, IBM today announced it is acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group as a distinct independent unit. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current […]
Integrating the Database into DevOps for Business Success
The benefits of DevOps have been known for some time, but this year’s “Accelerate: State of DevOps” report shows that successful companies are extending the advantages they get from adopting it. The longest-running research of its kind, the report from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) represents five years of work surveying more than 30,000 technical […]
DevOps: Making Developer Experience Reality
As DevOps professionals, among other things we are responsible for making developers’ lives a little bit easier. How many times have you heard, “Do you have a working vagrant box?” Or maybe you need to set aside a few days to onboard a new developer. Many times a development environment is created when a project […]
How GitOps Can (Sometimes) Save DevOps
A lot has been written about GitOps since its release by Weaveworks more than a year ago as a “single source of truth for the whole system” for using Git for Kubernetes deployments on the cloud. Aptly described by Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks co-founder and CEO, as “90% best practices and 10% cool new stuff,” GitOps […]
You’re Thinking Software Wrong
Like any industry, DevOps fosters its own unique culture. And like any culture it resists change, it has inertia. “This is how it has always been done” is an incredible force to reckon with. Even though the realities of DevOps have changed dramatically in recent years with the advent of new tools and services, many […]
Integrating DevOps: Avoid These Common Mistakes
DevOps, as the name implies, is a combination of two professional teams—software development and the IT experts. Both the teams collaborate well with the aim of creating a bridge that accelerates and automates the process of software development and a more intensive testing before releasing it into the market with high confidence. DevOps has been […]
Implementing ChatOps Using Open Source Tooling
ChatOps is an exciting proposition for organizational Ops communication. Throwing development and operational tooling into the chat conversation can ease the development pipeline, increase transparency and increase security by streamlining bug detection and remediation efforts. At the heart of ChatOps are bots, scripts and chat clients; many are pre-built and open source. In this article, […]
Modern Software Development Helps KPI Achievement
A new survey by Frost & Sullivan in collaboration with CA Technologies clearly shows that business executives believe modern software development helps them achieve KPIs. This is the latest in a string of surveys showing that modern software development practices such as DevOps result in higher-performing organizations, more profits and greater KPI achievement. Key findings […]
DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 San Francisco: Video Interviews, Day 2
The recent DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 San Francisco conference offered a bevy of interesting conversations with folks from all corners of the DevOps space, from testing to automation to security and beyond. All of those conversations are available for viewing on DevOpsTV. My two days in the Broadcast Booth on the show floor […]
Scripts in the Development Pipeline: Best Practices for Avoiding the ‘Scriptocalypse’
The use of scripts as a key tool in the average developer’s bag of tricks has altered the development pipeline in significant ways. It has even led some organizations to outsource their entire team to manage the glut of scripts that have been developed over the course of time. To help companies move beyond the […]
DevOptimism: The Future of DevOps is Becoming Clearer
DevOps has quickly matured from a fairy tale to a bestseller at most large enterprises. However, we are still at the beginning of the DevOps story, with many exciting chapters still to be written. This article looks at several emerging technologies shaping DevOps today and a handful of developing trends that will shape the ecosystem […]