Of DevOps, Databases and DBAs
If you’re on a DevOps team looking for additional efficiencies, you are likely to find them in the realm of database management. The arrival of DevOps did nothing to diminish the responsibilities traditionally associated with database administrators (DBAs). Rather, some of those duties have been redistributed across the team—sometimes explicitly, but more often implicitly. For […]
The Need for Rapid Development in a Post-App World
Gartner’s May 2017 report, “Preparing for a World Beyond Mobile Apps,” anticipates a post-app environment in which consumers have a wide variety of interfaces to choose from—including wearables, bots, ambient voice interfaces, IoT devices and AR/VR—that not only lend themselves to more immersive and seamless digital experiences, but also upend how businesses need to think […]
DevOps and Low-Code/No-Code Tools
Helping out a friend, I had reason to revisit low-code/no-code solutions and poke around a bit. The industry has been relatively quiet on the topic, but changes in systems and marketing made me feel the need to offer an update on the relation of current solutions to DevOps. Low-code/no-code solutions have been a panacea in […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success
DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more about processes and process improvement. However, both DevOps and cloud computing are vital in every organization’s journey toward an effective digital transformation. Cloud-centric […]
What Andreessen’s ‘Software’ Essay Means to Development Today
It’s been nearly seven years since Marc Andreessen’s essay, “Why Software is Eating the World,” brought to light software’s role in determining the next wave of winners and losers. Today, his essay is still relevant. The past decade saw the consumerization of IT in business. It also witnessed the shift in software consumption from desktops to […]
DevOps: It’s an Odyssey, not a Journey
It has become somewhat of a standard practice to tell people, “DevOps is a journey, not a destination,” which attempts to convey the fact that there is no end point that is set in stone. But a journey is a well-planned, point-to-point trip, while DevOps transformation is a messy, figure-out-the-next-steps-as-you-go trip. So I propose we […]
5 Resources for JavaScript Developers
Javascript (JS) is one of the most widely used and beloved programming languages in history. This can be attributed to its fairly light learning curve and impressive functionality. Designed by Brendan Eich in 1995, the language has seen steady gains in use for more than 20 years. JS itself is a high-level and weakly typed […]
Challenges in Leading a DevOps Team at a Fortune 100 Company
A manager, an evangelist and a godfather all walk into a bar. Okay, this isn’t a bad joke, this is an article about how managers can implement DevOps in large organizations, especially where culture and organizational change hamper efforts. But, I promise, we will talk about managers, evangelists and godfathers. Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis (@UldisKK) works at Accenture […]
Econocom DevOps Summit’s Lessons: Severe Disconnect Between Expectations and Delivery
On March 15, I gave four keynote speeches on DevOps in Toulouse, France. As the main speaker of Econocom Club MEP 2018, an annual think tank summit organized by the European business-to-business digital services provider, I shared the day with 15 firms in industries as prestigious as financial services, energy, aerospace, aviation, and telecommunications and heard all […]
Hackathon: DevOps Q&A with Appian VP Malcom Ross
Hackathons are a great way to demonstrate the value of a platform. I had the chance to speak with Malcolm Ross, vice president, Product at Appian to share a bit more about Appian’s virtual hackathon to correspond with its upcoming user conference. Full disclosure: I’ll be one of the judges attending Appian World to judge […]
Integrating ITIL Change Management and DevOps
A DevOps solution to the DevOps problem Intel IT’s Enterprise landscape is highly complex and diverse. The Enterprise Change Management team has the responsibility of managing the changes in this landscape, which is of the order of hundreds of changes every week. On one hand, we had to make sure we keep the change management […]
Beware the Blind Spot in Performance Testing for DevOps
According to Forrester, 64 percent of businesses are dissatisfied with the time it takes to release new features for customers. Brand loyalty has given way to customer loyalty; to drive it, organizations must focus on customers and their experiences using their products and services. As a result, organizations of all sizes need to make customer […]
5 Things That Will Be Automated in 2018
We may not have fleets of robots waiting on us hand and foot yet, but the automation revolution is in full swing. With automation becoming more apparent in daily life, some of the misguided fears over the concept and its potential to eliminate jobs are slowly being replaced with the view of automation as an […]
Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms
Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to “DevOps.” With this, transition to DevOps has become one of the key points of discussion across many IT firms. This article gives you an overview of the demand and […]
A Saner Way to Build a DevOps Cloud
There’s a popular definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results. Yet, too many enterprises implementing digital services and apps in the cloud fail to heed this warning as they turn to point-to-point integration of their cloud components. In the process, they’re introducing tremendous complexity that looks eerily similar to the […]
The 2 Best Ways to Automate Your TechOps
The DevOps community is rapidly building tools and processes to automate more of the DevOps workflow. One key is to put engineers on the front line who can find root causes of problems and automate more of the common tasks. Here are the two key areas to focus on when automating operations processes. Automate Your […]
The Role of DevOps in Building an AI-Ready Infrastructure
The successful application of machine learning for artificial intelligence (AI) requires several contexts to be addressed, primarily the technical, data and business considerations. The Technical From a technical standpoint, in building an AI-ready framework there are choices to be made such as which machine learning framework to select, the type and structure of learning function […]
3 Ways to Minimize the Impact of High Severity Incidents
According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting Research, 98 percent of organizations report that a single hour of downtime can cost upwards of $100,000. That doesn’t take into consideration the long-term effects on brand, potential loss of trust with existing customers and engineering time. This is why making sure high severity incidents are resolved quickly and […]
DevOps: What a Wonderful World it Would Be
The promises of DevOps are clear. They offer faster iterations, allowing ops to keep up with agile development and make an IT organization more responsive to business needs. DevOps doesn’t make less code. It doesn’t reduce configuration files. It doesn’t eliminate deployment issues (though it might reduce them). It doesn’t eliminate testing; indeed, it creates […]
IBM: DevOps Begins and Ends with Culture
Making the transition to DevOps requires as much a shift in cultural mindset as it does new platforms for building, deploying and managing applications. Between the two, however, it’s often the extent of the cultural challenges needed to be overcome that gets most underestimated. Michael Elder, a IBM Distinguished Engineer, said one of the most […]
DevSecOps: Digging into Root Cause Analysis
We have all been there in a postmortem when someone says, “Let’s get to the root of the problem.” And, we all know what that means: Who or what is to blame? We also all know that no one wants to play the blame game, yet we all do. But it isn’t our fault (no […]
How DevOps Startups Can Deal with GDPR in 2018
Data protection is not a new issue. There have been numerous high-profile data hacks in recent years, with sensitive customer information released into the public domain, causing widespread condemnation and fury. Trust is a big issue. When Equifax revealed hackers had stolen the personal information of 145 million people, there was an uproar. The problem […]
How to Get More Visibility Into Your Continuous Deployment Process
I know far too many developers who cringe at the thought of continuous deployment. Thoughts of broken code and an endless stream of customer support requests puts continuous deployment into the “nice to have, but not right now” pile. But, it might just be a case of clearing the fog on process so you get […]