Is DevOps Really Necessary?
I spend my days discussing DevOps and digital transformations with companies of all sizes, from startups to some of the world’s largest enterprises. I’ve found that many teams are still at a very early stage in modernizing their technology, culture and practices. However, I’m surprised at the number of the organizations that don’t believe in […]
Enthusiasm for DevOps Greater Than Actual Adoption, Survey Shows
When it comes to DevOps practices, adoption continues to lag intention by quite a bit. GitLab recently surveyed some 5,300 software developers and engineers from mostly small and medium businesses around the world. The survey examined overall attitudes and perceptions around the state of DevOps, with a particular focus on uncovering any disparities that might […]
Sneckdowns In IT Operations
What IT operations professionals can learn from the actual paths people take through tools and processes, and the differences from the expected usage model. It has been a snowy winter across much of Europe, and although the snow is now beginning to melt in most places, there are still substantial sneckdowns to be seen across […]
Defects: Pay More Attention to What, Less to Who
Software defects have been with us forever, and while DevOps and agile can reduce the number of defects generated, it is unlikely this number will ever get to zero for a given organization—and even if it does, it won’t likely stay there. Simply put, we’re developing increasingly complex systems on increasingly short timelines. The reduction […]
Datical Helps Pull DBAs into Modern DevOps Age
As organizations move to embrace DevOps, some have inadvertently left database administrators (DBAs) behind. As a result, developers increasingly find themselves managing databases, as DBAs can’t keep up with the rate of change introduced by DevOps processes. To help narrow that growing gap between developers and DBAs, Datical created a namesake platform that applies continuous […]
Sauce Labs Adds Analytics to Continuous Testing Platform
Sauce Labs has added additional debugging and analytics capabilities to its testing platform to make it easier to manage continuous testing across multiple application development projects. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product at Sauce Labs, said DevOps teams need to prioritize which bugs to address first across multiple development projects occurring simultaneously. In fact, according […]
Service Mesh: The Best Way to Scale Enterprise Apps
Microservices are great for DevOps, but the service-to-service communication these architectures depend on are complex to run and manage at production scale. Enter service mesh: the best way for enterprises to scale, secure and monitor apps. A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer enabling service-to-service communication to be quick, secure and reliable. If you’re building […]
DevOps: Bringing People, Process and Technology Together for Digital Transformation
DevOps principles are built on an effective, continuous cycle of improvements—key factors that help drive digital transformation for companies large and small. Inserting this agile mindset into culture and operations, however, can be challenging, as the approach sometimes conflicts with the more the methodical ways of IT. So how can people, process and technology be […]
CA Technologies Advances DevOps Automation Agenda
CA Technologies further advanced its staged goal of unifying its disparate portfolio of DevOps automation tools by announcing today a new release of CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys) software now directly integrated with the CA Automic One Automation platform the company acquired early last year. CA AutoSys is the older of two offerings and is […]
When IT Disaster Strikes, Part 3: Conducting a Blameless Post-Mortem
In the first and second parts of this three-part series, we looked at how organizations can effectively resolve incidents and the role of each person involved in the resolution process. In this final piece, we’ll look at what organizations must do post-incident to better understand what went wrong and learn from their response. At the […]
How To Use Metrics To Measure The Success Of Your Agile Projects
Ah, metrics. A company’s best friend. Without them, a business can’t be certain it’s on track with deadlines. It doesn’t know if it’s operating efficiently, or even if the last organizational change had any impact at all. According to serial Entrepreneur David Skok, “Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. And great […]
Standardization, De Facto Style
The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way DevOps worked—particularly in the tools space, where products and product preferences both are in flux. We’re still seeing a massive change, but increasingly the effect […]
Inclusion, Collaboration and DevOps: Seeing the Bigger Picture
The last half of 2017 was pretty amazing. I wrote a brief post about the Inclusive Collaboration Summit I attended in London last July. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk started this campaign to raise awareness around neuro-diversity in tech. With respect toward the silence experiments I kept my original post very short. It was great […]
Remote Organization Model for the Win
As the head of Sonatype’s product development engine, I’ve spent the last six-plus years scaling and hacking on the design and evolution of our fully remote organization. Over this period, we’ve learned a lot about what works, why it works, how to keep things running smoothly and what should be avoided. But none of that […]
Continuous Delivery: No Excuses
Jez Humble’s (@jezhumble) career has spanned roles through coding, infrastructure, and product development across three continents and organizations of varying sizes. To say he knows a lot about continuous delivery is a total understatement. In 2010, he and Dave Farley literally wrote the book on continuous delivery—and if you have not yet read it, I […]
Creating a Better Plan with Agile Data
Agile methods help companies respond to change, beat the competition and build high-quality products that customers want by aligning development work to business priorities. But what happens when an organization is unable to align strategy to execution or align its departments or teams due to internal silos? As organizations advance in agile maturity, so do […]
The Era of Intelligent Testing
The state of the art in software testing has not kept pace with advances in software development over the past 10 years. Modern quality assurance (QA) groups struggle to play their role in a world of continuous delivery, leading to more defects in production, low QA morale and excessive testing overhead. Thankfully, innovations in machine […]
DevOps Future: Have a Break Plan
A big tenet of DevOps is, “Automate all of the things.” It’s generally a good policy, and definitely allows us to meet the delivery goals of DevOps. Taking the full-on, all-new technology case, an org could run full automation on the dev side and deploying with an application release automation tool to a fully automated […]
Survey: Not Much Compliance Progress in DevOps World
A survey of 1,500 customers conducted by Chef illustrates the lacking state of DevSecOps in the enterprise today, finding that nearly three-quarters of IT organizations still manually assess whether applications comply with various regulations before being deployed to production. Worse yet, half the respondents also manually remediate any issue once it arrives, which takes days […]
The Role JIRA Plays in Complex Value Stream Networks
No one denies that JIRA has taken over the developer space. The verdict is nearly universal: Most developers want to use JIRA only. That’s fine, but without understanding the role it plays within the context of your entire value stream network, your organization has likely not crafted the most efficient value stream. JIRA plays a […]
Digital Business Revolution: Why DevOps is the New Enterprise Value Chain
Ongoing industry disruptions are forcing businesses to change their operational model; that’s the only way to avoid and survive digital bankruptcies. In North America, Sears Canada filed for bankruptcy, while Toys R Us and Weight Watchers were on the verge of it. In Europe, particularly, in France, banks including Societe Generale and leading retailers including […]
How DevOps-Savvy Are You? (Quiz)
As DevOps tools become more and more prominent in the IT landscape, it wouldn’t hurt IT professionals to brush up on their knowledge. DevOps has helped IT departments that are grappling with mobility, cloud and other methods which are revolutionizing how companies create and deploy applications. Traditional silos are being demolished and, for many, DevOps […]
Applitools Advances AI Testing of User Interfaces
Given the number of platforms applications now need to be able to run on, it’s little wonder that mistakes and errors that compromise the graphical experience of the end user appear all too regularly in production. Keeping up with all the various nuances of each platform is just too much to ask of the average […]