CI/CD and its Effects on Release Managers
The role of release management in the development of any software package has drastically changed with the introduction of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD has made the development process more agile, and it has made the role of release management significantly more challenging. To understand and grasp the changes brought into the role […]
Containers as Disposable Servers?
There is a belief in the space where containers meet DevOps that a service hosted in a container crashing is no big deal, and you can just spin up a new one. It’s not a pervasive belief, but it is common enough that we’ve all heard/read it somewhere. I think this view of the world […]
Is Your Storage Too Slow for DevOps?
To have a successful DevOps transformation, teams on both the development and the operations side need fast storage infrastructure and high-performing tools to maximize its performance and the people that work with it. Over the last decade, a major operational problem in on-premises enterprise data centers have emerged, as the fundamental mismatch between the infrastructure […]
Bamboo, Jenkins or TeamCity: Which CI Server to Choose?
The software industry has evolved drastically over the last few years to fulfill business needs. Agile has been popular from development to IT operations, but other cultural movements have occurred at the team level within organizations, such as streamlining the processes (automation) with better feedback loops (effective collaboration). Core of Continuous Integration As per the […]
How APM Benefits DevOps
Thanks to the efforts of DevOps teams, rapid application and feature development are increasing the pace of innovation and having an increasing impact on business revenue. Top-performing DevOps teams are key contributors to year-over-year revenue growth of 25 percent or more, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), thus increasing the value of IT. Application performance […]
7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts
SparkPost launched the first beta version of our cloud-based email delivery service three years ago. At its introduction, a handful of customers sent a few million emails a month. Now, our API is used by tens of thousands of customers—including Pinterest, Zillow, and Intercom—to send more than 15 billion emails a month. That dramatic […]
CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Extend CI/CD Reach
CloudBees today signaled its DevOps ambitions to extend well beyond the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform by acquiring Codeship, a provider of a CI/CD platform that is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The decision to acquire Codeship is being driven by the need to engage smaller DevOps teams that don’t have the time […]
IBM CTO Sees Bright Future for Java in 2018
Significant advances in microservices written in Java, as well as tighter coupling between Java applications and containers, are set to transform the way most organizations build and deploy Java applications by the end of the year. IBM Java CTO John Duimovich, as part of five Java predictions for 2018, noted that The Eclipse Foundation has […]
The Developer Playbook: 5 Ways We’re Just Like Football Players
The Developer Playbook – Five Ways We’re Just Like Football Players from DevOps.com — Jeff Veis Jeff Veis
Dev vs. Ops Needs for Large-Scale Version Control Systems
Distributed version control systems (DVCS) such as Git (introduced in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) rapidly gained worldwide acceptance by the global software development community. DVCS offer very fast, lightweight and local software change control capabilities that support many parallel code branches across large project code bases. These are compelling benefits for […]
Red Hat Rises to Data Management Challenges
Red Hat is moving to reduce or eliminate many of the manual tasks DevOps teams routinely encounter via a beta release of an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that addresses multiple data management issues related to DevSecOps and DataOps. Steve Almy, principal product manager for RHEL, said version 7.5 of RHEL adds support […]
Focusing on the Real Value of AI for IT Ops
In all the hype over AI, let’s concentrate on the real value it can provide, especially for busy IT Ops teams. 2018 is already shaping up to be the year when AI and machine learning (ML) go mainstream—at least in terms of public awareness, if not yet of actual usable products. As I write this, […]
The Origins of DevOps: What’s in a Name?
Depending on your frame of reference, DevOps will celebrate it’s ninth or 10th anniversary this year. In 2016, RightScale’s “State of the Cloud Report” estimated that 70 percent of SMBs were adopting DevOps methods. Every indication is that percentage has increased since then. As DevOps prepares for its second decade of existence, it might be […]
CA Technologies Survey Uncovers DevSecOps Challenges
When it comes to infusing security concerns into a DevOps culture, most organization still have a very long way to go. A global survey of 1,279 IT leaders conducted by the market research firm Freedom Dynamics on behalf of CA Technologies finds more than half of respondents (58 percent) cited existing culture and lack of […]
How to Isolate Development Environments: Vagrant vs. Docker
“It works on my machine.” This line has become an excuse often overused by developers to escape the burden of having to investigate problems experienced by end users that they are unable to replicate on their development machines. While this may excuse developers—after all, they didn’t experience the problem during development and therefore couldn’t have […]
Plutora Brings Order to Application Testing Chaos
One of the reasons application testing doesn’t occur as often or extensively as most IT organizations desire is because managing multiple simultaneous testing projects is complex. To help simplify the management of applications testing at scale, Plutora has updated Plutora Environments, its continuous delivery management platform, which now includes an ability to manage the availability, […]
Red Hat Survey Sees Broad Adoption of Microservices
A new survey from Red Hat shows the extent to which IT organizations are moving to modernize their IT environments: More than two-thirds of respondents (69 percent) reported they are using microservices for both new applications and re-architecting existing ones. The survey, which includes responses from 168 IT professionals employing either Red Hat JBoss middleware […]
The State of Alerting in the IT Ops world
OnPage Corp. just finished a survey of more than 100 ITOps professionals from across the United States. Our goal was to acquire a greater understanding of how well engineers in the industry are performing when it comes to critical alerting and alert management of their IT teams. We wanted to understand the antecedents of alert […]
VC Predicts Major Shift to AI-Infused Applications in 2018
Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the nature of DevOps is about to change as developers spend less time writing code in favor of training models based on various types of algorithms to accomplish a task. Dan Scholnick, general partner with Trinity Ventures, an early investor in companies such as New Relic and […]
BMC Software Advances Multi-Cloud Agenda
Long before anyone ever coined the term DevOps there were terms such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT infrastructure library (ITIL) that at one time epitomized the state of the art in help desk. Now, as IT organizations enter 2018, much of the focus in the new year will be integrating DevOps processes with […]
How DevOps Can Help You Thrive in Your DX Journey
Digital transformation (DX) continues to be top of mind for leaders who are working to find new ways to improve their business outcomes and take full advantage of the new technologies and techniques that are now available. One topic continues to be consistent with these thoughts: DevOps. DevOps is enabling business leaders to look at […]
How to Ensure DevOps Success in a Distributed Network Environment
Data-centric applications are not typical, and the environment where they’re deployed are also not typical. Most often, they’re deployed into large, distributed network of machines, which compels the question of whether DevOps practices and tools can be applied to distributed applications. To be successful, DevOps practices for data-centric applications must work smoothly even when production […]
Dissecting the Role of QA Engineers and Developers in Functional Testing
Until a few years ago, quality assurance was generally considered low-level R&D. As a result, quality assurance (QA) teams were characterized by a low budget, lack of attention and, more often than not, poor attitudes. Moreover, QA engineers were considered the enemies of developers and the product. However, today, this is no longer the case, […]