Learn DevOps from 57 Experts for Free
Need to brush up your knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated security, modern infrastructure or cultural transformations? All Day DevOps just released its Summer School program offering 57 online sessions delivered by DevOps practitioners. Every session is free to watch, and absolutely no registration is required. Watch as many or as few sessions as […]
QA/Testing and DevOps: Partners, Not Adversaries
Software testing and QA is sometimes given low priority during development. The idea of treating software testers as adversaries by the developers seems old-fashioned and is short-sighted. It’s hard to believe that such an attitude can still exist, and yet it still persists, even in a modern DevOps team. But a DevOps-focused software team benefits […]
Making the Data Work for You: Data Visualization Techniques
When Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management, performed a two-year in-depth analysis of the General Motors corporation in the 1940s, he undertook what may have been the world’s most ambitious big data analysis ever at that time. However, when he gave the results to GM chairman Alfred Sloan, Al was not happy. In […]
Bridging the Gap Between ITSM and Software Engineering
Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues, and engineering fixes code-related issues (such as defects) that IT cannot fix on its own. However, more often than not, coordination between these two departments is poor, […]
Platform9 Brings Workflows to Serverless Computing
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as needed using a programming construct known as functions. But DevOps teams are challenged in finding a way to orchestrate all those functions in […]
Scaling DevOps at Pearson
Pearson might be one of the more influential companies you have never heard of. Its footprint in the educational publishing marketplace is expansive, and its scope was just one challenge when it made the move to DevOps. Sean D. Mack (@SeanDMackNYC) is formerly the VP of Operations and Application for Pearson. To give you an idea of […]
DevOps Introduces Complexity. Really
The larger the project, the more resources are generally dedicated to it. That is true of the vast majority of fields of human endeavor. Consider building the San Francisco Bridge versus building a crossing over a stream. Or World War II versus the Spanish Civil War. The resources dedicated scale with the size and complexity […]
Bridging the Gap Between ITSM and Software Engineering
Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues and engineering fixes code-related issues (such as defects) that IT cannot fix on its own. However, more often than not, coordination between these two departments is poor, which—critically—undermines […]
Configuration Files and DevOps
When DevOps appeared on the scene, configuration file management tools already existed. They weren’t used by everyone, but a fair number of organizations saw the power of configuration file versioning/management, and were using them. An interesting thing seems to have happened while DevOps evolved. Those tools are more popular, but while we’ve standardized on things […]
SlashData Report: Developers Influence Tool Selection
SlashData has just released its “State of The Developer Nation Report for Q3 2017.” Here at Heavybit, a program that helps developer and infrastructure startups take their product to market, we look forward to SlashData’s reports that allow us to keep up to date on the shifts in the developer landscape. In 2013, Stephen O’Grady […]
Continuous Deployment and Monitoring of Microservices
Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a fair number of practitioners that are struggling with the merging of these concepts to create a holistic environment that allows for deep understanding […]
OutSystems: Low-Code Apps Require Sound DevOps Processes
As more IT organizations embrace low-code application development platforms, many of them are discovering that accelerating the rate at which they develop applications can be too much of a good thing. António Barros, product manager for OutSystems, says most of the organizations that have adopted the company’s namesake low-code platform are just now coming up […]
DevOps Predictions for the Future
Among the few powerful trends we had experienced in the recent times, one is undoubtedly the adoption of DevOps practices. As we are move closer to 2018, it is becoming more obvious that DevOps is becoming mainstream, with many large organizations getting on board with DevOps. DevOps Within Enterprises DevOps is becoming the standard way […]
Total DevOps is Needed, Plugins are Not Enough
Trace3 was proud to be a Gold Sponsor, exhibitor, trainer of the DevOps Institute leadership certification course and newest partner of CloudBees at the CloudBees Jenkins World 2017 event in San Francisco last month. Jenkins World 2017 attracted 54 sponsors/exhibitors, an 80 percent increase over 2016. The growth of interest and sponsors for this event […]
Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, “Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators,” at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor does anyone call him that—but he used the title “admiral” to describe what container orchestrators do, relating it to an admiral directing a […]
Next-Generation DevOps: Self-Learning Systems
The massive enterprise movement toward all things “digital” has accelerated the adoption of DevOps in all kinds of projects, but particularly in digital transformation initiatives. Apart from the productivity benefits gained by automating software development and rollout, the increased agility has helped move DevOps adoption to gain critical mass in a relatively short time. However, […]
Keys to Improving Enterprise DevOps Practices
As enterprises move to adopt DevOps practices, there is a desire to measure where teams are on their journey. This sometimes leads to the development of maturity models used to assess teams’ levels and progress. While I am not going to pass judgment on what might be useful for certain organizations, I believe that the […]
10 Rules for Writing Automated Tests
Over the recent months many of our customers asked for our guidance and building their test suites properly. Performance, ease of management and scalability were key priorities for them. We decided to share our suggestions with the broader audience. We came up with the list while building our own test suite. Since we strongly believe […]
New Relic Delivers on AI Promise to Automate IT Operations
New Relic at a FutureStack 2017 conference unveiled an instance of its monitoring tools that employs machine learning technologies and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide advice on how to optimize an IT environment. Nadya Duke Boone, director of product management for New Relic, says New Relic Applied Intelligence (NRAI) will be made […]
With DevOps, Traditional Service Providers Adapt to New Industry Realities
A dive into the technologies that help networks adapt to changes in market needs, improve service quality and reduce the costs of developing new services The benefits of DevOps are clear, but the way to successfully roll out and foster a DevOps initiative is not as well-defined. As explained by DevOps Topologies, “The primary goal […]
Speaking for the Dead: Are ‘Agile’ and ‘Monolithic’ Actually Good?
What if Agile is the product of getting bored at work, microservices are the result of us needing a challenge and scrums are the result of an obsessive project manager? Do we all think waterfall development is a dinosaur whose extinction is deserved because of what we have been told and not because of reality? […]
Liberty Mutual: Taking an Organic Approach to DevOps
Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, “Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual,” looked at Liberty Mutual’s transformation to continuous integration, […]
Quest Software Extends DevOps Reach to MySQL Databases
Thanks mainly to the rise of DevOps, the number of open-source database deployments in the enterprise has risen sharply in the last two years. The driving force behind those deployments has been developers that have shown a marked preference for downloading an open-source database instead of requesting access to a commercial database from a database […]