Infrastructure as Code and Six Key Automation Concepts
This summer, I walked into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) flame war because I was blissfully unaware of just how broadly IaC had been reinterpreted. Reviewing the comments, it’s clear that thinking has evolved since Kief Morris’ 2016 Infrastructure as Code tomb. So, after strapping on my asbestos suit, I decided to dig into what […]
Why Is Security Missing in Many DevOps Implementations?
The exceptional and ground-breaking, technology-driven opportunities in today’s digitized age come with significant competitive pressures to transform promptly. Specific demands increase due to continuous repeating in response to customer preferences becomes the more deep-seated expectation. To overcome this issue, organizations are shifting toward DevOps as a medium to deliver innovations quickly. DevOps also promotes innovation […]
Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops
A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their success, as the pressure to accelerate innovation increases. However, the same survey finds only 7% of organizations automate the execution of test cases involving mainframe code today. […]
Emerging Patterns in SRE Implementation
First we were told that every company will become a technology company. Then the tides shifted to every company will become a DevOps company. Now the zeitgeist has a new obsession: Every company will become a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) company. Have you been keeping pace? If your company survived the ruthless restructuring of digital […]
How Can IT Admins Maintain a Grip on Secure Access?
Today’s IT environment is evolving at a rapid pace, requiring production environments to be highly scalable and elastic and requiring faster software release cycles and cloud adoption. As a result, there’s a broad move toward Docker containers to make software deployment faster, easier and more consistent across computing environments. Bundling an application and its supporting […]
Shifting Left – But How Far Left Do Companies Need to Go?
For developers, there’s nothing more satisfying than looking at a web app or service and being able to say “I made that.” Or at least part of that. Being able to develop code that works and helps millions of people do what they need to get done is an excuse for bragging rights. But the […]
Can We Do Without DevOps?
Recently, DevOps has received so much hype and every respectable company sees it as its duty to have a DevOps team on and running. It is considered to be so beneficial to any company that a non-technician scrolling down posts at any tech website would think of it as a universal remedy for all the […]
DevOps Tools for the Monitoring Ecosystem
DevOps is a cultural and process transformation—the goal of it is to achieve a higher rate of change and quality of software. There are categories of tools to help facilitate this transformation through automation and increased measurement and visibility. You can’t have or observe progress without measurement, and throughout your transformation you need to maintain […]
The Next Frontier for Enterprises: Moving to a Product IT Operating Model
In the world of technology, there are few things as dramatic and impactful as enterprise IT’s recent ascent from an enabler to a strategic business driver. Tasked with powering next-gen digital business models, IT teams today are fast realizing the harsh truth that they must make a pervasive strategic shift from traditional project-based operating model […]
Predictions 2020: The Future of APM Strategies and Tools
As 2019 comes to an end, it’s safe to say that multi-cloud strategies are here to stay. We can predict that 2020 will bring an ever-increasing demand for application performance management (APM) tools and services. So what does the future of APM look like? Let’s dive in. Multi-Cloud Strategies Increase the Demand for APM Tool […]
The Role of DevOps in Custom Software Development
Hundreds of tech giants and big retail companies such as Etsy, Netflix, Amazon and Target have adopted an ecosystem called DevOps. It establishes a good collaboration between cross-functional teams such as development and operations which simplifies the processes. DevOps has calibrated a new standard for building custom applications. Do you know any predefined technique to […]
Predictions 2020: Ushering in 2020 Data Predictions
2019 brought us more data organizations running more advanced analytics, AI and ML workloads than ever before. 2020 is the year where we’ll see a spike in both the number of technologies and data teams that support these types of workloads internally. We’ll see AI and analytics teams merge into one as the new foundation […]
SMBs Struggle with Digital Transformation
It’s a cliché, but it’s as true now as ever: The only constant in business is change. Digital transformation efforts are as essential for small and mid-sized businesses as they are for large enterprises—and SMBs are engaged in their transformative efforts for largely the same reasons as large enterprises: to engage more effectively with customers, […]
The Automated Data Center Emerges
Hyperscale and automation seem to go hand-in-hand, at least when it comes to the data center. Synergy Research reported that, at the end of 2017, there were 390 web-scale data centers worldwide, up from 300 a year earlier. IDC identified that hyperscale data centers “have a minimum of 5,000 servers and are at least 10,000 […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 2: Common Mistakes
Many companies are turning to software to differentiate themselves and drive success. But with an increased focus on software comes ever-increasing customer expectations on performance and updates. One of the best structures that IT organizations turn to is DevOps—a strategy that is designed to deliver value quickly and strategically. Being successful in DevOps takes careful […]
Becoming a Data Company: Back to the Future
Transformations are complex, and it’s often difficult to see the big picture when you’re in the middle of one. The elegance of the end-state of harmonious synergy between software and data belie the complexity and chaos of the transition we find ourselves in the midst of. Not that long ago, there was a general balance […]
Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey. If you think about cost only in terms of how much you are paying and what you are getting in […]
DevOps: Get the Basics Right to Avoid Costly Mistakes
It is a truth of both agile and DevOps that speed is of the essence. This is a relative statement—some apps/portfolios/orgs envision speed completely differently than others—but if you are releasing more frequently than you were in the past, thanks to DevOps, that’s kind of the point. Yet, we see a whole selection of things […]
DevSecOps Adoption and the Web Security Myth
As DevOps practices have become widespread in the tech community, many people have begun proclaiming the virtues of DevSecOps. As the name implies, DevSecOps is the addition of security into DevOps. Just as DevOps promises better-quality production in less time, DevSecOps promises better security with less time required to achieve and maintain it. DevSecOps has […]
Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term
Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they’ll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such as […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 1: Why Is It so Critical Today?
Apps are making the world a simpler, faster place. Mortgages can be verified in minutes. Food shows up at doorsteps with a few clicks. A safe ride is just a pin-drop away. For consumers, having a smooth, flawless and enjoyable app experience is the status quo. However, what goes on behind the scenes to make […]
How Combining DevOps and Agile Can Ease Black Friday Pressure
Every year, seasonal peaks such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring a higher volume and faster pace of work, as well as a considerable amount of pressure. This comes with a number of challenges, including managing traffic influx, ensuring top-notch digital experience, rebuilding catalog infrastructure and carrying out load and performance testing. Development teams […]
Designing a Future of Innovative UX, Without UI
The long-fabled future of a world without traditional human-to-computer interactions is no longer science fiction. It’s a reality. Consumers all across the globe are wearing computers on the wrists, talking to artificial intelligence to check the weather and monitoring body functions through micro-devices. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what is possible […]