Crowdsourced Software Testing
As a developer or technical architect, there is no better feeling than taking pride in giving a quality product or service result to your customers. Now, with computer trends going rapidly towards cloud services and mobile devices, regular company IT development teams are finding their testing capabilities more and more limiting. They are faced with […]
Log Analysis, or Log Clog
Log Analysis has the ability to transform teams. It centralizes communication, increases responsiveness, moves efforts from reactive to proactive, reduces time to resolution TTR, and allows increasingly complex environments to grow without fear. But, if log analysis becomes the bottleneck, it reverses all these benefits. *** Author note: The credibility of this post has come […]
Webinar: Security & DevOps in 2015
The intersection of Security and DevOps. What does 2015 hold in store? Organizations are under increasing pressure to do more, faster. But cybersecurity breaches by criminals, hacktivists and state sponsored actors have cast a shadow over large portions of our IT infrastructure. How can security and DevOps in tandem make us safer while allowing us to […]
Webinar: How to Achieve Continuous Delivery Without Downtime
Today’s businesses demand quick access to new technology, which means they need shorter release cycles and centralized control of both your on and off premise resources. Integrating cloud resources into your traditional datacenter management can prove challenging and time consuming at best. What if you could increase your organization’s ability to innovate utilizing business automation to […]
Bird’s Eye View of IT as a Service
In working closely with large enterprises for several years, we consistently hear businesses talk of IT needs to achieve critical and strategic goals. Commonly these large enterprises span many verticals like technology, online media, finance, banking, and more. At the heart of their business goals, lie technology hurdles they need to overcome to scale as […]
Webinar: Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads
As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses using containers and CoreOS, and how are they monitoring container performance. After attending this webinar, you will have a better understanding of: * […]
The Top Metrics You Need to Track to Improve Operational Performance
Living in a data-rich world is a blessing and a curse. Flexible monitoring systems, open APIs, and easy data visualization resources make it simple to graph anything you want, but too much data quickly becomes noisy and un-actionable. At PagerDuty we’ve thought hard about what you should monitor and why from a systems perspective, but […]
Copying Data From One Docker Container to Another
Docker containers can easily be compared to a directory. A Docker container holds everything that is required for an application to run including its dependencies and can be started, stopped, moved and deleted at will. When containers are activated they use Linux kernel namespaces. Each container operates in isolation from the server apart from networking […]
Eliminating ShadowOps
If you were like me, you thought that cloud and compute virtualization technologies were transforming the data center, but they are nothing compared to what is coming our way. The IT landscape evolution is accelerating with the advent of application containers, network and storage virtualization, big data, and integrated and hyper-converged infrastructures, to name just […]
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins November 19th
We recently held another webinar in our continuing series at DevOps.com. We partnered with the good people at CloudBees on CI and CD across the enterprise with Jenkins. The webinar featured: Cyrille Le Clerc is Director of Product Management at CloudBees with more than 15 years experience in Java. Prior to CloudBees, Cyrille was Chief Technology […]
Docker vs VMs
All applications have their own dependencies, which include both software and hardware resources. Docker containers bring numerous unknown tags to the chart as compared to existing technologies in use. In terms of technology, it’s quite interesting in scenarios where it helps in promoting cloud portability by running the same applications in different virtual environments. Docker […]
Closing the Gap Between Database Continuous Delivery and Code Continuous Delivery
The most important feedback I get about the current state of database delivery is directly from the DBAs I meet with. Their DevOps teams are stuck in manual database delivery purgatory. Development managers just want the database delivery to work like their software delivery already does. However, databases are a different beast altogether. Unfortunately, DevOps […]
Supporting Production Applications the DevOps Way
Software applications are more complex than ever. If your application is slow or down for even five minutes customers will blow up on Twitter for the whole world to see. To prevent this, developers and operations have to work together in lockstep when deploying and supporting applications. Preventing and fixing application problems quickly is critical […]
IBM Webcast Nov 12: Use Discovery to accelerate testing and virtualization
Many of today’s business applications offer a multitude of services (APIs) across many different technologies. These same applications also reach out into a web of already-existing services in order to retrieve and update information necessary to successfully deliver the end to end business processes. In many cases, these applications are being built by multiple development […]
Improve your Orchestration to Deliver More Features to Customers, Faster
The big business challenge facing all companies today is how to deliver more features to their customers, faster. The expectations of today’s end-users are increasingly shaped by the experience of web and mobile applications that ‘just keep doing more’ automatically or at the click of a button. With competitors able to release new features within […]
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins – CloudBees
We are happy to announce the next DevOps.com Webinar, in partnership with CloudBees : CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins Delivering value to the business faster thanks to Continuous Delivery and DevOps is the new mantra of IT organizations. In this webinar, CloudBees will discuss how Jenkins, the most popular open source Continuous Integration tool, […]
DevOps with Purpose: It’s about your tools!
This is Part Three in a four-part series. In Part One, I focused on the critical first step of defining DevOps with a purpose by thinking about DevOps in the context of your organization’s applications. In Part Two, I provided four tips to fostering a DevOps culture in your organization. By now you’ve hopefully noticed […]
Share Your Thoughts about On-Call
We all know that being on-call sucks. What we don’t know is how other people are dealing with the problem. It’s time to dig deep, ask the hard questions and collect data around what it’s really like to be doing the hard job of keeping the machines up & running. That’s why VictorOps needs you! […]
BlazeMeter Adds New Relic Insights to Drive Testing
BlazeMeter a performance / load testing as a self-service platform for mobile apps, websites, and APIs lets developers test mobile and API backend performance and view KPIs in a dashboard. BlazeMeter tools simplify testing, reducing the time to test while running many tests per day. Customers use BlazeMeter as a self-serve and on-demand service. “All […]
CloudBees nurtures the Jenkins community to new highs
One of the linchpins in the DevOps tools box is Jenkins. Just about everyone knows Jenkins. For those few not familiar with Jenkins, here is an excerpt from the “What is Jenkins” page: What is Jenkins? Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by […]
JumpCloud launches new Directory-as-a-Service offering
The cloud is a great equalizer that enables startups and smaller companies to scale quickly, and play on a more or less even playing field with larger organizations. Managed cloud services free businesses up from implementing, configuring, and maintaining the underlying infrastructure, and allow individuals to focus on the business. With all of the freedom […]
PagerDuty goes beyond alerting to advanced analytics of incident resolution
PagerDuty has made a major move from simply alerting team members to potential issues via pager or web to actually becoming an advanced analytics platform to measure team and system performance regarding incident response. They announced their new functionality today (release below). This is really a big step up for PagerDuty which also recently announced […]
A How to Guide on Modern Monitoring and Alerting
syslog-ng, riemann, collectd-notifications, elasticsearch: putting it all together Context At our organization (CCIN2P3) we are building an event-based infrastructure to push structured messages to different subsystems for alerting, reporting and storage. Using syslog-ng, each message is normalized into a structured event, optionally correlated with other messages, and conditionally routed to the next systems, including: a […]