Editorial Calendar
The Right DevOps Tools for Value Stream Velocity
Think of DevOps tools as stepping stones to releasing new functionality into the hands of your customers faster and more frequently. Working together, tools automate processes and help companies become modern software ...
DevOps, Continuous Delivery – It’s All About Automation
I spent a large portion of my career in the networking industry, marketing routers, switches and other gear that makes the internet work. Networking—like many industries—is currently undergoing a revolution that is ...
Where Does the Database Fit into Continuous Delivery?
Continuous delivery (CD) is increasingly becoming the norm in software development, with companies releasing updates more and more frequently. Those that aren’t are exploring how they can catch up. But in all ...
Foster Creative Workers, not Assembly Lines
Why do we keep building assembly lines of creative people? Why do tech companies still structure their developer workforces around ideas invented during the industrial revolution over a century ago? It’s ignorant, lazy and, ...
4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps
We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decision-making and problem-solving and to receive quick, expert ...
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
Continuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are ...
How to Bridge the Developer Gap
It’s time to bring cloud application development back into the organization and bridge the developer gap by training your own people. For years, companies have outsourced many IT functions, treating computing as ...
A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Providers
As companies such as Amazon and Google rapidly innovate to deliver new services, traditional service providers recognize that change is necessary to keep up with shifting customer expectations. Given the pace at ...
DataOps: Time to Bring DevOps Ideas to Big Data
What can data scientists learn from DevOps? A lot, actually. By applying DevOps principles to the world of big data, you get DataOps, which streamlines data analytics. If you're reading this site, ...
Creating a Continuous Integration Delivery Pipeline
This article will provide an example delivery pipeline used through continuous integration, as well as the DevOps tools involved in the automation of building, testing and deploying code through your software development ...
Phoenix Rising: The DevOps Keys to Business Rebirth
In "The Phoenix Project," a 2013 novel about an IT manager rescuing a late, over-budget IT initiative, Gene Kim demonstrates how collaboration between IT operations, development and business users can impact the ...
Cognitive Analytics: ‘Operations Thinking’ for Development
In a recent blog post by my colleague Payal Chakravarty, "Synthetic Monitoring – the Start of the DevOps Monitoring Journey," she discussed how developers, testers and operations staff all need to ensure ...

