DevOps World 2022: DevOps is Not Just CI/CD
There was a time when pundits said that DevOps was the symptom and CI/CD the cure. While that may or may not be true, there is no denying that CI/CD is the very heart of DevOps. While that might still be true, DevOps today is so much more than CI/CD; it has evolved, far beyond […]
The Right Tool for the Job: Container Edition
I have written about “the right tool for the job” repeatedly. Because (again) we are absolutists in IT. My father was an antiques restorer that dabbled in flipping houses and was rather forceful about the “right tool for the job.” When I left the service and joined IT, it was something of a shock to […]
DevOps World 2022: DevOps Tail Wags the Dog of Digital Business
As a methodology for building and deploying applications faster, DevOps has been around for more than a decade. But it’s only now that the methodologies and concepts pioneered years ago are starting to wag the dog of digital business transformation. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital business transformation has been all the rage. […]
Database Observability: How to Circumvent your Weakest Link
Today, IT pros field an increasing number of assets they need to monitor to secure systems and understand what’s happening in their database and applications. This is further complicated as organizations adopt hybrid IT strategies and IT pros are tasked with managing tech stacks that span across on-premises and public clouds. To cut through complexity […]
Governing Microservices in an Enterprise Architecture
Software development strategies continue to evolve to meet changing business needs. There has been a lot of discussion of digital transformation recently, and custom software development is driving much of that transformation. Agile software development and DevOps have become the norm as companies strive to develop better, faster, more flexible applications. Microservices offer the next […]
Focus on What You Can Do
Here we are in the second half of 2022 and the writing is on the wall. No matter how much budget you have had in the last few years, be it large or small, it is going to shrink. This is cyclical, and should not be a surprise. The amount of budget shrinkage may be […]
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, you can take advantage of multi-cloud strategies for your organization and reap the benefits for years to come. That said, multi-cloud adoption and […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Build Once, Deploy Anywhere
This late in the game, it seems stunning to me that I have to write this, but there are plenty of you who aren’t there yet—so let’s try a different approach. A huge part of DevOps is reducing redundancy. We have cut the fat until it hurt, then refocused and cut some more. There is […]
TidalScale Enables Hot-Swapping of Failed Servers
TidalScale has updated its namesake software for automating server management to include the ability to detect and prevent impending failures and enable IT teams to hot-swap another server. Version 4.1 of TidalScale also adds server wear leveling and preventative health checks that identify servers that should be replaced based on their remaining estimated life span. […]
DevOps World 2022: Why DevOps Needs a Remix
I was checking out the DevOps World website today to gather information, as Techstrong.TV will be live streaming from the show in Orlando, Florida September 28 and 29, 2022. The theme for this year’s DevOps World is “DevOps Remix.” The more I thought about it, the more it became clear that DevOps Remix is a […]
Old Software Never Dies – But What is it Really Worth?
I’ve been thinking about the news from last week that OpenText acquired Micro Focus for what seems to be $6 billion in cash. Mike Vizard did a nice write-up on the news with his take on it here on DevOps.com (and if you’re interested in the security industry implications, Techstrong Research’s Mike Rothman talked about […]
Everything is DevOps
It’s funny how we in IT tend to be absolutists, shoving everything into the current bucket. XML was going to eliminate programming—even though it wasn’t even particularly good at data representation. NoCode was going to eliminate programming (yeah, that’s a theme, I’ll skip the other 50 or so ‘going to end programming’ cycles we’ve been […]
MLOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
Machine learning operations, or MLOps for short, is a key aspect of machine learning (ML) engineering that focuses on simplifying and accelerating the process of delivering ML models to production and maintaining and monitoring them. MLOps involves collaboration between different teams including data scientists, DevOps engineers, IT specialists and others. MLOps can help organizations create […]
Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations use between 10 and 15 tools for monitoring, metrics and gathering logging and tracing data. A full 50% also noted that engineers and […]
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at least 1,000 employees, was conducted by Asperitas, an IT services provider. The survey found the primary issues respondents identified were identifying the right […]
Who Controls Your Build Process?
We have come a long way in a short time in IT, and are currently in a ‘digestive’ state, where we take a bit of a break and prepare for the next wave of changes. Okay, not really a break, just a change in what we’re looking at. In the old days, CPU, memory speed, […]
Lock Down Your Toolchain
We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of even a decade ago. Think about it—we can check in a single source file and kick off a chain of events that involves half a dozen or […]
Oracle’s Free Managed Service Integrates With Microsoft Azure
Oracle today extended its alliance with Microsoft to include a managed service that makes it simpler for IT organizations to embrace hybrid cloud computing. Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure integrates Windows applications with Oracle databases running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Leo Leung, vice president of products and strategy for Oracle, said the managed service […]
Filter the Firehose
We are tired. Information overload is a problem in the modern world. We hear instantly about events we never would have known about otherwise, or that we would have learned about months after the fact. Today, moments after an event, we have thousands of “professionals” analyzing it for us, a millions-strong army of amateurs telling […]
Atlassian Bitbucket CI/CD Cloud Service Aims for the Enterprise
Atlassian today outlined its strategy to increase the appeal of the Bitbucket continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) cloud service among enterprise IT organizations. Atlassian said it plans to focus on four core pillars: Performance, management, extensibility and security and compliance, starting with an update scheduled for the third quarter. Dan Tao, head of engineering for Bitbucket […]
Deloitte Aligns with Dynatrace for Observability
Deloitte has expanded its cloud observability practice to include the Dynatrace Software Intelligence platform. Jay McDonald, managing director and co-chair for modern delivery at Deloitte, said the IT services provider will now provide traditional DevOps and observability consulting expertise along with a set of instances of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform that it will manage […]
Red Hat CEO: Out | Blind Users: Revolt | ARM: Google Joins Party
In this week’s The Long View: Matt Hicks is the new Red Hat CEO, visual accessibility is in focus, and Google Cloud rolls out ARM instances.