DevOps and Low-Code/No-Code Tools

April 9, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

Helping out a friend, I had reason to revisit low-code/no-code solutions and poke around a bit. The industry has been relatively quiet on the topic, but changes in systems and marketing made me feel the need to offer an update on the relation of current solutions to DevOps. Low-code/no-code solutions have been a panacea in […]

Culture Becoming Bigger Issue as DevOps Goes Mainstream

April 5, 2018 by Jai Vijayan 0 Comments

Culture and resistance to DevOps processes appears to be growing at many organizations where DevOps projects have started going mainstream and involving more enterprise groups. Cloud automation vendor Quali recently surveyed 1,300 DevOps and IT professionals on some of the key barriers to DevOps adoption and found more respondents identifying culture as a top issue […]

DevOps: It’s an Odyssey, not a Journey

April 3, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

It has become somewhat of a standard practice to tell people, “DevOps is a journey, not a destination,” which attempts to convey the fact that there is no end point that is set in stone. But a journey is a well-planned, point-to-point trip, while DevOps transformation is a messy, figure-out-the-next-steps-as-you-go trip. So I propose we […]

Why Your Software Supply Chain Might Be Your Achilles Heel

April 2, 2018 by Tony Bradley 0 Comments

Historically, cybercriminals are as lazy as they are innovative. They can come up with clever exploits and attack vectors, but they still generally focus on the low-hanging fruit in the most target-rich environments. Recently, attackers seem to have shifted focus away from directly targeting companies with strong security or a wealth of resources, instead going […]

DevOps Careers: Report Examines What It Takes To Be an SRE

March 30, 2018 by Tony Bradley 0 Comments

Do you want to be a site reliability engineer, or SRE? Sixteen years ago, the role didn’t actually exist, but now you can find more than 1,000 opportunities for a career as an SRE on LinkedIn. Before you decide if you want to explore such a career, though, you should check out the new survey […]

DevOps: What a Wonderful World it Would Be

March 20, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

The promises of DevOps are clear. They offer faster iterations, allowing ops to keep up with agile development and make an IT organization more responsive to business needs. DevOps doesn’t make less code. It doesn’t reduce configuration files. It doesn’t eliminate deployment issues (though it might reduce them). It doesn’t eliminate testing; indeed, it creates […]

The ‘Blockbuster Effect’ in the Age Of Automation

March 19, 2018 by Bob Reselman 0 Comments

Saying that new jobs will always be created to replace those that have been eliminated by automation is a mechanism for avoiding a real problem that’s lurking on the horizon. In 2004, at the height of its popularity, Blockbuster Video had more than 9,000 stores and employed more than 80,000 people worldwide. About 50,000 of […]