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Upskilling: The Enterprise DevOps Skills Survey and Report
There has been a lot of recent reference to "T-shaped" IT professionals—individuals whose core competence (the stem) is supplemented by a broad range of other knowledge including soft skills (top of the ...
DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from ...
DataOps: DevOps Plus Big Data
In traditional DevOps, there are the complimentary forms of development operations (that I call DEVops), and development operations (that I like to call devOPS). Between them they automate the toolchain and bring ...
Education in the Age of Automation
Automation is changing the nature of education and the ways people learn. More schools are using online learning to supplement in-class activities. In fact, some schools are completely online. Distributed computing on ...
When DevOps and ITSM Collide: Mistakes to Avoid
In many ways the DevOps movement evolved as a reaction against the worst elements of IT service management (ITSM). IT leaders wanted to get from under the yoke of overly complex processes, ...
DevOps: Build a Continuous Improvement Culture
DevOps was built around the concept of continuous everything. We even use it in many of the names—continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous integration (CI)—and it is a worthy goal to want ...
Tricentis, QASymphony Merge: The Age of Continuous Testing Is Upon Us
Big news in the world of continuous testing today as continuous testing market leader Tricentis announced it is merging with QASymphony. Tricentis, a leader of continuous testing, is adding QASymphony's leading testing ...
Using CALMS to Assess an Organization’s DevOps
Of the tried-and-tested frameworks that allow enterprises to assess DevOps in their organization and how it can be improved, the CALMS model remains particularly useful. CALMS, which stands for Collaboration, Automation, Lean, ...
The ‘Blockbuster Effect’ in the Age Of Automation
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, ...
Enthusiasm for DevOps Greater Than Actual Adoption, Survey Shows
When it comes to DevOps practices, adoption continues to lag intention by quite a bit. GitLab recently surveyed some 5,300 software developers and engineers from mostly small and medium businesses around the ...
The Origins of DevOps: What’s in a Name?
Depending on your frame of reference, DevOps will celebrate it’s ninth or 10th anniversary this year. In 2016, RightScale’s "State of the Cloud Report" estimated that 70 percent of SMBs were adopting ...
Third Annual DevOps Dozen Winners Announced
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the third annual DevOps Dozen Awards. In many ways this year was a watershed year for the DevOps Dozen, as the process of ...

