It is a truth which should be universally acknowledged that the most important skill for a customer-facing job in what we laughingly call "information technology" is a cast-iron ability to say no—and ...

Carmen DeArdo is well-known in the DevOps space mostly because of his work at Nationwide, where he was DevOps leader and technology director. In August of last year, Carmen moved to Tasktop, ...

Creating virtual 3D worlds has been a dream of programmers for many decades. Virtual reality, once a faraway fiction, is becoming a reality. Failures such as Nintendo’s infamous Virtual Boy are now ...

Scaling your testing is the scourge of many software teams. While test automation and continuous testing have made great strides, it still is difficult to automate every QA test. Also, engineering resources ...

Brick-and mortar-retail is rapidly transforming with the digital age. As physical storefronts turn digital, it’s safe to say that traditional retail is quickly becoming a mesh of "brick-and-click." So, how are retail ...

In enterprise development and deployment, the pattern is easy to detect. A big monolithic application is targeted for re-architecting as a microservices architecture. People excited about microservices get together and break up ...

Adding to your tool stack should entail more thought than, “Start your free trial today!” It’s great when there is an application need and cloud-based tools are easily grabbed with a few ...

Predict 2019 Virtual Summit is finally here! The summit is happening today, Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 10 a.m. Eastern. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from Mirco Herring, Rich Mogull, John Willis, ...

The working hypothesis for a Gartner report on how to avoid failure with your DevOps effort is that, unless the trajectory changes, "Through 2023, 90 [percent] of DevOps initiatives will fail to ...

The world is still changing. No surprise there, but the direction and velocity have been modified by the growth of container usage. Back in 2015, we at DevOps.com showcased a survey we ...

One of the things that has bemused me from day one of the DevOps movement is how culture is viewed with an odd dichotomy. It is simultaneously DevOps' greatest strength and its ...

In 1966, more than half of the people in the world lived in extreme poverty. I don’t mean public housing, food stamps, subsidized school lunch, free health clinic poverty. I mean the ...