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DevOps: It’s an Odyssey, not a Journey
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 ...
Why Your Software Supply Chain Might Be Your Achilles Heel
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 ...
DevOps Careers: Report Examines What It Takes To Be an SRE
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 ...
DevOps: What a Wonderful World it Would Be
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 ...
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, ...
DevOps Isn’t Getting Cloud Security Right (and What Can Done About It)
The song title of Billy Joel’s 1977 hit, “Get it Right the First Time” aptly describes what DevOps teams need to take to heart when making the jump to the public cloud ...
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 ...
DevOps Chat: Concurrent DevOps with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
In this DevOps Chat we speak with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. Sid has guided GitLab as a co-founder to the heights of the DevOps market. Joining Sid and me is Ashish Kuthiala, ...
Automation Levels the Playing Field for Continuous Compliance
At this point, I doubt there is any company doing business anywhere that doesn’t fall under at least one compliance framework. One universal truth of compliance—in intent, if not in practice—is that ...
DevOps Chat: Startup Playbook, Founder to Founder Advice w/ Rajat Bhargava
Two old, good friends of mine published a book yesterday called Startup Playbook. The book is "founder-to-founder advice on how to create and build your startup." In this DevOps Chat, I sat ...
Testing and Certification in the Age of Automation
If we do not change the way we teach, 30 years from now we will be in trouble. Because the way we teach, the thing we teach our kids are the things ...
Manage Cloud Clutter with Better DevOps Hygiene
One of the core principles of DevOps is automation. Continuous development, deployment, monitoring, security and every other element of a continuous DevOps life cycle depends on as much of the underlying tasks ...
