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How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up ...
In Building Communities, Our Preferred Pronoun is ‘We’
It has been about 18 months since my last post. Toward the end of 2015 I started digging deeper into cybernetics and systems analysis, which led me to construct a model and ...
When Automation Predictions Come To Be: Transportation as a Service
Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article for DevOps.com titled, "What Do We Do When Everything is Automated?" in which I made a prediction: Also, think about this: As Uber ...
Fleetsmith Pulls Apple into DevOps Orbit
For too long now Apple Macintosh systems have been the proverbial red-headed stepchild of DevOps. There are a lot of ways to incorporate Windows systems automatically into a larger DevOps pipeline, but ...
In DevOps, Figure Out Why Before Considering How
It has been fairly well-established that DevOps is primarily a function of the underlying culture—about breaking down barriers and shifting roles so that teams and individuals are empowered to come up with ...
Humans: The Ultimate Exception Handlers. Until …
Back at the turn of the century, I had a job working in the IT department of a Big Bank. The section I worked in was Mortgage Exceptions. My group’s task was ...
Microsoft Lifts Investment in Cloud Foundry
At the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 conference this week Microsoft formally pledged its support for the open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment by becoming a gold member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation ...
Atlassian Builds a DevOps Stack for the Enterprise
One of the major challenges associated with DevOps is that it’s not something an enterprise IT organization can buy. Because of that issue, it’s often challenging for IT organizations to forecast what ...
Node.js Becoming More DevOps-Friendly
Over the last several years use of Node.js has exploded across the enterprise, as developers moved to embrace a variant of Javascript that made it easier to build both client and server-side ...
Survey: DevOps Divide Grows a Little Wider
The gap between the number of organizations that have invested in DevOps is starting to narrow, and IT organizations that made the transition to DevOps earlier are starting to see accelerated returns ...
Q&A: Michael Beckley, CTO/CCO, Appian
Recently I had the chance to speak with Michael Beckley, chief technical officer and chief customer officer at Appian, about his company's move to go public and the DevOps space in general ...
VMware Moves to Automate Management of Hybrid Clouds
Moving to expand the reach of its portfolio of IT management software well beyond virtual machines, VMware today announced that the vRealize suite of IT automation tools can be employed across containers ...

