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Chasing consistency across the wild seas of enterprise IT
Despite seemingly never-ending arguments to the contrary, DevOps has firmly arrived in the enterprise. No, the question is no longer if DevOps is appropriate for the enterprise anymore – the more appropriate ...
A How to Guide on Modern Monitoring and Alerting
syslog-ng, riemann, collectd-notifications, elasticsearch: putting it all together Context At our organization (CCIN2P3) we are building an event-based infrastructure to push structured messages to different subsystems for alerting, reporting and storage. Using ...
Being Agile is all about controlling the flow
For businesses, Agile is the new fashionable initiative as was E-business was in the 2000’s, Six Sigma was in the 90’s and Total Quality Management (TQM) was in the 80’s. If we ...
Four open source tools to help keep you cooking with Chef
If you’re even a little familiar with DevOps concepts, you’ve probably heard of Chef. If you’ve started experimenting with or implementing DevOps, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using Chef. Chef is ...
The DevOps Litmus Test: Is Your Company’s Culture Ready to Get Agile?
New ideas don’t come to those who are afraid of breaking the rules. Improving something usually means you’ll have to push the status quo aside and try something that hasn’t been done ...
SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers: Does the Cloud have to be virtual?
SoftLayer announced new service level and features to their Bare Metal Servers today. Continuing their march towards delivering dedicated servers at virtual server pricing and service levels, SoftLayer announced that they will ...
Internet of Things (IoT) poses challenges for DevOps and security
One of the hottest things in tech today is the Internet of Things (IoT). Everything will be connected including every gadget, kitchen appliance, wearable device and vehicle. But one of the biggest ...
Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility – A Webinar with Rally Software and Chef
We are kicking off our DevOps.com webinars with a real blockbuster! Join Colin Campbell of Chef and Jonathan Chauncey and Jeff Smith of Rally Software as they discuss: Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility In ...
Transition to a new human ecology? We still need managers
Recently I replied to an article "DevOps Cuts Out The Middleman" that excoriated Middle Managers as a cancer. I commented that I disagreed. Nicely, I was invited to make further comment as ...
Developing and enabling a DevOps culture in your team
We’ve all been there. You stare at an application that was built over the last four or five years. You look at the code, which is ugly, full of all sorts of ...
Driving Product Innovation, a Q&A With Arcweb’s Chris Cera
Founded in 2011, Philadelphia, PA-based Arcweb is an enterprise software development firm that specializes in mobile and cloud computing. Arcweb’s team is experienced in product management, agile software development, and lean startup ...
DevOps cuts out the unnecessary middle-man
How many IT people does it take to produce an application? Actually, let me rephrase that. How many IT people does it take to produce an application effectively and efficiently? For many ...
