I admire and appreciate the ideas of DevOps as a result of living through two decades of working in IT and experiencing the pain of what I would call the “failed state ...

Joke tech projects pop up all the time. Some, like the lamentable titstare, should never have seen the light of day. Others, like Mark Zuckerberg's Facemash start out as a joke and ...

One of the most often used words these days to describe emerging architectures and technology is (drum roll please) "programmable." Now, from my used-to-be-a-developer-and-architect-turned-infrastructure-geek perspective, I know what that means. It means ...

There is quite a bit of talk right now about DevOps and how important automation is.  This could be compared to GM in the 1980s when the company tried to transform the ...

Last month when the IT security world convened in San Francisco for the annual RSA confab, a number of security experts tackled DevOps in talks that covered the crossover between continuous improvement ...

A recent partnership between the IT automation developers at Puppet Labs and the security policy orchestration gurus at Tufin Technologies could start setting the pace for how orchestration of security policies can ...

Quick can you name a company that is 15 years old, never took a dime of venture money, has over 250 employees, over 10,000 customers and was widely profitable from day one? ...

Security professionals like to check code for security-related defects before the code is delivered. When they start hearing about multiple builds a day, or even a few builds a week, and a ...

Maintaining a constant thirst for learning is essential for anyone dedicating their career to the IT, computer and networking industries. It’s more than just learning about the latest technologies, rather, it’s imperative ...

We recently caught up with Gene Kim (@realgenekim) as he was wrapping up the final touches of a draft of the upcoming DevOps Cookbook. We wanted to get his thoughts on what ...

There are just a handful of business books that I have read that have had a profound influence on me.  One was Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project”, another was Eliyahu Goldratt’s “The ...

One of the first jobs I had when I started in IT was as the IT administrator for a dot.com startup. IT admin at a smaller company like that was typically an ...