Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language
As we close out 2018, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Well-written code is a work of art. Always has been, always will be. A programmer pulls a thought pretty much out of nowhere […]
IBM Z: It’s Not the Dog. It’s the Trick
There’s a piece of conventional wisdom that runs rampant in the tech-o-sphere: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Supposedly, once people become enamored with a technology and use it for a long period, they are loathe to adopt new ones. We’ve all heard it, and some believe it. Me? I not buying it […]
IBM Z: An Architecture That Scales for Modern Computing
The architectures I like best are the ones that are built to scale. I can’t tell you how many time I’ve run across applications that have hit the wall when the request count goes up from hundreds to thousands of simultaneous users. The next thing you know the CPUs start to peg, memory get maxed […]
DevOps Chat: IBM z14, Built for DevOps from the Ground Up, with Hayden Lindsey
IBM recently GA’ed perhaps its biggest zSystems mainframe release in the last decade or longer. The z14 mainframe from IBM has also been designed from the ground up to be DevOps-empowered. From APIs and other integrations to language support, the z14 is IBM’s most advanced mainframe ever. I had a chance to speak with Hayden […]
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word “legacy” evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver stable and reliable applications into production. Business stakeholders who may not know the intricacies of the technology often take a view of, “Why […]
The Perfect Combination: Imperative Orchestration, Declarative Automation
There are two fundamental approaches of how to design automation processes, declarative (also often known as model) and imperative (also often known as workflow or procedural). The purpose of this article is to explain the principles of each, explore a little of how they work, try to highlight some of the strengths and weaknesses and […]
Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the “age of the customer”—is changing all that. Where big once beat small, fast now beats slow. The DevOps approaches of startups often make them more adept […]
Multi-Speed IT versus Bimodal IT
I wanted to continue our revue of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas last month. We kicked off the revue with the release of our first videos from the show on Monday. Since then we just updated the YouTube playlist of videos available with a new batch. We will be adding to these […]
The Art of DevOps
This is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps was written by IBM client, and my friend Carmen DeArdo of Nationwide. Lee introduced mathematically improving delivery throughput by leveraging DevOps to improve […]
The Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps Thought Leaders from IBM. I am picking up on Lee’s mathematical DevOps model to apply a calculus perspective, a “calculus of DevOps” if […]
“Show Me The Money!” – Delivering DevOps Value
HM Heath Solutions delivers new business applications in the healthcare industry to 35 million customers. In order to embark on their DevOps journey to improve software delivery, Valerie Scott, their Manager of Shared Services Division, had to show senior management an ROI on a successful project, before they would invest fully. On June 2, Val Scott […]
Bimodal IT and Remodeling Traditional IT for Greater Agility
Bimodal IT is a Gartner concept created to help CIO’s understand that IT organizations need to support both traditional and agile modes of IT solution delivery and operation in order to make wise choices about infrastructure, process, people, and tools. Much attention has been given and rightfully so to the disruptive and innovative “Mode 2” […]
The Simple Math of DevOps
We are living in an information- infused society, much dependent on various technological innovations taking place all around us. In such conditions, as consumers become more connected, they are empowered with more information and choices. They expect quick and consistent information available at all times. Likewise, our business leaders expect their IT teams to build […]
Follow the Unicorn: Transform your Enterprise Applications
For those of us that work on Enterprise Systems such as the mainframe, the claims that the Unicorns (1) make, can be pretty astounding. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of releases a day from big companies like Netflix (2) and Etsy (3) are hard to comprehend. But look a little closer and you can see that […]
Webinar: Build, test and deploy mobile apps with back-end mainframe services securely in a hybrid cloud
You may already have a good understanding of the hybrid cloud and its benefits. But how do you get the value of the last three decades of investment in your backend infrastructure into the hands of your end users faster? In this webcast we will demonstrate how you can take advantage of the latest IBM […]
Budgeting for DevOps Success
One concept that seems to be universal across all IT departments is the admins lament of “how do I convince my boss that we should spend the money.” Whether it is security, QA or development tools, technical professionals have a difficult time talking the language of the business to justify the expenditure of always scarce […]
Webinar: Show Me Success Before I’ll Invest in DevOps – A HM Health Solutions Case Study
Whatever your conviction, the reluctance by senior management to justify new investments and sponsor major change in existing software delivery practices and technologies, while theoretically understandable, often leaves application development executives and managers lobbying for additional budget and resources putting them and their teams between a rock and a hard place. So the question is […]
What lane do you travel on the DevOps highway?
Last week we kicked off our webinar series on Variable Speed DevOps. The discussion was lively and informative. For myself as moderator the webcast was as comfortable as an old pair of slippers. Two of the three panelists, Carme DeArdo of Nationwide and Sanjeev Sharma of IBM are both friends and people I have had […]
Webinar: Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation breaks down IT silos and speeds up mainframe development
DevOps encourages adoption of lean and agile development practices irrespective of platforms. However in most organizations mainframe and mobile/web development teams are functioning in siloes, resulting in a plethora of technology platforms and tools, fragmented or manual processes, skills shortage causing unnecessary delays, rework and friction among teams, impacting organizations ability to respond to the […]
Variable Speed DevOps: A Deep Dive
About 2 months ago I wrote an article on “Variable Speed DevOps“. To be clear I first heard the term used by Carmen DeArdo, Director of Application Development at Nationwide. It was a response or play on the 2 Speed IT dilemma. In 2 Speed IT, emerging digital processes coexist with traditional ones. The implication […]