DevOps: The Things We Must Stop

June 20, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

Anytime there is a popular movement in technology (and I would argue any other field), people get carried away. We’ve seen it over and over, and DevOps attracts this kind of attention. In fact, DevOps caters to those who get carried away by mainstream folks screaming, “THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!” That type of hyperbole pushes those […]

Repeat Warning: There is No Silver Bullet in DevOps

May 18, 2018 by Don Macvittie 2 Comments

As the cycle of DevOps is repeated in a growing list of organizations, I feel compelled to reiterate the warning that this is not the pinnacle. Anyone who has been around for a while knows that the current fad is not the last fad. [[Cue DevOps people screaming at my choice of the word “fad”]] […]

Agile and DevOps: Where the Rubber (Literally) Meets the Road

April 20, 2018 by Conor Delanbanque 0 Comments

Do Agile and DevOps methodologies apply outside of technology? More specifically, can we apply them to sport? I decided to answer these questions by analyzing the application of Agile and DevOps principles within my road-cycling team. For those of you who don’t know, cycling is a very data-driven sport. While we are training and racing, […]

The Human Touch: The Key to Optimizing Your Software Value Stream Network

April 20, 2018 by Nicole Bryan 2 Comments

Software has no intrinsic value until it’s working in production and supporting a customer’s business initiatives. With that in mind, it’s imperative that organizations focus on how they reduce the time to value, not just time to deploy. And that’s achieved through people. A common misconception is that technology underpins a software delivery value stream. […]

Time to Rethink Infrastructure Operations in Enterprises

April 18, 2018 by Aditya Vadaganadam 1 Comments

“Business is technology and technology is business” seems to be the new mantra as the rules of corporate strategy are being rewritten across industries. According to IDC’s survey in 2017, “Two-thirds of global CEOs will have digital transformation as part of their corporate strategy.” That’s CEOs—not CIOs—who will have digital transformation as part of their corporate […]

DevOps and Low-Code/No-Code Tools

April 9, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

Helping out a friend, I had reason to revisit low-code/no-code solutions and poke around a bit. The industry has been relatively quiet on the topic, but changes in systems and marketing made me feel the need to offer an update on the relation of current solutions to DevOps. Low-code/no-code solutions have been a panacea in […]

DevOps: What a Wonderful World it Would Be

March 20, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

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 code. It doesn’t reduce configuration files. It doesn’t eliminate deployment issues (though it might reduce them). It doesn’t eliminate testing; indeed, it creates […]