Best of 2022: Measuring Technical Debt
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. What is enterprise technical debt? Technical debt slows down organizations and hampers their ability to deliver. Studies show that technical debt can triple the cost […]
Survey Surfaces Agile Development Challenges
A survey of 3,220 software development professionals published this week found that among the 80% of respondents that embraced Agile practices for building software, just under half are tracking on-time delivery (47%) and business objectives achieved (44%). The survey, conducted by Regina Corso Consulting on behalf of Digital.ai, a provider of a value stream management […]
Agile Pricing, Agile Uptake
It is pretty amusing, the number of software vendors that are selling us tools to work in our Agile and/or DevOps infrastructure but are not at all agile in their sales cycle implementation. Top-line vendor hint: If you have a page titled “pricing” and there are no prices on it, you’re doin’ it wrong. Let’s […]
Adopting Shift Left Testing in Software QA
I am often asked to recommend best practices for building software testing programs. The problem is that it depends on your definition of “best.” What works for an innovative startup developing software and deploying agile development sprints is not necessarily going to suit an established public company launching a new web product. The software development […]
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.
Everything is DevOps
It’s funny how we in IT tend to be absolutists, shoving everything into the current bucket. XML was going to eliminate programming—even though it wasn’t even particularly good at data representation. NoCode was going to eliminate programming (yeah, that’s a theme, I’ll skip the other 50 or so ‘going to end programming’ cycles we’ve been […]
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours.
Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value
Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This model has served thousands of companies well, from manufacturing and product design to software development. Yet, one difficulty that comes up when discussing or applying Lean in software […]
Let Me Reiterate – Don’t Rush to Iterate
We in the DevOps world spend an inordinate amount of time talking about tools and roles—and there are always new tools and modifications of roles to talk about. Do you know what we don’t discuss as an industry? The day-to-day grind of being in DevOps. Oh, you can go to forums like Reddit and have […]
There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism about methodology is hurting the majority of organizations out there, and how to get past this issue to keep improving what IT does […]
Update Those Ops Tools, Too
We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to containers, the movement has been faster—and the same is true for internal development. I’m going to approach this topic from three perspectives instead […]
Defining the Next Cycle of Technology
We’re in the middle of what we at ScyllaDB dubbed The Next Tech Cycle. Not “The World of Tomorrow” nor “The Shape of Things to Come” nor “The Wave of the Future”—because it’s already here today. We’re right in the middle of it. It’s a wave that’s carrying us forward, but it began with trends […]
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation.
Agile Development at 20: Can it Thrive in the Hybrid Work Era?
The Agile Manifesto turns 20 this year, and while many of the core tenets are still applicable, the world has changed considerably in the last two decades. What would the Agile Manifesto look like if it was written today and took into consideration our new reality of hybrid working environments? Changes are most definitely needed, […]
Your DevOps Teams Can Do Better. Here’s How.
As more organizations focus on digital transformation as the centerpiece of their growth strategy, software developers and IT teams are under heightened pressure to perform—quickly and efficiently. That begs two questions: Can we do better? And if so, how can we do better? The answers can be elusive, especially for DevOps teams that have over-relied […]
Agile and DevOps for Kiosks
Alan Shimel talks with Sam Zietz, the CEO of Grubbrr and Touchsuite, about how software for kiosks can use Agile and DevOps to keep up with a wide range of hardware profiles. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. Welcome to another […]
Best of 2021 – From Agile to DevOps to DevSecOps: The Next Evolution
As we close out 2021, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the ninth in our series of the Best of 2021. As the workforce shifts to remote locations, networks are becoming more diffuse as the edge gets farther away. At the same time, the number of […]
The Need for Agile, Adaptable IT Infrastructure
Through the adoption of Agile concepts and new best practices such as automated testing, organizations can move beyond the innovation curve and bolster their IT infrastructure. In fact, the need to build agile and resilient IT infrastructure has become increasingly pertinent over the past 18 months. From remote working and managing the diverse needs of […]
Your Tech is Only as Good as Your Infrastructure
A few weeks ago, one of my neighbors dug a ditch in his yard, hit a fiber internet line and knocked out my internet for eight hours. There I was, ready to start working, and I was cut off from my colleagues for an entire day. That experience highlighted the importance of a good digital […]
How to Successfully Scale Agile
Agile has proved its value to businesses across industries and geographies. In fact, the pandemic elevated it to an absolute necessity for organizations’ success and survival. Business leaders around the world invested aggressively in Agile transformation as they scrambled to meet changing customer demands through newly hybrid and remote workforces. Not surprisingly, the faster they […]
4 Steps to More Agile Operations
After over a year of business disruptions, modern enterprises have realized that speed and agility are the only way forward. In fact, according to Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 eBook, “Organizations that don’t focus on efficiency, efficacy, and business agility will be left behind.” In order to stay future-ready, organizations across all industries are moving to adopt an operating […]
Programmability is Key to Agile Transformation
Enterprise agility has rapidly become one of the most crucial variables for a business’s long-term resiliency. With the COVID-19 pandemic, never-ending disruptions to the global supply chain and nearly every industry’s typical processes flipped upside down, there has never been a more important time to prioritize agility than now. While the rewards of agility are […]
Swinging the Pendulum of IT Back to QA
I was reading Nuria Manuel’s excellent article about quality assurance (QA), and it got me thinking about the wide variety of ‘pendulums’ that impact IT. I call them pendulums because they follow the rule of “every action has an equal and opposite reaction,” and they work on fundamental truths of IT. For example, the one […]