Understanding Pillar 1 of AWS’ Well-Architected Framework
AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides a wealth of incredibly valuable best practices and guidelines structured around five distinct pillars that more cloud-native organizations would do well to heed. The first of these pillars, Operational Excellence, recommends a number of particularly valuable techniques. However, successfully adopting the design principles and practices within Pillar No. 1 requires a […]
3 Tips to Build A DevSecOps Organization
For organizations undergoing digital transformation today, modernizing the existing environment can present serious challenges when it comes to security. Whether you’re dealing with a transition from legacy to cloud or hybrid models, or shifting from ITIL and waterfall methodologies to DevOps, the increasing number of technologies and complexity mean you need to rethink your security […]
Making the Database Key to DevOps
Here are three best practices for doing DevOps with the database The speed of business today demands that the development and deployment of applications is fast-moving, with frequent yet error-free releases. That’s why the adoption of DevOps is trickling down from Amazon, Facebook, Google and the other usual suspects to every company that relies on […]
What’s the Impact of DevOps on Business Continuity?
Organizational requirements change rapidly. The strategic plan you created in the past and previously only updated annually is now out of date within a quarter. Agile and DevOps practices have been adopted to help resolve complex business issues in these times of flux through technology improvement, providing organizations with an increased certainty of intent, quality […]
3 Best Practices for Better Incident Response
It only takes a headline-grabbing mass internet outage or two to drive home the financial and brand incentives of keeping an application up at all times. That’s why in today’s DevOps organizations, incident response is a common topic of conversation. There’s a lot of talk within the DevOps community about organizational processes and designs for […]
Using DevOps Metrics Effectively
If you’re a DevOps leader, you have a very tough job. You have to radically transform processes and behaviors that have been ingrained in IT for decades. You have to adopt new technologies quickly while still delivering code quickly and cost-efficiently. And you have to do all this better than your peers at other companies. […]
Be Here Now – Agile and DevOps in the Current State of Synergy
If there’s one thing that our culture does not lack, it’s a litany of pithy catch-quotes meant to remind us to focus on the task at hand; yet, this often runs counter to our tendency to fixate on matters of the past and future. While we are so often encouraged to “live in the moment” […]
Welcome to the Continuous Delivery 101 Podcast
No matter what industry you’re in or how old your business is, your software often determines your success in today’s application economy. Applications are the face of your business—both the way it performs and the speed with which you can incorporate new ideas and innovations, driven by the efficiency of your software development life cycle—determines […]
7 Best Practices New MongoDB Users Should Know
Being a developer in today’s technology landscape is tricky. While the proliferation of different cloud services makes it faster and simpler than ever to turn ideas into reality, this rapid development comes at a price. Developer responsibilities have grown to include not only product/feature development, but also other application-critical tasks such as configuring and managing […]
4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps
We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decision-making and problem-solving and to receive quick, expert guidance. “With the rise of cloud services that can be easily deployed, and increased awareness and importance given to productivity and collaboration within […]
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
Continuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are discovered early on and have minimal impact. Plus, finding and fixing such errors is much easier with fewer changes per release—software is released […]
Using Case Management to Tackle the Unknown
One of the biggest challenges for an organization is producing IT response models that accurately reflect real-world scenarios. It’s pretty straightforward to establish protocols for predictable situations. We call these “standard” scenarios. It gets harder when you have to tackle the unknown. “Case management,” as it’s called, involves establishing strategies and methods to approach unpredictable […]
DevOps Dozen – Nominations are now open
To succeed in todays speed of business, app-centric world the old ways of doing business just don’t work anymore. IT and development teams are being pulled, pushed, stretched and changed into new combinations and configurations. Greater cross-functional cooperation is a must, a culture of cooperation and a new generation of tools that facilitate these are […]
Puppet: Best Practices
This is 4th part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Puppet, one of the most well-liked configuration management tools, can also turn out to be complicated at times. In this post I’m going to briefly go through a few practices that have […]
AWS Best Practices – Enterprise Perspective
Amazon AWS has changed the IaaS game for startups and growth companies. There are several practices we must acknowledge the importance of during the adoption and implementation of AWS services. Readers are more than welcome to comment, suggest modifications and even add their own little practices they follow during roll outs and implementations. As clients […]
DevOps Best Practices: Break Down Silos, Avoid Drift and Optimize for Flow
In organizations trying to achieve agility with stability and quality, silos (of teams, tools, and processes) create major stumbling blocks to managing configuration drift between pre-production and production systems. Breaking down those silos, improving visibility into configuration drift and facilitating collaboration for improved flow are the keys to overcoming this challenge. The challenge of staying […]