From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations

August 16, 2017 by Dominic Wellington 2 Comments

What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring of the boundary between the historically separate worlds of Development and Operations. On the face of it, this seems like a great idea. […]

ChatOps: Has the Fat Lady Already Sung?

May 10, 2017 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

One of the sometimes unsung stars of the DevOps scene is ChatOps. I have heard lots of folks use the term, but what does it really mean to you? ChatOps is a phenomenon that started, perhaps not surprisingly, inside of GitHub. It was only natural that developers leveraging the repository to share and build better […]

Automation, ChatBots Can Improve DevOps

January 24, 2017 by contributor 2 Comments

At its heart, the goal of DevOps is to foster better communication between the development team and operations team at an organization. When these two teams are systematically connected, they can easily stay in sync on most issues and there is strong coordination in building and delivering the product to customers. Automation and ChatBots can […]

Everything Ops: Are DevOps Principles Being Applied Too Broadly?

January 17, 2017 by Chris Tozzi 1 Comments

From big data to storage to security, the DevOps concept is being applied to every field of IT operations under the sun today. This “Everything Ops” movement reflects the popularity of DevOps—but is it also diluting DevOps’s significance? DevOps itself focuses on software delivery. It’s about designing, building, testing, deploying and managing software applications. If […]

4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps

November 11, 2016 by George V. Hulme 1 Comments

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 […]

Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way

May 6, 2016 by Derek E. Weeks 1 Comments

Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know Atlassian […]

In-App Messaging: The Key to a Better User Experience

November 17, 2015 by contributor 0 Comments

As the mobile device obsession grows, enterprise IT departments are learning the hard way that today’s Web applications, will in fact, not live forever. Enterprise developers are now forced to turn their focus to mobile app development – not just repurposing a Web API for mobile, but embracing what is inherently different about the mobile […]

The Pros and Cons of Remote Work in Ops

August 12, 2015 by David Shackelford 3 Comments

Remote work in Ops is divisive. The perks of working from home, your local coffee shop or wherever can be quite obvious to engineers and contributors. But some team leaders and company execs aren’t buying into it. One faction sees it as a way to do better quality work. Another has watched deadlines and motivation […]