The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy
While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams that have been employing Slack to collaborate for years is significant. Salesforce owns both Heroku and Force.com in addition to providing developers with […]
How to Foster Collaboration Between DevOps and Security
DevOps is on the rise. Back in 2018, MarketsandMarkets wrote that it expected the DevOps market to grow to $10.31 billion by 2023. That’s up from $2.90 billion in 2017, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) at 24.7% projected for the forecast period. Demand for DevOps solutions and services in response to the need […]
Building (and Nurturing) a Product Team During a Pandemic
Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In early 2020, everything changed. For months now we’ve been scrambling, adapting to a new normal that none of us had the foresight to […]
How to Solve 3 Significant Development Challenges
As products, systems, and software grow in complexity, so does the development process. This can lead to an increased risk of flaws and can result in expensive and potentially reputation-harming mistakes or recalls. These new complexities have shifted the product development process entirely, requiring optimization from end to end. Engineering and design teams need solutions […]
Should Conway’s Law Be Applied to DevSecOps?
Strictly adhering to Conway’s Law could lead to less innovation and the inability to keep up in a fast-changing market When it comes to determining how an organization should be structured, the 1967 Conway’s Law provides a plausible direction that many software companies could follow. However, in today’s ever-changing cloud environment, it is arguable whether […]
How Collaboration Can Optimize Product Development
Strategic collaboration allows companies to build partnerships and seek solutions that are adaptable and specialized Systems engineers have faced complexity since the dawn of time. And while bringing complicated projects to market under old rules, methods and technologies was never a walk in the park, today’s highly competitive market presents new challenges to prove the […]
PagerDuty Looks to Streamline IT Incident Management
PagerDuty has added more automation and analytics capabilities into its portfolio of incident management tools, at a time when organizations are looking to significantly reduce the total cost of IT. Jonathan Rende, senior vice president of product at PagerDuty, said the general release of Intelligent Triage advances the level of AIOps that can be applied […]
Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp will provide organizations with a way to manage lightweight processes via an interface that is already commonly used within many organizations. The goal […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Teams Adjust to New WFH Normal
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the level of software development activity has remained relatively constant, but developers—who, like everyone else—are now largely working from home, are putting in more hours. Organizations are now grappling with whether working remotely on software development projects now represents the “new normal.” A report published this week by […]
GitHub Extends Scope and Reach of Repository
GitHub today at its GitHub Satellite virtual conference announced it has made it easier for developers to either launch a project or join an existing project on its repository and has added collaboration tools directly within the platform. GitHub is also moving to advance DevSecOps by adding code scanning tools and making secret scanning tools […]
One Identity Allies With HashiCorp to Advance DevSecOps
One Identity, a provider of identity management software, has aligned with HashiCorp to make it easier for DevOps teams to implement best DevSecOps practices. Tyler Reese, a senior product manager for One Identity, said via a plugin for HashiCorp Vault developers can now securely manage, monitor, record and audit privileged and administrative access to their […]
Kong Brings Collaboration to Designing APIs
Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API specification that can be stored in a Git repository. Based on the open source Insomnia API management platform the company gained last year by acquiring Floating Keyboard Software […]
Zoho Offers Free SaaS Apps to Combat Coronavirus Spread
Zoho today announced it is making available for free a bundle of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications dubbed Remotely through July 1. Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist for Zoho, said Remotely is a humanitarian gesture to help mitigate the impact of a global coronavirus epidemic. Remotely comprises a set of productivity and collaboration applications that users can access […]
Using Automation Tools to Drive Collaboration, Innovation
How automation can help business move past the walls of confusion between dev and ops In the current state of things, businesses are leaning more than ever on the collective intelligence of their tech teams to drive innovation within their respective organizations. These teams are always comprised of developers and operations professionals. With the foray […]
Collaboration Between Competitors is the Future of Enterprise Technology
Mark my words: 2019 will be the year enterprise technology companies go back to kindergarten and realize that sharing really is caring—about their customers. Several key moves last year point toward a future full of collaboration between large and small technology vendors—even those that compete against one another. Companies rarely use a single vendor for […]
Security and Speed: Why DevOps and Security Need to Play Nicely
It isn’t news that DevOps and IT security teams often struggle to align their departments and maintain a coherent balance between keeping a business secure and developing new applications to maintain customer interest. While security processes are a necessity, they can be deemed by DevOps teams to be manual and cumbersome, blocking the agility that […]
DevOps: The Ultimate Way to Break Down Silos
Let’s imagine Jim works on the development team for a food company and his colleague, Julie, works on the operations team. On a daily basis, Jim focuses on analyzing users’ needs, testing and developing software, while Judy manages IT infrastructure and policies. Although they share the responsibility of software deployments and application support, Judy and […]
DevOps and Collaboration: Fraternizing with the Enemy?
DevOps is all about collaboration, we hear. “You must collaborate,” say managers initiating DevOps adoption programs. HR make new posters declaring the corporate values “We value Collaboration & Teamwork.” Can’t fail! Then when it appears not to be as effective as we had hoped we tell teams they are “Empowered” to collaborate. Blank stares! When […]
How DevOps Can Nurture the IoT Brownfield For Results
Your latest IoT project sailed through proof-of-concept but started running into problems during rollout. Fortunately, your DevOps superhumans got things running. Now, perhaps a year or more later, you’re seeing more and more issues crop up as the project grows. If this scenario sounds vaguely familiar, or you’re worried you may be headed there, you’re […]
‘Yehbut’: Communication in the Age of DevOps
Effective communication is integral to success in DevOps transformations Ever since the dawning of mankind, or should I say “humankind,” we, as a species have invented ways to communicate with our fellow men and women and gender-neutral colleagues (and, soon to be included, robots). From grunting and bashing (bashing gets the message across quite effectively, […]
Using CALMS to Assess an Organization’s DevOps
Of the tried-and-tested frameworks that allow enterprises to assess DevOps in their organization and how it can be improved, the CALMS model remains particularly useful. CALMS, which stands for Collaboration, Automation, Lean, Measurement and Sharing, is particularly helpful for analyzing an organization’s DevOps structure, and ultimately, its utility in any organization. The CALMS framework covers […]
Can Videoconferencing Solve the DevOps Collaboration Conundrum?
Every DevOps expert has their own definition of what DevOps really means, but a common thread running through each definition is that it is based on collaboration and evolution of a culture of sharing and communication between IT and operations. How that collaboration is achieved has evolved rapidly, and in today’s most successful digital transformation […]
Inclusion, Collaboration and DevOps: Seeing the Bigger Picture
The last half of 2017 was pretty amazing. I wrote a brief post about the Inclusive Collaboration Summit I attended in London last July. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk started this campaign to raise awareness around neuro-diversity in tech. With respect toward the silence experiments I kept my original post very short. It was great […]