Continuous Discussions, Episode 90: Gene Kim and DOES18 Speakers

September 6, 2018 by Anders Wallgren 2 Comments

In a recent episode of the Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) podcast, we hosted Gene Kim and several speakers from the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas (DOES18) conference. We’re proud Founding Partners of the event and always enjoy having IT thought leaders join us ahead of the show to talk about DevOps, the conference program and more. In […]

VMware Extends DevOps Reach via SaaS Apps

August 27, 2018 by Mike Vizard 2 Comments

VMware, at the VMworld 2018 conference today, announced it will be delving deeper in the realm of DevOps with the launch of a continuous delivery pipeline dubbed Code Stream. In addition, VMware announced Cloud Assembly, a set of declarative tools that enable IT organizations to spin up a cloud in as little as 10 minutes […]

Choose Your Toolstack — and Manage It — Wisely

August 6, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

Every DevOps toolstack has a control point, be it a bus, an app, a management app or whatever. Something always is in control and driving the other pieces of the architecture to do their part. It is a basic tenet of automation that jobs are mostly kicked off by something in the software hierarchy. In […]

Leading the Transformation: Applying DevOps Principles at Scale

April 30, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Most IT executives don’t understand how to transform their current legacy systems and processes to scale Agile and DevOps principles across their organization. Join Gary Gruver as he discusses his clear framework for improving development and coordinating work across teams in large organizations. Designing the Continuous Delivery pipeline for the enterprise Improving application stability over […]

7 Signs You’re Mastering Continuous Integration

July 18, 2018 by Brian Dawson 1 Comments

A majority of organizations think they are doing continuous integration (CI), yet when asked if they are following key practices of CI such as running tests to validate every build, many of them aren’t. Ask yourself the following: “Are we building our application with every change, or at least multiple times a day? Do we […]

Why You Need Chaos Engineered into Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

June 13, 2018 by Matthew Fornaciari 1 Comments

Nearly a decade ago, I began working at Amazon as an engineer. Cloud technology was just starting to revolutionize how companies launch applications, and early adopters were seeing the benefits of not having to purchase, provision and manage their own hardware. On the flip side, larger companies (especially those that store sensitive information) were still […]

Continuous Delivery is Not Continuous Deployment

June 12, 2018 by Don Macvittie 2 Comments

Every once in a while, it is worth revisiting a topic that flies under most people’s radar. The differences between continuous delivery and continuous deployment is one of those topics. While those steeped in DevOps are well-aware that software can be delivered daily (or even more frequently), deployment is less frequent, and more dependent upon […]

Continuous Integration Principles You Can’t Afford to Ignore

June 4, 2018 by savaramravindra 2 Comments

After recognizing the potential benefits from both continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI), many organizations have started implementing DevOps in their business operations. However, even today, many organizations don’t completely understand the core principles of continuous integration. Many people think that they are performing continuous integration as part of the DevOps implementation, but they […]