Rookie Mistake: Not Managing Mobile Customer Feedback
Managing mobile customer feedback effectively could be the single-most important success factor for your company and customers. Call it addiction or habit, but every passing day we encounter new data confirming the growth of mobile app usage and total hours spent interacting with them. In the “2015 U.S. Mobile App Report,” the CoreMetrics team has shared […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
How Continuous Delivery Challenges Security
Security and continuous delivery each have implications in their effects on each other. While continuous delivery can demand new security measures, traditional security can slow continuous delivery or simply not address its security needs at all. Micro Case Study Clarifies Security Conflict Amrit Williams, now CTO of CloudPassage, shares an experience that exemplifies the challenges […]
Experts Weigh In on the Evolution of DevOps
DevOps is an ethereal concept. It means different things to different organizations and individuals. It also is going through an evolution, which means that as quickly as we might think we have a grasp on what it is and how to effectively employ it, DevOps has moved on. There’s no way to accurately predict whether […]
5 Things DevOps is Not
For those who have been embracing and championing DevOps for years, the growing popularity of DevOps is as exciting as landing your first job out of college! Okay, maybe not that exciting, but still really cool. More and more companies of all sizes are embracing DevOps by including the adoption of DevOps practices directly into […]
In DevOps, Standardize to Minimize Architectural Debt
I recently reading a great Q&A with the Etsy CTO John Allspaw over on The New Stack, which contained some nuggets of good advice that increasingly are important as we continue the journey toward DevOps adoption. Of particular note were statements on the introduction of “new” things to solve problems. In a nutshell, Allspaw reinforced […]
The Difference Between DevOps and Anarchy
DevOps is about being more efficient. It’s about breaking down silos and removing traditional business obstacles that get in the way of just getting things done. It’s about enabling teams and individuals to collaborate more seamlessly. None of that, however, means that DevOps is about turning your IT into some sort of “Wild West” anarchy, […]
Continuous is the Engine that Drives DevOps
It has been stated time and time (and time and time) again that DevOps is primarily a matter of shifting IT culture. The tools and practices that comprise DevOps play a secondary role. But that is only partially true: In reality, the culture shift revolves around continuity, and the applications and tools that fuel continuous […]
Automic empowers cloud Continuous Delivery with OpenStack Integration
SEATTLE, Wash. & VIENNA–(Business Wire)–Automic, the leader in Business Automation today announced integration with OpenStack, one of the leading open-source software platforms for cloud computing. The new OpenStack plug-in integrates with Automic Release Automation, enabling users to streamline deployment and provisioning of OpenStack computing resources alongside application components and new versions, resulting in the Continuous […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup: Pipeline Patterns with ThoughtWorks
DevOpsQA NJ held our January Meetup on Pipeline Patterns, with Max Griffiths (@_maxamg), Max Lincoln (@devopsy) and Gary Stafford (@garystafford) from ThoughtWorks as speakers. The meetup took place at the sensational ThoughtWorks NYC location, with welcoming, open meet-and-greet area and a huge presentation area with bright, distinctive wall paintings. Following speed networking with pizza and […]
Performance Testing is a Team Sport
Performance testing is a vital component of any developer’s working process. The performance of your website or app can be judged by a lot of people in your organization, both technical and non-technical. Developers, operators and performance engineers are on the front lines when it comes to the development of a functioning site/app, but there will […]
DevOps in 2016: Mainstream Momentum Ahead
I believe that 2016 will be the year that DevOps takes mainstream foothold in the enterprise. And I base this assertion on seven sweeping changes that — from my vantage point — are taking hold and dramatically changing the digital world. The Job of IT Will Change From Infrastructure to Innovation. In the past, IT […]
Shippable Strengthens Leadership Team with Software Industry Pioneers
Google Kubernetes cofounder and technical lead Joe Beda becomes a strategic advisor, Microsoft and VMware veteran Charles Fitzgerald joins Shippable’s Board of Directors, and developer and open source marketing expert Matt Carter joins leadership team SEATTLE – February 3, 2016 – Shippable has added multiple senior software experts to its leadership team as it builds […]
The Big DevOps Question: How Do We Get Started?
Every conversation I have with clients regarding DevOps eventually reaches a point where the client wants to know my recommendations for getting started with a DevOps program. Some have already embarked on a DevOps program, but want me to critique their approach against what I see others doing. Others simply don’t have a clue how […]
How DevOps Helps Improve Application Security
The DevOps trend is gathering pace, evolving from a niche to a mainstream strategy. Organizations are overcoming the barriers to successful implementation and finding real benefits in terms of speed and efficiency. But there are lingering issues to solve with regard to security. As companies look to push more changes to production more quickly, risks […]
To Be Continuous: Empathy in Software Development
Thanks for listening to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Sam Stokes about empathy in software development, how mini-services are the new microservices, and constantly updating software in […]
From Laboratories to DevOps Factories for Continuous Testing
The prior blog Continuous Testing and Monitoring Essentials for SDN and NFV discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring complex systems such as software defined networks and network functions that are virtualized . Whether the product being tested is a complex network system or not, with DevOps the laboratory is no longer […]
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the DevOps
What is DevOps? “DevOps is a cultural and professional movement” –Adam Jacob [movement (n): a group of people working together to advance their ideas.] So, who are these people and what’s the big idea? The people are system administrators, developers, product managers, QA technicians, security analysts, network engineers, and anyone else involved in the business […]
Getting Rugged DevOps Right
Two Perspectives Jack, an accomplished application security pro, tells me, “The developers won’t talk to us. It’s like we speak a different language. They are releasing new builds so fast, how could they check each one for security vulnerabilities? We can’t move as fast as they do.” Then in the next moment, Diane, a DevOps […]
DevOpsSec: Survival is Not Mandatory
Deming, the patron saint of DevOps once advised, “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” To survive, application development teams are constantly pressured to deliver software even faster. But fast is not enough. The best organizations realize that security, quality and integrity at velocity are mandatory for survival. Hence, DevOpsSec My aim […]
All Systems Fail*
Vince Lombardi once said, “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” But in today’s world of high velocity development and release practices, it’s also about how fast you can get up. Today, we are seeing more news about sites from major online retailers and service providers like HP, Target, PayPal […]
Carving through the hype – take the DevOps maturity assessment
As anyone who spends time with their family over the holidays can attest, the notion of maturity is a highly subjective concept. Whether it’s sizing up the next generation’s advancement or defaulting to time-honored inter-sibling behaviors, annual get-togethers offer tangible proof of what’s new and those things that likely won’t ever change. In the domain […]