A 6-pack for building a business case for CD
There are all sorts of compelling business benefits awaiting those who adopt Continuous Delivery. It has the potential to reduce operating costs, reduce defects and redundant work, improve efficiency, and result in a much faster delivery speed. By releasing applications to market faster, you boost your chances of success and gain a competitive advantage. But […]
Continuous Delivery versus Continuous Deploy
Getting a solid grasp on the meaning of DevOps requires a clear understanding of the terms used to describe it. Over the last several years, we have seen a paradigm shift in the way software is developed, moving away from a waterfall approach, with monolithic releases, to an agile approach with incremental releases. This shift […]
Continuous Deployment is king of the DevOps hill
One of the promises of DevOps is continuous deployment. DevOps is, first and foremost, a matter of shifting the traditional business culture more than the tools and technologies that enable it. Once that culture exists, though, one of the defining aspects of DevOps is automation and continuity. Earlier this year I wrote about the seeming […]
Digital Disrupters – Building a DevOps Leadership Profile
While the advancement of DevOps methodology remains fairly nascent for many organizations, an ever-expanding class of leading practitioners are evolving a wide range of related best practices. Beyond the well-worn concept of “unicorns” – the scant few organizations that stand as mythical examples of DevOps nirvana – this broader set of early adopters have begun […]
To Be Continuous: Shipping Velocity and Team Structure
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about shipping velocity and it’s affect on team structure. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. Paul is the CEO […]
Re-thinking DevOps tools for Continuous Deployment success
Gartner predicts that 25% of Global 2000 companies will be actively implementing DevOps methodologies in their organizations by 2016. As DevOps goes mainstream, it may be time to re-think some of the implementation techniques that have worked in small companies and in non-production uses. The common assumptions that are often applied to make a continuous […]
Native Integration of APM Driving DevOps Maturity
With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the biggest challenge remains creating performance metrics that address both IT and larger business initiatives. There’s no question that APM is one of the […]
To Be Continuous: Evolution of Continuous Delivery
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar discuss the evolution of continuous delivery. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly […]
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. “Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is “No”. DevOps is not going to replace Testing as a discipline. Firms implementing DevOps have a vision for better product quality workable by brilliant Testing. DevOps is an enabler for the following. […]
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
28 DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (Vol. 2)
People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start. Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices. In April, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 37,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free […]
Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?: Part 2
Part 2: Continuous delivery tool chain efficiency > Outsourcing savings (Check out Part 1 of the series Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?) Experts on digital disruption and DevOps practices are vocal in their belief that DevOps and traditional outsourcing models don’t mix well. “Adopting DevOps requires organizations to erase the barriers between development and operations teams,” says […]
Essential Ingredients for Continuous Deployment
To build the system to automate the build and deployment (continuous deployment) process there are few main areas which need to be covered. Following are our prerequisites. – Source code – Builds System – Deployments – QA Automation To describe above here are the main ingredients – Configuration Management – continuous integration/ Automated Build – […]
The Software BOM Squad
In my previous post, “When Good Code Goes Bad“, I shared new research showing the average large development organization consumes over 15,000 known vulnerable and defective components annually. While we can’t stop software from going bad, there are practices from traditional manufacturers that we can use to improve our ability to recall and fix the “bad” […]
When Good Code Goes Bad
Milk spoils. Iron rusts. And in software, good code goes bad. Yet the difference is, with the first two, you know the change has occurred. With software, those changes are not always obvious. Your 5,100 Binaries Went Bad There is no way to prevent software from “going bad”. As with all products, bugs and defects,are […]
Webinar: Introducing CloudBees Jenkins Platform – your foundation for DevOps and CD with Docker Containers
Continuous delivery (CD) of applications is rapidly becoming a differentiator in this application economy. CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, recently announced the availability of the CloudBees Jenkins Platform to help organizations adopt CD. This new enterprise offering from CloudBees brings CD to the masses with the new Team Edition, while enabling enterprise CD deployments powered […]
How Continuous Delivery is Changing Software Development
When you start to implement a new methodology, it’s very easy to get bogged down by the specifics and lose sight of the overall goal. With Continuous Delivery, we see endless debate about whether to use Puppet, Chef, or Salt for deployment, or discussion about how to build a CD pipeline with containers. These are […]
Webinar: Why Continuous Delivery of Software is Paramount to Your Business Success
In the application economy, you have to deliver software as if your business depends on it … because it does! It’s a bold statement, but true. Think of nearly every interaction a person might have today—be it for work, commerce or play. Most have a digital dimension, which relies on digital technology and […]
Rework is Choking Software
Rework is Hell “Software may be eating the world, but rework is choking software”, tweeted John Jeremiah (@j_jeremiah). To shed more light on what is choking software, new data was released last week in the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report. In its discussion of application quality and integrity, the report revealed that the average […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps
This past week, I had the opportunity to catch up with some more industry thought leaders at the DevOpsDays DC event in our nation’s capital. This was the first major DevOps Days event to feature a large audience of government participants. It was an awesome event and is certainly going to be on my must-attend […]
7,600 Open Source Projects Per Company (and how it impacts DevOps)
That Supplier is Better For You Since releasing the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, there has been a lot of great discussion across the industry on best practices for managing the complexity introduced by the volume and velocity of the components used across your software supply chain. Today I want to focus on […]
2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
In April of this year, I embarked on a six-week journey diving deep into an analysis of the world’s software supply chains. I evaluated the practices of 106,000 organizations, the 100,000+ suppliers they relied on, and the billions of software components that fueled their agile, continuous delivery and DevOps practices. The facts I discovered and […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]