DevOps and Organizational Debt
I recently published a blog on the Perficient Digital Transformation blog entitled “Is Cloud & DevOps Factored Into Your Digital Transformation?” In that blog I discuss the concept of organizational debt and its impact on your DevOps adoption. Here’s what I had to say in that blog: If technical debt addresses too little investment in […]
DevOps needs infrastructure multi-tenancy
DevOps will, under whatever moniker you want to give it – NetOps, DevOps for Networks, operationalization – continue to make inroads into the network infrastructure because ultimately it’s part of the application deployment lifecycle. While DevOps folks call it “application delivery” the reality is that an application is not ready to deliver to a user […]
Change Management & Continuous Delivery: Clash or Harmony?
Introducing changes into running software systems is risky. There’s always a chance of failure, and that can have a negative impact on your business. It’s important to mitigate that risk, but there’s more than one way to do so. Change Management is all about ensuring that changes to existing systems and software in production are […]
Webinar: How to Achieve Continuous Delivery Without Downtime
Today’s businesses demand quick access to new technology, which means they need shorter release cycles and centralized control of both your on and off premise resources. Integrating cloud resources into your traditional datacenter management can prove challenging and time consuming at best. What if you could increase your organization’s ability to innovate utilizing business automation to […]
Continuous Delivery snapshot: a universe of fragmented tools
Technology has ushered in an era of real-time information, immediate feedback and instantaneous response. As a result, there is tremendous pressure on development teams to deliver a continuous flow of updates and fixes to software applications. In support of this objective, development philosophies and methodologies abound: agile, lean, scrum, kanban and extreme programming, just to […]
Breaking Builds II – The Butler did it
As editor-in-chief here at DevOps.com and writing for several other publications I see more than my share of contests, promotions and other marketing campaigns (not to mention pitches from PR agencies), but I came across one this week that I really wanted to share with you. My friends at CloudBees, the Jenkins company are once […]
Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
A question comes to mind in what exactly do we need to do to move forward with Continuous Delivery and Continuous deployment, How should we start or rather where we should start from. Many times teams may not have achieved the continuous integration properly, maybe due to lack of proper tools, workflow or historical process. What […]
Does Automating Application Release Mean the Same that it Used to?
Over the last ten years, we have seen a shift towards automation in how applications have been released. Automation has been encouraged first by agile’s embrace of continuous integration and delivery, and now the broader move to DevOps. As deployment automation left the sphere of the individual development team, another trend has emerged. The understanding […]
DevOps: As critical for the Systems of Record as for the Systems of Engagement
There is a lot of talk about DevOps, and how it improves the process of delivering business value. Much of the discussion of DevOps has been focused on web based companies such as Facebook, or the mobile and distributed development teams. But DevOps principles apply just as well to the traditional Systems of Record, z/OS […]
Choose Digital Chooses Jenkins For Continuous Deployment
Challenge: Shrink Time To Innovate Choose Digital offers a white label media store solution (think iTunes) for enterprises that want to reward brand loyalty with opportunities to use miles, points, or cash to buy digital products. As a competitive media company, Choose Digital was eager to test and adopt innovations to its software platform as […]
Detours Ahead: Overcoming DevOps Challenges
Saying that you’re interested in DevOps is another way of saying you’re interested in change. That’s what DevOps promises any organization. No matter the problems a company is trying to solve or the goals it’s trying to reach, DevOps depends on a willingness to embrace some big changes. Sure, it can help you streamline software […]
Transforming applications with Cloud and DevOps – one hybrid solution for multiple challenges
Are you on cloud yet or clouded? The answer lies in how you have adopted the transformation. Today, the world is Hybrid. For large enterprises and organizations, it always has been. Almost no enterprise is monolithic when it comes to their environments. They may already have different distributed environments and/or mainframes in their ecosystem. The […]
IBM DevOps Webcast Nov 20 – Transforming Application Delivery for Continuous Innovation
What if you could deliver applications faster without compromising quality or accepting higher risk? Fast-moving adopters of technology are transforming software delivery to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital innovations that leverage cloud, mobile, big data and social. How do you deliver 10-times faster business innovation instead of 10 percent incremental improvement? New and established […]
Nationwide banks on DevOps to drive towards Continuous Delivery
The Financial Services industry is fast moving, highly regulated and customer-centric. The general perception in our industry is that any change in processes implies risk and delay, neither of which we can afford. But at the same time, we are faced by the mammoth task of needing to continually introduce new products and services to […]
IBM Webcast Nov 18 : Rapid and Continuous Delivery to Hybrid Clouds
Organizations need to innovate at speed. As software has become increasingly critical to business outcomes, delivering high quality changes quickly has become a competitive necessity. With rapidly changing applications has come a dynamic, programmable infrastructure that can meet changing business needs in the blink of an eye. In a word: Cloud. But how do development […]
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins – CloudBees
We are happy to announce the next DevOps.com Webinar, in partnership with CloudBees : CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins Delivering value to the business faster thanks to Continuous Delivery and DevOps is the new mantra of IT organizations. In this webinar, CloudBees will discuss how Jenkins, the most popular open source Continuous Integration tool, […]
Electric Cloud’s ship.io tackles mobile continuous delivery
As increasingly more organizations run into unique challenges around extending the continuous delivery development model to mobile applications, vendors are coming out of the woodwork to start helping organizations revamp their mobile build and test infrastructures accordingly. This week, Electric Cloud tossed its hat into the ring with the beta release of ship.io, a new […]
Three essential elements to maximize business value with DevOps
DevOps is fast becoming the winning strategy needed to accelerate the continuous delivery of exceptional software without sacrificing quality and cost efficiency. With its focus on better communication, collaboration and feedback within and across development and IT operations, DevOps is gaining many fans – even in the business, where performance is seen as being directly […]
Removing the Wall Between Dev and Ops
Welcome to the new DevOps.com Q&A series on Enterprise DevOps. In the first post in this series, I answered five key concerns for adopting a DevOps approach in a large enterprise. Now, I want to address a more specific question from an admin at a large enterprise about the silos and barriers between dev and […]
DevOps.com sponsors FlowCon
DevOps.com is happy to be a media sponsor of FlowCon this year. FlowCon is a popular event held in San Francisco that focuses on lean product development, continuous delivery, lean UX, and (our favorite) DevOps. From the show producers: FlowCon brings together technologists and industry leaders passionate about innovation through lean product development, continuous delivery, lean […]
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline — What it is and Why it’s so Important in Developing Software
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software strategy that enables organizations to deliver new features to users as fast and efficiently as possible. The core idea of CD is to create a repeatable, reliable and incrementally improving process for taking software from concept to customer. The goal of Continuous Delivery is to enable a constant flow […]
How to Find Your Continuous Delivery Rhythm
This article is a part of a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef community. In this article we present an interview with Jez Humble, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks, on digital innovation. Focusing on speed and scale allows you to respond more rapidly to […]
Revolving door of IT employment threatens continuous delivery
As the IT job market heats up following a long lull, enterprises will increasingly need to cope with the difficulty of maintaining operational continuity in the face of personnel churn. Whether the revolving door agitates the employee pool for developers or operations staff, the length of time necessary to off-board departing IT staffers and on-board […]