How to Build Successful DevOps Teams
The DevOps sector is still in urgent need of new talent, with 38% of tech companies stating that they struggle to find skilled developers in 2023. These same respondents named DevOps as the number-one area where they are feeling the pinch. Because of this, businesses must ensure they prioritize and nurture the right set of […]
Improving DevX Gives Your Business a Boost
As organizations transform and grow, different methodologies and development tools can come together, creating an extra level of complexity for your mainframe application development teams. In a perfect world, developers would be able to focus on delivering solutions without worrying about all the infrastructure necessary to make that happen. Building a better developer experience, or […]
How LinkedIn is Investing in Developer Productivity and Satisfaction
More and more companies are beginning to examine the role developer experience has in improving engineering productivity and morale. And one company often referenced as a model for developer productivity engineering is LinkedIn—its engineering leadership has invested heavily into reducing time-consuming developer tasks and constructing an internal platform to gauge developer satisfaction on the tools […]
Breaking Down Silos: Applying Open Source Practices in the Workplace
DevOps plays a prominent role in mainstream technology and companies’ ability to deliver results. While the definition of DevOps encompasses the complete range of characteristics it covers, in practice, current tech culture tends to focus solely on the tooling aspect, neglecting the equally essential focus on the people and process critical in delivering value to […]
Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Three: Remotely Good
This installment of my off-and-on “Things We Should Acknowledge” series is going to focus on an area that most DevOps teams are skirting, but increasingly will not be able to: Remote work. For background, I have worked remotely for decades; my experience spans Fortune 100s, publishing companies and startups—and that’s just full-time work. I’ve worked […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Are you Being ‘Nice’ to Your Developers? Think Again
As a developer, you’ve learned your craft. From your fingers comes the magic that builds the applications that run the world. You can literally create something from nothing! And not just software programs. You can create value that means revenue for your company. You’re a revenue machine — no, you’re a god, creating anything that’s […]
How To Keep Engineers Happy and Reduce Burnout
Software development can be a mentally taxing profession. It requires intense mental focus, often under heavy workloads, with unclear job expectations and a lack of control. And with recent labor shortages due to layoffs and resignations, teams may also be understaffed, making matters more complicated. These issues can compound and lead to prolonged excessive stress—that’s […]
Tools and Strategies to Drive a Developer Culture of Collaboration
Agile methodologies such as DevSecOps have instilled collaborative habits in many development teams. But developers still struggle to work effectively with other stakeholders in the development process. And hybrid work environments have made collaboration that much more challenging. In fact, across departments, employees cite collaboration issues among the chief difficulties of hybrid work, recent research […]
Day in the Life of a Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO)
Developer experience (DX) has become essential to modern enterprise software development. As more companies become software companies, more are opening up their software both for internal reuse and externalized consumption. As part of this process, making developer-facing tools consumable and friction-free becomes more necessary to both perform well and stand out in the market. To […]
6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity
A big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many manual steps within their deployment process, according to an Armory survey. And with the pervasiveness of multi-cloud, developers now face an escalating number […]
Complexity is Still With Us
We have come a long way and had a lot of improvements over the years, but we still struggle with the ability to simplify things faster than we create complexity. It isn’t enough that each new wave of Really Important Bits™ comes with its own issues and layers and complexity; we also haven’t been cleaning […]
Best of 2022: The Great DevOps Burnout
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. DevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work […]
Looking to the Future of Developer Experience
Developer experience is where it’s at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox environments, SDK ergonomics and more. By improving a developer’s experience with a tool, software providers can increase stickiness and retain more users. Nowadays, […]
Culture a Stumbling Block to DevOps, DevSecOps
Organizations are struggling to improve DevSecOps practices as they confront a lack of cultural alignment and investment, according to a global Progress survey of more than 600 IT, security, application development and DevOps decision-makers. Many companies are behind in achieving their DevOps and DevSecOps goals, with 73% of organizations saying they could be doing more. […]
Developers Continue to Prefer Remote Work
A survey found 83% of developers are working remotely more than half of the time, with more than three-quarters (76%) reporting they have maintained or increased the frequency of remote work in the last year. In fact, three in five respondents (62%) work remotely at least 90% of the time. The survey, published by Netlify, […]
Everything is DevOps
It’s funny how we in IT tend to be absolutists, shoving everything into the current bucket. XML was going to eliminate programming—even though it wasn’t even particularly good at data representation. NoCode was going to eliminate programming (yeah, that’s a theme, I’ll skip the other 50 or so ‘going to end programming’ cycles we’ve been […]
Leverage Empirical Data to Avoid DevOps Burnout
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers said they were currently feeling burned out at their workplace, found a study by TeamBlind. Limiting burnout and supporting employee mental health is […]
Why Your DevSecOps Initiative Will Fail
When you’ve been in and around the security industry for long enough, you get used to the industry hype machine turning a cool innovation into, uh, meh. This hype cycle starts at the RSA conference each year, and folks like me look for new hot stuff on the show floor. For perhaps only the second […]
Let Me Reiterate – Don’t Rush to Iterate
We in the DevOps world spend an inordinate amount of time talking about tools and roles—and there are always new tools and modifications of roles to talk about. Do you know what we don’t discuss as an industry? The day-to-day grind of being in DevOps. Oh, you can go to forums like Reddit and have […]
How to Manage and Engage Remote Engineering Teams
As engineering teams look to remain remote or hybrid, executives need to fundamentally change how these teams are managed. After tackling the tactical aspects of a distributed workforce—like home office equipment, a comfortable space where employees can get work done and reliable meeting, calendar and communication tools—more nuanced issues come into play. Before the COVID-19 […]
When DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) Meets Security
One of the most recent IT methodologies to be offered as a service is DevOps, a cultural and practical approach that brings development and operations teams together under one umbrella of work. DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) ensures that everything related to the selection, management and maintenance of DevOps tools and infrastructure, including all policies and procedures, are […]
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts on our perceived shame. If not pruned, it grows and wraps its tendrils around the workforce, draining the energy out of every digital […]