The Problem With Security
As an IT professional with decades of experience at every level of technology and organizations—from cell phone prototyping to banking enterprise architecture, from entry-level to CTO—I can state definitively that I have spent an inordinate amount of time dwelling on and dealing with security. And I know I’m not alone. This is a common theme. […]
Nurturing a Developer-Centric Culture
The tech world is constantly, rapidly changing and many tech companies are growing up. They are adding to their product portfolios, increasing the number of employees, servicing more users, expanding global reach and more. Typically, when an organization grows up, it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of hard work, onboarding new talent and […]
Shifting Engineering Priorities for 2022
Nearly every aspect of the software development process is accelerating, from the increasing speed of programming languages to the expectation of faster delivery. This has resulted in the misconception that speed and efficiency should be a DevOps team’s or engineer’s top priority. Though agile transformations have been a central strategy for most organizations in recent […]
The DevOps Journey: Continuous Mindset Starts With Cultural Change
DevOps is not just about technology. In many ways, the technology aspect of DevOps is finite but the people, organizational and cultural aspects are infinite. We see many clients get so focused on the tools and technology that they forget about the impact beyond the technology. An important part of building a world-class DevOps process […]
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
In this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla.
When, How and Why to Build a Developer Relations Team
The developer role is changing. More and more often they are being rightfully viewed as key stakeholders who aid in setting company direction in this product-led world that we live in. For many technology vendors, earning the trust of developers is critical to their short-term and long-term success, but this presents a challenge. Developers have […]
Bridging the Developer Experience (DevX) Gap
They say our past experiences have an impact on how we view life and our general outlook. Routine behaviours and patterns become a program that we follow day in, day out. We stop using our minds to their fullest potential and become trapped in unquestioning, continual cycles of process and emotion. The same could be […]
Bridging Departmental Divides for Successful Automation Projects
For too long, IT has been largely isolated from an organization’s core business. Any division between IT and lines-of-business (LOB) is even more detrimental when speed is not just a competitive advantage but an existential necessity in today’s accelerating digital economy. As business leaders streamline and turbocharge every facet of their operations, savvy organizations are […]
Trust in Cloud Providers is a Developer Issue
Earlier this summer, we worked with ClearPath Strategies to ask developers about the level of trust they have in their various cloud service providers. What we learned spoke volumes: While developers’ familiarity and comfort with Amazon, Microsoft and Google position these well-known cloud providers as market frontrunners, developers often do not agree with the companies’ […]
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Org-as-Code
We are all familiar with ‘everything-as-code’—a pattern that started with infrastructure-as-code and has now extended to other areas such as architecture-as-code, security-as-code and more. However, all the incarnations we have seen so far have been less than ambitious! The dawn of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology is moving us firmly toward organization-as-code. Org-as-code is […]
How to Build a People-First Engineering Team
When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead to successful products, a technology-first approach is often the default when software engineers become managers without necessarily having the right tools to manage […]
Reducing Friction in Developer Collaboration
Given how the individual unit of deployment has gotten increasingly smaller, such that the unit of deployment is usually a microservice, it would be tempting to think that individual developers are more able to control how well the code they write (the service they deploy) will work in production. In fact, though, almost the opposite […]
The Single-Sentence Postmortem
Do you have four seconds? In the time it takes you to read this sentence you could be done with your incident’s postmortem. “But my postmortem has 8 sections! I have to construct a critical timeline, restate my followup tasks, show the major milestones, evaluate root cause…” Stop right there. First of all, your incident […]
How MLOps Can Help Get AI Projects to Deployment
Did you know that most AI projects never get fully deployed? In fact, a recent survey by NewVantage Partners revealed that only 15% of leading enterprises have gotten any AI into production at all. Unfortunately, many models get built and trained, but never make it to business scenarios where they can provide insights and value. […]
Best of 2020: 5 Project Management Skills Every Developer Should Have
As we close out 2020, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our series of the Best of 2020. The days of the siloed project manager and “skilled” development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of […]
Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations
Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […]
How Collaboration Can Optimize Product Development
Strategic collaboration allows companies to build partnerships and seek solutions that are adaptable and specialized Systems engineers have faced complexity since the dawn of time. And while bringing complicated projects to market under old rules, methods and technologies was never a walk in the park, today’s highly competitive market presents new challenges to prove the […]
Data and Tools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do
When developing software, many managers believe that data and tools will solve all their problems. If they just have enough data or the right data analysis tools, development and delivery become automated and decisions are made without human input. But in reality, humans are a necessary part of the process. There are a few pieces […]
How To Build a Culture of Resilience Through Good Habits
Good habits are hard to form. I’ve been listening to the audiobook “Atomic Habits“ by James Clear on my morning runs, and something struck me. At Gremlin, along with our software, what we’re trying to promote are positive new habits for our customers. According to the author, one of the primary reasons new habits don’t […]
Digital Transformation Is More About a BizDevOps Culture than Tech
Digital transformation is top of mind for every organization now. The problem is, many of these organizations take the phrase too literally and think it’s all about adopting new technical capabilities and tools. Tech is certainly a part of it, but real digital transformation is also about changing company cultures and ways of working. Tech […]
Five Attributes of a Great DevOps Platform
As we move toward 2020, the expectations are high, the software industry is moving faster and the demand for rapid and continually improving digital experiences have raised the standard. To match the needs and demands of the market, firms around the world are embracing the DevOps culture to ensure and streamline the development, packaging, testing, […]
The Role of Soft Skills in Building Strong DevOps Leads
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about the process and technology that make up a good DevOps practice. We have a strong focus on the development, IT operations, QA” and security roles. We debate tools and automation strategies. We wax philosophical about DevOps culture. What is either lacking entirely or simply […]
Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology
The implementation of DevOps is primarily toward a change of process. All you need is to break down the feed store and bring in the competing individual inducements to acquire the actual benefits from DevOps. Regarding the change of process, it will either be embraced by those who are making the change and succeed, or […]