Reality Check: Bringing Continuous Delivery Dreams to Life
Every developer shares the same dream: to write a piece of code or app that changes everything. Whether it makes your company do things more efficiently, attracts hordes of new customers, simply makes existing clients happier or maybe even changes the world a little bit, that code is what we strive for. Some of us […]
4 Top Tips for Developing a New Feature
As a backend developer at CA BlazeMeter, I recently had the chance to work on a big feature for our web app. The feature required a massive change on our backend code, a big change on our frontend and multiple migrations. You know what I’m talking about—it was one of those projects that developers fear. […]
Automation Killed QA – It’s Time to Deal With It
Quality assurance (QA) had a good run. From the time it was considered an afterthought by organizations and software vendors alike to the era of massive outsourcing contracts, followed by significant vendor investments in related tooling, and, finally, its recognition as a critical success factor among high-performing organizations, quality has evolved to become even more […]
Welcome to the Continuous Delivery 101 Podcast
No matter what industry you’re in or how old your business is, your software often determines your success in today’s application economy. Applications are the face of your business—both the way it performs and the speed with which you can incorporate new ideas and innovations, driven by the efficiency of your software development life cycle—determines […]
Predictable Progress: Tracking DevOps Maturity Metrics
As DevOps methodologies continue to evolve, we’re naturally seeing an increased emphasis on the cultivation of related maturity metrics. For instance, in the 2016 State of DevOps Report, researchers with DORA took an initial stab at creating relevant ROI measurements. Similarly, a new report issued by researchers Coleman Parkes, sponsored by CA Technologies, offers additional […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
Every Business Has Become a Technology Business
Contributor: ITSM ACADEMY-Drew Lapatin Every business has become a technology business. Let that one sink in for a moment. With the internet of things ever increasing it has become ever more imperative for us to make wise decisions about how to move forward on which IT services we should be delivering into the future […]
DevOps: Using Games to Make it Practical
This blog stems from my experience of being one of the earliest DevOps Foundation trainers of DOI and successfully completing 19 batches of DOI Foundation course in the last year. In retrospect of the year starting when TaUB Solutions signed up as a registered education partner (REP) of DOI, my opinion is this has been […]
Introducing DevOps Express!
The DevOps Institute (DOI) is proud to join industry leaders as a founding member of the DevOps Express. The DevOps Express is a bold initiative between tool providers and others to create a solutions-oriented approach that will make enterprise DevOps adoption easier using popular technologies spanning multiple solution components. Working together, DevOps Express members have […]
Communication Skills Matter in DevOps
While the precise definition of DevOps is an evolving matter, a simple way to describe it is this: DevOps is a change of mindset toward an agile and inclusive approach to IT. DevOps enables IT professionals to think and work beyond technology silos, thereby deriving meaningful results at a faster rate than with more traditional […]
Can Culture Detract from Success with DevOps?
Collaborative culture is considered to be an essential best practice for enterprises. DevOps culture correlates strongly with enterprises that achieve the highest level of business performance. However, is it possible that an organization can get overly fixated on organizational culture improvements? Can culture actually detract from achieving success with an enterprise DevOps transformation? An article […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Daysha DevOps Solutions
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. Daysha DevOps Solutions: Daysha DevOps Solutions is a leading IT services and solutions company focused on helping companies to deliver their IT projects, transform their capabilities and ultimately to provide value to their customers and stakeholders. Our goal is to help organizations benefit from disruptive technologies, […]
What DevOps Skills are Organizations Looking for?
DevOps is a cultural, philosophical and organic approach toward automating workflow and getting products to market more efficiently and effectively. DevOps engineers are in top demand right now. According to studies by Gartner, 25 percent of top global 2000 organizations will have adopted DevOps as a mainstream strategy by the end of 2016. DevOps is […]
Unconventionality within Constraints
What do dependency resolution, situational awareness and superheroes have in common? Meet Chris Corriere, a DevOps/software engineer at Autotrader speaking on creative ways to maximize usage of all of the above. Mark Miller, community advocate and senior storyteller at Sonatype, caught up with Chris to learn more about what his team is up to. […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Glenfis AG
Tell us a little about your organization: Based in Zurich, we offer consulting and training services since almost 20 years. We see ourselves as an independent enabler for the digital transformation, helping our customers getting fit for the digital age. To this end, we use the ‘Glenfis Principle’ – a holistic approach that, alongside theoretical knowledge, […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Xellentro Consulting Services
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. Xellentro: Xellentro Consulting Services LLP is an emerging global provider of project, program and portfolio management, IT service management consulting and training services. Established in 2012, with headquarters in Bangalore, India, Xellentro works closely with its clients in tackling their most difficult organizational development challenges. Xellentro […]
Managing Your DevOps Releases Efficiently
The Top 5 Things You Need to Know When Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution DevOps is a modern software delivery movement that encompasses agile principles and encourages automation in application delivery. Why adopt it? It allows teams to reduce errors due to manual steps and break down silos between teams to improve communication and […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Soft2Solve
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization, Soft2Solve: We work with our customers in order to help them to enhance IT performance, saving cost, and training on best methods, process and practices, selecting at the same time the best solutions for Spanish Speaker Customers. DevOps Institute: What other topics do you teach or […]
Iterative Indicators: Measuring DevOps ROI
It’s well-established that application of ROI measurements to IT investment remains an imperfect science, and the same goes for ongoing adoption of DevOps methodologies. The fuzzy math of vendor-driven ROI calculators aside, even the most respected industry watchers have long struggled to create concrete parameters for assessment of technology spending. This, in large part, has […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: getITright
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. getITright: With offices in Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands, Nigeria and Malta and a network of partners operating in 31 countries, we offer a bouquet of services to help organizations to: Manage better Lower risk Perform better Make better business and IT decisions Our service offering […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Omnikron
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. Omnikron: With over 30 years of industry experience, we have honed IT and project management training techniques to ensure that course material caters to our clients’ needs. Our training is not just lectures from a book. We offer world-class courses, assessments and simulations in a variety […]
Q&A: Full City Tech’s Higbee on Culture, Part 2
In part one of this two-part Q&A we dug into Wes Higbee’s position on instilling a DevOps culture. Higbee, a developer and business consultant, continues his separation of wheat from chaff in the field of DevOps dreams. devopsy.kinsta.cloud: How is automation, which is a focal point for DevOps, also a trap? Higbee: Focusing on the […]