Q&A: Full City Tech’s Higbee on Culture, Part 1
Every day, more people are hopping on the DevOps magic bus, drinking the spiked punch and singing “Kumbaya.” I imagined everyone I interviewed would offer tales of instilling this undefeatable, undeniable, brand-spanking-new rapid development culture. It was refreshing to discover that I was mistaken. Apparently, DevOps is just another methodology for accelerating business success—one for […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: TaUB Solutions
DevOps Institute: Tell us about your organization. TaUB Solutions: TaUB Solutions is a consulting-cum-training organization based in Bangalore India. Our vision is to take the customers beyond the existing state of maturity to envisioned business outcomes. We serve a lot of customers in southeast Asian region by delivering consulting assignments on ITSM, IT governance, project […]
Continuous Delivery Dependent on Who, What, Where
Without the right people, positions and talents, it is difficult for a business to engender a DevOps culture. It is even more frustrating to facilitate a continuous delivery pipeline successfully producing quick bursts of innovative genius, without a full complement of qualified souls harmonizing on the same DevOps theme song as they toil away on […]
MTTR: The Magic Metric
How do you improve with one metric quality, cost, performance, employee and, most importantly, customer satisfaction? I think MTTR is one to consider, but with a DevOps twist (agile+lean+ITSM). The thing I love about DevOps is that it allows for people to think differently. DevOps is the movement driving organizations to find new ways of […]
Rep Spotlight: Global Lynx
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization: Global Lynx: Global Lynx is a leading and fast-growing IT consulting and training company that assists companies and government agencies improve the competence and skills of their IT organization, enhance the maturity of their IT governance and improve the quality and effectiveness of their IT operations, […]
The Persistence of Enterprise Tech Failure Rates
During a recent dinner conversion with a CIO friend, I was surprised to learn that his organization was having challenges delivering the applications and IT services on a timely enough manner that the business needs. The business is taking too long to approve the budget for major tech projects to start, then develop and deploy, […]
What is a DevOps ‘Best Practice’?
In IT, we love our frameworks. Whether agile, ITIL, lean, cobit, six sigma or others, our thirst for “best practice” guidance seems to be unquenchable. The concept of a “best practice” is an enigma. Who decides if a practice is actually the best? And best for whom? While an “adopt and adapt” mentality is advocated […]
Tales of DevOps Discovery Part 2: Definitions Matter
Definitions Matter: Step Two in a DevOps Transformation The first post in this series on DevOps Discovery discussed the importance of asking fundamental questions of stakeholders to facilitate alignment on priorities and establish a mission statement when beginning a DevOps transformation. Part 2, below, reviews definitions of common DevOps-related terms and provides examples of how […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
The War with Human Nature
What is the difference between “leading” edge and “bleeding” edge? Being the first human being to advocate change. It is a virtual war with human nature to accept change. For all the innovation introduced into our society, most of it is a product of invention over evolution. Don’t get me wrong: Once we find something […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Embracing a DevOps Culture, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the fact that more organizations are looking to embrace the “DevOps culture.” However, unlike ITIL, implementing DevOps into an organization does not happen overnight. DevOps is more a philosophy than a procedure, and choosing the right leadership team is as important as choosing the right tools. In […]
State of DevOps Survey – The Ultimate Feedback Loop
If there’s any consistent criticism of the larger DevOps movement, it’s that the talking heads and industry gadflies are driving the conversation, not the people in the trenches. All the thought leadership panels and “how-to” content (including the written and AV materials on this very site) make for great watercooler discussion, but lack the input […]
DevOps’ Cultural Myths and Logical Fallacies
Remember that guy you knew in college who was working on his fifth or sixth degree with no plans to stop? At some point the idea of real work must have terrified him, and instead what appealed to him was a continual state of learning. If you have the funding to master five or six […]
Tales Of DevOps Discovery: Q&A from the Field
DevOps is a buzzed-about industry term, yet many companies are still trying to figure out how to start the journey to a DevOps transformation. Each organization’s journey will be different, but planning and starting the journey always should include assessing the current state of a company’s software delivery process, quantifying the objectives and plotting the […]
Culture Change: Metrics, Tools Make a Difference
Change is in the wind. This time of the year, as winter weather gives way to springtime renewal, this concept isn’t a cliché but rather a concrete, visceral experience. You go outside, smell the earth defrosting and know for certain that change is happening all around you. You can feel it. Such is the case […]
The Forgotten Fourth Question
A very well-written paragraph about DevOps appears in Mike Loukides’ book, “What is DevOps”: … Modern applications, running in the cloud, still need to be resilient and fault tolerant, still need monitoring, still need to adapt to huge swings in load, etc. But those features, formerly provided by the IT/operations infrastructures, now need to be […]
How to Kick-Start Your DevOps Adoption
A recent survey by CA Technologies found Australian organizations are below par in terms of implementing measures to adopt and achieve successful DevOps strategies. According to Ashok Vasan, vice president of DevOps Solutions Strategy at CA Technologies Asia Pacific and Japan, organizations are generally aware of the DevOps methodology and its value, but they either […]
Experts Weigh In on the Evolution of DevOps
DevOps is an ethereal concept. It means different things to different organizations and individuals. It also is going through an evolution, which means that as quickly as we might think we have a grasp on what it is and how to effectively employ it, DevOps has moved on. There’s no way to accurately predict whether […]
First We Fixed Dev, But Let’s Not Forget About Ops
Since its beginning in 2008, DevOps has gone from an underground rebellion by developers to a mainstream movement with representatives in every industry and at every scale. You can see the change just by looking at how people attending DevOps events dress: the black T-shirts are still there, but these days there are lots of […]
Continuous Improvement: The Key DevOps Distinguisher
DevOps has become a well-accepted and growing component for delivery success, shown in the State of DevOps Report among other respected publications. But even as it becomes more ubiquitous, it’s naive to think every organization will cease having delivery concerns. Implementations will differ widely, and adherence is essentially self-reported. So what is it, then, that […]
Embracing a DevOps Culture, Part 1
DevOps is popular right now. So it should come as no surprise that organizations across all industries are eager to embrace the “DevOps culture.” However, unlike ITIL, implementing DevOps into an organization does not happen overnight. Compared to companies such as Netflix or Amazon, most organizations do not have thousands of application deployments per day. […]
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution
Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused during the show’s halcyon days. This had something to do with living in Hoboken, N.J., at the time and feeling the show was […]