A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Providers
As companies such as Amazon and Google rapidly innovate to deliver new services, traditional service providers recognize that change is necessary to keep up with shifting customer expectations. Given the pace at which technology continues to morph, creating better, faster and more innovative solutions is a necessity, and if this isn’t achieved, even longtime customers […]
What to Expect from DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016
Many have asked me what I’m looking forward to at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 in San Francisco—it is the third year of our conference, and I think it will be our best conference yet! Here are three of the things I’m looking forward to most: Where Are They Now? First off, we will have seven […]
DataOps: Time to Bring DevOps Ideas to Big Data
What can data scientists learn from DevOps? A lot, actually. By applying DevOps principles to the world of big data, you get DataOps, which streamlines data analytics. If you’re reading this site, you’re probably already familiar with DevOps. The DevOps philosophy emphasizes continuous collaboration between software developers (the “dev” people) and system admins (the operations, […]
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that a product may encounter under real-world conditions. Automobiles, for example, go through extensive hot and cold weather testing in remote locations, and are […]
Last-Mile DevOps: How to Keep Employees Happy
Chances are that your company is embracing DevOps to make sure you can get fresh, new digital capabilities to your customers ASAP. That’s because in today’s market, you either have to be first—or quickly close any gaps between you and your more digitally innovative competitors. But when it comes to getting new capabilities into the […]
3 AWS Design Patterns to Maximize DevOps Value
Many business leaders are planning to make DevOps the cornerstone of their IT transformation strategy. But, as surprising as it might sound, skepticism abounds regarding how major vendors address the DevOps transformation challenges—they confuse DevOps with continuous delivery (CD) infrastructure. “We wanted DevOps and we got after a nine-month-long implementation a continuous delivery platform which speeds up IT operations without […]
Taming 2 Cloud App Performance Enemies
Whenever you hear the words “the network’s slow today,” or, even worse, “the network’s down,” you know somebody miscalculated. It may have been the person who decided to buy the wrong hardware, or maybe the one who signed up the wrong telecom provider. Often, that slowdown or outage was the result of somebody underestimating server […]
Creating a Continuous Integration Delivery Pipeline
This article will provide an example delivery pipeline used through continuous integration, as well as the DevOps tools involved in the automation of building, testing and deploying code through your software development life cycle (SDLC). Background These days, it’s almost impossible to go anywhere without hearing about DevOps. In short, DevOps is the effort to […]
Get to Know the New DevOps Stack
Deploying software has always been manual and labor-intensive. That’s fading into the past as continuous innovation has become a competitive differentiator for companies of all stages and sizes across every industry. DevOps has become a hot investment market in recent years. The mega-rounds we’ve been seeing show the massive demand for tools that enable optimal […]
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 […]
Alerts Keep DevOps Teams Responsive, in Sync
Continuing our five-part series on “Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM,” this blog post will talk about how alert notification can help DevOps teams be more productive and agile. Amid the constant, rapid change and fluidity typical in DevOps organizations, there are some undeniable absolutes. These absolutes, present at each stage of the […]
Reasons Why DevOps May Not Work for You
DevOps is a great way for many organizations to optimize software design and delivery. Yet, like every other technological innovation in history, DevOps is not perfect. Here are some examples of drawbacks associated with DevOps. By no means do I think DevOps is a bad idea in general. I want to be very clear about that. […]
Phoenix Rising: The DevOps Keys to Business Rebirth
In “The Phoenix Project,” a 2013 novel about an IT manager rescuing a late, over-budget IT initiative, Gene Kim demonstrates how collaboration between IT operations, development and business users can impact the business. In the era of digital transformation, the need to bring development and operations together—in what is often called DevOps—is more important than […]
Big DevOps: Too Slow to Win?
There’s DevOps. And then there’s Big DevOps. DevOps is a set of disciplines that accelerates time-to-value for digital deliverables. It is being embraced by all kinds of companies, from pure-play digital market disrupters to mainstream corporates trying to maintain competitive parity with their mobile apps. Big DevOps is something else entirely. Big DevOps resembles mainstream […]
Top 5 Traits of High-Performing Teams
DevOps is here and it seems to be what everyone in IT service management (ITSM) is buzzing about. So what are the goals and how do we know it’s not just the next hot kitchen color for this year? DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and […]
Native Docker for Windows Arrives: Are Containers Finally Serverless?
Is Docker finally ready for the age of serverless computing? That’s the message from the announcement this week of native Docker container support for Windows Server 2016. If you’ve been following Docker for a while, you know that Docker containers originally supported only Linux operating systems. Then, Docker made its platform available for Windows users, […]
Fog Computing Meets Cloud Computing, and the Forecast Is Sunny
Fog computing is more than just cloud computing meeting edge networks, but for practitioners more interested in results than in new buzzwords, the question is whether fog’s IoT promise deliver real-time data storage, processing and analysis. One thing all new technologies share is the lack of a consensus on what exactly defines the technology. Ask […]
Industry Leader HyperGrid Debuts HyperForm For Microsoft Windows Server Containers
London, UK. – September 26, 2016, HyperGrid, the pioneer in creating and delivering the world’s first and only container based, application aware HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (HCIaaS) solution today announced that HyperForm, their platform that provides next-generation IT services built on Docker containers, can now support the automated deployment and life-cycle management of applications running on Microsoft […]
Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the “age of the customer”—is changing all that. Where big once beat small, fast now beats slow. The DevOps approaches of startups often make them more adept […]
Demystifying Scrum for the Ops Crowd
Scrum is, by far, the most popular way development teams are organized and work. In fact, well over 70 percent of Agile teams around the world use Scrum. But for those unfamiliar with the structure, Scrum may look like a strange collection of rituals and oddly named designations, such as the “Scrum Master.” However, behind […]
The 3 Secrets to Overcoming the Agility-Stability Paradox
Regardless of whether an organization subscribes to a bimodal IT approach, one thing is clear: It’s more important, and more difficult, than ever to fight the agility-stability paradox. Today’s businesses must build on a delicate balance of being compliant, plan-driven and keeping the lights on while also seeking ways to become more fluid and agile […]
Digital Transformation Top of Mind at PagerDuty Summit 2016
Digital transformation may seem like the enterprise tech buzzword of the moment, but it completely came to life for attendees at the inaugural PagerDuty Summit. C-level executives, industry leaders, developers and IT operators all came together to discuss why and how companies are navigating our digital world with operational maturity and excellence. PagerDuty Summit was […]
Cognitive Analytics: ‘Operations Thinking’ for Development
In a recent blog post by my colleague Payal Chakravarty, “Synthetic Monitoring – the Start of the DevOps Monitoring Journey,” she discussed how developers, testers and operations staff all need to ensure their internet and intranet mobile applications and web applications are tested and operate successfully from different points of presence around the world. Continuing […]