Let’s Talk About Ops: An ITSM Crowd Special
The ITSM Crowd is a regular hangout hosted by DevOps training provider ITSM Zone that covers many different IT and management topics. On Aug. 11, host Claire Agutter was joined by IT Skeptic Rob England and James Gander from Gander Service Management to take a deeper dive into the impact that DevOps is having on […]
The Cost of Rework when Developing for OpenStack Clouds
According to the 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet and DORA, the mean time to recover when a service incident occurs ranges from less than one hour for high IT performers to less than one day for medium and low IT performers. Put that in a real-world scenario: your OpenStack application and the data […]
Vivint Meets Smart Home IoT Challenges Using DevOps
Smart home technology vendor Vivint serves more than 1 million U.S. and Canadian consumers with services including broadband internet, cloud storage, home automation products, home security services and energy automation controls. The company, which got its start in home security, leverages door and window sensors, motion detectors and glass-break sensors, as well as those that […]
What the Auto Industry Can Teach IT Development
The latest and greatest advances in technology often draw the spotlight, but the truly great changes in business aren’t driven by technology alone. They’re enabled by a change in culture that’s supported and accelerated by technology. Consider the assembly line in the auto industry. Automation, specialized tooling and robotics have provided a boost to quality […]
Simplify and Streamline Hybrid Cloud with DevOps
The cloud is not new. The virtues of the cloud have been proclaimed incessantly for years, and most businesses have embraced cloud servers and services on some level. The realities of data security and the need to leverage existing investments in IT infrastructure, however, generally result in some sort of hybrid cloud setup, with servers […]
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 […]
Does Modeling Have a Place in DevOps?
As organizations adopt DevOps, they not only release smaller changes sooner, but they also change the way they develop software. Additionally, applications no longer are seen as giant monoliths, but rather as dispersed across dozens of services that may be built on different platforms (from Node.JS to .NET), depending on the team and technology du […]
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. […]
The ‘Continuous’ Illusion
Continuous delivery is an illusion. That doesn’t make it insubstantial—illusions can have a tremendous impact. Like the first motion picture: the locomotive felt so real to first audiences that they fell from their chairs, screaming. But of course, the locomotive was an illusion, merely rushing past on screen. A good magician, like a good inventor, […]
Case Study: Stytch Before, After DevOps Culture, Tools
Cloud analytics provider Stytch leverages its cloud-based analytics for customers who want to centralize, fuse and model their data. “Our mission is to make it easier and faster for business users to get insights and make decisions,” said Taylor Frost, cloud operations engineer at Stytch. Before the company implemented a DevOps approach, its primary software […]
8 Reasons to Go ‘All In’ and Attend Jenkins World
Jenkins World 2016, the world’s largest gathering of Jenkins users, is coming to the Santa Clara (California) Convention Center, Sept. 13-15. The lead organizing sponsor is CloudBees, along with a number of premier Jenkins ecosystem vendors including BlazeMeter, Undo and Black Duck. Jenkins World will offer attendees opportunities to learn, explore and network. This year’s […]
Test-First Development: Processes and Tools for Success
A lot of software development teams are talking about “test-first” methodologies. The practice involves moving testing up into the very earliest stages of development so automated tests can be written before code. Making this seemingly minor shift can result in much higher quality software and greater efficiencies. Integrating development and testing avoids needless late-stage bugs […]
Why Your Organization Needs DevOps
The recently released fifth annual “State of DevOps Report” by Puppet has once again brought with it fresh insights into what drives high-performance teams. The report, which comes at a time when DevOps has ceased to be a buzzword, provides proof of why more and more businesses across the world are adopting DevOps to improve their organization’s performance, revenues […]
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 […]
DevOps Q&A: SUMO Heavy’s Brodie on the Hybrid Cloud
Not every expert says DevOps will enable the hybrid cloud. One says it never will. Find out why in this Q&A with Bob Brodie, partner and CTO of SUMO Heavy, a digital commerce design and development firm. David Geer: How will DevOps enable the hybrid cloud? Brodie: I do not feel that DevOps enables the […]
Continuous Testing: Shift Left and Find the Right Balance
You may have heard the term “continuous testing,” but are struggling to understand what it is and how to achieve it. Project teams need to improve their ability to test and perform test automation when needed, not just when possible. Service virtualization allows teams to test earlier and more often in the life cycle, or […]
Should You Embrace DevOps in Your Business?
New to some, old hat to many and a source of ambiguity to more than a few, DevOps is being embraced by the IT world as an answer to increase quality of business processes—to innovate faster and to get new products to market sooner in a defined time frame. There is no doubt DevOps has […]
DevOps: Keep the Business in Business
I remember when data centers were not the multipowered, multitelecommunication, hardware, software and people buildings they are today. My first was on the fifth floor of a parking lot and the cars drove around us. The importance of IT, while seemingly crucial to the business functioning of the third largest bank in the great state […]
Pokémon Go Shows DevOps Changes Human Behavior
Everywhere you go lately, you can see people acting strangely. They’re walking streets they never walked before. They’re waving their smartphones around in odd ways. And they’re high-fiving each other for no apparent reason. And they’re doing it because of DevOps. Of course, not everyone immediately thinks about Pokémon Go as an artifact of DevOps—but […]
Good News: DevOps is not One-Size-Fits-All
Want to try something fun? Ask different groups around your organization what “DevOps” means. It’s fun because the odds are good you’re going to get very different answers, many of which will be vague, if not outright contradictory. This is perhaps unsurprising when even industry-recognized DevOps luminaries tout varying definitions, approaches, tools and methods. Here’s […]
An Even More Modern Continuous Integration
It would be strange for me to tell you that there is an even newer new approach to release automation, as if the processes of continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous deployment and canary releases were not modern enough. And it would be even stranger to say that the open-source tool Jenkins, which dominates […]
Delivering DevOps’ Business Value
DevOps is an interesting space to be operating in right now. More than just culture or a set of tools and processes, DevOps delivers speed and agility that can be truly meaningful for the business. Unfortunately, for most large enterprises, the path to the benefits isn’t always well-known and isn’t assured. Over the last five […]