Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
28 DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (Vol. 2)
People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start. Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices. In April, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 37,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free […]
DevOps Dozen – Nominations are now open
To succeed in todays speed of business, app-centric world the old ways of doing business just don’t work anymore. IT and development teams are being pulled, pushed, stretched and changed into new combinations and configurations. Greater cross-functional cooperation is a must, a culture of cooperation and a new generation of tools that facilitate these are […]
The Software BOM Squad
In my previous post, “When Good Code Goes Bad“, I shared new research showing the average large development organization consumes over 15,000 known vulnerable and defective components annually. While we can’t stop software from going bad, there are practices from traditional manufacturers that we can use to improve our ability to recall and fix the “bad” […]
When Good Code Goes Bad
Milk spoils. Iron rusts. And in software, good code goes bad. Yet the difference is, with the first two, you know the change has occurred. With software, those changes are not always obvious. Your 5,100 Binaries Went Bad There is no way to prevent software from “going bad”. As with all products, bugs and defects,are […]
The Whole Nine Yards with DevOps and Agile Operations
Growing up as a boy in Manchester, UK, football (ok, soccer to US readers) was everything to me. I vividly remember being herded into the stadium stands on cold rainy Saturday afternoons to watch my team (#MCFC) win, draw or lose. Back then, football was for the die-hards – no frills or fancy tech, just […]
Top 5 Anti-ESB Arguments for DevOps Teams.
Unix and Mac. Developers are always in combat. My last verbal combat was a “discussions” around ESB and Microservices. They are fun because both supporters tend to have very strong opinions about what they think is best and both want to fight each other. I recently got involved in one of those discussion about ESB […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
Rework is Choking Software
Rework is Hell “Software may be eating the world, but rework is choking software”, tweeted John Jeremiah (@j_jeremiah). To shed more light on what is choking software, new data was released last week in the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report. In its discussion of application quality and integrity, the report revealed that the average […]
Three Ways Dev and Ops Teams Can Manage the Integration Lifecycle
Many enterprise organizations did not invest enough money into integration as they built their cloud or hybrid infrastructures. As if integrating on-premise systems and applications wasn’t tough enough, in today’s cloud era with the rise of hybrid environments, connectivity has only gotten more complicated – especially when combined with the increased speed of deployment. Puppet […]
Bringing the Database into the DevOps Fold
In my last post on DevOps.com I asked the question, “Where is the DBA in the DevOps Conversation?” I have wonderful news. I’ve found them! Having not been offered a seat at the table with everyone else, the DBAs have decided to have their own party in the form of a survey and corresponding report […]
Choosing a Mobile Test Automation Solution: What You Need to Know
Organizations today rely more and more heavily on mobile apps to drive their business. In fact, many companies are already seeing more than half of their web traffic coming in via mobile devices. In some cases, their mobile app is the only way customers interact with their products. It’s no surprise, then, that developing, testing, […]
7,600 Open Source Projects Per Company (and how it impacts DevOps)
That Supplier is Better For You Since releasing the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, there has been a lot of great discussion across the industry on best practices for managing the complexity introduced by the volume and velocity of the components used across your software supply chain. Today I want to focus on […]
Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building
I’ve been seeing a rising interest in metal DevOps fueled by containers and scale-out data center platforms (like Hadoop, Ceph & OpenStack) that run at the metal level. While I see this is a growing general trend (Packet, Internap, RackSpace, OpenStack Ironic, MaaS), I’m going to stay firmly within my wheelhouse and use OpenCrowbar as my reference here. […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Gov Does DevOps (Part 2)
During my second day at DevOpsDays DC, I had the opportunity to catch up with a couple more industry thought leaders. First up, John Willis, (@botchagalupe) DevOps Days core organizer and co-author the upcoming “DevOps Cookbook”. In this episode of DevOps Leadership Series, John highlights his first introduction to DevOps and the journey it has taken […]
Continuous Delivery and The Proof of Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is critical in Continuous Delivery. Every change we commit to the common source repository is a release candidate. That’s why we test our code before we release it. We find out whether objectives has been met or not. Unfortunately, testing is a discipline that many try to avoid and it’s one of the […]
2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
In April of this year, I embarked on a six-week journey diving deep into an analysis of the world’s software supply chains. I evaluated the practices of 106,000 organizations, the 100,000+ suppliers they relied on, and the billions of software components that fueled their agile, continuous delivery and DevOps practices. The facts I discovered and […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Compliance, Testing, and Rugged
This past week, I headed to London for the Rugged DevOps event, where I had the chance to catch up with a few more industry thought leaders. First, I caught up with Gareth Rushgrove from Puppet Labs, who also runs the DevOps Weekly newsletter. In this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Gareth […]
5 Ways Continuous Integration Reduces Risk in Development
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. There’s a lot of talk about DevOps and Continuous Integration in the tech space right now, but sometimes the implementation of those methods can be tricky. An effective Continuous Integration strategy requires DevOps teams to manage […]
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from doing something about it. Organizations that have DevOps teams in place can just smile because they are enabled to be in control of […]
Imperative or Declarative? The question of DevOps in the network.
A significant amount of bandwidth is spent discussing automation and praising the value of APIs within the broader DevOps umbrella. These concepts are particularly important in the context of CI/CD and the evolution of application architectures toward decoupled, service-oriented systems. Automation is used for build and test, to drive the workflow that moves an app […]
5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness
5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s that time of year again. Seriously. It is. It’s too late for April Fools but it’s definitely not too early for Holiday ecommerce readiness planning. In fact now is the perfect time to get your ecommerce house in order well before the […]