Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 2)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to consider when deciding whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Best practices for engineering designs for DevOps. • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services. • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • […]
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Org-as-Code
We are all familiar with ‘everything-as-code’—a pattern that started with infrastructure-as-code and has now extended to other areas such as architecture-as-code, security-as-code and more. However, all the incarnations we have seen so far have been less than ambitious! The dawn of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology is moving us firmly toward organization-as-code. Org-as-code is […]
Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 1)
This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series: • Factors to consider when deciding whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Best practices for engineering designs for DevOps • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • […]
Continuous Testing Practices Gap Assessment
Continuous testing is an essential part of DevOps. To get the maximum value from continuous testing, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevOps and determine a strategy for improvement. Gap analysis provides valuable […]
Learning ‘The Third Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Improvement
I refer to the third way of DevOps–continuous experimentation and learning, as simply continuous improvement. In some sense, there is no way to learn the third way of DevOps because it is, by definition, a moving target. It does make sense to discuss what is needed to create a continuous learning organization for DevOps continuous […]
Learning ‘The Second Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Feedback
As indicated in my prior blog Learning the ‘First Way’ of DevOps–Continuous Flow, many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even the ‘first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. The first way of DevOps, continuous flow, is the foundation for DevOps. Once mastered, an organization will naturally want to master the second way of […]
Learning ‘The First Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Flow
Many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even ‘the first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. DevOps is an evolving body of knowledge. There is no one-stop shop that covers all roles and the complete range of skills required for DevOps. A DevOps-competent workforce requires an ongoing commitment to DevOps skills development and mastery. […]
Live from JFrog Swamp Up 2021 – The Top 4 DevOps Headlines of 2025
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Live From JFrog SwampUP 2021 – End-to-End DevOps for Containerized Applications with JFrog and Docker
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Live From JFrog SwampUP 2021 – CodeCraft – BMW’s Driver of ‘Digital Car’ Software Development
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Live From JFrog SwampUP 2021 – Going Serverless, with Artifactory and Containers on Cloud Run
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Live From JFrog SwampUP 2021 – An Accelerated World Requires Accelerated Delivery
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Three Ways Machine Learning Can Change Incident Management
Incident management for important applications has many connotations, many of them negative. Most are well-deserved. Stress, panic, hurry, urgent, drop-everything, all-hands-on-deck, emergency, to name a few. Typically, there is a critical problem, ranging from complete failure to loss of certain functionality or performance. The problem or outage potentially means loss of revenue, loss of customers, […]
Le Morte d’Arthur— A DevOps Engineering Journey
The stories of King Arthur have fascinated me from the time I was young. Now that I am old DevOps_the_Gray, I enjoy relating the story of King Arthur to my experiences with DevOps. I hope you find this blog interesting and relevant too. Imagine a boy raised in Britain by the wizard Merlin who becomes […]
Despite Cloud Adoption, Enterprises Demand On-Premises Software
A recent report from Dimensional Research reveals that the demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud. The report, which was commissioned by Replicated, a company specializing in on-premises software modernization, queried 405 participants in software development, executive, product management, sales and services roles to determine the needs, usage and challenges of […]
Why DevOps Needs Mandatory Vacations
“If a team doesn’t have time for retrospectives, you should hold them twice as often.” It’s 5:00 p.m. on Friday, and you’re just shutting down your computer to kick off the weekend. A message pops up in Slack: “Congratulations, you’ve been selected to take the next week off! We’re cutting off access to all work-related […]
Dear Vendor: Letter to Technology Vendors
While I was writing my “Dear Management …” post, something was going on behind the scenes that inspired me to write another. We all have things we wish to say to vendors; this open letter picks some of the big points that they seem to invariably struggle with. Dear Vendor, We want to use your […]
SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity
Anybody paying attention to world news will notice that the threats and risks perpetrated by cybercriminal actors, in many forms, is a serious problem on the rise, affecting individuals, organizations and nations daily. The cybersecurity threat space is indeed alarming and growing rapidly. The cybersecurity solution space is struggling to keep up. After all, there […]
Why Businesses Need to Transform From DevOps to DevSecOps
The need for modern applications to support continuous integration, delivery and deployment spawned the need for DevOps. Increasingly, as cyberthreats evolve and grow and application development methods and time frames change, security now needs to be an integral part of today’s application life cycle. As a result, businesses should move from DevOps to DevSecOps. DevSecOps […]
Lessons in User Engagement From Game Development
Quarantine measures forced most of the world to stay physically distant — a shift that has forever changed consumer behaviors, and especially how humans interact and spend their free time. A clear change over the past year was the rapid boom of gaming, which saw a massive increase in both console and mobile games — […]
DevOps Practices Gap Assessment
Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s […]
Survey Shows Acceleration of Centralized IT Management
An OpsRamp survey published this week suggests large enterprises are looking to finally unify IT management at at time when it is becoming increasingly complex. OpsRamp, a provider of an IT management platform based on machine learning algorithms, polled 132 IT operations directors working for organizations in the U.S. with more than 500 employees that […]
How the DevOps Skill Journey Fosters a Learning Culture
Human skills, among others, have always been important; now more than ever. Empathy, diversity, creativity, personal commitment have been put to the test. The increase in remote work tends to challenge individuals in unique ways, and these human skills are becoming critical. Top 5 Skill Domains for 2021 This year, 69% of respondents to the […]