Focusing on the True DevOps North Star: Continuous Improvement
When we look beyond the fundamentals of tearing down silos and establishing greater collaboration, communication and transparency, DevOps is a label assigned to a framework of best practices and technologies that organizations leverage to deliver systems faster, more efficiently and without sacrificing quality. The best practice within that framework is continuous improvement, which provides stakeholders […]
SmartBear Integrates Test Tools with Atlassian DevOps Platforms
At the Atlassian Summit 2019 conference this week, SmartBear announced it has integrated the Zephyr test automation tools it acquired last year with the Jira portfolio of tools from Atlassian. In addition, SmartBear announced it has integrated Zephyr with the rest of the company’s SoapUI Pro, TestComplete, CrossBrowserTesting and LoadNinja testing tools. SmartBear committed to […]
Using Jira Software Search to Accelerate DevOps Workflows
Imagine driving down the highway and seeming to get a traffic jam at a distance. You realize your car is equipped with GPS to have clear visibility into what’s next and can show exact directions for alternative routes and estimated travel time. It is very easy to pick the fastest and most favorable route to […]
xMatters Looks to Meld DevOps and ITIL
With the launch today of a flow design tool from xMatters, the divide between DevOps and ITIL-based approaches to managing IT is narrowing. xMatters Flow Designer is a drag-and-drop graphical tool that either developers or IT operation teams can employ to create incident management workflows on top of xMatters incident management software. Doug Peete, chief […]
Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing
Sauce Labs announced it is now moving beyond functional testing, adding a front-end testing tool it has dubbed Sauce Performance to make it easier to accelerate testing within the context of a DevOps process. Lubos Parobek, vice president of products for Sauce Labs, said the goal is to enable developers or testers to begin testing […]
Using Product Experimentation for Continuous Improvement
Organizations are embracing product experimentation as a tool for continuous improvement Companies that embrace product experimentation are able to capture highly accurate data about markets and product ideas and gain intelligence about market trends. As a result, these companies are able to continuously deliver innovation and measure business outcomes. Industry leaders such as Netflix, Instagram […]
Apply Balance and Critical Thinking for Greater Agile Success
In an ideal world, implementing DevOps practices and Agile methodologies would be the key building blocks organizations need to realize rapid, high-quality releases. The ability to iterate on a product with a high volume, velocity and level of quality is the ultimate goal of the modern enterprise; every CEO wants a faster time to market. But […]
Chef Commits to 100 Percent Open Source Code
Chef has decided to open source its entire portfolio of IT automation software as part of an effort to make it easier for organizations to construct a DevOps pipeline using the company’s software. A part of that effort, Chef also launched the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack—which combines Chef Infra for managing infrastructure, Chef InSpec for […]
Compuware Advances DevOps on Mainframes
Compuware has updated its Topaz for Total Test suite to enable organizations applying best DevOps practices to the development of mainframe applications to combine unit, functional, integration and regression testing within a single test scenario. In addition, Compuware is making it easier to test multiple applications simultaneously. The latest update to Topaz for Total Test […]
When DevOps and Marketing Collide: Insights From Adobe Summit 2019
I attended Adobe Summit 2019 to research the intersection of DevOps and marketing. Below are insights from my interviews with leading marketing technology experts. Is DevOps making its way into marketing? In a short answer, a soft “Yes.” I recently attended the Adobe Summit, held March 26-28 in Las Vegas. This year emphasized digital customer […]
Adobe Strategy Revolves Around DevOps
At the Adobe Summit 2019 conference this week, Adobe detailed that its Adobe Experience Cloud customer experience ecosystem is reliant on a set of best DevOps processes that is wrapped around a modern microservices architecture and layered on top of big data platform deployed on the Azure cloud. Adobe last year acquired Magento, provider of […]
The New AI Overseer Role in DevOps
Robot overlords are the stuff of science fiction fantasy. Today, with more teams implementing artificial intelligence (AI), DevOps teams need a hard, continuous look at reality. An AI overseer watching apps at work could make the difference between sadness and euphoria in your efforts. We’re seeing AI misses more and more often. Facebook recently admitted […]
4 Steps to Introduce DevSecOps to Database Development
Although DevOps was implemented within application development, there is a growing awareness that including the database within DevOps processes is vital to success. We live in a data-driven world and many front-end applications use a database at the back end to collect, process and store customer and user data. The faster development of applications that […]
SRE: How Do You Get to Blameless?
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the companion to DevOps. If we take my normal divisions of DEVops versus devOPS, traditional DevOps is mostly the developer side, and SRE is mostly the Ops side. This isn’t a perfect comparison, but it is a good starting point, and for this blog, I’ll run with it. While DevOps […]
5 Considerations to Get DevOps Right in Telco IT Systems
Implementing DevOps in telco IT systems, such as business support systems/operations support systems (BSS/OSS), is not easy. This is especially true with telcos that overly rely on third-party commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vendors or systems integrators (SIs) to implement new capabilities, and to run operations. To effectively control the vendors, telcos extensively use traditional levers found […]
Blameless Launches DevOps Platform Based on SRE Principles
Blameless has emerged from stealth to launch a platform for managing DevOps based on the site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices defined by Google. Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, the Blameless platform provides across-the-board visibility into the complex network of application programming interfaces (APIs) and applications distributed across an organization, said […]
Atlassian Adds Business Planning App by Acquiring AgileCraft
Atlassian announced it is acquiring AgileCraft to give business leaders visibility into strategic projects in a way that is closely mapped to IT projects being driven by DevOps processes. The value of the deal, expected to close next month, is estimated to be $166 million. Many DevOps teams already make extensive use of the Jira […]
Dev and Ops: Not from Different Planets
At a conference, I heard a speaker remark that “Dev people are from Mars while Ops people are from Venus.” That’s catchy and captures what a fair number of managers believe instinctively. But is it really true? I’m not convinced. We all know that DevOps enables us to deliver software faster, with fewer bugs and […]
F5 Networks Acquires NGINX to Meld NetOps with DevOps
As part of an effort to better align DevOps and network operations (NetOps), F5 Networks plans to acquire NGINX, a provider of widely employed open source loading balancing software. The two companies revealed in a call with financial analysts that the primary goal of the $760 million deal is to meld the two companies’ combined expertise […]
DevOps Chat: Customer Experience and DevOps with Cyara’s Alok Kulkarni
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Cyara CEO and co-founder, Alok Kulkarni, about how DevOps is helping in the customer experience arena. Cyara has carved out a leadership role in bringing DevOps to CX. Alok is a delight to speak with and very wired into this space. As usual, the streaming audio is immediately […]
Report Identifies DevOps Skills in Highest Demand
When it comes to DevOps there’s general agreement that a skills shortage is holding back broader adoption. The real issue, of course, is identifying what specific DevOps skills are required most. With that goal in mind, the DevOps Institute this week published a report that finds the DevOps skills most in demand fall into three […]
Digital Transformation Technology and Process: More Similar Than You Think
Right around this time of the year, the gym starts to get a little less crowded. Throughout January, it’s packed to the gills with folks freshly motivated by their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape. But by mid-February, the commitment seems to have all but dissipated. Why is it so hard to just commit? […]
Survey Finds Mixed Progress on DevSecOps
A survey of 5,558 IT professionals published today by Sonatype in collaboration with CloudBees, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, Signal Sciences, 9th Bit and Twistlock finds 27 percent of organizations have mature DevOps practices in place, while another 48 percent are still working on improving them. Despite the DevOps works that remains to be accomplished, […]