Culture, Not Changing Much in DevOps
One of the things that has bemused me from day one of the DevOps movement is how culture is viewed with an odd dichotomy. It is simultaneously DevOps’ greatest strength and its greatest weakness. Of course, there is a simple and reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. DevOps wants to change culture. Cultures that are resistant […]
5 Ways KPI Analysis Helps DevOps
Four Vs drive big data solutions: volume, velocity, variety and veracity. Volume and velocity are technical considerations usually receiving a healthy dose of attention among architects and coders. However, variety and veracity often determine success or failure, and they tend to sneak up on teams who haven’t fully considered them. Key performance indicator, or KPI, […]
Bots: ‘Like a CLI on Steroids’
Overheard in a Palo Alto coffee shop: “… so, we tokenize the utterances, lemmatize the tokens, vectorize with StarSpace embedding, and run the featurized input through the neural net. The softmax activation layer tells us what the user intent was.” “Sorry, you what the what and then what?” “Or, you can say the user types […]
DevOps Chat: DevSecOps with Signal Sciences’ James Wickett
James Wickett is the man to go to for DevSecOps. The founder of the Rugged DevOps movement, which has merged into the DevSecOps group, James is one of the most knowledgeable people on the subject of DevSecOps. In this DevOps Chat, James shares his views on what’s on the horizon for DevSecOps and the most […]
Reigniting Business Culture: Is Marketing Crippling DevOps?
DevOps, as we understand it, is a set of protocols and value-systems that enable development and operations teams to work in perfect harmony within an organization. Surveys of DevOps response teams reveal that the strategy of building bridges between developers and marketers has helped organizations speed up software release cycles, improve product quality and augment […]
The Third Way of DevOps: From Knowing to Being
Why is the Third Way of DevOps so difficult to master? We all know the feeling. You’ve seen an opportunity to improve things and genuinely want to do something about is. But you soon feel the clarity and anticipation draining out of you. First there’s the pressure of the day job. Then there’s the inertia […]
The State of Web and Mobile DevSecOps
As the leaders in coverage of the DevOps world, the reporters here at DevOps.com are constantly pressed upon to convey the true state of DevSecOps at any given moment in time. We try to dig up the state of the union by asking important questions of IT executives, DevOps champions, security leaders and other pundits. […]
How to Become a Great Engineering Manager
I wrote recently about the attributes of a 10x software engineer and a 20x one. Consequently, I received a few comments suggesting I create a similar list for engineering managers. I checked online and found a few articles, but none conveyed a full list in my mind. If you consider that software development efficiency has […]
Software Delivery: Shaking Loose of a Local Optimum
This is an article about software delivery, that magical or onerous field between pushing code to version control and using it in production. Why does software delivery matter? Because software matters, and because software developers matter. I don’t want my software delivery to get out of the way; I want it to make me a […]
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Cloud-Native Security Platform for DevOps
If you work in DevOps, you’ve likely heard the mantra that DevOps success is all about the right people, tools and processes. Below, we take a look at how you can address the “tools” part of that equation when it comes to security. Specifically, we’ll discuss which questions to ask and what features DevOps teams […]
3 Tips to Build A DevSecOps Organization
For organizations undergoing digital transformation today, modernizing the existing environment can present serious challenges when it comes to security. Whether you’re dealing with a transition from legacy to cloud or hybrid models, or shifting from ITIL and waterfall methodologies to DevOps, the increasing number of technologies and complexity mean you need to rethink your security […]
Toyota Research Institute Discusses DevOps Automation and Rapid Innovation
How TRI is using DevOps automation to drive its research and engineering Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is working to build a future where everyone has the freedom to move, engage and explore with a focus on reducing vehicle collisions, injuries and fatalities. Working tirelessly behind the scenes is TRI’s Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for designing, […]
Upskilling: The Enterprise DevOps Skills Survey and Report
There has been a lot of recent reference to “T-shaped” IT professionals—individuals whose core competence (the stem) is supplemented by a broad range of other knowledge including soft skills (top of the T). T-shaped talent is in such high demand with a limited supply that recruitment efforts have become very competitive for those with upskilled […]
Red Hat Injects DevOps Flexibility into RHEL 8
With the beta release of the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat is setting the stage for making it easier for DevOps teams to consume emerging operating system services without having to upgrade their entire operating system. The beta release of RHEL 8 adds an Application Streams capability designed to make […]
10 Years of DevOps—Transition, Growth and the Future of AIOps
When software development became a cumbersome task of repetitive coding, testing and glitches, organizations had to come up with a solution. The solution? An organized approach that would not only eliminate the endless cycle of repetitive tasks but also would establish proper coordination and execution in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That very systematic […]
The (Tool)Chains That Bind
As DevOps functionality continues to expand, we’re looking at a new vista for freedom of applications. Our apps can be moved around as we need them; we can build-test-deploy on the fly; and we have the ability to monitor whatever is needed. The price we pay is one we gladly take up: implementing new toolchains […]
Cisco Looks to Build DevOps Community
Cisco Systems is making a concerted effort to create an era of détente between networking professionals and the rest of the IT operations teams that have embraced DevOps practices. Susie Wee, senior vice president for the DevNet community at Cisco, said the goal is to provide network operations (NetOps) teams the skills required to programmatically […]
Stop the Domino Effect by Joining Build Engineering and DevOps
As DevOps has become more common, these teams are tasked with uniting everything from coding to deploying and monitoring applications. Build Engineering forms the foundation for all those processes and is essential for building code. Its tools vary according to the operating system you’re building on and by programming language. DevOps needs to work with […]
IBM Allies with ServiceNow to Bridge DevOps Divide with ITIL
IBM and ServiceNow today announced an alliance under which IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) will collaborate with ServiceNow to make DevOps processes and events managed via the IBM Cloud Migration Factory visible to a cloud-based IT service management platform from ServiceNow based on the ITIL framework. Jim Comfort, general manager for cloud services at IBM […]
Role of DevOps in Mobile App Development
Emerged out of Agile methods in 2001, DevOps basically represents a fundamental departure from the traditional waterfall software development approach. DevOps is a modern software development method that focuses mainly on the effective collaboration between software developers, project managers and operations staff, while also aligning with business goals at the same time. DevOps came into […]
American Express Uses DevOps for Better Breach Response
It was 6 a.m. Saturday when the phone rang and awoke the American Express CIO. When the phone rings at 6 a.m., it is never good news. Never. This instance was no different: In this case, a third-party supplier just suffered a breach, and that breach would impact American Express cardholders. Immediately following that call, […]
DOES18 Las Vegas: Video Interviews, Day 1
Despite what you may have heard to the contrary, not everything that happens in Vegas should stay there. Take the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (DOES18), for example: The three-day event attracted the best and brightest in the DevOps world—and me—to discuss all things DevOps. Some of those great conversations were captured in a series of […]
Reinvent Testing to Galvanize Digital Transformation
We’re well past software “eating the world.” According to Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri, software has become irreversibly intertwined with the world. You can’t find a modern enterprise that doesn’t depend on software, or a business transaction that doesn’t require software at some point in the end-to-end process. In the new world of digital business, companies […]