The Struggles DevOps Administrators are Up Against
DevOps has quickly gone from being a niche concept to a widespread practice that is gaining traction rapidly in both large and small organizations. As it becomes a key part of many development teams, administrators must work to integrate DevOps techniques, tools and practices into a wide range of teams, from operations to development, support […]
Important DevOps Roles Every Organization Needs to Succeed
There is no agreement between the scholars and the practitioners of what the DevOps concept necessitates. There are many definitions available for the term “DevOps,” but it is the term used for emphasizing the collaboration between operations and development. Development (Dev): This is a process for creating a software product consisting of interrelated activities of […]
DevOps Chat: The Impact of Automation on DevOps and Society, with Bob Reselman
Those of you who have been reading DevOps.com for a few years are familiar with the RoelBob cartoons, which have a prominent spot on the home page. RoelBob’s creator, Bob Reselman, is also a technologist and creator of other forms of media. Lately, he’s been writing a series of articles about the impact of automation […]
4 Ways to Tackle Common Test Automation Pitfalls
The demand for higher-quality products and new features delivered at breakneck speeds has the average engineer struggling just to stay afloat. With demands rising but resources not always following suit, engineering teams are embracing automation as a key testing option. According to a report by advisory firm KPMG, test automation increased by 85 percent from […]
When AI Met DevOps: Machine Teaching
One of my favorite quotes about artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t from a data scientist or tech industry analyst. It’s from a doctor. When asked if AI would eventually replace radiologists, Dr. Curtis Langoltz of Stanford University pithily replied “No, but radiologists who use AI will replace those who do not use it.” This great insight […]
How Cloud-Native Computing Is Changing IT Job Roles
The cloud native age is upon us. This means not only that infrastructure, application deployment and security strategies look very different than they did just a few years ago, but also that the way companies design and fill IT jobs has changed—or should change, at least, for those seeking to stay relevant in our fast-changing, […]
Revisiting My Bet on DevOps
On Dec. 29, 2015, I bought some stock. It was a bet on DevOps that my wife kindly tolerated. Since then, the S&P 500 has risen 31 percent and my DevOps portfolio is up 113 percent. This blog is a retrospective on a bet that worked out. I was inspired by Nicole Forsgren’s talks and […]
Implementing DevSecOps in the Mainframe-Driven Enterprise
DevSecOps is emerging as an important trend in corporate IT. It makes sense. With each passing day more applications serve a larger user base. Whereas in the past the typical business application was accessible only from within the confines of an enterprise’s internal network, today, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) paradigm enables millions of users work with […]
A Right DevOps Approach: Assess Organizational Readiness
Driving business in this fast-paced world is maddening as owners have to remember customer preferences, beat market competition and similarly cater to different things within the organization’s radius. How a business owner manages all this defines the business success, which is gauged through outcomes in the form of smart products, point-on services and almost-immediate feedback. […]
How Can DevOps Enable Your Software Testing efforts?
Changing market dynamics are pushing the need to include DevOps in your software testing exercise to help meet business objectives in providing a consistent and flawless user experience. Digital transformation is not an easy task for business enterprises. There are myriad issues to conquer, such as department silos, legacy systems and a well-entrenched work culture […]
Accenture Aims to Infuse AI into App Testing
Accenture plans to infuse greater amounts of artificial intelligence into application development testing following its acquisition of Real Time Analytics Platform Inc., which provides tools that make use of machine learning algorithms, neural networks and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze every stage of the software development life cycle. Kishore Durg, senior managing director and […]
The Software Testing Metrics That Make Or Break DevOps Success
Organizations today are racing to develop software at a breakneck pace through efficient DevOps processes. But it’s important for them to avoid losing sight of the forest for the trees. If too much of that speed comes with quality sacrifices that degrade the user experience, the rapid software iterations hurt the business more than they […]
HPE Brings Storage Deeper into DevOps Realm
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today moved to bring storage further into the realm of DevOps by integrating its 3PAR storage systems with VMware vRealize Orchestration software, open source Kubernetes container orchestration software and the Red Hat OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment built on top of Kubernetes. HPE 3PAR storage systems already support Docker containers and the DC/OS […]
Successfully Integrating DevOps while Deploying Cloud Applications
Transforming to a high-performance DevOps environment can provide competitive advantages, but it requires change—and that doesn’t come easily to most organizations. DevOps requires cultural changes that are inherent to automating previously manual tasks: They are perhaps intimidating to those involved and they require flexibility and enterprisewide buy-in to get right. Furthering these people-side transformational complications […]
How Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Can Help DevOps
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help the humans in DevOps break free from focusing on simple activities. One aspect of DevOps is automating routine and repeatable actions, and AI and ML can perform these activities with enhanced efficiency to improve the performance of teams and business. There are algorithms that can perform […]
7 Signs You’re Mastering Continuous Integration
A majority of organizations think they are doing continuous integration (CI), yet when asked if they are following key practices of CI such as running tests to validate every build, many of them aren’t. Ask yourself the following: “Are we building our application with every change, or at least multiple times a day? Do we […]
When It Comes to Mainframe Computing, There’s More to Containers Than Containers
When people in the DevOps world hear the word “containers,” most of the time they imagine the lightweight, standalone, executable Docker binaries that have become commonplace in today’s cloud infrastructure. It might come as a surprise, however, that the world of mainframe computing not only supports traditional Docker containers, but also expands the concepts of […]
DevOps in the Age of Blockchain
The current state of software development results in a lot of redundant efforts. The same functionality is built repeatedly, which is a waste of time and resources for a company. Open source has been a partial solution, but doesn’t fully solve the problem of reliable code upgrades, which are critical for sustaining a high speed […]
Connectivity as Code: Making Network Security DevOps-Friendly
DevOps is all about agility, with fast, short delivery cycles and automation for software development and applications. Enabled by recently introduced technologies such as virtualization, cloud and software-defined networking (SDN), spinning up new servers, provisioning storage in a public or private cloud or even launching whole environments can take just minutes or even seconds. But […]
Why Digital Transformation Can’t Happen without Experimentation
A sure sign of a company’s successful digital transformation is when it can leverage data to optimize every area within the enterprise. As Forrester puts it, for a company to realize the return on investment (ROI) of a digital investment, “benefits from digital investments need to be aligned with the business requirements for a specific […]
SDN/NFV DevOps: Release Automation for Network Operators
A powerful force is waiting to be unleashed. Software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are already acknowledged as exciting possibilities in the world of telecom and media. Leading providers, such as Verizon Enterprise Solutions and My Republic, along with original equipment manufacturers including Cisco Systems and Ericsson, have unveiled their SDN-based services. […]
Best Practices for Application Security Testing in the Era of DevOps and AI
Application security testing is no easy feat. And yet, it’s usually the first topic that most articles about application security address. The reasons are simple: As the pace of application development techniques (and their inevitable vulnerabilities) evolve, AppSec personnel have found themselves caught between the desire to keep pace with their management of security testing […]
Reinventing Talent Acquisition, DevOps Style: 7 Ways to Become a ‘Destination Company’
Just as brilliant drummers have their pick of bands, top cloud-native developers and project managers can be choosy about their employers. They’re the rock stars of the business and they know it. If you’re not a “destination company” like Amazon, Facebook or Google, how do you entice top talent to work for you? And if […]