Living in a DevOps World, Part 2
Part one of this article focused on some of the more behind-the-scenes benefits of an Agile DevOps approach. In part two the focus turns to some of the other traditional problems that a well-executed DevOps approach can address, and how doing so can benefit an organization in more ways than just a technical perspective. By […]
DevOps Adoption: The Driving Force of the Industry
DevOps has transformed from a mere idea on paper to the way processes function in the face of an immediate requirement. Development and Operations together make for one of the most successful collaborations today. As per a research report, people have now begun to understand what DevOps is. When asked how familiar they were with […]
Compuware Extends DevOps Push for Mainframes
Compuware has advanced its campaign to erase the DevOps divide between mainframes and distributed systems via an update to Topaz for Enterprise Data that makes it easier to generate data from mainframe applications for testing purposes without compromising the security of some of the most sensitive data in the enterprise. Company CEO Chris O’Malley said […]
GitLab Moves to Automate DevOps
GitLab is looking to eliminate the pain of setting up and maintaining DevOps processes by making available an option that automates DevOps processes end to end using a prescriptive approach defined by GitLab. The latest version of GitLab includes an Auto DevOps option that organizations can employ to automate the building, testing, code-quality scanning, security […]
How Important Is Open Source for DevOps, Really?
Depending on your perspective, you might believe that DevOps and open source go hand in hand. Or you may think that, quite to the contrary, the two have little to do with each other. There are good arguments to be made for both interpretations. Let’s explore these two ways of thinking about the relationship between […]
Why Serverless Needs DevOps
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated July 2, 2018 Serverless, like Kubernetes and microservices, is a new technology. Yet, despite the amount of blog, forum and news-related posts published about serverless, it represents only a fraction of all IT deployments. Aside from the new factor, serverless shares few similarities with Kubernetes and microservices. Organizations turn […]
Integrating Blockchain and DevOps
Blockchain is one of today’s hottest technology buzzwords. And at the same time, the concept of DevOps has achieved acceptance and is gaining momentum. Blockchain and DevOps already offer a number of benefits individually. Together, they can provide significant tactical and strategic advantages. However, some challenges must be overcome simply to adopt blockchain, as well […]
Splunk Pushes Into the Realm of DevOps
On the heels of its recent acquisition of VictorOps, provider of incident management software, for $120 million, Splunk is gearing up to expand its foothold in DevOps significantly. Rick Fitz, senior vice president of IT Markets for Splunk, said the provider of widely used operational analytics software in the enterprise sees a significant opportunity to […]
Serverless Computing: Moving from DevOps to NoOps
Developers rejoice as serverless computing ushers in a new era of ‘NoOps’ to replace the ill-fitted DevOps model. While some organizations do better than others when it comes to implementing DevOps, almost everyone agrees it’s a concept easier penned to paper than pinned to reality. The idea of integrating development and operations is smart, but […]
Updating Your Skills for the Internet of Things
The internet of things (IoT) is breaking rules. For example, in many cases IoT designers purposely limit the processing power and connectivity of IoT devices. Making devices with less processing power and connectivity may buck the IT trends of recent years, but IoT is changing some of the assumptions and approaches of traditional IT. IT […]
Agile Service Management in Practice
It turns out agile and service management go together quite nicely. But how, and how do you translate the agile philosophy to actual changes in your work? There is much to learn on the topic. Agile Service Management: A Checklist Here are several practical examples on how to make your service management more agile: Make […]
DevOps: The Things We Must Stop
Anytime there is a popular movement in technology (and I would argue any other field), people get carried away. We’ve seen it over and over, and DevOps attracts this kind of attention. In fact, DevOps caters to those who get carried away by mainstream folks screaming, “THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!” That type of hyperbole pushes those […]
Making the Database Key to DevOps
Here are three best practices for doing DevOps with the database The speed of business today demands that the development and deployment of applications is fast-moving, with frequent yet error-free releases. That’s why the adoption of DevOps is trickling down from Amazon, Facebook, Google and the other usual suspects to every company that relies on […]
What Can the Cloud Do for DevOps?
The cloud has enabled DevOps to grow and expand well beyond traditional boundaries set forth by on-premises production environments. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud services providers, DevOps devices are intended to speed advancement by empowering engineers to change, test and push code in a computerized design. This enables organizations to create and […]
Picking a Git for the Enterprise
Some of my Agile and DevOps transformation work, not surprisingly, involves helping clients with tooling adoption—to set up, scale and operate across the organization. This blog piece is about a recent experience of setting up Git across a client organization. Git, as most of you are aware, is a fundamental building block for many of […]
Why Open Banking Should Consider DevOps
There is a craze sweeping Europe, and rippling across the world—and no, I’m not talking about the next British Invasion. Open banking is a trend that’s significantly altering how banks work with fintechs and maintain agility in the global marketplace. A main enforcer is PSD2, a piece of EU legislation that sanctions access to personal […]
Transforming with the Cloud: If Not Now, When?
The question of whether to move to the cloud is no longer relevant for most organizations. Migrating workloads to the cloud has already become an inevitable requirement for a vast majority of companies regardless of their sizes, and if your organization isn’t doing that already, then it is simply the question of when and how […]
Software Development: A Better Way to Measure Success
Here’s a metaphor for software development you probably haven’t heard before: It’s like flying a plane. You have a starting point and a destination in mind, there’s a good chance you’ll change course midflight, and … sometimes you get a little nauseated? Okay, it’s not the best analogy. But there is one aspect of piloting a plane […]
DevOps and Digital Transformation: Q&A with Cloud Foundry Foundation’s Chip Childers
I had the chance recently to sit down with Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. One of Chip’s roles is working with companies digitally transforming their business, from legacy to a more DevOps-centric technology and culture. Here’s what he had to say. Swapnil Bhartiya: What are the greatest challenges facing those deploying DevOps? […]
Why You Need Chaos Engineered into Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Nearly a decade ago, I began working at Amazon as an engineer. Cloud technology was just starting to revolutionize how companies launch applications, and early adopters were seeing the benefits of not having to purchase, provision and manage their own hardware. On the flip side, larger companies (especially those that store sensitive information) were still […]
Making DevOps a Reality – Bringing in Security: Top 4 Topics
I caught up with Maria Loughlin, vice president of engineering at CA Veracode; Chris Eng, vice president of research at CA Veracode; and Alan Shimel, CEO of DevOps.com, to talk more about their recent panel webinar on bringing in security to make DevOps a reality. It was enlightening to hear their perspectives on how companies […]
Puppet Report Sees Long DevOps Journey Ahead
A recent report published by Puppet suggests the level of DevOps maturity within most organizations is still relatively slight. In fact, most of the respondents reported high levels of manual work still occurring across configuration management, deployment, testing and change approval processes. Alanna Brown, director of product marketing for Puppet, said the “State of DevOps: […]
DevOps Chat: Trends in Cloud Service Management – ML/AI, ITSM, DevOps, ITIL & SRE w/ Sinead Glynn
In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Sinead Glynn of IBM about some coming trends in Cloud Service Management, ML/AI, ITSM, DevOps, ITIL and SRE. A lot of buzzwords in there, but there is also some good information here. Sinead is a great interview. As usual, the streaming audio of our conversation is directly below, […]