The Future of Continuous Testing: Fail Faster
In the early days of Agile and Lean development practices, a very noticeable gap appeared between dev teams and ops and QA. Development was accelerating at a lightning-fast pace, but testing processes could not keep up, slowing down the entire life cycle and preventing organizations from achieving continuous delivery. Traditional testing methods, which rely heavily […]
The 7C Holistic Approach to DevOps
The DevOps methodology was first adopted in 2007 with a bigger purpose of improving organizational efficiency by bridging the gap between software release and IT operations teams. This started as the core practice of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with a prime focus on better quality of releases and more frequent releases. Now, […]
SMEs Can Benefit from DevOps, Too
The DevOps approach has several clear-cut benefits with the value centered in several key business areas: improved market agility, increased quality and revised culture of cooperation and effectiveness in staff operations. By promoting and implementing a DevOps culture in your SME’s business, Dev and Ops teams align much closer together and can better share in-between […]
Automation: Addressing Bot Security with BotChain
Bot technology is all the rage these days, and with good reason. Bots help you shop and provide customer service. In fact, one bot keeps contacting me on Facebook, telling me how I can optimize my marketing spend. They’re everywhere and they’re getting smarter all the time. Any one bot can access the entire intelligence […]
Continuous Testing: Crushing the Testing Bottleneck
The practice of continuous delivery has been with us for many years, but it has started to see real adoption in the last couple of years. Continuous delivery is about automating and simplifying the process of delivering new features to the market at any given time, accelerating delivery and helping bring Dev and Ops together […]
CA Technologies Positions Automic at the DevOps Core
After acquiring Automic earlier this year, CA Technologies suddenly found itself with an embarrassment of IT automation riches. Now the company is moving forward by further integrating the Automic IT automation platform with the rest of the portfolio of tools and services that it says are required to construct a software factory. Ron Gidron, technology […]
Maturity Models Help Measure the DevOps Journey
DevOps professionals often encounter clients who struggle with sorting through the “what”s and “how”s of where they are in their journey, and how they can either get started with—or improve upon—their current practices. As a project progresses, we often find that diving into a technical solution up front without taking a holistic view of where […]
Operations Management Puts the ‘Ops’ in DevOps
Awareness and anticipation of operational management, best practices can improve your app at every stage of its life cycle How important or interesting you find the “operations management” aspects of DevOps methodologies likely depends on your background, experience and how many operational horror stories you have lived through. If you have been on the hot […]
With Distelli Technology, Puppet Expands DevOps Portfolio
At its PuppetConf 2017 conference, Puppet made it clear its ambitions now extend well beyond its namesake IT automation framework for IT infrastructure. On the heels of acquiring Distelli in September, the company announced it is adding several products to its portfolio based on technologies developed by Distelli. The new offerings include Puppet Pipelines for […]
How an Integrated Tool System Helps Implement DevOps
DevOps is the marriage of application development teams with system operations teams, their philosophies and actions. In an agile environment, development, testing and operations all must work together to meet frequent iterations, releases and delivery goals. This calls for a collaborative development environment that supports data orchestration with other lifecycle tools. The article will explain […]
QA/Testing and DevOps: Partners, Not Adversaries
Software testing and QA is sometimes given low priority during development. The idea of treating software testers as adversaries by the developers seems old-fashioned and is short-sighted. It’s hard to believe that such an attitude can still exist, and yet it still persists, even in a modern DevOps team. But a DevOps-focused software team benefits […]
CA Technologies Acquires Runscope for API Monitoring
There’s a pressing need for a variety of monitoring tools more than ever. But given the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the enterprise, demand for API monitoring tools in particular is rapidly expanding. To address that requirement, CA Technologies has acquired Runscope, a provider of an API monitoring service delivered as a software-as-a-service […]
Is AWS Cloud Per-Second Billing Boon or Bane for DevOps Engineers?
Amazon’s introduction of its AWS services in 2006 with a per-hour billing model for compute resources was a game-changer for the IT world. Since then, AWS has taken over the cloud computing market as a leader, while broadening the range of cloud services offered every year. However, the per-hour billing business model was one of […]
Bridging the Gap Between ITSM and Software Engineering
Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues and engineering fixes code-related issues (such as defects) that IT cannot fix on its own. However, more often than not, coordination between these two departments is poor, which—critically—undermines […]
Oracle on the March Toward Automated CI/CD Services
At its OpenWorld 2017 conference today, Oracle charted a course forward that essentially creates a managed DevOps platform spanning a broad number of application types and styles. The Oracle Application Development Platform is a subset of the Oracle Cloud Platform optimized for application development. Siddhartha Agarwal, vice president of product management and strategy, says the […]
Configuration Files and DevOps
When DevOps appeared on the scene, configuration file management tools already existed. They weren’t used by everyone, but a fair number of organizations saw the power of configuration file versioning/management, and were using them. An interesting thing seems to have happened while DevOps evolved. Those tools are more popular, but while we’ve standardized on things […]
Executive Buy-in May Be Preventing DevOps Success
A common misconception in the executive suite is that an organization can reap all the benefits of DevOps without fully embracing the change necessary. That’s understandable, given that a DevOps transformation is a lengthy, costly disruption for companies of all sizes. DevOps requires businesses to transform, from team organization to culture to development processes. This […]
DevSecOps and DevNetOps: New Heroes in the DevOps Saga
The evolution of DevOps is by no means done, but it’s safe to say that there is enough agreement and acceptance to declare it a hero. DevOps has helped glorify IT to the point where it’s no longer preventing business, nor a provider nor a partner of the business. Often IT is the business, or […]
OutSystems: Low-Code Apps Require Sound DevOps Processes
As more IT organizations embrace low-code application development platforms, many of them are discovering that accelerating the rate at which they develop applications can be too much of a good thing. António Barros, product manager for OutSystems, says most of the organizations that have adopted the company’s namesake low-code platform are just now coming up […]
DevOps Predictions for the Future
Among the few powerful trends we had experienced in the recent times, one is undoubtedly the adoption of DevOps practices. As we are move closer to 2018, it is becoming more obvious that DevOps is becoming mainstream, with many large organizations getting on board with DevOps. DevOps Within Enterprises DevOps is becoming the standard way […]
DevOps: Time for Developers to Dig In
Speaking to developers and project managers at the Gartner Catalyst Show, Jenkins World and Atlassian Summit revealed some insights about how most IT specialist perceive DevOps. Yes, I had a busy end of summer schedule attending events and talking to a wide range of developers and project managers about DevOps. What I learned is that […]
AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops
Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and Operations is a fundamental difference, like an actual physical law. Let’s explore that analogy together. IT Ops is fundamentally a constant fight against […]
Total DevOps is Needed, Plugins are Not Enough
Trace3 was proud to be a Gold Sponsor, exhibitor, trainer of the DevOps Institute leadership certification course and newest partner of CloudBees at the CloudBees Jenkins World 2017 event in San Francisco last month. Jenkins World 2017 attracted 54 sponsors/exhibitors, an 80 percent increase over 2016. The growth of interest and sponsors for this event […]