Tag: devops
Microsoft Snaps Up GitHub for $7.5 Billion
Recognizing the role GitHub plays in the larger developer and DevOps ecosystems, Microsoft is acquiring the software development platform for a cool $7.5 billion, the two companies have announced. GitHub, the world’s ...
Continuous Integration Principles You Can’t Afford to Ignore
After recognizing the potential benefits from both continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI), many organizations have started implementing DevOps in their business operations. However, even today, many organizations don’t completely understand ...
Using Blockchain to Advance IoT
Imagine two disruptive technologies come together to democratize transparency and connectivity in the tech world. That's exactly what's happening with blockchain technology, once synonymous with powering cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, has the potential ...
6 Steps to Take DevOps to the Next Level
Enterprises should be winning at DevOps and reaping the rewards of their digital transformation initiatives. After all, DevOps is not new. Its practices, technologies and processes have been widely accepted for years ...
Coming Apart in the Age of Automation
One of the fundamental tenets of DevOps is that working in closed, departmental silos is counterproductive for creating quality software. Rather, work is done best when groups are composed of members from ...
Blockchain: A Threat to DevOps—and How Engineers Can Respond
Blockchain is one of the hottest topics in the IT world today—and that creates a challenge for DevOps professionals. Here's why, and what DevOps engineers can do to remain relevant. Blockchain, Fat ...
Using CALMS to Assess an Organization’s DevOps
Of the tried-and-tested frameworks that allow enterprises to assess DevOps in their organization and how it can be improved, the CALMS model remains particularly useful. CALMS, which stands for Collaboration, Automation, Lean, ...
Chef Embraces Microservices to Advance IT Automation
Chef at the ChefConf 2018 conference today unveiled a series of DevOps offerings, including a revamped version of Chef Automate that has been rewritten using the Go programing language to improve performance ...
The DevOps Management Perception Gap
The DevOps momentum is fierce in the enterprise today, as executives and middle management recognize the transformative power that continuous delivery of software has for a business. The message that DevOps can ...
The Past, Present and Future of DevOps Infrastructure
Infrastructure automation enables organizations to set up operating frameworks that allow smooth functionality with enhanced usage, minimal scope for error and faster deployment of code. The process of infrastructure automation eases development ...
Exploratory Testing: Expanding Testing Across the Delivery Cycle
Mindless testing, whether it is manually or automatically executed, can cover only a very narrow scope of possible bugs: the ones you’ve already thought of. Exploratory testing however, endeavors to think outside ...
Repeat Warning: There is No Silver Bullet in DevOps
As the cycle of DevOps is repeated in a growing list of organizations, I feel compelled to reiterate the warning that this is not the pinnacle. Anyone who has been around for ...