Tag: devops
Can Agile and DevOps Get Along?
There is a common misconception that Agile and DevOps cannot work together, which does a disservice to everyone in the software development and delivery field. In fact, both approaches can significantly add ...
How DevOps-Savvy Are You? (Quiz)
As DevOps tools become more and more prominent in the IT landscape, it wouldn’t hurt IT professionals to brush up on their knowledge. DevOps has helped IT departments that are grappling with ...
CI/CD and its Effects on Release Managers
The role of release management in the development of any software package has drastically changed with the introduction of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD has made the development process more ...
What Can Conway’s Law Teach Us About DevOps?
I first heard about Conway's Law from reading the "DevOps Handbook" (an excellent read, by the way, if you want to dive head-first into DevOps). I was intrigued by how this idea ...
DevOps in the Cloud: Security’s Groundhog Day
Throughout the internet age, enterprise IT has given security a lower priority than qualities such as speed-to-deployment, scalability, availability and usability. We first saw this in the late 1990s and early 2000s, ...
Dev vs. Ops Needs for Large-Scale Version Control Systems
Distributed version control systems (DVCS) such as Git (introduced in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) rapidly gained worldwide acceptance by the global software development community. DVCS offer very fast, ...
IBM Z: It’s Not the Dog. It’s the Trick
There’s a piece of conventional wisdom that runs rampant in the tech-o-sphere: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Supposedly, once people become enamored with a technology and use it for ...
How DevOps is Vital for SaaS Entrepreneurs
Software as a service (Saas) is widely regarded as the most lucrative and compelling of the three cloud business and operation models. This is because it transfers the most technical support expenses ...
‘Let the Developer Choose the Language’: Too Much of a Good Thing
As more and more enterprises drive into the DevOps space, this is less of an issue, but you still hear stories that make one cringe. The idea of DevOps (and, by extension, ...
Predictions for DevOps Security in 2018
Automation continues to be a major driver of DevOps as a whole. In 2018, we’ll continue to see a shift in how and where automation is applied in the DevOps life cycle ...
VC Predicts Major Shift to AI-Infused Applications in 2018
Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the nature of DevOps is about to change as developers spend less time writing code in favor of training models based on various types ...
Legacy On-Premises Apps Got You Down? Cloud DevOps to the Rescue!
With all the buzz around DevOps we tend to assume that everyone is doing it. But the reality is that most companies are not. That’s because organizations using legacy, on-premises applications think ...