Automation: Achieving Faster Rollouts with Better Accuracy
A changing landscape requires new processes At the recent Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner shared a list of technologies and trends that will be important for organizations to embrace and prepare for in 2017. These trends, which are listed in the report, “Top Strategic Predictions for 2017 and Beyond: Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption,” reinforce the […]
Time, Training: How to Implement DevOps Effectively
Successful implementation of DevOps solutions requires two very important investments: time and training. New technologies have always transformed how the commercial world operates. The steam engine for example, fueled the industrial revolution of the 18th century and changed the face of business forever. This dramatic shift didn’t happen overnight, though; people had to learn new […]
DevOps Leaders Share 2017 Reflections, Predictions
As the New Year kicks off, it is a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead and plan for what is to come. While many are making personal resolutions pertaining to their physique, job performance or travel plans, there is a lot of chatter in the software delivery space around what DevOps will […]
DevOps in 2017: From Building to Executing
In 2016, DevOps grew in popularity and use, new tools were introduced and enterprises across industries realized the influence and benefits derived from agile development. But there are even more developments to look forward to as enterprises engage DevOps teams further. Scaling-out solutions, providing a baseline for a new cultural approach to problems and continuous […]
Best DevOps Practices for 2017
Because the idea of DevOps is still so new, we’re continually having to hone what we view as best practices. At the start of the new year, many people make their own personal goals clear for the year (regardless of whether they intend to keep them), but we tend to head back to our work […]
Customer Demands Outpacing Business Requirements
As more organizations adopt agile and DevOps, many recognize quickly that the related gains are significant but further business efficiencies can be realized. IT and the business now are working closer than ever. No longer is the business throwing requirements over the wall into the IT “sausage factory”—they’re now an integral part of the entire […]
Automic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle
Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing websites into a DevOps organization. As a result, project delivery was completed with 90 percent fewer delays, and first customer-facing releases of projects could be delivered in less than […]
15 DevOps Expert Opinions on Continuous Integration and Delivery
We at Shippable recently approached some DevOps experts and asked them what they really think about continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). The responses were just amazing, proving that CI/CD’s future is just bright and long in the software development process. Perhaps this insight might be of help to organizations, regardless of whether they […]
Top Reasons to Use Node.js
When considering the architecture of a new web app, it might be a good idea to include Node.js in the discussion as a key part of that architecture. Node.js could provide you with additional speed, can be used on numerous platforms and has an active community from which to get modules and other assistance. What […]
Using Guilds to Combat Information Silos
At xMatters, our group of 100 or so talented engineers is subdivided into teams tackling everything from front-end work to release automation to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). As is common in an agile-minded organization, our engineering team members are cross-functional, with knowledge and expertise that carries over into areas outside their main […]
Are You Paying a ‘Wait-Time Tax’ on Your Global DevOps?
Business increasingly is global, so DevOps has become global as well. In fact, for many enterprises, DevOps entails collaboration between development, test/QA and ops teams across multiple continents. This is in part due to the economics of IT labor and in part because applications for global enterprises have to be deployed globally. Unfortunately, enterprises executing […]
Closing the Gap on Continuous Delivery Metrics that Matter
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” I would take a step back and say, If you can’t measure it, you can’t get it off the ground. Many companies that I work with are amid digital transformation initiatives, such as the adoption of DevOps and continuous delivery. […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
Breaking the Cycle of Dependency
While technology is an important component of DevOps and accelerating delivery, there are other aspects of process and culture that are critical to keeping the cycle moving to realize the goals of reducing lead time to become more responsive to the needs of the business. If you go to most agile teams and ask the […]
How Continuous Can Integration Be?
My blog, “7 Pillars of DevOps,” identified seven essential best practices areas that make up successful DevOps. One of the seven pillars is continuous integration (CI). The blog explained that the pillars are not silos, but rather foundations that need to be kept in balance. A well-balanced CI implementation performs integrations that are fast enough […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
Compuware Survey Connects Mainframes, DevOps
Mainframes are still necessary; integrating them with modern hardware and software is tricky; and DevOps is the answer. Those are the takeaways from a survey out this week that was commissioned by Compuware. The survey, which was released Dec. 14, was conducted by Forrester. It asked professionals how often their organizations rely on mainframe systems […]
Australian DevOps Company to Open US Office in 2017
Australia-based DevOps as a managed service provider base2Services is preparing to establish a U.S. office in mid-2017. Despite being based in Melbourne, Australia, base2Services already has five customers in North America—including media company All Day and online video specialist Sardius Media—that contribute nearly 20 percent of the company’s revenue. Further expansion in the region will […]
Confessions from Fannie Mae, Liberty Mutual and Capital One
Learn from real-world stories from presenters at the All Day DevOps conference … True Story Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in which it delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200 per month to 15,000 per month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28 percent while costs were reduced by 30 […]
Lessons Learned: We’re Still Killing Ourselves with Innovation
Since the widespread acceptance of virtual machines (VMs), we’ve been on a racetrack with changing technology, with little opportunity to stop and digest lessons learned. That’s not to say organizations haven’t done a good job of learning from experience and mistakes both; rather, the lessons learned are too frequently obsoleted by The Next Big Thing. […]
Overcoming Objection to DevOps Adoption
The advent of the application economy has made software arguably one the most critical and valuable assets of organizations across a broad spectrum of industries—financial, telecommunications, entertainment, and government, just to name a few. In the era of “app store ratings” and an unprecedented ability of the consumer to easily switch suppliers of whatever they’re consuming, […]
When Technology Doesn’t Matter
Over 10 years ago, Nick Carr wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review with the title, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” As you might expect, an article with a title like that generated a significant amount of controversy. CEOs from leading technology companies and other writers at the time panned Carr’s premise in a way that, […]
How DevOps Optimizes Use of Resources
How is DevOps changing the way we compute? One big DevOps innovation is helping developers and admins consume exactly what resources they need to deploy an app—nothing more and nothing less. Traditionally, using (and paying for) only what you need has been tough in all parts of life. If I want to park my car […]