Top Challenges When Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise and How to Conquer Them

January 30, 2018 by Rami Sass 0 Comments

Preparing to adopt DevOps can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Scaling DevOps and bringing it to an enterprise demands a special strategy. Use these tips to build yours. DevOps principles apply to all organizations. Everybody has business goals that can be met and exceeded by following DevOps practices. However, an organization’s size […]

Scaling DevOps at Pearson

October 6, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 0 Comments

Pearson might be one of the more influential companies you have never heard of. Its footprint in the educational publishing marketplace is expansive, and its scope was just one challenge when it made the move to DevOps. Sean D. Mack (@SeanDMackNYC) is formerly the VP of Operations and Application for Pearson. To give you an idea of […]

AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops

September 22, 2017 by Dominic Wellington 3 Comments

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 […]

Liberty Mutual: Taking an Organic Approach to DevOps

September 12, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 0 Comments

Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, “Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual,” looked at Liberty Mutual’s transformation to continuous integration, […]

9 Essential Ingredients for Modern Enterprise Applications

August 10, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

Digital transformation. It’s the latest in a series of buzz phrases intended to describe how enterprises are embarking on top-to-bottom modernization of their IT environments. It’s easy to see why it’s a hot topic. Emerging technologies including cloud, containers, microservices and distributed applications hold the promise of greater flexibility, lower cost and faster release cycles. […]

From ‘Water-Scrum-Fall’ to DevSecOps

July 27, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 0 Comments

As organizations abandon the waterfall method of software development for Agile, many are stuck in what Hasan Yasar terms Water-Scrum-Fall. That is, the organization has not effectively embraced Agile and DevOps principles and remains in silos with no links to business goals. Enter DevOps, an extension of Agile thinking. While Agile embraces constant change and embeds the […]

Atlassian Builds a DevOps Stack for the Enterprise

June 15, 2017 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

One of the major challenges associated with DevOps is that it’s not something an enterprise IT organization can buy. Because of that issue, it’s often challenging for IT organizations to forecast what types of DevOps tools they are going to need. To make it a lot easier to cope with that issue, Atlassian has announced […]

Embedding Ownership: A DevOps Best Practice

June 12, 2017 by Derek E. Weeks 1 Comments

From where I sit in the DevOps community, there is often more focus on dev than on ops. Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) of SimplifyOps sought to change that with his talk, “Ops Happens: DevOps Beyond Deployment,” at the All Day DevOps conference. Damon dove right into the primary, systemic force behind most DevOps problems: silos. The […]

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