Tag: enterprise
An Engineering Think Tank to Change the World
In his famous book "Mythical Man Month," Fred Brooks says, “Techniques proven and routine in other engineering disciplines are considered radical innovations in software engineering.” While being very fond of engineering on ...
DevOps Debates: The Benefits of Tool Standardization
As my role demands, I work with various large enterprises looking at implementing DevOps to improve their software delivery cycle times. I have seen many strategies being adopted by them—some working, and some ...
Survey says network agility is still immature
At least that’s the word from SDx Central’s Cloud Management, Orchestration and DevOps 2015 Report in which 76% of respondents said the network was the most immature component in the cloud management ...
Five often expressed obstacles to enterprise IT innovation
Business leaders know, for their business to succeed in the years ahead, that their IT and developer teams need to innovate. But surveys show that too often the IT teams may not ...
An Open Letter to DevOps “enthusiast”
Dear DevOps “enthusiast”, You are confused. But I am confused as well. For approximately two years now this DevOps thing has been both exciting and frustrating. And in ways that are totally ...
Imperative or Declarative? The question of DevOps in the network.
A significant amount of bandwidth is spent discussing automation and praising the value of APIs within the broader DevOps umbrella. These concepts are particularly important in the context of CI/CD and the ...
Enterprise DevOps: Standardize for Security
Etsy is a shining example of the success that can be achieved with continuous delivery (CD). By 2014 Etsy had doubled its deployment rate, deploying more than 50 times a day. Today ...
Is DevOps a Competitive Advantage? A Debate
The idea of DevOps being a competitive advantage is not a new one. Service providers, software sellers, and internal IT frequently use this argument to justify all kinds of investments. But is ...
What IT expects from SDN is DevOps
There was much excitement in the air when the announcement that Docker had acquired SocketPlane. Not the least of which was emanating from my corner of the world, where DevOps for network ...
The right answer was “process”
The question is "why is there no one-size-fits-all automation and orchestration solution"? Automation, a component critical for continuous deployment particularly as it extends beyond app operations and into the broader environment to ...
How Deploy Frequency Impacts Infrastructure Stability
I recently took some time out from reading the Internet to read a very specific piece of research I found on the Internet from IDC - its "DevOps and the Cost of ...
Measure Twice. Automate Once.
"Shipping" code may start with the completion of development but it doesn't end until after the operational delivery process ends. Just like any fulfillment process, shipping is actually just the kick off ...