Five Great Books on DevOps
While the DevOps movement began in earnest in 2009, there are still a lot of questions about what DevOps means, how it’s done, and what the purported benefits of DevOps are. Big questions, for sure. And there are no quick answers. In fact, to thoroughly answer each would require numerous books. Which brings us to […]
DevOps: Where are we with that?
There’s a great scene in the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy, where the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company informs his executive team that the board has recommended a massive restructuring plan that will cut their research outlay by 60%. Only seconds after first mentioning this undertaking, the CEO turns to his yes […]
Five fruitful DevOps business drivers gaining speed
In talking with those in the enterprise trenches working to make DevOps a reality – admins, developers, CIOs, and business leaders who get it and are trying to help transform their enterprise culture and workflow to be more DevOps oriented – a number of key drivers surfaced from these discussions. What drivers are they? Below […]
CFP for DevOps Connect: DevOpsSec @RSA Conference is now open
The world comes to talk security at RSA Conference. Every year in San Francisco the RSA Conference is the biggest information themed security conference in the world. This year there is a new addition to RSA Conference. DevOps Connect: DevOpsSec will be held on the Monday of RSA week at the Moscone Center. Attendance […]
DevOps Connect: SecOps Edition @RSA Conference
We are very happy to announce that we will be hosting DevOps Connect: SecOps Edition at RSA Conference on Monday, April 20, 2015. It will take place at the Moscone Center and is sponsored by RSA Conference. What is DevOps Connect? Great question. DevOps Connect is the new name for the Camp DevOps brand we have […]
4 themes to expect from DevOps Enterprise Conference
The next few weeks are busy ones for the DevOps conference circuit. In just a week, DevOps.com will kick off another one of its intimate Camp DevOps gatherings in Houston, with talks lined up on everything from the evolution of DevOps to mythbusting DevOps fallacies. Meanwhile, another worthy show kicks off from San Francisco today: DevOps […]
Q&A: Gene Kim on the pain of accruing technical debt
Last week, we ran the story Paying Down Technical Debt. This week, we’re discussing that very topic with Gene Kim (@realgenekim). As a follower of DevOps trends, you probably are already aware of his most recent book project, The DevOps Cookbook, and most certainly his previous works, The Visible Ops Handbook and The Phoenix Project: […]
DevOps Rock Star dinner
I have been so busy running from conference to conference lately. Next on the agenda is the Velocity conference in Santa Clara, Ca. While I am sure the conference is going to be great, I am super psyched about attending a dinner on the 24th that promises to be a blockbuster. It is a “State […]
Lean versus the bandwagon, lean wins
I’ve just finished reading “The Phoenix Project,” by Kim, Behr and Spafford. To be honest, it was on my reading list but had I not picked up a copy at Camp DevOps I don’t know that I would have ever read the book. My main issue with books of this ilk, such as “Who Moved […]
Let DevOps be a business process
I just returned from an amazing time at the first Camp DevOps in Boulder, CO. It was held at University of Colorado, Boulder and in conjunction with Gluecon 2014. This is the first conference I have attended that was singularly focused on DevOps. I found the three track format at the show had something for […]
DevOps and Enterprises, it’s a culture thing
Today author, DevOps evangelist and DevOps.com Advisory Board member Gene Kim published an article in the CIO Journal of the Wall Street Journal. The article was a response to an earlier article by Rachel Shannon-Solomon in which the author claimed that DevOps was not likely to be successful in the enterprise at least not at the present […]
Gene Kim interviewed by JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava
Two members of the DevOps.com Board of Advisors, Gene Kim and Rajat Bhargava filmed an interview that is on YouTube and on JumpCloud’s blog. We are putting it up here and hope you enjoy it. News Editor
Defeating the irrational DevOps jobs displacement fear
People are generally resistant to change, but when that change comes accompanied with the whiff of potential for job loss down the road you can count on gentle inertia to snowball in to out-and-out opposition. Unfortunately, as early misperceptions swirl around the DevOps philosophy, many in the ops world have gotten their backs up in […]
No DevOps Roadmap? No Problem.
I’m a huge fan of The Phoenix Project and I’m honored to count Gene Kim both as one of my professional inspirations and also as a personal friend. There is, however, a dangerous precipice inside of the Phoenix Project that, if misunderstood, could cause many DevOps practitioners and enterprise IT shops a daunting problem in […]
My DevOps Bookshelf
Aside from the many technical manuals on our bookshelves, I bet everyone has a few that are more process or philosophically oriented which hold a special place in our hearts. To me, these are the ones we continue to go back to and that have helped develop us as engineers, software, operations, quality assurance or […]
DevOps: The Last Great Hope for Application Security?
Once upon a time, there was a great battle between speed and security. Development wanted to go fast. But, Security wanted to slow down and be safe. “We must protect our gilded apps”, cried the application security team. “Speed is cherished by our people”, declared the development team. For years, they endured the pain of […]
Don’t Fear, Testing Team! DevOps is here!
I love Gene Kim’s analogy about how all unicorns used to be horses; its a great visual that I use all the time when encouraging IT organizations to change from thinking “why not” to “why not us” when it comes to starting their DevOps transformation. If culture is really one of the greatest enemies to […]
Q & A with Kevin Behr on DevOps, its impact on security, and the challenges of bringing change to the organization
Kevin Behr has been in IT game for 26 years and is the author of seven IT management books, including the bestselling The Visible Ops Handbook, which he coauthored with Gene Kim and George Spafford, and The Definitive Guide to IT Management, published by Hewlett Packard. His most recent book, The Phoenix Project, also coauthored […]
DevOps Is For Horses: Stop Making Excuses For Starting
While DevOps practices may be spreading throughout organizations both large and small, often times the most visible success stories are also the most exceptional. Organizations like Netflix, Etsy and Google are brought up in conversations about DevOps time and again because they offer the most stark examples of the benefits that the model can bring […]
Winners of “The Phoenix Project” by Gene Kim From DevOps.com
As one of the banners on DevOps.com says we are picking some lucky winners to receive a copy of Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project”. To be eligible to win you must sign up for the DevOps.com newsletter on the right of your screen. We have more books to give away, so it is not too […]
Busting The 4 Biggest DevOps Security Myths
Last month when the IT security world convened in San Francisco for the annual RSA confab, a number of security experts tackled DevOps in talks that covered the crossover between continuous improvement and risk management. Among them was a lively panel mythbusting some of the most prevalent misconceptions about DevOps held by the security community. […]
DevOps Board of Advisors and other DevOps blog musings
Well it looks like putting big names on Board of Advisors is having a good week in the DevOps world. Our friend Steve Hall over at ScriptRock announced on their blog yesterday that DevOps luminary, Kevin Behr (@kevinbehr) has joined the company’s board of advisors. ScriptRock has also been putting some great content up on their […]
DevOps.com ANNOUCES DREAM TEAM BOARD OF ADVISORS
Thought Leaders Gene Kim, Brad Feld, and David Cohen to Provide Strategic Direction and Advice to Foremost DevOps Community Site Boca Raton, FL – March 18, 2014 – DevOps.com, where the world meets DevOps, today announced its Board of Advisors, including Gene Kim, renowned author and thought leader; Brad Feld, managing partner of Foundry Group; […]