Metrics, Logs and Traces: The Golden Triangle of Observability in Monitoring

November 8, 2018 by Apurva Dave 1 Comments

It isn’t surprising that the job of monitoring infrastructure and application environments has grown more complex as the underlying technologies evolve. Nor is it surprising that the need to get monitoring right has expanded as our business reliance on IT grows ever deeper, so it is important to have a good grasp of the core […]

How to Fix ‘Dark Debt’ in Your IT Organization’s Culture

September 19, 2018 by Dominica DeGrandis 1 Comments

Poor decisions, bad metrics, lack of communication can accrue dark debt in any company Buying a low-quality microwave meal from a gas station, kicking a sock under the bed before guests arrive, jaywalking … We all take shortcuts. But unlike enterprise software delivery, these decisions rarely cause any collateral damage. The ramifications of taking shortcuts […]

The Software Testing Metrics That Make Or Break DevOps Success

July 31, 2018 by Ericka Chickowski 1 Comments

Organizations today are racing to develop software at a breakneck pace through efficient DevOps processes. But it’s important for them to avoid losing sight of the forest for the trees. If too much of that speed comes with quality sacrifices that degrade the user experience, the rapid software iterations hurt the business more than they […]

Software Development: A Better Way to Measure Success

June 15, 2018 by Rob Duffy 1 Comments

Here’s a metaphor for software development you probably haven’t heard before: It’s like flying a plane. You have a starting point and a destination in mind, there’s a good chance you’ll change course midflight, and … sometimes you get a little nauseated? Okay, it’s not the best analogy. But there is one aspect of piloting a plane […]

Knowing What Your Microservices Are Doing

June 14, 2018 by Zach Jory 1 Comments

Microservicin’ ain’t easy, but it’s necessary. Breaking your monolith down into microservices is a must in a cloud-native world, but it doesn’t automatically make everything easier. Some things actually become more difficult. An obvious area where it adds complexity is communications between services; visibility into service to service communications can be hard to achieve, but […]

Continuous Delivery Pipelines: Metrics, Myths, and Milestones

January 4, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Join Gary Gruver as he discusses metrics and trending data needed to drive efficient release management at enterprise scale. Also, find out what over 40% of enterprise customers cite as a key barrier to achieving DevOps efficiencies. You will learn how to: Integrate with sources of record to reduce over processing. Foster dev and release […]

Continuous Deployment and Monitoring of Microservices

September 27, 2017 by Don Macvittie 3 Comments

Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a fair number of practitioners that are struggling with the merging of these concepts to create a holistic environment that allows for deep understanding […]

Quality Culture, DevOps Forge Better Connections Between IT, Lines of Business

September 15, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

The automation of software development does not obviate the need for a collaboration between IT and the lines of business, or the development of a culture of quality on the part of the development team. Achieving that quality culture requires more than a change in mindset as developers seek to align quality with the speed […]