Tag: operations
SMEs Can Benefit from DevOps, Too
The DevOps approach has several clear-cut benefits with the value centered in several key business areas: improved market agility, increased quality and revised culture of cooperation and effectiveness in staff operations. By ...
DevOps: Time for Developers to Dig In
Speaking to developers and project managers at the Gartner Catalyst Show, Jenkins World and Atlassian Summit revealed some insights about how most IT specialist perceive DevOps. Yes, I had a busy end ...
Cloud Capabilities Turn Developers into Operational Experts
The upside-down world of digital transformation can leave you feeling like you’ve fallen down an internet rabbit hole. If you’re a DevOps denizen, the swirling pace and scale of virtualization might give ...
Kanban for Operations and Traffic Court
Howard stepped off the elevator and into the lobby. His eyes were puffy and felt like someone had scrubbed them with sand paper. Looking around the office, he made a beeline for ...
Overcoming the People, Culture Barriers to DevOps Adoption
The fact you’re reading this article on DevOps.com suggests you’re already a DevOps fan. Or maybe you’re visiting this site because you’re considering moving to DevOps in your organization, or you’ve been ...
SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?
Just a few days before he died at the beginning of the 1990s, a wise man taught us that “the show must go on.” Freddie Mercury’s parting words have long provided the ...
SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match
This post supports my DevOpsDays Austin Presentation on May 4 I don’t believe in DevOps shaming. Our community seems compelled to correct use of DevOps as an adjective for tools, teams and ...
Is Site Reliability Engineering the True ‘Ops’ in DevOps?
I recently had the privilege of attending the SRECon conference in San Francisco. It’s in its third year and 650 attendees gathered to learn and share their experiences, insights and site reliability ...
Strategies to Build Trust in DevOps
I’ve been a member of the DevOps community a long time (literally since before it was ever even called “DevOps”). I was a pre-publication reviewer for both "The Phoenix Project" and the ...
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 ...
The Code Doesn’t Lie, and Other Operations Mantras
As engineers, we spend a lot of time talking about things such as release processes, QA environments and deployments. But at the end of the day, most software systems fail because the ...
An Operational Approach to Benchmarking Microservices
Benchmarking microservices often falls behind on the engineering team’s to-do list. However, those that aren’t are missing out on a key component. The fundamental goal of benchmarking is to better understand the ...