Tag: operations
Making Performance More Than a Best Practice
Yes, you read that correctly: SRE means that strong application performance—speed, reliability and availability—no longer is simply a best practice. It is a must. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is a term Google ...
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that ...
Introducing DevOps Express!
The DevOps Institute (DOI) is proud to join industry leaders as a founding member of the DevOps Express. The DevOps Express is a bold initiative between tool providers and others to create ...
DevOpsDays and Diogenes: Thoughts from a First-Timer
I went seeking honesty at a DevOps conference and met Diogenes. Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure in ancient Athens who was known for walking around the famed ancient city—some say ...
DevOps: Achieving Process Without Too Much ‘Process’
While there's no fundamental conflict between IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps, DevOps does bring new and different techniques for getting work done and interacting with the rest of the organization. ITSM ...
Putting Ops Back in DevOps
What Agile means to your typical operations staff member is, "More junk coming faster that I will get blamed for when it breaks." There always is tension between development and operations when ...
Let’s Talk About Ops: An ITSM Crowd Special
The ITSM Crowd is a regular hangout hosted by DevOps training provider ITSM Zone that covers many different IT and management topics. On Aug. 11, host Claire Agutter was joined by IT ...
The ‘Continuous’ Illusion
Continuous delivery is an illusion. That doesn’t make it insubstantial—illusions can have a tremendous impact. Like the first motion picture: the locomotive felt so real to first audiences that they fell from ...
Why Your Organization Needs DevOps
The recently released fifth annual "State of DevOps Report" by Puppet has once again brought with it fresh insights into what drives high-performance teams. The report, which comes at a time when DevOps has ...
REP SPOTLIGHT: Glenfis AG
Tell us a little about your organization: Based in Zurich, we offer consulting and training services since almost 20 years. We see ourselves as an independent enabler for the digital transformation, helping our ...
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting ...
‘DevOps is a Lifestyle, Not a Title’
“DevOps is a lifestyle, not a title.” This is a quote from Ron Melanson, of Amazon, and I hope he won’t mind me sharing it here. It struck a chord with me, ...