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SDM and the DevOps Delusion of Connected Organizations

How Software Delivery Management Clears Up the Confusion of Embracing and Implementing DevOps Since the term was coined back in 2009, it wouldn’t be a stretch to describe DevOps as an impactful if not tectonic shift in software de…

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Aug22

Blogs

The Struggles DevOps Administrators are Up Against

DevOps has quickly gone from being a niche concept to a widespread practice that is gaining traction rapidly in both large and small organizations. As it becomes a key part of many…

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Jul10

Blogs

Ops: The Other DevOps

Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by sho…

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Oct19

Blogs

DevOps Chat: Shift Ops Left, Shift Dev Right with Kristian Stewart, IBM

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM’s Cloud Event Management team. Kristian has some keen insights into the role of dev and ops and how they interact. Kri…

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Aug16

From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations

What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurrin…

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Jul19

Blogs

DevOps Chat: Rundeck, Putting the Ops in DevOps, with Damon Edwards

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Damon Edwards, co-founder and chief product officer of Rundeck. What I like to say about them is, Rundeck putting the Ops in DevOps. But Damon nee…

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Apr21

Blogs

DevOps: The Innovation Power Couple

If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and O…

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Feb01

Blogs

Swarms: Adapting Guilds To Scale Agility

In my first article in this series, “Using Guilds to Combat Information Silos,” I reviewed the adoption of guilds at xMatters. As our company has grown, we’ve used guilds to keep c…

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Jan17

Blogs

VMs, Containers, Cloud, Cluster: Scheduling Differences

Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center wo…

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Jan10

Blogs

DevOps Leaders Share 2017 Reflections, Predictions

As the New Year kicks off, it is a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead and plan for what is to come. While many are making personal resolutions pertaining to their physi…

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Jan05

Blogs

Automic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle

Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of th…

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Nov04

DevOps Chats

DevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?

In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: L…

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Mar23

Blogs

First We Fixed Dev, But Let’s Not Forget About Ops

Since its beginning in 2008, DevOps has gone from an underground rebellion by developers to a mainstream movement with representatives in every industry and at every scale. You can…

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Feb19

Blogs

What If We Had Git for DevOps?

I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque and hard to learn. It was comfortable to create a set of…

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Dec17

Features

What happened to the “Ops” in “DevOps”?

The wave of digital transformation that has been enabled by cloud computing has provided both new opportunities and fresh challenges. On one hand, it is now possible for applicatio…

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Aug19

Blogs

How IT Operations Analytics is Delivering on the Promise of DevOps

DevOps is one of the most significant movements in IT of the past several years, and the same trends that are making DevOps so important – speed, automation, and iteration – are al…

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Jul10

Blogs

How to “hear” OpenStack silent failures earlier and remediate faster

Troubleshooting “silent failures” in an OpenStack cloud environment has been a tough problem to solve for many production users. eBay’s chief engineer of cloud, Subbu Allamaraju, w…

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Apr23

Blogs

Nine Common Ops Mistakes (and How to Prevent Them)

Constant change is a reality for any growing, dynamic organization. Being receptive to change helps us quickly innovate and learn, yet at the same time, poorly-managed change can c…

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Jan09

Features

Five essential Ops strategies that help make DevOps the real deal

With its roots in Agile and Lean thinking it’s not surprising that DevOps is often looked at through a development lens. After all, it’s proving absolutely essential to support acc…

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Aug04

Blogs

Removing the Wall Between Dev and Ops

Welcome to the new devopsy.kinsta.cloud Q&A series on Enterprise DevOps. In the first post in this series, I answered five key concerns for adopting a DevOps approach in a large en…

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Jun09

Features

The 7 skills Ops pros need to succeed with DevOps

There’s a lot of confusion about what DevOps exactly is, and what it takes for enterprises and individuals alike to succeed. Some argue it’s about successfully using collaboration…

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Jun04

Blogs

Is Ops the quarterback of the DevOps team?

Without stepping too deeply into the charged debate on whether or not developers are at the pinnacle of the IT food chain, I’ve recently observed that many of the DevOps leaders I’…

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May01

Blogs

The Push to Make Ops More Social

Given that social coding is a thing, what about the other side? Operations has the same image of lone wolves solving problems in the dark. The culture of on-call is built around th…

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Mar20

Blogs

Organizational Dysfunction: The original vulnerability

During your teenage years, you may have figured out a way to get a ‘yes’ from your parents by playing off of the responsibility and knowledge gap between them…walking up to your mo…

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