Tag: ops
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 see the change ...
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 ...
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 application developers to provide ...
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 ...
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, whose team has been operating PayPal ...
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 create instability and downtime ...
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 accelerated delivery times; ...
Removing the Wall Between Dev and Ops
Welcome to the new DevOps.com 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 enterprise. Now, ...
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 toolsets. It’s not. DevOps ...
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’ve ...
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 ...
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 ...