Tag: scalability
The Beauty of Inheritance Architectures
Spoiler alert: This article is not about inheriting your great-grandparent’s estate. It is rather about how embedding the principles of inheritance into the architecture of your chosen DevOps toolset can yield exponential ...
Culture Change: Metrics, Tools Make a Difference
Change is in the wind. This time of the year, as winter weather gives way to springtime renewal, this concept isn’t a cliché but rather a concrete, visceral experience. You go outside, ...
Funding Failure by Intent
Why is it that when we purchase a lotto ticket, every part of our brain tells us we won't win, yet some portion of it is able to inspire hope where there ...
Measuring the Cost of Service Creation & Adoption
Adopting and implementing DevOps isn't an overnight project. It takes time and effort to determine how it best fits into your organization—and what benefits your organization will realize as a result. Creating ...
DevOps and the Near-Decapitation of Variability
Not all automation scales. One of the chief impediments of delivering an enterprise-class DevOps service is the decentralization of tooling choices—or worse, the methodologies within the tool for delivering CI/CD. If the ...
3 Tips to Avoid Painting Your DevOps into a Scalability Corner
When everything is firing on all cylinders, DevOps can be awesome. Teams work together seamlessly. Routine tasks are automated. Continuous delivery is continuously integrated, continuously tested, continuously deployed and continuously monitored. All ...
The Third “S” To A Successful App: Street Smarts
We have discussed how scalability and simplicity are leading factors to an app’s success, but in addition to having a strong coding skill set, developers need street smarts, or knowledge of the ...