2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
In April of this year, I embarked on a six-week journey diving deep into an analysis of the world’s software supply chains. I evaluated the practices of 106,000 organizations, the 100,000+ suppliers they relied on, and the billions of software components that fueled their agile, continuous delivery and DevOps practices. The facts I discovered and […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015
We recently hosted the 2nd annual “DevOps: Wine-ing, Not Whining” event in San Francisco to bring together a number of thought leaders and leading practitioners in the DevOps field. We traded stories from the trenches, formed new insights, and offered visions of the future. This week, I’ll be sharing videos captured from the event that […]
My picks for opening day of DevOpsDays Austin
As we wrote earlier, we are happy to be attending and sponsoring DevOpsDays Austin 2015. The opening day morning is chocked full of great sessions with the afternoon dedicated to openspaces as is the norm. While everything from breakfast to Damon Edwards keynote through JJ Ashgar’s session on Chef before lunch look tasty. Here are […]
Security, DevOps and the shift to a software supply chain
Last week at the DevOps Connect event held in conjunction with RSA Conference, the security and continuous delivery worlds united to deliver an overarching message that security teams that can embed themselves in DevOps patterns can not only secure IT at speed, but they can actually contribute to a more reliable, repeatable and higher quality […]
A True Story: DevOps(Sec) Manages Out Elective Risks
A True Story There are over 2000 developers in Bill’s organization. He is a C-level executive for one of the largest insurance companies in North America. Bill boosted developer productivity by 15% last year after taking a closer look at the company’s software supply chain. And this approach isn’t unique to Bill’s organization. Many high performance IT […]