Best DevOps Practices for 2017

January 6, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

Because the idea of DevOps is still so new, we’re continually having to hone what we view as best practices. At the start of the new year, many people make their own personal goals clear for the year (regardless of whether they intend to keep them), but we tend to head back to our work […]

DevOps Survey Says! State of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation

December 2, 2016 by Scott Turner 2 Comments

What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including application owners, configuration managers, middleware specialists and database administrators are managing infrastructure configuration change with manual processes, spreadsheets and scripts. They are spending a lot […]

Pay Down the Skills Debt Before the Technical Debt

May 2, 2016 by Steven Anderson 1 Comments

When we talk about DevOps, we talk about addressing technical debt. We talk about how modern delivery processes and solutions might help you cure that technical debt of monolithic systems that are built on obsolete technologies, using antiquated development methodologies. But that jumps past the first critical step toward transformation, as technical debt is not […]

Only DevOps and Taxes

January 12, 2016 by Chris Riley 2 Comments

As software eats the world, it’s hard to have a conversation about anything that isn’t directly related to or driven by modern mobile, web and IoT applications. DevOps describes the modern approach to building these applications. But like all new movements, there is a cost. And while some of the costs associated with modern development […]

DevOps Leadership Series: Boston Common

September 24, 2015 by Derek E. Weeks 2 Comments

DevOps is coming, DevOps is coming! You could hear the rallying cry around the city of Boston on September 15th and 16th. This is when the DevOps Leadership Series crew headed up north to attend DevOps Days Boston. We first caught up with Beno Chapman (@BenoChapman), release engineering leader at Constant Contact. Beno shared, […]

The Cost to DevOps: 27 Mufflers

July 20, 2015 by Derek E. Weeks 1 Comments

Imagine Imagine that you are designing the 2016 Range Rover line of sport utility vehicles. Like all gas powered vehicles, each one needs an exhaust muffler. Range Rover likely has narrowed in on a preferred provider of mufflers. But imagine what would happen if the designers and factory line workers could pick from any one […]

DevOps and Organizational Debt

February 6, 2015 by JP Morgenthal 1 Comments

I recently published a blog on the Perficient Digital Transformation blog entitled “Is Cloud & DevOps Factored Into Your Digital Transformation?” In that blog I discuss the concept of organizational debt and its impact on your DevOps adoption. Here’s what I had to say in that blog: If technical debt addresses too little investment in […]