Why Financial Companies Love Continuous Delivery
The other day I was on the American Express website paying bills and browsing around the benefits and services afforded me when I ran across a “who we are” section. It read: “We’re a global services company that provides customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.” Surprisingly, […]
Security @ the Speed of DevOps Survey: Efforts Still Lag
Enterprises today are in a relentless race to digitize or die. If they don’t digitize business processes, services or internal workflows and their competitors do, they will be at a steep disadvantage—and perhaps soon an irrecoverable one. In more and more companies these efforts are being driven by DevOps. According to IDC, the vast majority […]
DevOps: State of the Art in 2017, and Why CDOs Should Care
Nine years after the term “DevOps” was coined, the following two questions seem still open: What does it stand exactly for? and How do we make all this technology work together? From the perspective of the industrialization of work labor also in the software industry, the answer to the first question appears very clear to […]
F5 Networks’s State of Application Delivery, 2017
For the last three years, F5 Networks has surveyed its users and presented the “State of Application Delivery” report. This year’s report is already a couple of weeks old, and I’ve had the opportunity to read through it. There is good information in there for “NetOps” people—those who are focused on the network but want […]
Predictable Progress: Tracking DevOps Maturity Metrics
As DevOps methodologies continue to evolve, we’re naturally seeing an increased emphasis on the cultivation of related maturity metrics. For instance, in the 2016 State of DevOps Report, researchers with DORA took an initial stab at creating relevant ROI measurements. Similarly, a new report issued by researchers Coleman Parkes, sponsored by CA Technologies, offers additional […]
How Open Source Can Help Your CD Chain
What can you do to make continuous delivery work better? Consider moving to open source software solutions. Here’s why. Many DevOps teams already may be using open-source platforms for reasons not related to continuous delivery. They might like the cost-efficiency or interoperability that usually come with open source. Or maybe they just like the open-source […]
DevOps by the Book in 2017: Where we Really Stand
Now that the year-end prediction season is over, it’s time to focus squarely on the actual here and now—where the DevOps movement actually stands at the start of 2017. As we’ll need to wait another six months or so for the annual State of DevOps Report to emerge from the good folks over at DORA […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
To DevOps Or Not To DevOps
Although enterprises today all claim to be software companies, there remain four distinct groups of organizations: the technology leaders, the technology followers, the technology hopefuls and the technology laggards. The first group are the industry leaders who are paving the way. These are the organizations coming up with new technologies, processes and cultural shifts. They […]
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But that’s a mistake. As an example of conflation of the terms CI and CD, take this page, which purports to be a “history of CI/CD […]
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that a product may encounter under real-world conditions. Automobiles, for example, go through extensive hot and cold weather testing in remote locations, and are […]
Last-Mile DevOps: How to Keep Employees Happy
Chances are that your company is embracing DevOps to make sure you can get fresh, new digital capabilities to your customers ASAP. That’s because in today’s market, you either have to be first—or quickly close any gaps between you and your more digitally innovative competitors. But when it comes to getting new capabilities into the […]
Creating a Continuous Integration Delivery Pipeline
This article will provide an example delivery pipeline used through continuous integration, as well as the DevOps tools involved in the automation of building, testing and deploying code through your software development life cycle (SDLC). Background These days, it’s almost impossible to go anywhere without hearing about DevOps. In short, DevOps is the effort to […]
Get to Know the New DevOps Stack
Deploying software has always been manual and labor-intensive. That’s fading into the past as continuous innovation has become a competitive differentiator for companies of all stages and sizes across every industry. DevOps has become a hot investment market in recent years. The mega-rounds we’ve been seeing show the massive demand for tools that enable optimal […]
Q&A: BDO’s Coffman on Change Management, Security and DevOps, Part 2
As we covered in part one, DevOps’ best asset and biggest risk factor may be one and the same: swift and precious change. In part two, we continue our discussion of the challenges and solutions with Deena Coffman, managing director of BDO Consulting’s Technology Advisory Services practice. David Geer: What specific tools and technologies can […]
Chef Boards the DevOps Express with CloudBees, Others
You often may have more questions than answers as you progress along your DevOps journey. Which tools should I choose? Do these tools work well together? What have other people done in my situation? You’re often left Googling to find the right integrations and piece together an architectural solution. Today, I’m excited to announce that […]
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the frantic pace of life makes such matchmaking more difficult than ever. That said, when the right set of complimentary traits exist […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
‘DevOps is a Lifestyle, Not a Title’
“DevOps is a lifestyle, not a title.” This is a quote from Ron Melanson, of Amazon, and I hope he won’t mind me sharing it here. It struck a chord with me, and this blog explains why. I have spoken about DevOps on a few occasions. Some audiences are not from a development background, so […]
Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
DevOps by Osmosis — Is That Even Possible?
“We don’t do DevOps. We can’t, as our development plans are agreed so far in advance and our priority from a production point of view is to keep our systems available 24/7.” I heard this comment from a pal of mine as we had a quiet beer over the weekend, but I’m sure this comment, […]
Top 10 IT Management Tools
Staying up with the latest IT management tools is akin to keeping up on the latest Starbucks drink options. We simplify it here through a look at the most useful tools, from monitoring to DevOps orchestration and APM. IT management tools have entered a new heyday, thanks to the advent of cloud, DevOps and mobile […]