Tag: tools
Challenges in DevOps Standardization
Many organizations still face challenges in their Devops adoption journey enterprise-wide, especially when there is no standardization in tools, non-repeatable processes and adhoc practices and culture barriers. Here are some of the ...
When DevOps Disrupts DevOps
As longtime readers of my blogs will know, one of my hobbies—when not writing about or playing with technology—is modeling. There is a similarity between quality tech work and quality modeling, but ...
Configuration Management vs. Application Release Automation
There are many areas of Development and Operations toolchains that are clear to understand and compartmentalize. CI/bBuild, source control, artifact repositories, log management, APM and others each are relative easy to comprehend ...
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
CD 101 Podcast: How to Build the Modern Software Factory with Agile Development and Continuous Delivery
And now, for Episode 3 ... you decide if it beats "Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith." I think we accidentally just set the bar pretty low, but ... ... here we ...
DevOps is Dead! Long Live DevOps!
Some are seekers on the quest for the one, true DevOps. They were misled. I'm here to say: Give it up. Whatever you find at the end of that journey isn't it. That ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...