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How to Manage Risk, Regulation and Compliance Differently —and Better
During my career as a technology leader I have worked on PCI security, lawsuits, federal and state compliance, foreign market launches and acquisitions. All of these have regulatory, compliance and legal aspects to them, and over time I’ve come to realize we are bad at dealing with such things—really bad. At the heart of being […]
Apr 28, 2017 · 3 minAll articles by Martin J. Logan
Showing 1–11A Critical First Step in Bringing Dev and Ops Together
We all want to deliver excellent software to our customers. We now have a greater awareness than ever before of the interconnectedness of all the activities required to do so. The agile movement started this but it was not until the advent of DevOps that Ops was considered part of the full picture. In this […]
Enough with the DevOps already
Ever say a word 10 times in a row and feel it start to lose its meaning? Try it, say the word “boat” ten times out loud and watch what happens – be sure you are a alone when you try this or you will get funny looks. When your done try it with the […]
DevOps Culture Hacks
Talk by Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins), Chairman and CEO of OpsCode Blogged live from DevOpsDays Boston 2011 by @martinjlogan Tricks for getting DevOps to work in your company, from the technical to the social, taken from experiences at Amazon. Jesse Robbins was the “Master of Disaster for Amazon”. As an ops guy, he worked multiple 72 […]
Data Driven Observations on AWS Usage from CloudCheckrs User Survey
This is a guest post by Aaron Klein from CloudCheckr We were heartened when AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March. This was an implicit acknowledgement of what many have long known: AWS is complex and can be challenging for users to provision and control their AWS infrastructure effectively. We took the […]
DevOps – A Valentine’s Day Fairy Tale
This is a guest post by Matt Watson from Stackify Once upon a time two people from different sides of the tracks met and fell in love. Never before had the two people found another person who so perfectly complemented them. Society tried to keep them apart – “It’s just not how things are done,” […]
Defining the Dev and the Ops in Devops
This is a guest post by Matt Watson from Stackify So what does DevOps mean exactly? What is the Dev and what is the Ops in DevOps? The role of Operations can mean a lot of things and even different things to different people. DevOps is becoming more and more popular but a lot of […]
Approaches to Application Release Automation
This is a guest post by Phil Cherry from Nolio A discussion of process-based, package-based, declarative, imperative and generic approaches to application release automation. Application Release Automation is a relatively new, but rapidly maturing area of IT. As with all new areas there is plenty of confusion around what Application Release Automation really is and […]
The State of DevOps: Accelerating Adoption
By James Turnbull (@kartar), VP of Technology Operations, Puppet Labs Inc. A sysadmin’s time is too valuable to waste resolving conflicts between operations and development teams, working through problems that stronger collaboration would solve, or performing routine tasks that can – and should – be automated. Working more collaboratively and freed from repetitive tasks, IT […]
Fresh Stats Comparing Traditional IT and DevOps Oriented Productivity
This is a guest post by Krishnan Badrinarayanan (@bkrishz), ZeroTurnaround The word “DevOps” has been thrown around quite a lot lately. Job boards are awash with requisitions for “DevOps Engineers” with varying descriptions. What is DevOps, really? In order to better under what the fuss is all about, we surveyed 620 engineers to examine what […]
The Crowdsourcing of Code: What IT Can Learn from Developers
This is a guest post by Yoav Landman (@yoavlandman), Founder & Chief Technology Officer at JFrog The agile movement is influencing the adoption of new methods of collaboration from developer to consumer throughout the development process. The sharing of resources across companies, communities or even countries is known as crowdsourcing and it is becoming increasingly […]