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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 […]
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DevOps’s best asset is swift and valuable change, which also may be its biggest risk factor. DevOps certainly challenges change management and security. We recently discussed these challenges and the solutions with Deena Coffman, managing director at BDO Consulting’s Technology Advisory Services practice. Here is part one of that exchange. David Geer: What kinds of […]
Sounding the Death Knell for Agile: Not so Fast!
Some say DevOps is the next step in Agile’s evolution. Software development is changing rapidly; if you don’t change with it, modern development may leave you behind. DevOps connects information technology operations with development and vice versa; this is a big change for the art of software creation. Agile was not designed with this new […]
Vivint Meets Smart Home IoT Challenges Using DevOps
Smart home technology vendor Vivint serves more than 1 million U.S. and Canadian consumers with services including broadband internet, cloud storage, home automation products, home security services and energy automation controls. The company, which got its start in home security, leverages door and window sensors, motion detectors and glass-break sensors, as well as those that […]
Case Study: Stytch Before, After DevOps Culture, Tools
Cloud analytics provider Stytch leverages its cloud-based analytics for customers who want to centralize, fuse and model their data. “Our mission is to make it easier and faster for business users to get insights and make decisions,” said Taylor Frost, cloud operations engineer at Stytch. Before the company implemented a DevOps approach, its primary software […]
xMatters Sees Value in Continuous Testing
xMatters builds an intelligent communications platform that alerts and connects company stakeholders for IT incident response and in manufacturing line workflow support and DevOps systems scenarios. Customers who count on xMatters also count on the effectiveness of the vendor’s continuous testing mechanisms: A failure of continuous testing early on at xMatters could lead to a […]
DevOps Q&A: SUMO Heavy’s Brodie on the Hybrid Cloud
Not every expert says DevOps will enable the hybrid cloud. One says it never will. Find out why in this Q&A with Bob Brodie, partner and CTO of SUMO Heavy, a digital commerce design and development firm. David Geer: How will DevOps enable the hybrid cloud? Brodie: I do not feel that DevOps enables the […]
Health Care’s Shift to the Cloud via the Hybrid Cloud, Part 2
In part one of this series, we looked at how the healthcare industry has changed, requiring integrations and interoperability that were not previously needed. Having established that the cloud is the way to go and that the hybrid cloud is the stepping stone hospital CIOs are comfortable with, we must ask how DevOps can help. […]
Health Care’s Shift to the Cloud via the Hybrid Cloud, Part 1
The changing healthcare scene is dragging hospital systems into the cloud to enable the interoperability necessary for the industry to send electronic medial records (EMRs) and other data to outside systems such as registries that enable bundled payments. Because health insurance companies and Medicare only pay for patient episodes rather than for each subsequent treatment […]
Case Study: Laserfiche Builds Hybrid Cloud for ECM
Laserfiche is a privately owned software development company that creates enterprise content management (ECM), business process automation, workflow, records management, document imaging and webform software. The company provides secure document management, image capture, electronic forms, workflow automation, digital signatures and DoD 5015.2-certified records management, “Automating and streamlining business processes with prepackaged solutions for contract management, […]
TASC Powers Up DevOps Pipeline
Technology team members at TASC, a leading administrator of employee health benefits, were feeling the chains of manual processes that kept them from moving software out at more than a snail’s pace. Development, operations, quality assurance (QA), project managers (PMs) and business analysts who were pushing code to test, staging and production environments or performing […]
SimplyHealth Uses DevOps to Manage Mobile Testing
SimplyHealth, a private company health insurance plan provider in the United Kingdom, saw its mobile web traffic trending upward with no end in sight. “While this was good news, there was concern whether the customer experience and the company’s ability to provide continuous application delivery on mobile devices might erode as a result,” said Chris […]
Scania: Adopting DevOps for Auto Production
When you think of large vehicles, chances are you think heavy-duty front and rear axles, suspensions and cab parts. When you think of large engines, chances are you think crankshafts, cylinder heads, pistons and injectors. When you think of the brains behind a company that produces all this, you should think software and the processes […]
Q&A: Full City Tech’s Higbee on Culture, Part 2
In part one of this two-part Q&A we dug into Wes Higbee’s position on instilling a DevOps culture. Higbee, a developer and business consultant, continues his separation of wheat from chaff in the field of DevOps dreams. devopsy.kinsta.cloud: How is automation, which is a focal point for DevOps, also a trap? Higbee: Focusing on the […]
Q&A: Full City Tech’s Higbee on Culture, Part 1
Every day, more people are hopping on the DevOps magic bus, drinking the spiked punch and singing “Kumbaya.” I imagined everyone I interviewed would offer tales of instilling this undefeatable, undeniable, brand-spanking-new rapid development culture. It was refreshing to discover that I was mistaken. Apparently, DevOps is just another methodology for accelerating business success—one for […]
Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 2
In part one of this two-part series, devopsy.kinsta.cloud introduced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a nonprofit organization with 49 members engaged in promoting the development of cloud native applications. Let’s continue with the CNCF’s thoughts on instilling a DevOps culture. devopsy.kinsta.cloud: Why do developers need the freedom to choose how they build software? What […]
Continuous Delivery Dependent on Who, What, Where
Without the right people, positions and talents, it is difficult for a business to engender a DevOps culture. It is even more frustrating to facilitate a continuous delivery pipeline successfully producing quick bursts of innovative genius, without a full complement of qualified souls harmonizing on the same DevOps theme song as they toil away on […]
Q&A: CNCF on Instilling a DevOps Culture, Part 1
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a non-profit comprised of some 49 industry participants that have come together to drive development and adoption of cloud-native applications and services. The CNCF is uniting such giants as Google, IBM, Intel and Cisco Systems to distill a collection of container technologies that end-user companies deem praiseworthy to […]
Q&A: Quali’s Wrabetz on Security Testing
DevOps is the perfect storm of automated testing and development that should make secure software commonplace. Yet, there are hurdles to testing for security. devopsy.kinsta.cloud asked Joan Wrabetz, CTO of Quali, about security, DevOps and her laundry list of those testing challenges. David Geer: Isn’t secure software important to DevOps? Wrabetz: DevOps is a practice […]
Echidna Takes DevOps to E-Commerce Site Creation
The Echidna e-commerce firm installs and evolves e-commerce platforms, providing ongoing development so its clients can leverage e-commerce experiences to the satisfaction of their customers. “We apply carefully selected user experience technology, marketing and analytics abilities to our clients’ strategic goals to do this,” taking what it calls an “anti-Big Bang” approach to continuous deployment, […]
Continuous Delivery and Deployment: A Tale of Two Models
EnerNOC (Energy Network Operations Center) is an energy intelligence software provider with more than 1,300 employees in its Boston headquarters and international locations. The public firm helps global customers to efficiently consume energy. “Our mission is to change how the world uses energy, helping customers to improve profitability and visibility for better decision-making and sustainability […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 2
In Part One of this two-part series, we introduced former SlideShare and LinkedIn software engineer Sylvain Kalache, who shared his career growth within the two companies. In this second part, we’ll look at San Francisco-based The Holberton School of Software Engineering, which Kalache co-founded to better prepare students to work in a DevOps world. School […]
Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 1
In 2011, Sylvain Kalache was a software engineer at SlideShare, which LinkedIn acquired in 2012. Kalache was a senior systems reliability engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn, doing project management and planning, documenting and sharing knowledge tools, and adapting himself and his work to the LinkedIn organization and its technology. Today, Kalache is helping build DevOps careers […]
Salvador Partners Bridges Global Gaps for DevOps
Salvador Partners works on a global scale to help its customers grow their business. The company, which has its own set of products, also focuses on assisting startups in making their vision reality. Indeed, it bills itself as “experts at innovation and exploiting innovation.” The company started life as a subcontracted electronic components manufacturing company, […]