What Can Conway’s Law Teach Us About DevOps?
I first heard about Conway’s Law from reading the “DevOps Handbook” (an excellent read, by the way, if you want to dive head-first into DevOps). I was intrigued by how this idea came from slightly left field, yet seemed to have big implications for businesses on their journey to increased efficiency. In this blog, I […]
Applitools Introduces Application Visual Management Category (AVM) for Automated Management of all Visual Aspects of Application Delivery
New category focuses on visually perfect user experiences in the era of digital transformation SAN MATEO, Calif., February 13, 2018 – Applitools (https://applitools.com) the leader in AI-powered Visual Testing and Monitoring, today introduced Application Visual Management (AVM), a new category framework that focuses on automating all the visual aspects of application delivery. AVM represents a […]
DevOps in the Cloud: Security’s Groundhog Day
Throughout the internet age, enterprise IT has given security a lower priority than qualities such as speed-to-deployment, scalability, availability and usability. We first saw this in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when IT teams rushed applications onto the web. Amid the glee surrounding the potential of fancy new internet architectures, few thought about the […]
Portworx and HPE Release New Solution for Rapid Deployment of Containerized Applications on HPE Synergy
Portworx and HPE Release New Solution for Rapid Deployment of Containerized Applications on HPE Synergy New Reference Configuration to Automate and Manage Enterprise Applications Running Kubernetes at Cloud Scale Los Altos, Calif. – Jan. 18, 2018 – Portworx, the solution for running stateful containers in production, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a solution based reference configuration that […]
DevOps Challenges in C/C++ Projects
“C++ is not only the most powerful language in terms of performance, but it’s also a great language! It has true generics, it is expressive, and one of the most loved languages out there by programmers.” — Diego Rodriguez-Losada, SW Engineer at JFrog and creator of Conan.io This very powerful language that has unbeatable performance […]
The Impact of DevOps and Continuous Testing in 2018
At its core, DevOps is meant to touch an entire organization; however it’s heavily weighted in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That’s why DevOps is going mainstream in 2018. Companies are making the business benefits of DevOps a top priority—it’s all about delivering value to the customer faster through maximum automation of the release […]
Cuba Embraces DevOps, Despite Infrastructure Challenges
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the second DevOpsDays event in Cuba alongside some great technologists from across the United States, Europe and Latin America. The conference was held in a beautiful hotel in Varadero overlooking a marina right by the beach. Varadero is approximately two hours by car from […]
Top 5 Best Practices for DevOps Monitoring
Today organizations are required to deliver on higher levels of customer satisfaction for their online services. Many, however, are forced to support these initiatives with an interrupt-driven approach as they react to fix things after they break. However, for a more proactive approach and to manage expected high levels of SLAs, organizations can opt to […]
The 7C Holistic Approach to DevOps
The DevOps methodology was first adopted in 2007 with a bigger purpose of improving organizational efficiency by bridging the gap between software release and IT operations teams. This started as the core practice of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with a prime focus on better quality of releases and more frequent releases. Now, […]
DevSecOps and DevNetOps: New Heroes in the DevOps Saga
The evolution of DevOps is by no means done, but it’s safe to say that there is enough agreement and acceptance to declare it a hero. DevOps has helped glorify IT to the point where it’s no longer preventing business, nor a provider nor a partner of the business. Often IT is the business, or […]
Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]
CollabNet Announces Latest TeamForge for Enterprise Class Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) that Speeds Software Delivery and Supports Agile and DevOps
CollabNet Announces Latest TeamForge for Enterprise Class Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) that Speeds Software Delivery and Supports Agile and DevOps CollabNet demonstrates commitment and continual market leadership enabling complex, distributed enterprises to develop quality software at speed SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 29, 2017 – CollabNet (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in enterprise software development, […]
Creatures of Habit, Snowflakes and Integration Tax
Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps’ biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal “10 deploys per day” Velocity presentation in 2009, it was regarded by some as strange and alien to corporate culture. It was the antithesis to the accepted way of […]
Veracode and DevOps.com Research Shows Formal Education Leaves Developers Without Necessary Skills to Succeed in DevSecOps World
Veracode and DevOps.com Research Shows Formal Education Leaves Developers Without Necessary Skills to Succeed in DevSecOps World 76 percent of developers indicated security and secure development education needed for today’s world of coding is missing from formal curriculums BURLINGTON, Mass. – August 17, 2017 – New research shows that software developers are not receiving the […]
SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps
Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today’s technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker’s uncle Ben noted, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Security has always been a big concern for valuable things and IT is no exception. IT […]
Move the Needle in DevOps with Continuous Testing
Shift-left testing, risk based testing, early testing and technical debt reduction are all predicted to be some of the most sought-after trends in product development life cycle. All of these can be achieved with continuous testing through DevOps, as it emphasizes quicker transitioning of quality products to production environment at a reduced business risk. Software […]
Adding Accountability with ‘You Build It, You Run It’
Let’s see if this scenario resonates with anyone: Your department, organization, company, etc. is beginning to embrace DevOps practices, which is, of course, an amazing step in the right direction! One of those key practices is the “You Build It, You Run It” (YBI/YRI) mantra that helps facilitate a higher level of quality and accountability. […]
Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck
It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication. The findings that stood out most fascinating to me where around quality assurance and testing. In this survey, the question was asked, “Where […]
7 Steps to DevOps Hiring Success
As many of us in the DevOps scene know, most companies are hiring, or, at least, trying to do so. The required skills and job descriptions can change entirely from company to company. As a broad overview, most teams are looking for a candidate from either an operations and infrastructure background or someone from a […]
Continuous Testing vs. Test Automation: 3 Key Differences
Testers have been wrestling with test automation for years, yet most teams are not satisfied with their current level of test automation or the overhead required to maintain it. Additionally, the past few years have brought a sea change in the way that applications are architected, developed and consumed—increasing both the complexity of testing and […]
Spurring the DevOps Adoption Journey
Every few years, the IT canvas is splashed with a new initiative that sparks enthusiasm among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such philosophy gaining significant momentum in today’s digital transformation landscape. At the same time, the concept remains misunderstood and adoption is slow. DevOps embodies Development plus Operations within software development. Traditionally, these […]
Improving DevOps Success with Well-Defined Metrics
Collaboration within diverse project teams is often more difficult to achieve when there is no clearly visible aim, the planning is haphazard and the information shared is inadequate. However, these are crucial hurdles to overcome in any organization—and more so in product companies with globally distributed teams working on different parts of the product pipeline. […]