What is a DevOps ‘Best Practice’?
In IT, we love our frameworks. Whether agile, ITIL, lean, cobit, six sigma or others, our thirst for “best practice” guidance seems to be unquenchable. The concept of a “best practice” is an enigma. Who decides if a practice is actually the best? And best for whom? While an “adopt and adapt” mentality is advocated […]
‘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 […]
Evident.io Secures $15.7 Million in Series B Funding
Venrock Leads the Round; Doug Dooley Joins Board; Jeff Williams Leads Sales DUBLIN, CA–(Marketwired – April 28, 2016) – Evident.io, the leading provider of cloud infrastructure security and compliance automation, announced today that they completed a Series B funding round with Venrock valued at $15.7 million. Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with an impressive portfolio […]
Test Better, Test Faster, Test Smarter
How do you balance the need to “go fast” with the need to test everything and deliver high-quality software? With applications the driving force in today’s economy, the quality and release cadence of your software are critical to your business and your bottom line. You want to get software updated in the hands of your […]
Optimizing an Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are often cited as pillars of successful DevOps. To establish and optimize the CI/CD development model and reap the benefits, companies need to build an effective pipeline to automate their build, integration and testing processes. This requires architecting CI/CD with five key ingredients which, when combined effectively, operate as […]
DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Not the Same
DevOps and continuous delivery are the same thing, right? Far from it. We peer through the fog to understand the difference between the two related but distinct methodologies. We live in an era of apps. More and more of our personal, social and work life is governed by apps—communicating with one another through social apps, […]
Intuit’s DevSecOps: War Games and Culture Hacking
If you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number of important topics including internal war games, culture hacking, gamification of Rugged DevOps and starting as a small team. There are 100 gold […]
Micro Focus Announces Intent to Acquire Serena Software, Inc.
Leading Infrastructure Software Vendor Further Strengthens Solution Set to Help Customers Build and Deploy Business Applications and Services Faster, with Greater Reliability and Less Risk ROCKVILLE, Md., March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Micro Focus announced today its intent to acquire Serena Software, Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software, in a transaction […]
DevOps in 2016: Mainstream Momentum Ahead
I believe that 2016 will be the year that DevOps takes mainstream foothold in the enterprise. And I base this assertion on seven sweeping changes that — from my vantage point — are taking hold and dramatically changing the digital world. The Job of IT Will Change From Infrastructure to Innovation. In the past, IT […]
Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Addresses IT’s Growing Need For Agility with Release of ActiveBatch Version 10
Industry’s Most Advanced Workload Automation Solution Adds Capabilities that Cut Workflow Development Time in Half MORRISTOWN, NJ – (January 26, 2016) – Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) today announced the availability of ActiveBatch Version 10, a major release of the company’s leading Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Software focused on improving IT performance despite the operational and business complexities impacting today’s […]
DevOps Impact on IT Operations Management
Most of the focus of the DevOps movement is on the application development to deploy cycle, and that’s appropriate. When folks talk about the IT Ops side of DevOps, you’ll hear talk about IT process management tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible that are used to automate the deployment, update and remediation of software and […]
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
7,600 Open Source Projects Per Company (and how it impacts DevOps)
That Supplier is Better For You Since releasing the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, there has been a lot of great discussion across the industry on best practices for managing the complexity introduced by the volume and velocity of the components used across your software supply chain. Today I want to focus on […]
5 Ways Continuous Integration Reduces Risk in Development
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. There’s a lot of talk about DevOps and Continuous Integration in the tech space right now, but sometimes the implementation of those methods can be tricky. An effective Continuous Integration strategy requires DevOps teams to manage […]
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from doing something about it. Organizations that have DevOps teams in place can just smile because they are enabled to be in control of […]
Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops processes optimized to achieve business and development goals. A few years ago when Agile was all the rage, lightning-fast Dev sprints left the […]
George Jetson Automation: Chasing the Dream
“His job was one simple thing—press a button. That’s all he had to do; press one button and sit back.” – Joe Barbera I wanted to be George Jetson when I grew up. Back in the days when watching Saturday morning cartoons in footed pajamas was the high point of my week, George’s life looked […]
Continuous Documentation
Is documentation dead in DevOps? Yes and no. It is transformed, it is automatic, and it is actionable. Back in the days of waterfall development, documentation always seemed to be the unwanted stepchild — it was an afterthought, a theoretically necessary chore that frequently went undone. And there were understandable reasons for this. For one […]
A Puzzle – Gradle or Maven
Build Tool Gradle vs Maven (or Both) The world of build tools evolved from simple compilation (gcc) to make files, then evolution of ant(+ivy) and Maven, now the latest build tool is Gradle. It’s always a puzzle which build tool to choose – Maven, Gradle or both. Sometime it’s first time project setup or it […]
Jeff Sussna on Design Thinking and DevOps
What is Design Thinking, and just as importantly to you – why does it matter to DevOps? For answers to that, we recently turned to Jeff Sussna, founder at Ingineering.IT. Sussna combines engineering expertise with a knack to bridge business, creative, and technical perspectives. Sussna’s focus is on the intersection of development, operations, design, and […]
The ROI of Enterprise DevOps
Ever since the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, I can never think about any technology development without hearing Cuba Gooding Jr as professional footballer Rod Tidwell screaming out, “Show me the money!” So I was not surprised when the CIO of a large enterprise recently asked me the enterprise exec version of that famous line: Q. […]