Now that the year-end prediction season is over, it’s time to focus squarely on the actual here and now—where the DevOps movement actually stands at the start of 2017. As we’ll need to wait another six months or so for the annual State of DevOps Report to emerge from the good folks over at DORA […]
DevOps Chat: Aruna Ravichandran, Co-Author, DevOps for Digital Leaders
Our first podcast of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. Of course when not authoring books or helping financially challenged but gifted students attend college, Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Aruna before on DevOps TV and discussed her career that has seen her […]
Customer Demands Outpacing Business Requirements
As more organizations adopt agile and DevOps, many recognize quickly that the related gains are significant but further business efficiencies can be realized. IT and the business now are working closer than ever. No longer is the business throwing requirements over the wall into the IT “sausage factory”—they’re now an integral part of the entire […]
15 DevOps Expert Opinions on Continuous Integration and Delivery
We at Shippable recently approached some DevOps experts and asked them what they really think about continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). The responses were just amazing, proving that CI/CD’s future is just bright and long in the software development process. Perhaps this insight might be of help to organizations, regardless of whether they […]
Closing the Gap on Continuous Delivery Metrics that Matter
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” I would take a step back and say, If you can’t measure it, you can’t get it off the ground. Many companies that I work with are amid digital transformation initiatives, such as the adoption of DevOps and continuous delivery. […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
How Often Should You Release with Continuous Delivery?
If you do continuous delivery, you could release software updates as frequently as you want. But should you? Here’s what to consider when deciding how often to release. Although the terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing. Under continuous delivery, you prepare all software updates as […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
Should Continuous Deployment Be Renamed?
I’m a technologist turned into a word person. For those of you who know me, I started as a developer, learned ops and security as it was needed, and eventually my love of talking about technology lead me to writing, tech marketing and evangelism. I still develop, though; I can’t stop that—it’s kind of a […]
DevOps Chat: Jeff Schaeffer, CA Technologies, on Everything Continuous
I recently had a chance to sit down with Jeff Schaeffer, senior vice president and general manager of Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Jeff before, most recently at Jenkins World, where we did a video on our DevOpsTV YouTube channel. Jeff is a great interview who always gives […]