Last week’s DevOps Connect event at RSA Conference offered up a ton of wisdom and real-world examples of the power of DevSecOps. With its best-ever attendance after several years and impressive participation levels, this year’s event stands as a good harbinger for the growing interest that the security community has in vesting itself in the […]
Trust and Safety in the Age of Automation
“As with any new technology, it’s really important that we be thinking now about how to do [it] ethically and responsibly.” —Robert High, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Here’s something to think about: According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, more than 30 countries have defensive weapons run by automation. […]
DevOps Transformation: Leave No Ops Behind
In adopting DevOps, it’s easy to forget what you know Have you ever found yourself struggling to explain something that you know how to do without a moment’s thought? I’m not talking about the amygdala, the part of our brain that initiates the automatic “fight or flight” response. No, I’m referring more to the muscle […]
How Python is Transforming the DevOps Landscape
DevOps is the combination of operations and software development which reduces or almost eliminates the disconnect between systems administrators who run the infrastructure and software developers who develop applications. During software development, when the Agile methodology is utilized properly, a bottleneck often occurs during the frequent operations and deployment phases. New fixes and updates are […]
Monitoring Your Data Center Like a Google SRE
Back in the early ’00s, when Google was beginning to expand its portfolio of services beyond search, it encountered a combination of challenges. Some of these emerged from familiar, classic disconnects between developers and operations folks or between IT services and line-of-business owners. Others were brand new, never-before-seen failure modes that arose from providing services […]
Agile and DevOps: Where the Rubber (Literally) Meets the Road
Do Agile and DevOps methodologies apply outside of technology? More specifically, can we apply them to sport? I decided to answer these questions by analyzing the application of Agile and DevOps principles within my road-cycling team. For those of you who don’t know, cycling is a very data-driven sport. While we are training and racing, […]
Google Analytics Adapts to GDPR, But Questions Remain
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have an effect on how Google Analytics collects and processes data and how DevOps uses the tool—at least, that is what is known for sure at this time. These changes also should almost certainly impact DevOps for any organization that relies on the tool to collect and analyze user […]
Why NoSQL is the New Database Darling of DevOps
If developers are from Mars and testers are from Venus, your database administrator is stuck in Saturn. By nature, the database—and specifically the data it carries—has to remain stable even as the application code on top of it is changing faster than Donald Trump’s staff. When it comes to the speed of your release cycle, […]
Time to Rethink Infrastructure Operations in Enterprises
“Business is technology and technology is business” seems to be the new mantra as the rules of corporate strategy are being rewritten across industries. According to IDC’s survey in 2017, “Two-thirds of global CEOs will have digital transformation as part of their corporate strategy.” That’s CEOs—not CIOs—who will have digital transformation as part of their corporate […]
NoSQL Databases: Lessons Learned Growing a Globally Focused Startup
Startups deploying NoSQL databases and global citizens learning new languages actually share something in common: Both want to remove the limitations on how they access information and express themselves. In launching and growing a platform that enables anyone around the world to connect and speak with native English-speaking tutors on-demand, we’ve had the fortune of […]
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