The literary world and beyond has been up in arms as of late regarding the use of the word ‘literally’. It seems that many are using the word literally when they mean figuratively. For example, if you say, “I literally split my pants laughing,” it would be plausible for one to look at your pants […]
DevOps needs infrastructure multi-tenancy
DevOps will, under whatever moniker you want to give it – NetOps, DevOps for Networks, operationalization – continue to make inroads into the network infrastructure because ultimately it’s part of the application deployment lifecycle. While DevOps folks call it “application delivery” the reality is that an application is not ready to deliver to a user […]
Change Management & Continuous Delivery: Clash or Harmony?
Introducing changes into running software systems is risky. There’s always a chance of failure, and that can have a negative impact on your business. It’s important to mitigate that risk, but there’s more than one way to do so. Change Management is all about ensuring that changes to existing systems and software in production are […]
Awkward questions for those getting started with automation
This blog asking awkward questions for folks jumping on the microservices bandwagon was enlightening from the perspective that many of the same questions are applicable to operations as they begin to tackle operationalizing all the things in an application lifecycle. For example: “What is your deployable unit?” Great question, isn’t it? What is your deployable […]
Commercial vendors gift to DevOps
Open source solutions are usually brought to life because of someone’s yearning to solve a problem and share the solution with the rest of the world. Or perhaps when inventors are merely trying to get more eyes on the code for help with hidden bugs and fixes.
Top Skills for Enterprise DevOps
There is one question I hear almost every time I talk with my large enterprise customers about DevOps: What skills do my people need to be successful with DevOps? Talk of DevOps almost immediately focuses on culture – like having empathy for fellow workers, being flexible and adaptable, seeking continuous improvement, building relationships, etc. However, […]
Software Defined Data Centers Enable True DevOps
I have been talking a lot recently about the bleeding edge technologies that are offloading the complexity of DevOps management, and software quality. My last post on service virtualization is the latest example. Not lets talk about the software defined data centers. A dense topic, but a massive leap into automating, and unshackling a previously […]
You Might Already be Doing DevOps in the Software-Defined Data Center
I was out reading the Internet and came across a report from EMA (Enterprise Management Associates) regarding the state of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) in 2014. After perusing the data and highlights, I was surprised (and yet should not have been) to find so much DevOps-related content and concepts within. Neither should I have […]
Log Analysis, or Log Hoarding
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane to remember the beginning of web application era: when a client had a problem, it called the support team to complain about the service failure or bug, and a customer support team would have written an incident report and forward it to the operations team, and then the […]
3 Tips to Shape Human Behaviors and Achieve Your DevOps Goals
DevOps raises many questions around processes and technologies, but it is important to remember that people are the essential piece that makes DevOps work. Since my post on Generalists vs. Specialists here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, I have had many questions about shaping human behaviors, like this one: Q. How can I help my team build up […]
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