Injecting failure into your infrastructure to test your services resilience has been gaining popularity. Most people think of Netflix and their use of “Chaos Monkey”, in fact, they have an entire “Simian Army” of tests and drills they run to make their systems more reliable. At PagerDuty, we couldn’t just copy what has been published […]
Security in a DevOps world: Q&A with Gartner’s Ben Tomhave
As the infosec community catches up with the spirit of the DevOps movement, many CISOs and IT security leaders still need guidance on how to make the paradigm shift. Not only are these security folk scratching their heads to figure out the additional risks posed by continuous delivery, but they’re also learning how DevOps can […]
Your End Users Want Everything: Here’s How to Give it to Them
In today’s application-centric business environment, the end user is king. Whether we’re talking about being first to market with the next big thing or adding new capabilities and features to an existing application, so much of our current development time, resources and energy is spent on trying to meet the needs of end users. It’s […]
Enterprise DevOps is Real and Here to Stay
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal argued that while DevOps is gaining inroads in small and mid-sized businesses, it’s facing a much less rosy future in large enterprises. The story cited organizational challenges, many of which we covered, such as large siloes, regulatory compliance, and resistance to change as great impediments […]
DevOps and Enterprises, it’s a culture thing
Today author, DevOps evangelist and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Advisory Board member Gene Kim published an article in the CIO Journal of the Wall Street Journal. The article was a response to an earlier article by Rachel Shannon-Solomon in which the author claimed that DevOps was not likely to be successful in the enterprise at least not at the present […]
Simplify and expedite server management
Deploying, managing, and maintaining servers can be tedious. Deploying, managing, and maintaining thousands, or tens of thousands of server instances is overwhelming—bordering on impossible—without the right tools. Thankfully, the right tools exist. The Pain of Doing Things the Hard Way I know I am dating myself, but when I was an IT admin for a […]
DevOps Best Practices: Break Down Silos, Avoid Drift and Optimize for Flow
In organizations trying to achieve agility with stability and quality, silos (of teams, tools, and processes) create major stumbling blocks to managing configuration drift between pre-production and production systems. Breaking down those silos, improving visibility into configuration drift and facilitating collaboration for improved flow are the keys to overcoming this challenge. The challenge of staying […]
How to turn executives into DevOps champions
IT practitioners must bridge the gap of understanding about DevOps with their managers and executives if they really want continuous delivery to take root in their organizations. Next week at Camp DevOps @ Gluecon, Andi Mann, vice president in the office of the CTO for CA Technologies, will propose ways to do that in his […]
DevOps: Getting Past Audit
New business processes (and technologies) too often throw auditors into a tailspin. It’s no one’s fault, really: the decision making on what IT and process controls that need to be in place moves slow – and it is the tail to the rapidly moving technology dog. In fact, while there is no way a standard […]
DevOps and faster feedback: fewer problems, better features (part 2)
As the experts established in part one of this series , the tightening of feedback loops through DevOps gives developers a better chance to learn how well their coding choices perform in the context of production environments. This makes for higher quality code in the long-run and constantly improved skillsets among development teams. But fast feedback […]
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