This is the first article in a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef (click here) community. How does the need for speed and scale affect businesses today? Let’s start with scale. As a technology company grows, its infrastructure grows – more machines […]
Automation, Operations, DevOps – What We Thought Was Missing
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It’s co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth. Over the next few days we will share Powell’s thoughts and experiences as a new DevOps company comes to market. Over the next […]
DevOps and faster feedback: fewer problems, better features (part 1)
As organizations begin to institute DevOps patterns and continuous delivery into their IT shops, one of the most dramatic long-term returns on their investment is that it bolsters the class and consistency of work produced by existing development teams. Organizations that evolve to DevOps don’t necessarily need to hire rock star programmers to boost code […]
DevOps and PaaS: ‘Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today’
Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today. – Dewey Finn, School of Rock The term Platform as a Service (PaaS) has become overloaded to define any ‘platform’ that provides ‘services’ to its users. The term PaaS is formally defined by NIST as: “The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the […]
Q&A: Bill Burns on Security Within DevOps
Last week’s story, Caution: DevOps Ahead, caused a small stir on Twitter and sparked a response, DevOps: Security’s Last Best Hope, from staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s Alan Shimel. Coincidently, I recently had a conversation with Bill Burns, former director of IT security and networking at Netflix. Burns is currently an executive-in-residence at ScaleVP, where he provides strategic advice in […]
Some changes to staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud
Well if you are reading this you are one of almost 40,000 unique visitors to staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud in the last 6 or so weeks. In this relatively short time we have learned a few things. Based upon these we are making a few changes to staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Some you will see right away, some you will see […]
Embracing a culture of continuous incident response
In a world of continuous development and rapid iteration combined with being connected online 24/7/365, you are bound to encounter threats. In fact, attackers use automated tools so you are under constant siege from continuous threats. The natural response is to implement some form of continuous incident response. The standard development model involves different stages […]
Security and DevOps showdown
George Hulme’s article on proceeding with caution on DevOps implementation offers some advice from a few well known security experts. Article here vs. Alan Shimel says today’s speed of business isn’t compatible with :go slow”. Security people have to understand that DevOps is our last best hope. But in order to have DevOps […]
DevOps: Caution Ahead
Despite the continued adoption of enterprise DevOps practices, some organizations, especially those in highly-regulated industries remain cautious about moving forward too quickly. “There’s no doubt that DevOps brings benefits for some organizations,” says Martin Fisher, director of information security at Atlanta-based WellStar Health System. “However, many pushing for DevOps underestimate the amount of technological and […]
What Cisco’s OpFlex means for DevOps
Some big news in networking land at Interop this year revolved around Cisco’s latest contribution to open source and the Internet, its proposed “OpFlex” control plane protocol. The protocol itself is focused on communicating with network elements and specifies encoding in a variety of formats, including JSON, that are developer-friendly. That’s nice, of course, but […]
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