There are just a handful of business books that I have read that have had a profound influence on me. One was Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project”, another was Eliyahu Goldratt’s “The Goal”. A third one was Geoffrey Moore’s, “Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers”. Even though written in the […]
Let the Code do the Heavy Lifting
One of the first jobs I had when I started in IT was as the IT administrator for a dot.com startup. IT admin at a smaller company like that was typically an umbrella term used to describe a one-man IT department, which is essentially what I was. The company was growing exponentially—both in terms of […]
Ops is dead, long live DevOps
Yes, that’s a bold statement, but if the vibe at the recent AWS re:Invent conference was any indication there are a number of methodologies, technologies, and companies working to make that a reality. This article isn’t focused on whether this is a good or bad thing (my personal belief is that ops will always be […]
DevOps’ Chicken Or Egg Origins
When acolytes explain the DevOps movement to the uninitiated, they usually run into a chicken and egg line of questioning. What is DevOps, really? Is it a culture? Is it a pattern of processes? Or is it a technology? What comes first? The ratios of the perceived importance of each of those elements may shift […]
The Unexpected Benefits of DevOps
There are many well and widely known benefits of DevOps, including rapid software delivery, a higher degree of enterprise agility, increased system resilience, and being able to swiftly identify and resolve problems. But what unexpected benefits have been experienced by organizations that are already down the DevOps path? Kevin Behr, chief science officer at Assemblage […]
How We Can Help DevOps Cross The Chasm
The problem that DevOps solves is universal, urgent and important. Every IT organization is responsible for two things: deliver fast flow of projects and features, while preserving reliable, stable and secure services. Until very recently these were thought to be mutually exclusive, we thought it was only possible to achieve one of those objectives, at […]
DevOps: It’s All Open Source’s Fault
Blame DevOps on open source. After all, it was the open source movement that gave developers the idea that they were free to code, free to build applications and other software for their companies without needing prior approval. It was open source that crowned developers kingmakers. It was open source that gave developers the freedom […]
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Pitches a Big Tent
If you are reading this you have already discovered one way or another, that the new staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud website has launched. I am proud to say that I have been one of a team of folks who have been working hard on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud for many months and weeks now. I will serve as editor-in-chief and as […]
Data Driven Observations on AWS Usage from CloudCheckrs User Survey
This is a guest post by Aaron Klein from CloudCheckr We were heartened when AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March. This was an implicit acknowledgement of what many have long known: AWS is complex and can be challenging for users to provision and control their AWS infrastructure effectively. We took the […]
Approaches to Application Release Automation
This is a guest post by Phil Cherry from Nolio A discussion of process-based, package-based, declarative, imperative and generic approaches to application release automation. Application Release Automation is a relatively new, but rapidly maturing area of IT. As with all new areas there is plenty of confusion around what Application Release Automation really is and […]