When I look at the future of DevOps adoption and acceleration I contrast it with what I feel was the failure of ITIL to really move beyond large enterprise IT […]
Why Vertical Collaboration Matters for DevOps
Vertical collaboration is defined by Rick Defour as a team of people working interdependently toward a common goal for which they are all mutually accountable. Now that everyone is clear […]
Delivering Delight At ChefConf 2014
Chef CEO Barry Crist stirs the pot to open ChefConf 2014 The theme from ChefConf 2014 is stirring delight and if you listened to Barry Crist during todays opening keynote, […]
An outage war room primer
One aspect of the DevOps movement I’ve seen adopted at numerous companies is the idea that everyone supports their products by being on-call for any incidents that occur in the […]
Nagios is not a monitoring strategy
When I visit clients to talk about DevOps, I usually ask them what their monitoring strategy is. Too often, the answer I hear is “We use Nagios”. I think Nagios […]
From here to there: practical first DevOps steps
I’m a bad programmer. There, I got that out of the way. The truth is, I’m a sysadmin that writes code infrequently, on an island, and out of disciplined requirement, […]
DevOps Frequent Friday Follow on Twitter
Continuing our Friday practice of highlighting people to follow in the DevOps space, here are this weeks entries: @jpmorgenthal @lmacvittie @AndiMann @mongodbinc @kevinbehr @devopscloud @amyl_bishop @kristiancarter Already on the list: @patrickdebois , @realgenekim @botchagalupe @jezhumble @garethr @kartar @krisbuytaert @jordansissel @agentdero @allspaw @monkchips […]
Trust and Computers Make the News
The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL was major news this week. While you are waiting for sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to run on all your servers, let’s take a minute to reflect […]
Not all collaboration types are equal
Talking about collaboration in general terms is easy. I’ve done it and so has everyone else. It’s time now to dig deeper into the specifics of collaboration, meaning the different […]
Programmability in the Network: Stop a Bleeding Heart…
It is not often the case that a security vulnerability can get the entire Internet talking. And not just the security community on the Internet, but everyone. End-users and IT alike are […]
