Recently I did an interview with IBMs Ken Walker. Co-lead on the Eclipse Orion Project, a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE). My interest in Cloud IDEs peaked at the beginning of the year and has been steadily growing since the interview and being an active user of Cloud9 ( My current favorite Cloud IDE). During this […]
Security automation with DevOps: show me the code!
Last week Andrew Storms put up a good post hinting at the promise of security automation in [SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change]. He included an example of automating a series of actions when a firewall rule is changed. It’s a good article, although I’m increasingly convinced there’s no such thing as […]
DevOps resilience: going active-active with an existing application
What does it take to run an active-active architecture? It boils down to data, and how you interact with it. The most common disaster recovery strategies I encounter with folks are either “hope and pray” on a single location for running an application, or “we have a backup facility we can switch to in a […]
DevOps culture meets the SLA
The goal of every SaaS provider should be 100% availability – it should be ingrained in their culture. But it’s far more common to see a series of nines. Numerically, these are clearly not the same value and culturally, they are a world apart. When you have an availability target that is less that 100%, […]
The DevOps master process: design
In speaking, counseling and talking to people with regard to DevOps, I often frame the discussion in terms of the DevOps master process. While all of the parts of the master process are important, one aspect very often is overlooked. I call this often overlooked aspect the design stage. The design stage includes the gathering […]
Meet Infrastructure as Code
Maybe you have already heard the terms “Programmable Infrastructure” and “Infrastructure as code”. But even if you have not, if you are interested in DevOps it’s something you need to know. Most new lingo causes me to roll my eyes. But in this case, it’s not just new lingo, it’s an entirely new concept. Besides making […]
Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” goes viral
Many of you reading this have probably seen the tweet or one of the thousand or so retweets of Minneapolis based Bridget Kromhout’s “DevOps Against Humanity” twitter post. The tweet and attached pic are below: Printed up some DevOps Against Humanity cards, as one does. pic.twitter.com/TX09SqiFMQ — Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) May 1, 2014 For those […]
An open letter to Jeff Knupp
Dear Jeff, First off, nice recovery. I commend your gesture to return to positivity and make what to my eyes, looks like a kind and altruistic offer to an underserved class of engineers. I personally sent your offer to all the female engineers on my team and got very good feedback from several of them. […]
The Push to Make Ops More Social
Given that social coding is a thing, what about the other side? Operations has the same image of lone wolves solving problems in the dark. The culture of on-call is built around the concept that when you’re holding the pager, you’re the one on the front lines, so that everyone else can sleep. Social operations, […]
DevOps and Change Management
In “The Phoenix Project”, the character Erik introduces the underpinning principles of DevOps as “The Three Ways”. Let’s talk about the First and Third Ways and how change management works with DevOps, but first let’s spend a few minutes talking about baseball caps. Last weekend I was looking for my Atlanta Brave’s baseball cap and […]
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