Complexity has a way of muddying even the clearest of waters, and this has certainly been the case with IT Operations. While Dev, Ops and Security teams share a common purpose, the silos between them are so deeply entrenched, it’s easy to see how they have forgotten that they are working towards the same end. […]
Mobile Apps and Big Data Megatrends Drive Application Performance Management
As the megatrends of Big Data, mobility and cloud continue to reshape the IT landscape many companies are responding by refocusing their solutions to provide better visibility and support for these technologies. Case in point is AppDynamics new Spring 2014 release announced yesterday (full disclosure, AppDynamics is a sponsor on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud but that sponsorship has […]
MongoDB Replication Pro-tips: Reporting Instances
Any shop that has a DevOps culture, and that has MongoDB backed applications, uses replica sets… not just for production applications, but for those still in the prototyping phase. Replication is critical for uptime, so your Ops team has been working with your Devs all through the development of your project, and you didn’t defer […]
DevOps Is Free? Sure I’ll Support It
One of the biggest misnomers about DevOps is that since it’s all about process and communications there aren’t any costs associated with adoption. Sure, you can probably gain some improvement by simply modifying your current methods for delivering IT services in your organization, however, DevOps is about more than just modest improvements. Let’s explore why […]
Episode 2 of staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Podcast
Mitchell Ashley and I are joined this week by Stephen Wilson of Compuware. Stephen is a regular blogger here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, but is also the technical evangelist at Compuware. Steve gives us his background and a brief description of what Compuware does. Then we all talk a bit about Steve’s last article here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, […]
My DevOps Bookshelf
Aside from the many technical manuals on our bookshelves, I bet everyone has a few that are more process or philosophically oriented which hold a special place in our hearts. To me, these are the ones we continue to go back to and that have helped develop us as engineers, software, operations, quality assurance or […]
Deployment and Monitoring Automation with glu
glu is a free/open source deployment and monitoring automation platform. glu is a project that was started at LinkedIn mid-2009 to address the exponentially growing needs of deploying the set of applications and services that make up the LinkedIn experience. Although some projects like Chef and Puppet existed at the time, they were mostly good […]
An Introduction to DevOps
What is DevOps You can ask 10 people for a definition of DevOps and likely get 10 different answers. If you want to find a definition of your own, your research will probably begin by asking Google, “what is DevOps”. Naturally, Wikipedia is one of the first result so that is where we will begin. […]
A Critical First Step in Bringing Dev and Ops Together
We all want to deliver excellent software to our customers. We now have a greater awareness than ever before of the interconnectedness of all the activities required to do so. The agile movement started this but it was not until the advent of DevOps that Ops was considered part of the full picture. In this […]
Enough with the DevOps already
Ever say a word 10 times in a row and feel it start to lose its meaning? Try it, say the word “boat” ten times out loud and watch what happens – be sure you are a alone when you try this or you will get funny looks. When your done try it with the […]
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