There is a different, almost magical dynamic, at a startup that seems to fade away over time as companies establish themselves. One of the benefits of DevOps, though, is that it creates an environment where that startup magic can continue to thrive. DevOps is like a fountain of youth that lets corporations continue to act […]
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 […]
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 […]
DevOps & UX: A Star-Crossed Love Story
“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their […]
DevOps: The Last Great Hope for Application Security?
Once upon a time, there was a great battle between speed and security. Development wanted to go fast. But, Security wanted to slow down and be safe. “We must protect our gilded apps”, cried the application security team. “Speed is cherished by our people”, declared the development team. For years, they endured the pain of […]
Q & A with Kevin Behr on DevOps, its impact on security, and the challenges of bringing change to the organization
Kevin Behr has been in IT game for 26 years and is the author of seven IT management books, including the bestselling The Visible Ops Handbook, which he coauthored with Gene Kim and George Spafford, and The Definitive Guide to IT Management, published by Hewlett Packard. His most recent book, The Phoenix Project, also coauthored […]
DevOps Adoption – Startups
This is part 1 of a 2 part article DevOps is somewhat unique in that it has applications to both large enterprises and to startups. The way DevOps is adopted in startups is incredibly different than how it happens in large organizations. The profile of how DevOps is adopted in each of these cases is the […]
Netflix, the Simian Army, and the culture of freedom and responsibility
What do you do if you’re entire business relies on delivering streaming video content over the Web to millions of customers, and there are no examples to follow or tools to use? If you’re Netflix, you set the example and build the tools. Netflix had tremendous success with its original business model shipping movies on […]
Google Starts Cloud World War I, DevOps Wins
No matter the outcome, a cloud pricing war will leave DevOps the winner By now you probably saw the news and all of the buzz about how Google dropped its drawers eh, pricing on its cloud hosting. This is of course a direct shot at Amazon’s AWS. It’s about time someone with big enough stones (and […]
DevOps Is For Horses: Stop Making Excuses For Starting
While DevOps practices may be spreading throughout organizations both large and small, often times the most visible success stories are also the most exceptional. Organizations like Netflix, Etsy and Google are brought up in conversations about DevOps time and again because they offer the most stark examples of the benefits that the model can bring […]