Balancing agility and security in DevSecOps is achievable with the right mix of automation, collaboration and continuous feedback. By embedding security into agile processes, organizations can deliver software that is both fast and secure, meeting the demands of today’s fast-paced tech environment.
The Path to App Modernization: Benefits, Pitfalls and the Route to Success
There are many reasons an organization may find itself on the path to considering the risky journey of application modernization. It could be to gain an edge or to build a more competitive positioning, or a business could have a legacy system running on infrastructure that is no longer viable, leaving them no other choice. […]
Some Change is Bad
Some time toward the end of the year, I start considering the volume of change we, as practitioners, have been under for … literally years, even decades. And I start to try and think of ways to keep you all from drowning in change. And then I write something that I hope helps you all […]
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we’re very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new technology (looking at you, cloud) has problems with standardization and interoperability, we find a way around vendors’ reluctance to give you freedom of […]
DevOps: Driving Innovation With Old Habits
DevOps can help drive cost-efficiency, greater productivity and innovation When software development and IT operations merge and work in a state of harmony, they create a flow that we call continuous product delivery. Ideal for project managers, this flow is the elixir to innovation and enables the agility needed to respond to changing market requirements. […]
Can NetOps and SecOps Finally Get Along?
For years, the very definition of NetOps and SecOps has involved friction and even contentious relationships that make their respective jobs more difficult and lessen their efficiency and effectiveness. Much of this conflict originates from having charters that are seemingly in opposition to each other. At the surface, NetOps stands for connectivity, openness, speed and […]
Review, Review, Review
Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep product knowledge that allows teams to make existing systems do what is needed. But this becomes a series of rocks that the ship of progress smacks […]
Rigidity or Agility During Change Processes: You Do Have a Choice
As most who work in service management, on an IT team or as a member of the service desk understand that change management can be a rather rigid, shall we say, still process. Do you want to make your change implementations more agile? There are different ways to go about this. In this piece, I […]
Break the Rules and Win at Digital Transformation
The rules of the game have changed. In today’s digital world, it’s not about the big eating the small. It’s the fast that beat the slow and the nimble that outmaneuver companies constrained by old systems and business models. What’s more, the finish line is always moving. The rapid pace of innovation and disruption means […]
Today’s DNS: DevOps’ New Best Friend
Continuous development and deployment is a primary focus of DevOps teams. As part of this process, DevOps teams also require the automatic creation or removal of networks, and automated deployment to production. Automation is a closer guarantee that the process will be done right the first time because the fewer the number of manual steps […]