Tag: automation

Life and Death in the Age of Automation
Has automation changed the way we perceive interaction with others? A few weeks back I got an email from an old friend, Jim. Typically, that’s no big deal; I get emails from ...

SAP Embeds Integration Services in PaaS Environment
SAP, at its SAP Tech-Ed Europe 2018 conference, expanded the scope of the integration services it provides within SAP Cloud Platform, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment it provides for building custom applications based ...

Solving the ‘Automagical’ Apps Automation Problem
The DevOps Revolution started with a handful of simple principles. A key one was that systems should be managed by code, not by humans, to eliminate complexity and ensure better security, compliance ...

You’re Thinking Software Wrong
Like any industry, DevOps fosters its own unique culture. And like any culture it resists change, it has inertia. “This is how it has always been done” is an incredible force to ...

Akamai Further Extends Reach into DevOps Realm
Akamai is extending its campaign to make content delivery networks (CDNs) a natural extension of DevOps processes by adding more application programming interfaces (APIs) and other automated functions to simplify a variety ...

Scripts in the Development Pipeline: Best Practices for Avoiding the ‘Scriptocalypse’
The use of scripts as a key tool in the average developer’s bag of tricks has altered the development pipeline in significant ways. It has even led some organizations to outsource their ...

Are Legacy Apps the Antithesis to DevOps?
Do you have an application marked with cryptic warning signs and a wealth of cobwebs that is running on legacy hardware hidden away in the back corner of your data center? If ...

Atomist Advances Developer Productivity
Atomist is extending the reach of an automated approach to managing software delivery out to the local machines developers work on every day. Company founder and CEO Rod Johnson said with its ...

Atlassian Acquires OpsGenie to Automate Incident Management
Atlassian this week announced its plans to acquire OpsGenie as part of an effort to apply DevOps principles to incident management. The announcement was made at the Altassian Summit Europe 2018 conference ...

Education in the Age of Automation
Automation is changing the nature of education and the ways people learn. More schools are using online learning to supplement in-class activities. In fact, some schools are completely online. Distributed computing on ...

DevOps Chat: The Impact of Automation on DevOps and Society, with Bob Reselman
Those of you who have been reading staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud for a few years are familiar with the RoelBob cartoons, which have a prominent spot on the home page. RoelBob's creator, Bob Reselman, is ...

4 Ways to Tackle Common Test Automation Pitfalls
The demand for higher-quality products and new features delivered at breakneck speeds has the average engineer struggling just to stay afloat. With demands rising but resources not always following suit, engineering teams ...

