DevOps is a lot of things. What DevOps is, what DevOps does and how an organization adopts and implements DevOps tools and practices are largely subjective, but there are some foundational elements that are fairly ubiquitous. One of which is automation. As pervasive as it is, though, DevOps is not automation and automation is not […]
DevOps by the Book in 2017: Where we Really Stand
Now that the year-end prediction season is over, it’s time to focus squarely on the actual here and now—where the DevOps movement actually stands at the start of 2017. As we’ll need to wait another six months or so for the annual State of DevOps Report to emerge from the good folks over at DORA […]
Automation: Achieving Faster Rollouts with Better Accuracy
A changing landscape requires new processes At the recent Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner shared a list of technologies and trends that will be important for organizations to embrace and prepare for in 2017. These trends, which are listed in the report, “Top Strategic Predictions for 2017 and Beyond: Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption,” reinforce the […]
Rethinking Unemployment in the Age of Automation
In my last article concerning the impact of automation and robotics on human employment, I asserted that commercial job loss is more a result of automation than outsourcing. Also, I asserted that this trend was going to continue at an accelerated rate. I said we need to address three areas of concern to mitigate the […]
DevOps Chat: Huw Price, Smart Automation Is Key
Before the new year, I had a chance to sit down and chat with Huw Price, Vice President, Application Delivery, CA Technologies. Given Huw’s title what do you think we spoke about? You guessed it, automation. Actually there is more to it than that. Automation for automation’s sake alone is not necessarily a good thing. […]
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying time with friends and family. In the business world, the year-end also brings its own traditions, and first among those is making predictions […]
What Do We Do When Everything is Automated?
Recently, I came across a study the caused me to think beyond the day-to-day world of code-slinging in which I live. According to the study conducted by Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana: “Almost 88 percent of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
You’re Not Doing DevOps if You Can’t Pull the Cord
There are many concepts in Lean manufacturing that have applicability with software development “factories.” One example is the Andon Cord. The Andon Cord concept involves using signals and alerts to indicate that a station on the assembly line has a problem. Alarms are activated manually by workers pulling a physical cord or automatically by the […]
An IT Practitioner’s Guide To DevOps
Two technology innovations of the past decade have fundamentally changed how IT works and given rise to the “DevOps” phenomenon. Before we dive into what DevOps is and how IT organizations should adopt this culture, let’s review what gave rise to it in the first place. Pull from Agile Development The last decade has seen […]
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