Welcome back to this (semi-)regular column where I attempt to answer questions about DevOps, especially in larger enterprises. This time I address a vexing issue facing many large enterprises – how to make sure downstream processes move as fast as development and operations: Q. In my enterprise we are getting faster at releasing code, but […]
Consumer Web Automation for DevOps?
These days event-based automation is everywhere from IFTTT recipes used by non-technical folks to cross post automatically to Twitter, Google+ and Facebook to email alerts for free iTunes downloads. And don’t forget the tech savvy that create even more complex sequences from Zapier and now Stamplay to track workloads and simple business processes or automate […]
The Dark Side of Infrastructure as Code
We spend a lot of time extolling the virtues of infrastructure as code. All of it is true. Treating infrastructure as code can add great value in terms of its ability to promote consistent, predictable and repeatable results during the application deployment process. One of the ways in which infrastructure is treated as code is […]
Right-Picking the First Project to Go DevOps On
One of the hardest things to do when starting a new initiative is picking the right project to work on. Should I start with App A? App B? Does it really matter as long as I get started on this DevOps thing and prove its value to management? Yes, actually, it might. If you think about […]
Time and complexity; or, Why are some things hard to do?
Why are some things hard to do? If we want to make complicated tasks easier, which is one of the goals of DevOps, we need to have some theory of why they are difficult in the first place. Richard Garfield, a mathematician and game designer, presents two factors that make tasks more difficult: time constraints […]
My Little Operations: DevOps is Magic
Bear with me, it will all make sense in the end. If you aren’t familiar with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (because you don’t have a child who watches it over and over and … well, over) let me sum up for you: There’s a pony who knows something horrible is coming. She […]
Provisioning versus Configuration Example
A few weeks back I wrote about the difference between configuration and provisioning noting, primarily, that there are differences between the two tasks. It remains an important distinction to make because it’s really where the rubber meets the road (or the app meets the network) where it becomes important. As the infrastructure/network side of the […]
Enabling Collaboration Across Diverse Cultures
Welcome back to this series, ‘Enterprise DevOps Q&A.’ In my last post, I talked about breaking down the barriers between dev and ops. Now, I want to address another, very typical question from a global enterprise about managing cultural differences in a globally dispersed enterprise. Q. Being part of a large org, our biggest issue […]
Now that you can consolidate, do not implode
The development world is changing in a big way. We all know it. And it usually happens first with the early stage startups, who have the luxury of adopting new approaches from day one. One of those major shifts is consolidation of team members, where automation is taking over previous roles. In the modern development […]
Enterprises, DevOps and Economies of Scale
In infrastructure there are two economies of scale: operational and capital. DevOps should attend to the former, especially in the enterprise. Soon after cloud burst (sorry, pun not intended) onto the scene we all learned about economy of scale because that, primarily, is what cloud computing’s business model is based on. At great volume, standardization […]
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