A few years ago, I had an idea about how to make publishing recipes on the internet more accessible and profitable. As a front-end engineer-turned-product manager, I could write code as long as it involved JavaScript. But I needed someone who could handle the whole stack, especially the back end—you can’t build a platform with […]
Help Developers Thrive by Finding the Right Platform
If our developers have what they need to create the best possible applications, they—and our customers—benefit Goji Investments was founded on the principle of democratizing access to real estate, business lending, renewables and other alternative investments. The idea is to allow financial service organizations to provide traditionally unavailable investment opportunities to private investors on a […]
Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability
I would like to share a recent case study on our organization, Logz.io, which battled a very serious performance issue, the solution for which turned out to be a small change in code but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform. Among other topics, I’ll cover: How we investigated […]
SOFIHUB Relies on DevOps to Support Independent Seniors
How DevOps is helping one company ensure an active older population can remain independent SOFIHUB home is designed to support older people who wish to live as independently as possible. However, its sensor-based system needed an upgrade to improve the user experience. The SOFIHUB technology connects wirelessly to sensors placed around the home and learns […]
Open Innovation Labs: How Lockheed Brought Better Security to Fighter Jets
How Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs have helped accelerate Lockheed’s software development for the F-22 Raptor As the key government contractor charged with helping the U.S. Air Force keep its F-22 Raptor jets in fighting trim, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics increasingly values software delivery speed as much as engine speed. So much of the continued evolution […]
DevOps Case Study: Cyxtera Improves Quality of Security Application
The ability to fail and recover quickly and frequently roll out new features are DevOps benefits any development team can appreciate. But when the team is building a security application that must protect users in real time, the ability to update and upgrade the product quickly isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a requirement. Security applications require […]
Case Study: Time Series Helps PipelineFX Customers Save Time, Money
Digital rendering billing and licensing issues have been reduced by a time series solution PipelineFX helps organizations of all sizes better manage the cost of rendering for digital media applications and programs. For more than 16 years, organizations of all sizes in the film, visual effects, post production, broadcast, design and education industries have been using […]
Case Study: DevOps Key to AWS Cloud Migration
DevOps practices halved the time it took this SaaS company to migrate to AWS Australia-based Whispir provides communications applications as a service. One of its goals is to get products into users’ hands as soon as possible, and that requires development, operations and product staff working together, said Jonathan Swift, head of product and operations. […]
Automic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle
Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing websites into a DevOps organization. As a result, project delivery was completed with 90 percent fewer delays, and first customer-facing releases of projects could be delivered in less than […]
Case Study: Stytch Before, After DevOps Culture, Tools
Cloud analytics provider Stytch leverages its cloud-based analytics for customers who want to centralize, fuse and model their data. “Our mission is to make it easier and faster for business users to get insights and make decisions,” said Taylor Frost, cloud operations engineer at Stytch. Before the company implemented a DevOps approach, its primary software […]