From big data to storage to security, the DevOps concept is being applied to every field of IT operations under the sun today. This “Everything Ops” movement reflects the popularity of DevOps—but is it also diluting DevOps’s significance? DevOps itself focuses on software delivery. It’s about designing, building, testing, deploying and managing software applications. If […]
4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps
We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decision-making and problem-solving and to receive quick, expert guidance. “With the rise of cloud services that can be easily deployed, and increased awareness and importance given to productivity and collaboration within […]
Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
In-App Messaging: The Key to a Better User Experience
As the mobile device obsession grows, enterprise IT departments are learning the hard way that today’s Web applications, will in fact, not live forever. Enterprise developers are now forced to turn their focus to mobile app development – not just repurposing a Web API for mobile, but embracing what is inherently different about the mobile […]
The Pros and Cons of Remote Work in Ops
Remote work in Ops is divisive. The perks of working from home, your local coffee shop or wherever can be quite obvious to engineers and contributors. But some team leaders and company execs aren’t buying into it. One faction sees it as a way to do better quality work. Another has watched deadlines and motivation […]
eHarmony finds its perfect match with PagerDuty and DevOps
Did you know that 4% of all marriages in the US are the result of people “finding their perfect match” on the eHarmony service? Keeping the systems that are making all of those matches up and doing it 24/7/365 is no easy task. Especially at peak load times like Valentine’s Day for instance. The pioneer […]
Confident Financial Solutions is cutting edge with ChatOps for log monitoring
If I told you a company named Confident Financial Solutions is on the front line of adopting DevOps methods to better serve their customers you might say, “Come again?” Let’s face it Confident Financial Solutions doesn’t sound like the type of company that would be stretching the envelope of technology. But don’t let the name […]