With the growth of the internet of things (IoT), expected to connect more than 50 billion devices (things) in next three years, building intelligent systems in a more connected world is presenting many challenges. Especially in building software for IoT, beyond hardware and network connectivity challenges there are numerous challenges in development, test, release, managing […]
DevOps: Time for Developers to Dig In
Speaking to developers and project managers at the Gartner Catalyst Show, Jenkins World and Atlassian Summit revealed some insights about how most IT specialist perceive DevOps. Yes, I had a busy end of summer schedule attending events and talking to a wide range of developers and project managers about DevOps. What I learned is that […]
5 C’s That Changed the Future – Webinar Series
CI, CD, Containers, Cloud & Culture
Join us for case studies of innovation and success with continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), containers, cloud (infrastructure & migration), and culture (the DevOps kind). If you’re on the same mission – to create sustainable systems that empower your business to deliver innovation faster and predictably – then you’ll gain incredible insights from this […]
Liberty Mutual: Taking an Organic Approach to DevOps
Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, “Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual,” looked at Liberty Mutual’s transformation to continuous integration, […]
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT infrastructure, in the DevOps realm they are gradually becoming ancient history. At All Day DevOps 2016, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull), […]
CircleCI Injects Workflow Flexibility into CI/CD Platform
Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations. Aiming to provide IT organizations with a more flexible approach to DevOps, CircleCI has updated its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software […]
Continuous Everyone: Engaging People Across the Deployment Pipeline
We have continuous integration and we have continuous deployment, but what’s continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll evangelizes about “continuous everyone.” Jayne is the CEO of the DevOps Institute and the author of “Agile Service Management Guide.” She talked about […]
Survey: DevOps Divide Grows a Little Wider
The gap between the number of organizations that have invested in DevOps is starting to narrow, and IT organizations that made the transition to DevOps earlier are starting to see accelerated returns on that investment, according to the latest survey by Puppet. The annual “State of DevOps Report” finds that out of 3,200 IT professionals […]
Stop Talking About the Number of Times You’ll Deploy
It’s the late 1940s and the automobile industry is just taking off. You run one of the product marketing teams at Chrysler. Wanting to make the best of an exploding market, your marketing team says, “You’ll drive 1,200 times as much with the new Chrysler Windsor!” Of course, that advertising never makes it to the […]
Think of the Future When Building Delivery
We’re in a strange state of the pendulum swing right now, where speed of delivery is king and all else seems to take a back seat. Many orgs even place quality behind speed in the claim that “we’ll get it right later,” but I’m talking about the more universal rush to deploy and the infrastructures […]