One of the promises of DevOps is continuous deployment. DevOps is, first and foremost, a matter of shifting the traditional business culture more than the tools and technologies that enable it. Once that culture exists, though, one of the defining aspects of DevOps is automation and continuity. Earlier this year I wrote about the seeming […]
Digital Disrupters – Building a DevOps Leadership Profile
While the advancement of DevOps methodology remains fairly nascent for many organizations, an ever-expanding class of leading practitioners are evolving a wide range of related best practices. Beyond the well-worn concept of “unicorns” – the scant few organizations that stand as mythical examples of DevOps nirvana – this broader set of early adopters have begun […]
To Be Continuous: Shipping Velocity and Team Structure
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about shipping velocity and it’s affect on team structure. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. Paul is the CEO […]
Re-thinking DevOps tools for Continuous Deployment success
Gartner predicts that 25% of Global 2000 companies will be actively implementing DevOps methodologies in their organizations by 2016. As DevOps goes mainstream, it may be time to re-think some of the implementation techniques that have worked in small companies and in non-production uses. The common assumptions that are often applied to make a continuous […]
Native Integration of APM Driving DevOps Maturity
With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the biggest challenge remains creating performance metrics that address both IT and larger business initiatives. There’s no question that APM is one of the […]
To Be Continuous: Evolution of Continuous Delivery
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar discuss the evolution of continuous delivery. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly […]
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. “Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is “No”. DevOps is not going to replace Testing as a discipline. Firms implementing DevOps have a vision for better product quality workable by brilliant Testing. DevOps is an enabler for the following. […]
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
28 DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures (Vol. 2)
People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start. Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices. In April, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 37,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free […]
Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?: Part 2
Part 2: Continuous delivery tool chain efficiency > Outsourcing savings (Check out Part 1 of the series Will DevOps Kill IT Outsourcing?) Experts on digital disruption and DevOps practices are vocal in their belief that DevOps and traditional outsourcing models don’t mix well. “Adopting DevOps requires organizations to erase the barriers between development and operations teams,” says […]
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