When you look around tech markets—almost any tech market—you can see an obvious overlap. Tons of markets that are complementary and that take different approaches to solving the same problem, or markets that have grown into each other over time. This happens in highly active marketplaces. People have great ideas and implement them but someone […]
We All Have to Have Standards
I was working on an e-book recently about the state of the market for certain DevOps toolsets, and got really interested in how standardized organizations are becoming. We have been on this roller coaster of changing technology and different teams making different choices in language, libraries, platforms and toolchains. We all knew that couldn’t go […]
How to Achieve a Converged Toolchain
In recent years, there’s been an explosion of tools for developing and delivering software. In a single pipeline, a company will have separate tools to ideate, plan, code, verify, configure, release and monitor new software, and every pipeline can have different tools for each individual stage (i.e. ideation). That’s a lot of tools, and providing […]