Every few years, the IT canvas is splashed with a new initiative that sparks enthusiasm among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such philosophy gaining significant momentum in today’s […]
Container Considerations on Your DevOps Journey
Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world, too—containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your things, software containers can help you […]
What Happens Post-Deployment: The Rotating Roster
DevOps has become that celebrity who’s always the talk of the town but is largely misunderstood. It’s even quoted in the wrong context. A few days back, while speaking at […]
The Perfect Combination: Imperative Orchestration, Declarative Automation
There are two fundamental approaches of how to design automation processes, declarative (also often known as model) and imperative (also often known as workflow or procedural). The purpose of this […]
Lessons Learned: We’re Still Killing Ourselves with Innovation
Since the widespread acceptance of virtual machines (VMs), we’ve been on a racetrack with changing technology, with little opportunity to stop and digest lessons learned. That’s not to say organizations […]
How to Avoid Trouble when Deploying Apps to Multiple Clouds
Deployment is where Dev meets Ops. The glue that binds the two is orchestration, which places operations guidelines in the application itself. Here’s how to avoid trouble when deploying your […]
DevOps Days London: The Human Factor
Day 2 of DevOpsDays London 2016 kicked off with a presentation from the legendary Gene Kim. The theme that dominated today’s proceedings was the “human factor,” (fitting, as we finished […]
Ultimate Checklist for Successful App Deployment
Deploying software releases is a mixture of planning, testing, late hours, and celebratory beers. This checklist is intended to be a guide to help improve how your team achieves this […]
Time-Sharing to Unicorns: The DevOps Problem Facing Enterprise IT
How did we in Enterprise IT get to this point? There’s a lot of talking and writing about the value of adopting DevOps but very little analyzing the problem domain […]
5 ways APM can solve your DevOps worries
This week at the InterOp conference in New York I had the chance to talk to a lot of IT managers transforming their organizations to adopt a DevOps culture. One […]
