The latest and greatest advances in technology often draw the spotlight, but the truly great changes in business aren’t driven by technology alone. They’re enabled by a change in culture that’s supported and accelerated by technology. Consider the assembly line in the auto industry. Automation, specialized tooling and robotics have provided a boost to quality […]
The ‘Continuous’ Illusion
Continuous delivery is an illusion. That doesn’t make it insubstantial—illusions can have a tremendous impact. Like the first motion picture: the locomotive felt so real to first audiences that they fell from their chairs, screaming. But of course, the locomotive was an illusion, merely rushing past on screen. A good magician, like a good inventor, […]
4 n00b MySQL Mistakes Every Programmer Makes
Even experienced programmers can sometimes be thrown for an infinite loop–or other code failure–with these common MySQL mistakes. When a database application goes belly up, the cause often can be traced to sloppy coding. Every now and then, the reason for a misbehaving app is an idiosyncrasy in the platform itself. Here’s how to prevent […]
Why Your Organization Needs DevOps
The recently released fifth annual “State of DevOps Report” by Puppet has once again brought with it fresh insights into what drives high-performance teams. The report, which comes at a time when DevOps has ceased to be a buzzword, provides proof of why more and more businesses across the world are adopting DevOps to improve their organization’s performance, revenues […]
Pokémon Go Shows DevOps Changes Human Behavior
Everywhere you go lately, you can see people acting strangely. They’re walking streets they never walked before. They’re waving their smartphones around in odd ways. And they’re high-fiving each other for no apparent reason. And they’re doing it because of DevOps. Of course, not everyone immediately thinks about Pokémon Go as an artifact of DevOps—but […]
Don’t Make Me Code: Environment Protection
Thanks for listening to “Don’t Make Me Code,” a Heavybit podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. “Don’t Make Me Code” is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. In this episode, Steve and David are joined by Sean Li, lead product […]
Tales of DevOps Discovery, Part 3: Q&A and Explanations
This is part three of the series, Tales of DevOps Discovery. To catch up, Read part one and part two. In preparing for a DevOps transformation a critical first step is to perform upfront discovery, often asking even the most fundamental, seemingly obvious, questions of stakeholders. The major portion of such discovery should be done […]
7 Reasons to Move to Parallel Testing
While development operations are more scalable now than ever, there is one area that continues to constrain the ability of organizations to scale: functional testing. Most organizations still rely on sequential tests to deliver quality assurance. No matter how rapidly a business can produce great products, its ability to bring them to consumers quickly is […]
Follow the Simple Path of Nirvana to DevOps
Perhaps the title of this post is a misleading, as nothing is truly “simple. But there is a well-defined pathway to achieving DevOps goals for any size company. Just follow a step-up pattern by adopting the principles of agile, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and you will reach your goal of DevOps. This path is […]
Avoid the DevOps Temptation to Build It Yourself
As tempting as building your own DevOps incident communication tool sounds, you should think twice. My colleagues and I recently were on the phone with a company seeking an IT incident communications and collaboration solution (a.k.a. IT alerting) to eliminate the time wasted with inefficient communications between teams when dealing with major IT issues. We […]
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