As 2017 winds down and the IT industry prepares for 2018, there are a number of DevOps trends that everyone should be keeping their eyes on. It’s not so much that something incredible and explosive is expected in the new year. Rather, 2018 will be a time when DevOps starts to mature alongside other trends […]
Cuba Embraces DevOps, Despite Infrastructure Challenges
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the second DevOpsDays event in Cuba alongside some great technologists from across the United States, Europe and Latin America. The conference was held in a beautiful hotel in Varadero overlooking a marina right by the beach. Varadero is approximately two hours by car from […]
Barriers to DevOps Culture Change
In the quest for DevOps, there are two paths organizations can take. One is to start with automation and attempt to get as much as possible out of automation tools. The other is to start with culture change and use tools to address what increased communications uncovers. Both scenarios are happening in the wild, and […]
Understanding is Key to Achieving DevOps Culture
Historically speaking, IT has been composed of silos. This has worked out rather well over the last half century or so, as one team developed systems, another kept them running, another handled security and yet another managed the infrastructure. But it was never nirvana. Working well is not the same as cannot be improved. The […]
Creatures of Habit, Snowflakes and Integration Tax
Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps’ biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal “10 deploys per day” Velocity presentation in 2009, it was regarded by some as strange and alien to corporate culture. It was the antithesis to the accepted way of […]
Go Big or Go Home: Total DevOps Guarantees Results
As revealed by a recent survey, only enterprises that implement an “all-in” approach to DevOps achieve the results of best-in-class enterprises seen in the “2017 State of DevOps Report.” Total DevOps approaches DevOps transformations holistically, integrating the full breadth of your DevOps value chain as well as the many stakeholders across your organization that must […]
Patrick McClory on Building Successful DevOps Organizations
Patrick McClory has been writing code, managing DevOps and designing scalable application infrastructures for more than 10 years. Most recently, as COO and CTO of DualSpark, he served as an expert Amazon Web Services consultant, helping clients capitalize on the benefits of cloud architecture and design with modern and innovative software, infrastructure and automation strategies […]
In DevOps, Figure Out Why Before Considering How
It has been fairly well-established that DevOps is primarily a function of the underlying culture—about breaking down barriers and shifting roles so that teams and individuals are empowered to come up with innovative ideas and execute them without the burden of traditional corporate bureaucracy. It is also understood that there are a variety of tools […]
Avoid Crashes: 5 Best Practices for Load Testing
Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]
DevOps is a Lifeline to Connected Mainframe ROI
A new IDC white paper sponsored by IBM and CA Technologies reveals the adoption of DevOps is a hallmark of those organizations that are actively modernizing and integrating legacy systems such as a mainframe to support digital transformation. Early adopters are blazing a path for faster innovation and greater ROI. DevOps Delivers Mainframe Modernization and […]
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