I’m often asked how to create a DevOps Culture and there is no single answer to this question. The focus initially for me in any cultural movement is to understand how the organization incentivizes and what its core beliefs are. When it comes to DevOps, I am normally looking for ways to bring these two […]
DevOps success is everyone’s responsibility
For organizations with existing hierarchies and processes the shift to a DevOps mindset can be a challenge. The traditional departmental roles and separation of duties is anathema to an efficient DevOps culture. When it comes to DevOps there’s no room for finger-pointing—every team and individual is equally responsible for making sure everything is firing on […]
Dice Breakers: using DevOps principles and nerdery to reimagine Team building
Software is a young industry, and not a very traditional one. Your team can’t always be expected to behave like teams in other fields. So it’s no surprise that when a development team hears the phrase, “teambuilding exercises” for most of them it conjures up the idea of a room full of awkward people marginally […]
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 […]
4 big challenges of microservices
The rise of microservices as a means of developing and delivering software value faster is clearly on the rise. Containers have skyrocketed from a fringe technology to a mainstream imperative and organizations are scrambling to jump on the microservices bandwagon. Before you rush out to embrace microservices, though, there are a few things you should […]
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 […]
The Art of DevOps
This is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps was written by IBM client, and my friend Carmen DeArdo of Nationwide. Lee introduced mathematically improving delivery throughput by leveraging DevOps to improve […]
#HugOps in Practice: Empathy Skills for DevOps
Get it together! Why is your service always down?!” We think we’re doing the whole DevOps thing right — new hires can deploy on day one, Travis CI is humming along, and we own the code we ship. But then something breaks, something doesn’t go according to plan, tempers flare up, and all that warm, […]
5 Ways Continuous Integration Reduces Risk in Development
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. There’s a lot of talk about DevOps and Continuous Integration in the tech space right now, but sometimes the implementation of those methods can be tricky. An effective Continuous Integration strategy requires DevOps teams to manage […]
Atlantic.Net Credits DevOps Culture to Mental Agility
Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net) is a Solid State Drive-based cloud hosting provider with locations in New York City, San Francisco, Dallas, Toronto, Orlando, and (coming soon) London and Singapore, says Marty Puranik, Founder & CEO, Atlantic.Net. The Atlantic.Net cloud system is an intuitive IaaS server environment for customers who are developers. The company backs its 24/7/365 operation […]
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