It’s an exciting time to be an engineer. With companies today moving faster than ever, engineering teams are developing and deploying new code daily, continuously improving and advancing the business. But while the pace of modern development creates new opportunities for engineering teams, it introduces new challenges as well—in particular, making sure new code releases […]
Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud
DevOps is commonly defined as a methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten a system’s development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) […]
Survey Sees Need for More Consistent Approaches to DevOps
DevOps is arguably one of the most disruptive forces driving transformation of IT processes in recent memory. But a new survey finds that while IT organizations are making progress, adoption of DevOps processes remains uneven at best. A survey of 2,419 IT professionals conducted by OverOps, a provider of code analysis tools, finds that 82 […]
There is No Magic Recipe to Adopting DevOps
Over the past five years, we have seen more and more organizations of every size trying to adopt DevOps practices. However, we’re still expecting adoption rates to continue to rise—we have not yet reached “peak DevOps.” The motivations behind this comes from the need to reduce time to market, deliver better quality software, reduce operational […]
9 Ways DevOps Success or Failure Is Like Baseball
The baseball season is in full swing. There are 30 major league teams competing for a playoff spot, but, as I write this, only five of them—or 16.67 percent—qualify as elite performers with a winning percentage over .600. The number is strikingly similar in DevOps, where, according to one survey, just 17 percent of organizations […]
Maturity Models Help Measure the DevOps Journey
DevOps professionals often encounter clients who struggle with sorting through the “what”s and “how”s of where they are in their journey, and how they can either get started with—or improve upon—their current practices. As a project progresses, we often find that diving into a technical solution up front without taking a holistic view of where […]
DevSecOps and DevNetOps: New Heroes in the DevOps Saga
The evolution of DevOps is by no means done, but it’s safe to say that there is enough agreement and acceptance to declare it a hero. DevOps has helped glorify IT to the point where it’s no longer preventing business, nor a provider nor a partner of the business. Often IT is the business, or […]