Change is in the wind. This time of the year, as winter weather gives way to springtime renewal, this concept isn’t a cliché but rather a concrete, visceral experience. You […]
Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
I am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile “top […]
Carving through the hype – take the DevOps maturity assessment
As anyone who spends time with their family over the holidays can attest, the notion of maturity is a highly subjective concept. Whether it’s sizing up the next generation’s advancement […]
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. […]
Code Review – Write your code right
Writing code is definitely subjected to individual thinking, logics and perspective. How one writes code is completely depend on their technical and logical skills. Two different people can write the […]
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 […]
The Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are […]
The right answer was “process”
The question is “why is there no one-size-fits-all automation and orchestration solution”? Automation, a component critical for continuous deployment particularly as it extends beyond app operations and into the broader […]
DevOps & Continuous Change
A remark by a colleague while waiting for the coffee machine to complete its cycle started my train of thought. “Should we have multiple minor releases or just do a […]
ChatOps: Communicating at the speed of DevOps
DevOps is about knocking down barriers between developers and operations teams, and in doing so reducing organizational frictions wherever possible. And that’s certainly the spirit behind ChatOps – the term […]
