People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start. Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices. In April, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 37,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free […]
Ten ways DevOps will benefit your IT department
When implemented properly, DevOps can transform your software engineering process and create value for both employees and customers, producing business performance and value. A fully working DevOps methodology will bring the following benefits: Increased service quality Perceived service quality and reliability depend on both the availability of a service in the absence of error (MTTF: […]
What is DevOps to you? New survey by ElasticBox and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud
What is DevOps to you? Now that is a loaded question. For so long DevOps has defied definition. How can then we quantify it? How do you know if it is working? What do you spend on it? What exactly do you do when you do it? What tools do you use? While the folks […]
The real cost of downtime
Stephen Elliot and the IDC team recently released a report (registration required) sponsored by AppDynamics that examines the true cost of downtime and infrastructure failure, as well as DevOps adoption. The headline numbers are pretty eye-opening: For the Fortune 1000, the average total cost of unplanned application downtime per year is $1.25 billion to $2.5 […]
Why DevOps is like fitness or religion
What is DevOps? I noted in a blog post last summer that limiting DevOps to a single definition is challenging. The Wikipedia entry for DevOps contains a variety of possible explanations that seem to disagree in some ways: It’s a “software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology […]
3 Tips to Shape Human Behaviors and Achieve Your DevOps Goals
DevOps raises many questions around processes and technologies, but it is important to remember that people are the essential piece that makes DevOps work. Since my post on Generalists vs. Specialists here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, I have had many questions about shaping human behaviors, like this one: Q. How can I help my team build up […]
DevOps with Purpose: It’s about your tools!
This is Part Three in a four-part series. In Part One, I focused on the critical first step of defining DevOps with a purpose by thinking about DevOps in the context of your organization’s applications. In Part Two, I provided four tips to fostering a DevOps culture in your organization. By now you’ve hopefully noticed […]
DevOps’ Chicken Or Egg Origins
When acolytes explain the DevOps movement to the uninitiated, they usually run into a chicken and egg line of questioning. What is DevOps, really? Is it a culture? Is it a pattern of processes? Or is it a technology? What comes first? The ratios of the perceived importance of each of those elements may shift […]
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