Organizations today are racing to develop software at a breakneck pace through efficient DevOps processes. But it’s important for them to avoid losing sight of the forest for the trees. If too much of that speed comes with quality sacrifices that degrade the user experience, the rapid software iterations hurt the business more than they […]
5 Can’t-Miss DevOps Sessions at Jenkins World
In less than a month many Jenkins users and DevOps professionals will gather in San Francisco for Jenkins World, taking place Aug. 28-31. With more than 60 sessions to choose from, covering a wide range of topics, it can be difficult to narrow down your schedule. That’s why it’s important to go into the show […]
Compuware Survey Connects Mainframes, DevOps
Mainframes are still necessary; integrating them with modern hardware and software is tricky; and DevOps is the answer. Those are the takeaways from a survey out this week that was commissioned by Compuware. The survey, which was released Dec. 14, was conducted by Forrester. It asked professionals how often their organizations rely on mainframe systems […]
Murphy’s DevOps: 7 Habits of Rugged DevOps
Attendees of Rugged DevOps Connect at RSA packed Moscone West’s second floor Feb. 29 to immerse themselves in security. Among the presenters of the daylong event was Forrester analyst Amy DeMartine, who provided a tutorial on how security, developers and operations folks can work together better in the new DevOps world. Through a slide show, DeMartine […]
DevOps Connect at RSA: In Security, Choose Increments
Earlier this week the worlds of DevOps and information security collided at the DevOps Connect Rugged DevOps event, held in conjunction with RSA Conference 2016. The security-centric audience got to hear from a number of thought leaders across the DevOps and infosec worlds about ways security pros and DevOps teams can work together and establish […]
Webinar: Application Release Automation at Scale
Organizations of all shapes and sizes depend on feature-packed application releases to keep end users productive and happy. As application complexity grows, managing deployments manually becomes more difficult and slows down the pace of business. Join Amy DeMartine, Sr. Analyst at Forrester research and Mike Hamrick, Software Configuration Management Lead at Lockheed Martin, servicing CMS […]
Eight critical DevOps practices: innovate, deliver, repeat
DevOps has been garnering a lot of interest for some time. Discussions and debates on forums like staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud are improving our collective understanding of the right approach and now we are seeing concrete proof points of fast-movers applying DevOps practices to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital-innovation based on Cloud, Big Data and Mobile technologies. […]
DevOps makes coding more social, social coding makes better code
One of the main principles of DevOps is to break down silos. What’s more like a silo than the image of a lone developer, shutting himself off from the world in order to code more and interact with people less? “I’m just here to write code and that’s all I do.” There’s nothing collaborative or […]