Santa Clara, California, will be home to the biggest gathering of Jenkins users in the world Sept. 13-15. This year’s Jenkins World conference will feature Gary Gruver, DevOps expert and author of “Leading the Transformation.” We had a chance to connect with Gary and hear his thoughts on the state of DevOps, continuous delivery and […]
Puppet Labs Launches Annual State of DevOps Survey
Puppet Labs has announced its 5th annual State of DevOps Survey. In the past five years, we’ve surveyed more than 20,000 technical professionals around the world, spanning all industries and companies of all sizes. We’ve captured a tremendous amount of data about how IT performance, culture, technical practices and organizational performance intersect. What sets our […]
New DevOps Book: Leading the Transformation
When I first started researching DevOps and was looking for early enterprises that were successful but not “Unicorns” I was introduced to Gary Gruver. At the time Gary had led the transformation at Macy’s and he was talking about it at several DevOps events. For me it was strong proof that DevOps could work beyond […]
DevOps Golden Rule: Writing More Code for Test Than For Production
Continuous improvement can help completely turnaround a staid IT organization into an innovation machine. But without effective test automation, that transformation is a non-starter. So says Gary Gruver, who has led DevOps journeys both at HP and Macy’s and now works as a consultant guiding other organizations through his firm, Practical Large Scale Agile. Last […]




