I recently sat down with Jean-Louis Vignaud, program manager at IBM, about the new GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service that recently was rolled out on Bluemix. The GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service is a great option for enterprises that, due to compliance or other security requirements, cannot used a shared, public GitHub service. […]
Scaling Collaboration in DevOps
Those familiar with DevOps generally agree that it is equally as much about culture as it is about technology. There are certainly tools and practices involved in the effective implementation of DevOps, but the foundation of DevOps success is how well teams and individuals collaborate across the enterprise to get things done more rapidly, efficiently […]
IBM InterConnect 2016: Sounding Off
This years IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas was spectacular. Our staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud team covered as many of the 300+ DevOps tracks and sessions that we could. We have been editing video and getting ready to report on the show since then. Finally, we have enough ready and the time to give our full report. The last […]
Unifying Applications into One System
Let’s talk about a real problem that all of us have faced at one point or another: keeping track of a single thread of work across many disparate tools. Regardless of the industry a company operates in, as a company grows it accumulated back-office applications that support of the business. Many knowledge-based companies have some […]
GitHub, Bug bounties and DevOps
A year after starting up its bug bounty program GitHub is showing how complementary bug bounties can be to DevOps practices. Essentially crowdsourcing vulnerability hunting by systematically paying independent researchers prizes for flaws they find, bug bounties are in a sense an extension of the DevOps ethos. They offer a means of continuously delivering application […]
Why Continuous Integration Doesn’t Work
Continuous integration is easy. Download Jenkins, install, create a job, click the button, and get a nice email saying that your build is broken (I assume your build is automated). Then, fix broken tests (I assume you have tests), and get a much better looking email saying that your build is clean. Then, tweet about it, claiming […]
How Change Management Serves the Developer
Change management first comes to mind as a means to keep errant, untested, unapproved code from entering production. But did you know that what is good for IT operations is good for developers, too? Developers appreciate change management. They enjoy the change management benefits of Linus Torvald’s popular Git version control system http://git-scm.com/, which maintains […]
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