If we’re being honest, the “green issue” currently isn’t the priority it needs to be for a lot of companies. At best, they are ticking the box marked ‘sustainability’ and paying lip service to a trendy topic. At worst, they are engaging in nothing more than greenwashing. Considering carbon emissions from cloud computing have now […]
Dell Looks to Expand Pool of Available DevOps Expertise
Dell Technologies has quietly launched a training and education initiative to significantly expand the number of IT professionals that have DevOps skills. Brad Maltz, senior director for DevOps and developer relations ecosystems for Dell, said the next era of IT will require IT professionals that understand how to automate the management of application development and […]
Start Automating Now
A bit of feedback I received from last week’s post is that I didn’t provide any background, I just jumped right in with examples. So let’s take a step back and talk about the bigger picture. It is always a surprise to me when I talk to enterprise friends and associates and hear that automation […]
Back to Basics
We here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud do sometimes suffer from The Curse of Knowledge. We write about DevOps regularly for an audience that is doing or managing DevOps. We assume knowledge, but there are still a fair number of people and organizations who are unclear about some of the terminology/technology that we talk about. So if you […]
Understanding the Infrastructure Automation Maturity Model
Nearly every company wants to evolve its digital transformation and increase the pace of software delivery and operations. And infrastructure automation is a new means to achieve these ends. It supports the emerging discipline of platform engineering and can increase scalability and reactivity to unforeseen events, enabling software ecosystems to be more anti-fragile. Increased infrastructure […]
5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […]
Tips for Better Governance – Techstrong TV
David Williams, VP of Porduct Strategy at Quali, and Charlene discuss David’s top tips to better governance in DevOps. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Techstrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon, and I’m here now with David Williams, who is the VP of product […]
A Guide to Cloud Migration Trends and Strategies
For several years, we have witnessed widescale cloud adoption as a software infrastructure growth and maintenance strategy. Spending on cloud application services (SaaS) continues to grow as monolithic applications are replaced by microservices-based apps and monoliths become relics of the past. In 2021 alone, companies spent $410.9 billion on public cloud services, and Gartner expects […]
More Than Half of DevOps Pros Have Backdoor Access to IT Infrastructure
A survey of 600 DevOps professionals conducted by strongDM, a platform for managing access to IT infrastructure, found nearly two-thirds (64%) had productivity impacted on a daily or weekly basis because of access issues. It’s not surprising that, as a result, DevOps teams created a number of workarounds to gain access, even though those methods […]
Dependability is Crucial for Real-Time Experiences
Millions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, also went down for some users. And in the last few weeks of 2021, Amazon’s AWS caused considerable global chaos after significant networking […]
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