Listening to his talk, it seems as though George Parris and his team at Capital One aren’t keeping “banker’s hours.” George is a Master Software Engineer, Retail Bank DevOps at Capital One. At the All Day DevOps conference, George gave a talk, titled “Meta Infrastructure as Code: How Capital One Automates our Automation Tools with […]
Why DevOps Success Depends on the Right Infrastructure
Do you remember building with LEGOs? You could follow the directions that come in the box down to the letter, or you could go off-script to create something totally your own and evolve and refine it over time. Regardless of your level of creativity, if you had one of those classic green base plates to […]
The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution
There’s a level of frustration starting to build inside IT operations teams that’s about to boil over. Lucas Carlson, vice president of strategy for Automic, a unit of CA Technologies that provides an IT automation platform, says developers are bullying IT operations teams by programmatically invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by public cloud service […]
DevOps: Trust, Obligations and Promises
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretical physicist, but in his keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference, he talked more about economics and human interactives than physics. What does either have to do as the keynote for a conference on DevOps? Well, for a little more background, Mark Burgess is also the founder and […]
Confessions from Fannie Mae, Liberty Mutual and Capital One
Learn from real-world stories from presenters at the All Day DevOps conference … True Story Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in which it delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200 per month to 15,000 per month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28 percent while costs were reduced by 30 […]
Will Blockchain Move Past Hype to Reality?
Blockchain has hit peak “hype,” according to Gartner’s recently published “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.” The financial world has been very optimistic about blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)—the underlying technology behind bitcoin—and the impending disruption it can bring to the way the financial system works. Although the initial buzz around bitcoin has gradually died […]
Infrastructure’s Impact on Shifting Left
If you lead big honkin’ software development projects at a big honkin’ enterprise, you’re probably doing everything you can to shift QA left. That’s because the earlier you discover defects and shortfalls, the faster and less expensively you can bring great software to market. Unfortunately, above a certain scale, it takes more than just better […]
Reasons Why DevOps May Not Work for You
DevOps is a great way for many organizations to optimize software design and delivery. Yet, like every other technological innovation in history, DevOps is not perfect. Here are some examples of drawbacks associated with DevOps. By no means do I think DevOps is a bad idea in general. I want to be very clear about that. […]
Mainstreaming the Mainframe: DevOps, Automation, Unified Deployment
The mainframe is alive and well. That big metal beast in the data center is not going anywhere anytime soon—nor are its applications. “If mainframe applications disappeared tomorrow, planes couldn’t fly, people wouldn’t get paid, and the economy would come to a halt,” wrote Forrester analysts in a recent report, “Digital Transformation Needs Mainframe DevOps.” […]
Q&A: BDO’s Coffman on Change Management, Security and DevOps, Part 2
As we covered in part one, DevOps’ best asset and biggest risk factor may be one and the same: swift and precious change. In part two, we continue our discussion of the challenges and solutions with Deena Coffman, managing director of BDO Consulting’s Technology Advisory Services practice. David Geer: What specific tools and technologies can […]
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