Containerization and microservices seemed to have leaped out of nowhere and smack into the center of the enterprise IT scene. But neither leaped from nowhere. Both containerization and microservices have been part of the fabric of enterprise tech for some time—within Linux for containers and service-oriented architecture for microservices. Largely, thanks to containerization, both now […]
DevOps Q&A: SUMO Heavy’s Brodie on the Hybrid Cloud
Not every expert says DevOps will enable the hybrid cloud. One says it never will. Find out why in this Q&A with Bob Brodie, partner and CTO of SUMO Heavy, a digital commerce design and development firm. David Geer: How will DevOps enable the hybrid cloud? Brodie: I do not feel that DevOps enables the […]
Can DevOps Be Applied to Production Networks?
The key goal of DevOps is to bring development and operations together, bound by a common set of practices. For this to become reality, developers need to think more like the operations team—focusing on stability and reliability—while operators need to think more like developers—focusing on agility and speed. But how widely can this be applied? […]
What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Us About DevOps Automation
Perhaps no movie has ever received the same level of hype as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Longtime fans yearned for the latest episode of the sprawling saga to bring back some of the magic of the original movies, while paving the way for the next generation of the “Star Wars” universe. In this way, the […]
How to Fail at Test Automation
Let me start by admitting that I am not a test automation expert. I have done some work with test automation and have supervised teams who practiced it, but when it comes to the intricacies of it, I have to call a friend. It is from such friends that I have learned why so many […]
Echidna Takes DevOps to E-Commerce Site Creation
The Echidna e-commerce firm installs and evolves e-commerce platforms, providing ongoing development so its clients can leverage e-commerce experiences to the satisfaction of their customers. “We apply carefully selected user experience technology, marketing and analytics abilities to our clients’ strategic goals to do this,” taking what it calls an “anti-Big Bang” approach to continuous deployment, […]
Best Practices for Cloud Deployment
When it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, the conventional wisdom is that DevOps is not required if you’re a small or midsized company. The cloud is designed to enable virtually anyone to set up the infrastructure they need, quickly and easily, without a lot of experience in the intricacies of managing data center […]
Legacy IT Challenges Continuous Delivery
Legacy information technology infrastructure has a strong effect on the potential success of DevOps. In environments where different teams have always used the same servers, change can be difficult due to inter-team coordination and limited server transparency and application inventories, says David Blank-Edelman, a 30-year systems administration/DevOps/SRE veteran and currently Technical Evangelist at Apcera. “Unraveling […]
If you “code” your apps, why do you still “configure” your IT infrastructure?
Industry studies and market indicators show the exploding growth of the DevOps movement, and it’s for one simple reason – in today’s application driven economy, DevOps teams have proven that they can build, test and ship applications faster than the traditional IT approach. Businesses compete on the efficiency of delivering applications to meet the demands […]
Beyond the Darkness of Shadow IT
The concept of consumerization of IT, Bring Your Own Everything (BYOx) and self-service technologies has amplified the amount of ‘Shadow IT’ in development shops. Developers can procure, setup, and start using new components, and developer tools in hours. This is a trend that lurks in the dark. C-suite executives can either ban the trend altogether […]
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