Automation has captured the human imagination since the earliest days of recorded history. A fanciful example of this comes from Homer’s classic “The Iliad” in the form of a bronze robot called Talos, which was designed to automatically monitor and defend the island of Crete from marauding intruders. The appeal of automation for IT organizations, […]
Building a Platform for DevOps Evolution, Part Two
In the introduction to this series, we discussed the concept of change and how it applies to DevOps environments and release managers. In a world of constant changes in our surroundings and user demands, DevOps has to maintain hundreds of moving pieces across large organizations of people who, by nature, are adverse to change. This […]
NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner
Once again, we are seeing an uptick in the use of the term NoOps. I always felt that NoOps was a misleading and, in fact, empty phrase. I don’t care what magic you think you have; you are never going to eliminate the need to operate your software, applications and infrastructure. I first heard the […]
Why We Still Need Specialists
A few years back, I wrote here that specialists—particularly infrastructure specialists—were not going anywhere. I think it is worth updating that prediction and reminding you all that specialists across the bulk of DevOps subdomains are still necessary—even if you have broken down their silos. Spend time in any of the variety of places that DevOps […]
Best of 2021 – Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. […]
Log4j Puts Effective IT Operations at Center Stage
News of the Apache Log4j vulnerability exploit is striking fear into the hearts of both software makers and users. Log4j is the most popular Java logging service used today, with over 400,000 GitHub downloads and has been embedded in most internet services and products from companies all over the world, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, […]
Where Do SREs Go From Here?
Charlene O’Hanlon talks with Leo Vasiliou, director of product marketing at Catchpoint, about the results of a study the company fielded with VMWare Tanzu and DevOps Institute of nearly 300 site reliability engineers (SREs). This year’s report underscores the challenges of multi-cloud, calls out the underutilization of AIOps and shows a systemic shift in core […]
How Low-CodeOps Can Transform DevOps
Over the past year, enterprise adoption of low-code software development platforms surged across the world economy as COVID-19’s economic consequences drove an unprecedented number of digital initiatives. Enterprises are turning to low-code platforms to rapidly build new apps that empower customers, remote workers and external end users conducting business operations or pivoting to new opportunities. […]
AIOps Builds Organizational Efficiency, Survey Finds
Enterprises entered 2020 with big plans. Post-pandemic, AIOps could help them achieve those goals, according to a new research survey from Digitate and CorporateLeader. Enterprises entered 2020 with the best-laid plans; many had efforts lined up to expand their use of cloud services and continue their steady efforts to digitally transform their businesses. Then the […]
Operations Model: DevOps, NoOps, AIOps or None of the Above Ops?
Within an organization, an operations model must be fit-for-purpose and be able to adapt as business needs change. At the same time, changing technology necessitates an advancement in how an organization operates. Small and medium-sized enterprises are faced with the difficult choice of how much to invest in operations and which approach to choose. In […]
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