DevOps pioneer and author John Willis and cybersecurity leader Shira Rubinoff join the team at Techstrong Group Boca Raton, FL, June 21, 2023 — Techstrong, the power source for people and technology, that empowers people and technology, today announced the addition of two industry luminaries to its team. Shira Rubinoff, a well known leader in […]
Free DevOps Training at DOI’s Global SKILup Day
The DevOps Institute (DOI) is hosting a global training day called Global SKILup Day on Dec. 10, 2019. It’s a free virtual event and they have arranged for some of the brightest minds in the DevOps space to speak/train during the course of the day. Why global? They truly are planning on a follow-the-sun approach […]
DevSecOps @RSAC, My 2 Favorite Presentations
For the third year, staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud hosted a DevSecOps/Rugged DevOps event at RSA Conference. As with years before, we smashed attendance records. We had just shy of 900 people stop in on Monday of RSA Week to hear from the 11 presentations we hosted. Taken in total, the presentations presented a wide range of DevSecOps issues. […]
DevOps Chat: Gene Kim on The DevOps Handbook and DevOps Enterprise Summit
Today was a red letter day in the DevOps world. Besides DevOps Connect: CD Summit’s being held in Atlanta and Berlin today. It was also the day of the highly anticipated release of the DevOps Handbook. The book was over five years in the making. It contains over forty case studies of real organizations and […]
CD Summit/Jenkins Days with John Willis, KK & Mustafa Kapadia
Our fall lineup of DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days are coming on fast. We kick off this fall’s schedule of seven events in Atlanta on Oct. 4 and 6. The speakers and subjects are up on the site, but I wanted to highlight the three keynote speakers: Our three headliners for Atlanta are Mustafa Kapadia […]
Damon Edwards and John Willis @ DOES London 2016
It was a very busy DevOps Summer 2016. Now that it is almost over, we wanted to bring you some of the highlights. One highlight certainly was the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in London, where Gene Kim assembled a great lineup of speakers. Two of my favorites were Damon Edwards and John Willis, and I […]
Puppet Labs Launches Annual State of DevOps Survey
Puppet Labs has announced its 5th annual State of DevOps Survey. In the past five years, we’ve surveyed more than 20,000 technical professionals around the world, spanning all industries and companies of all sizes. We’ve captured a tremendous amount of data about how IT performance, culture, technical practices and organizational performance intersect. What sets our […]
John Willis on Kata Presentation at cdSummit SoCal
I didn’t really have a chance to report much on the DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal we held late last year. The event featured a full day of some great DevOps, CD/CI sessions. It was co-produced with CloudBees and IBM, with SauceLabs, Sonatype, Sumo Logic and JFrog joining as sponsors. For me, the highlight of the […]
DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal
I know we have mentioned it before but we haven’t officially announced our DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal event on December 3rd in Los Angeles. The event co-produced with CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, IBM and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud will take place from 9am to 6pm at: The Olympic Collection Banquet & Conference Center 11301 W. Olympic Blvd., […]
Devops Days Silicon Valley, you don’t want to miss it
DevOps Days have become a global phenomenon. These are unique, community-organized events that bring together development and operations practitioners for two days of scheduled presentations, open spaces (more about that later), and networking. How instrumental to the DevOps movement are DevOps Days? “DevOps” actually got its name from the discussions that happened at the first […]









