At its annual user conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, NGINX delivered releases focusing on the application platform market and support of delivering microservices architectures: NGINX Plus, an application delivery controller that combines a load balancer, content cache and web server. NGINX Controller, a centralized management and monitoring platform for NGINX Plus, which orchestrates the […]
With DevOps Culture, It’s Mind Over Matter
There is quite a bit of conversation about tools versus culture, and sometimes, those constantly involved in the back-and-forth forget that not everyone is so steeped in the finer points of the conversation. Tools is the easy part. There are a ton of tools available to optimize IT operations, from small bespoke products such as […]
So Long to Configuration Management Systems?
When I was an operations architect at Ning way back in 2009, we were struggling to manage our deployments and configurations of more than 50 different application servers, or what the cool kids today call microservices. Applications were deployed across three distinct environments: development, staging and production. None of these environments were exactly the same […]
VictorOps Announces DevOps Roadtrip to Impart Industry Best Practices Across the Country
New event series provides practical tips for implementing and enhancing DevOps strategies March 21, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VictorOps, the real-time, agile incident management company for DevOps teams, today announced its DevOps Roadtrip, a series of events designed to help software development and IT professionals across the country to better implement […]
Three Ways Dev and Ops Teams Can Manage the Integration Lifecycle
Many enterprise organizations did not invest enough money into integration as they built their cloud or hybrid infrastructures. As if integrating on-premise systems and applications wasn’t tough enough, in today’s cloud era with the rise of hybrid environments, connectivity has only gotten more complicated – especially when combined with the increased speed of deployment. Puppet […]
Tips to change culture (at least in your team).
DevOps is all about automation, enhancing the Application Lifecycle Management and culture change. In the last few years there have been tons of conferences and articles about the benefits of a cultural change on a project, but I have yet to read a paper about how to actually change culture. How do you manage to […]
DevOps and The Goal
Reading, “The Goal” was a pivotal event in my career. More than a decade ago a friend of mine who was an operations professor at Georgia Tech told me it was his favorite book. We were discussing the challenges of getting work done in a corporate environment. I was grumbling about leading a web dev […]
Step One Of DevOps Ignores Technology
I’ve spent a bunch of time talking with Adrian Cockcroft, former cloud tzar at Neflix, and listening to his various talks and presentations. I’ve also spent a bunch of time looking around the various rooms within which he presents and seen the dazed look of attendees who have rightly assumed that just seen a picture […]