If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]
Site Reliability Engineering: How to Make the Operations Side of DevOps Actually Work
The DevOps movement often has been accused of focusing too much on the first half (Development) and not enough on the second half (Operations). Certainly there has been more attention paid to deployment of payloads than to operating running systems, leading to the dismissal of the handover between Dev and Ops as “throwing it over […]
The Top 10 Reasons to Use Cassandra
The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice of database if you are looking for scalability and high availability without compromising performance for your mission-critical applications. Additionally, Cassandra’s support for replicating across multiple data centers is best-in-class, providing lower latency for users and the peace of mind of knowing that you can survive regional outages. […]
Predictable Progress: Tracking DevOps Maturity Metrics
As DevOps methodologies continue to evolve, we’re naturally seeing an increased emphasis on the cultivation of related maturity metrics. For instance, in the 2016 State of DevOps Report, researchers with DORA took an initial stab at creating relevant ROI measurements. Similarly, a new report issued by researchers Coleman Parkes, sponsored by CA Technologies, offers additional […]
Top Reasons to Use Node.js
When considering the architecture of a new web app, it might be a good idea to include Node.js in the discussion as a key part of that architecture. Node.js could provide you with additional speed, can be used on numerous platforms and has an active community from which to get modules and other assistance. What […]
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept garnered greater attention in 2009, when Tim Fitz published his thoughts on continuous deployment. By the time Jez Humble authored his seminal book, […]
12 Tips for Managing Your Multi-Cloud Environment
No single cloud vendor has the perfect solution for your unique business situation. The only way to maximize the benefits of cloud services to your business is by dealing with several cloud providers and monitoring all of them simultaneously. That’s the IT equivalent of singing an aria while standing on your head and scrambling eggs. […]
Datadog Monitoring and JIRA Integration
Operations uses monitoring to provide early detection of issues with systems/servers/networks. Among those monitoring options is Datadog, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud service/application monitoring tool that allows Operations to be notified of issues with their applications in near-real time. Development teams, meanwhile, use JIRA to track tickets and manage overall agile development. But what if your […]
Taming 2 Cloud App Performance Enemies
Whenever you hear the words “the network’s slow today,” or, even worse, “the network’s down,” you know somebody miscalculated. It may have been the person who decided to buy the wrong hardware, or maybe the one who signed up the wrong telecom provider. Often, that slowdown or outage was the result of somebody underestimating server […]
Alerts Keep DevOps Teams Responsive, in Sync
Continuing our five-part series on “Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM,” this blog post will talk about how alert notification can help DevOps teams be more productive and agile. Amid the constant, rapid change and fluidity typical in DevOps organizations, there are some undeniable absolutes. These absolutes, present at each stage of the […]
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