Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing websites into a DevOps organization. As a result, project delivery was completed with 90 percent fewer delays, and first customer-facing releases of projects could be delivered in less than […]
DevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?
In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: Lucas Carlson is an author, entrepreneur and executive. He also has a background of 20 years of programming to back it all up. He’s […]
First We Fixed Dev, But Let’s Not Forget About Ops
Since its beginning in 2008, DevOps has gone from an underground rebellion by developers to a mainstream movement with representatives in every industry and at every scale. You can see the change just by looking at how people attending DevOps events dress: the black T-shirts are still there, but these days there are lots of […]
What If We Had Git for DevOps?
I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque and hard to learn. It was comfortable to create a set of files and folder, then snapshot them as a unit. It was simple to understand and improved my individual productivity. But that snapshot created […]
What happened to the “Ops” in “DevOps”?
The wave of digital transformation that has been enabled by cloud computing has provided both new opportunities and fresh challenges. On one hand, it is now possible for application developers to provide innovative new functionality to end-users almost instantaneously. One the other hand, this agility has created an environment in which users expect constant improvements […]
How IT Operations Analytics is Delivering on the Promise of DevOps
DevOps is one of the most significant movements in IT of the past several years, and the same trends that are making DevOps so important – speed, automation, and iteration – are also opening up new opportunities for IT infrastructure management. DevOps, at heart, is a matter of adopting new philosophies of working as an […]
How to “hear” OpenStack silent failures earlier and remediate faster
Troubleshooting “silent failures” in an OpenStack cloud environment has been a tough problem to solve for many production users. eBay’s chief engineer of cloud, Subbu Allamaraju, whose team has been operating PayPal on an OpenStack-based private cloud since March 2015, has publicly defined one of his ongoing challenges as: “Too much noise, too many alerts, […]
Nine Common Ops Mistakes (and How to Prevent Them)
Constant change is a reality for any growing, dynamic organization. Being receptive to change helps us quickly innovate and learn, yet at the same time, poorly-managed change can create instability and downtime. Ask any engineer what the number one cause of downtime in their systems is, and they’ll say change – software changes, network changes, […]
Five essential Ops strategies that help make DevOps the real deal
With its roots in Agile and Lean thinking it’s not surprising that DevOps is often looked at through a development lens. After all, it’s proving absolutely essential to support accelerated delivery times; providing a much needed jolt of velocity to protracted development cycles. But of course with the increased need for speed there’s always the […]
Removing the Wall Between Dev and Ops
Welcome to the new staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Q&A series on Enterprise DevOps. In the first post in this series, I answered five key concerns for adopting a DevOps approach in a large enterprise. Now, I want to address a more specific question from an admin at a large enterprise about the silos and barriers between dev and […]