GitHub Copilot, the coding agent, now integrates with Jira. Assign issues to Copilot and get draft PRs — no context switching between planning and code.
Looking Ahead, 2023 Edition
DevOps is in a perpetual state of change that keeps all of us engaged and busy, but makes a mess of things overall. Do you cloud-first? Are your APIs GraphQL yet? Are you doing SDN to connect to the VPN so you can put files on the CDN and build closer to the market? Sorry, […]
Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
The Great Market Convergence is Coming
When you look around tech markets—almost any tech market—you can see an obvious overlap. Tons of markets that are complementary and that take different approaches to solving the same problem, or markets that have grown into each other over time. This happens in highly active marketplaces. People have great ideas and implement them but someone […]
Creating a Better Plan with Agile Data
Agile methods help companies respond to change, beat the competition and build high-quality products that customers want by aligning development work to business priorities. But what happens when an organization is unable to align strategy to execution or align its departments or teams due to internal silos? As organizations advance in agile maturity, so do […]
DevOps Future: Have a Break Plan
A big tenet of DevOps is, “Automate all of the things.” It’s generally a good policy, and definitely allows us to meet the delivery goals of DevOps. Taking the full-on, all-new technology case, an org could run full automation on the dev side and deploying with an application release automation tool to a fully automated […]
Lessons Learned: We’re Still Killing Ourselves with Innovation
Since the widespread acceptance of virtual machines (VMs), we’ve been on a racetrack with changing technology, with little opportunity to stop and digest lessons learned. That’s not to say organizations haven’t done a good job of learning from experience and mistakes both; rather, the lessons learned are too frequently obsoleted by The Next Big Thing. […]
Log Analysis, or Log Clog
Log Analysis has the ability to transform teams. It centralizes communication, increases responsiveness, moves efforts from reactive to proactive, reduces time to resolution TTR, and allows increasingly complex environments to grow without fear. But, if log analysis becomes the bottleneck, it reverses all these benefits.
Change your thinking about Change Management
Change Management, let’s face it, it’s usually a checklist item and a CYA tool. But in the world of DevOps where change is part of the culture and processes. Change Management needs to be more than a cost center, and really a way to improve what you are doing. And there is no excuse not […]
The Delivery Pipeline is your DevOps Signature
Where is DevOps? Searching for it is like querying a rainbow for pots of gold. No single element in a development team’s lifecycle defines them as a DevOps-enabled organization. Were anything the rainbow and the gold, it would be the delivery pipeline. The deployment pipeline centers the team and the process, functioning as the signature […]