This late in the game, it seems stunning to me that I have to write this, but there are plenty of you who aren’t there yet—so let’s try a different approach. A huge part of DevOps is reducing redundancy. We have cut the fat until it hurt, then refocused and cut some more. There is […]
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we’re very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new technology (looking at you, cloud) has problems with standardization and interoperability, we find a way around vendors’ reluctance to give you freedom of […]
Languages and DevOps: Traditional
For quite a while now, all the cool kids have been going on and on about “full stack development,” “API first,” and a ton of similar methodologies/practices. And yet, a huge swath of applications are still targeted at a single system to do a specific job. There are fat clients, there are internal servers, there […]
Portability Shmortability: Most Applications are Going Nowhere
I’m a huge fan of the idea of taking our super-duper applications and deploying them where it makes most sense. I always have been. Those of us in application development spent forever bemoaning the fact that our applications weren’t all that portable between operating systems. In fact, looking back through the history of computers, you […]
DevOps and Data Portability
You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]