When it comes to launching nuclear weapons, there are a variety of steps and a variety of fail-safe mechanisms, all designed to ensure that those pushing the button really want to do what the nuclear launch system is designed to do. I fear it is some sort of mini-Godwin argument to equate nuclear warfare with […]
An Even More Modern Continuous Integration
It would be strange for me to tell you that there is an even newer new approach to release automation, as if the processes of continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous deployment and canary releases were not modern enough. And it would be even stranger to say that the open-source tool Jenkins, which dominates […]
Electric Cloud Announces Industry’s First End-to-End DevOps Release Automation Platform with Native, Push-Button Rolling Deployments
Easy access to rolling and other advanced deployment patterns makes large-scale, mission-critical application releases safe, reliable and repeatable throughout the entire lifecycle SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19, 2016 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced its latest version of ElectricFlow, now the industry’s first and only end-to-end DevOps platform to […]
Release Automation: Bigger than DevOps
Why DevOps is not for everyone and how release automation helps in bimodal world So am I really going to write a blog calling DevOps a big hoax? Well, not exactly, but as a follow-up to my previous blog on the difference between DevOps and Continuous Delivery, I want to alert you to a few […]
Dev loves Open Source. Ops needs Scale. Now What?
Crossing the divide from Dev-Ops to DevOps: At the heart of the divide between Dev and Ops are the very different needs and constraints of each organization. Traditionally their day-to-day lives are very different. So are their war stories. And so are the metrics that are traditionally used to judge Dev and Ops. Predictably, the two organizations […]
Carving through the hype – take the DevOps maturity assessment
As anyone who spends time with their family over the holidays can attest, the notion of maturity is a highly subjective concept. Whether it’s sizing up the next generation’s advancement or defaulting to time-honored inter-sibling behaviors, annual get-togethers offer tangible proof of what’s new and those things that likely won’t ever change. In the domain […]
The Ultimate Endpoint of Enterprise DevOps
There’s a reason we so often use the word “journey” when we talk about DevOps – it is a critical aspect to a practical approach to DevOps. While we focus a lot on culture in the DevOps community, as I have previously said, culture is an output, not an input; it is the destination, not […]
Walgreens reminds us to keep our database healthy
It’s clear that the super app you developed with your team, is really something, and it has high chance to be the “Bread and butter 3.0”, but are you prepared for the worst? There is a good chance that some combination of data, events and circumstances out of your control will eventually collude against you, […]
Building Security and Compliance into the SDLC
As the concept of DevOps has become more popular in recent years, there are some common themes that always seem to come up in discussions about it. For example, how often do we talk about ways to speed up the software development life cycle (SDLC) in order to bring innovative applications to market faster and […]
Releasing your team from Release Thinking
How much time do you spend optimizing your delivery pipeline? My guess is none. Many teams have figured out great ways to automate their releases, and some even automate testing and monitoring. But they don’t often take the next step and learn from those results to refine the delivery processes.