A few years back, I wrote here that specialists—particularly infrastructure specialists—were not going anywhere. I think it is worth updating that prediction and reminding you all that specialists across the bulk of ...

I’ve mentioned IT pendulums plenty of times before, but today I’m going to use them to explore a different angle on IT: The age of containers and microservices. It’s time to ask ...

But don't count on it. Fellow staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud contributor Bill Doerrfeld recently wrote, "Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt," a great article about trends in technical debt, and it got me thinking about some ...

DevOps tools today increasingly are no longer out-of-the-box ready for use. And that's an aggravating issue Imagine you bought a new power tool—a sweet battery-powered drill/screwdriver that did everything you needed. Imagine ...

The larger the project, the more resources are generally dedicated to it. That is true of the vast majority of fields of human endeavor. Consider building the San Francisco Bridge versus building ...

The drivers behind increasing software complexity also are the drivers behind expansive DevOps automation. As the saying goes, “Software is eating the world.” DevOps is gobbling up software, too, engulfing it in ...