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 DevOps subdomains are still necessary—even if you have broken down their silos. Spend time in any of the variety of places that DevOps […]
Organized Architecture
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 yourself if the current architectural design of the overall product offering of IT is the best one you can afford to offer. Agile […]
Some Technical Debt is Self-Resolving
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 of the things that have been going on in the industry over the last few years. As I’ve mentioned before, the changes underlying […]
But Wait, There’s More! The Trouble With DevOps Tools
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 it looked as though it ran on its own, but when you got it out of the box, you discovered that it didn’t […]
DevOps Introduces Complexity. Really
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 a crossing over a stream. Or World War II versus the Spanish Civil War. The resources dedicated scale with the size and complexity […]
Software Complexity Driving DevOps Automation
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 practices that are necessary to make it thrive under the pressure of the current environment. That environment and those drivers are of keen […]