When teams know which tools are acceptable and which data are off-limits, AI becomes a disciplined advantage rather than a quiet source of risk.
But Are You a Platform?
Don MacVittie asks, ‘Do you really need all the functionality of a platform, or will a single tool suffice?’
Monitor Toolchain Health, Too
Tool everything, because the software delivery toolchain is now the core of application development and deployment, Don MacVittie advises.
Managing Risk
We have built some beautiful toolchains that crank out a finished product on the fly without needing anything close to the level of intervention that was historically required. The most advanced organizations on an automation journey could change a line of code and then wait for the new version to hit production without doing a […]
It’s a Toolchain!
I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word “toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regularly and, while it’s not a terrible encapsulation of what we’re doing, it is, at best, a hasty generalization. There are a lot of reasons […]
Atlassian Extends Jira’s Reach Into DevOps Workflows
Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page that simplifies tool discovery for any given project. In addition, Atlassian is including a Discover tab on that page that makes it possible to track activities and set priorities […]
Focus on What You Can Do
Here we are in the second half of 2022 and the writing is on the wall. No matter how much budget you have had in the last few years, be it large or small, it is going to shrink. This is cyclical, and should not be a surprise. The amount of budget shrinkage may be […]
Lock Down Your Toolchain
We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of even a decade ago. Think about it—we can check in a single source file and kick off a chain of events that involves half a dozen or […]
At Some Point, We’ve Shifted Too Far Left
Those of us involved in DevOps have a tendency to see the world with blinders on. It is rather easy to fall into the “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” trap. We have used the phrase “shift left” with the attitude that this is the solution to every problem […]
Update Those Ops Tools, Too
We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to containers, the movement has been faster—and the same is true for internal development. I’m going to approach this topic from three perspectives instead […]