As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
9 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love
While we have been building our SaaS company, we have been investing much time in researching and deciding which tools to include in our DevOps toolkit. We’ve based these decisions on our years of experience in the IT industry, dealing with infrastructure for the most part. From building a petabyte-scale, data analytics infrastructure, our architecture, […]
IT Asset Management: How to Find Out if Your Database is Causing Performance Problems
As your IT infrastructure grows, it becomes increasingly important to be able to identify where bottlenecks, performance problems, or outages are occurring so that you can quickly act to fix any issues. Identifying the source of a problem can be a bit tricky once you have grown into having multiple apps, servers, and databases—but there […]
API Discovery and Search with APIs.JSON
If that sounds vaguely like UDDI (which dealt with discovery and search of WSDL then you’re on the right track. Glue is this week, and preceding the conference was the 2015 API Strategy and Practice Tech Un-Workshops. One of the lightning talks (and they were lightning fast, let me tell you) was all about APIs.JSON […]
Why I Dislike The Term ‘DevOps Culture’
Culture is critically important in an organisation. It’s all of the hidden stuff that actually matters. It’s what people value and it feeds through to how people behave when you aren’t watching them, driving thousands of small decisions per day across the enterprise. A broken culture is a horrible thing to work within and a […]
George Jetson Automation: Chasing the Dream
“His job was one simple thing—press a button. That’s all he had to do; press one button and sit back.” – Joe Barbera I wanted to be George Jetson when I grew up. Back in the days when watching Saturday morning cartoons in footed pajamas was the high point of my week, George’s life looked […]
Continuous Testing – Accelerated !
Except for cases where test duration is the point of the test, as indicated in my prior blog “Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?”, faster continuous testing cycles are preferred because failing early and often is a DevOps goal. There are multiple reasons for this, but it should be evident that faster tests reduce […]
Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?
Accordingly to Jim Coplien: “an anti-pattern is something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied. “ In DevOps context, continuous testing is an attractive solution for the narrow context of testing specific software components quickly (in cycles measured in minutes or hours) but may be “bad” if the system that […]
DevOps & Continuous Change
A remark by a colleague while waiting for the coffee machine to complete its cycle started my train of thought. “Should we have multiple minor releases or just do a few major ones in a year?” In large organizations, due to many factors, the turnaround time for a single successful release is quite extensive; but […]
What are the most critical DevOps Tools?
What are the most critical DevOps tools categories? According to the results of a new survey by CA Technologies the answers may be surprising. That is just one of the insights reported on. The survey results and report are chock full of other great insights about DevOps usage as well. The survey shows that a […]