- Best DevOps Conferences for 2020Table of Contents JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember DevOps is a set of practices combining software development and information technology operations aiming to continuously deliver higher quality software in a shorter amount of time. It sounds easy. Your ability to do a better job in less time depends on how big or small your organization is and how many …
- How I Explained DevOps to My DadI was hanging out with my dad recently when an old question came up yet again: “Tell me again, son, that software you sell, what does it do?” Oh no, I thought. Here we go again. So I launched into my spiel, explaining software development lifecycles and constraints, and how release automation tools and Service Virtualization software work to …
- How a CIO Transformed a Trash Giant’s IT CultureImplementing or evaluating change is an uncertain and, often, scary process. Should I change? What do I change? When do I change? IT systems, departments and staff are no different. Everyone agrees, in principle, that IT should be leading change since computing capabilities have grown exponentially over the past decade, but too often we find …
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- Patrick Debois: Size Doesn’t Matter When It Comes to DevOpsTable of Contents What is the difference between DevOps for startups and DevOps for enterprises with legacy technology?Do you think there’s a nexus between the size of an organization and the successful implementation of DevOps?What are the biggest management obstacles in implementing or encouraging a DevOps culture?Who or what in organizations is the primary or …
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- Gene Kim: For The Prepared, DevOps Naysayers Help The MovementTable of Contents What is the difference between DevOps for startups and DevOps for enterprises with legacy technology?Do you think there’s a nexus between the size of an organization and the successful implementation of DevOps?Who is responsible for DevOps?Will DevOps last or this a fad?Is there too much hype around this movement?Do you think there’s …
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- Is It Even Possible for DevOps to Take Apart Silos?Table of Contents Do you think it’s possible for large organizations to disassemble the silos?Do you have an example?Who is responsible for DevOps?You think the CIO is in the best position to help to drive that DevOps change, or should it should come from elsewhere?Will DevOps last, or is this a fad?Is there too much …
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- Is DevOps Overhyped or the Real Thing?In the buzzword-filled wasteland of enterprise technology, DevOps has to rank somewhere near the top of the hard-to-define list, right up there with “cloud” and “big data” (or its subset, “dark data.”) Describing these things is like soldering Jell-O to a motherboard. DevOps is a different case than the others because, while it certainly has …
- Sorry, My Alarm Did Not Wake MeIf This Then That, IFTTT.com, is a service letting you connect almost anything to anything else. If it is raining – text me. If a blog post is published then email it to me and so on. Well, the backend services running IFTTT failed last night and the monitoring system failed as well. Double whammy. …
- That Wasn’t a Sale, That was a Massive DevOps ScrewupWhat might have appeared to be a fire sale on the website for UK hardware retailer Screwfix early today was instead a massive and totally avoidable screwup. The glitch was an unforeseen error causing all of the items on its website to sell for £34.99 (about $58). All items sold for £34.99, even high-priced riding mowers that …
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- The Perfect Storm: Huge Opportunity or Enormous Risk?The 2000 film “The Perfect Storm” was set on a portion of the North Atlantic Ocean known as the Grand Banks. It’s where the cold, southerly flowing Labrador Current meets the warm Gulf Stream. Warm water rises, cold water plunges and plankton flourishes in the oxygen- and nutrient-rich Grand Banks. The entire food chain propagates, …
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- Biggest Problem for Application Development: We’re ScaredI attended a recent panel discussion, titled “Constraints to Speed and Agility in Application Delivery,” at a financial services technology summit. I sat among Senior IT leads from sea to shining sea who expressed a range of concerns just as wide. Mike Versace of IDC Research moderated the panel and started with a question: “What …
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- Gene Kim and the DevOps UnicornA couple of weeks ago in a cramped IT office in Santa Clara, Calif., a hundred DevOps practitioners waited for Gene Kim to explain “How Do We Better Sell DevOps.” I had seen a couple of Gene’s presentations online, and we have covered his book, The Phoenix Project, on this blog, but I’d never had the …