This is a guest post by Chris Read (@cread) DevOps is gaining credibility. Industry analysts such as Gartner are talking about it, the big IT vendors are already trying to sell DevOps “solutions.” At its heart it is the integration of Agile principles into Operations practices. With its roots in dysfunctional Enterprises, it has enabled … Continue reading DevOps: State of the Nation
Month: November 2010
Is DevOps Being Hijacked by Technologists?
This is a guest post by Lindsay Holmwood (@auxesis). The DevOps Movement When Patrick Debois kicked off the DevOps movement, his experience as a project manager gave him a very unique perspective on the problems faced by development and operations teams. Patrick is visionary because he saw that while teams generally worked well by themselves, … Continue reading Is DevOps Being Hijacked by Technologists?
Spliffs and Submarines: The Two Cultures and the State of Devops
This is a guest post by John Arundel (@bitfield) In answering the question: 'What does the red spectrum tell us about quasars?', there are various words that need to be defined. What is a spectrum? What is a red one? Why is it red? And why is it so frequently linked with quasars? ...What the … Continue reading Spliffs and Submarines: The Two Cultures and the State of Devops
DevOps – What’s Up?
I'm totally excited about what's going on here at our blog. Some of the top guys driving DevOps have agreed to post their ideas about the current state of DevOps and its future combined into one big series. You won't want to miss out on the thoughts of: John Arundel, Bitfield Consulting, who starts this … Continue reading DevOps – What’s Up?
The State Of Agile
I've written a guest post over at "agilescout" discussing the evolution of agile and how we need to stop the turf wars between different process variants. Instead, we should place more focus on avoiding sub-optimization by using all agile tools available. Read the full story here: The State Of Agile
Visualizing Small Batch Sizes with Git
I've recently finished reading Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time. Written by John Allspaw and Jesse Robins, by far my favorite chapter was Eric Ries' submission for Chapter 4: Continuous Deployment. One of the graphs in this chapter compellingly portrays Flickr's "release early, release often" mantra. This inspired me to start monitoring my own … Continue reading Visualizing Small Batch Sizes with Git
