How to “hear” OpenStack silent failures earlier and remediate faster
Troubleshooting “silent failures” in an OpenStack cloud environment has been a tough problem to solve for many production users. eBay’s chief engineer of cloud, Subbu Allamaraju, whose team has been...
View ArticleHow IT Operations Analytics is Delivering on the Promise of DevOps
DevOps is one of the most significant movements in IT of the past several years, and the same trends that are making DevOps so important – speed, automation, and iteration – are also opening up new...
View ArticleWhat happened to the “Ops” in “DevOps”?
The wave of digital transformation that has been enabled by cloud computing has provided both new opportunities and fresh challenges. On one hand, it is now possible for application developers to...
View ArticleWhat If We Had Git for DevOps?
I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque and hard to learn. It was comfortable to create a set of files and folder,...
View ArticleFirst We Fixed Dev, But Let’s Not Forget About Ops
Since its beginning in 2008, DevOps has gone from an underground rebellion by developers to a mainstream movement with representatives in every industry and at every scale. You can see the change just...
View ArticleDevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?
In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: Lucas Carlson is an...
View ArticleAutomic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle
Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing...
View ArticleDevOps Leaders Share 2017 Reflections, Predictions
As the New Year kicks off, it is a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead and plan for what is to come. While many are making personal resolutions pertaining to their physique, job performance...
View ArticleVMs, Containers, Cloud, Cluster: Scheduling Differences
Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center work. While there are a...
View ArticleSwarms: Adapting Guilds To Scale Agility
In my first article in this series, “Using Guilds to Combat Information Silos,” I reviewed the adoption of guilds at xMatters. As our company has grown, we’ve used guilds to keep critical information...
View ArticleDevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still sleep in...
View ArticleDevOps Chat: Rundeck, Putting the Ops in DevOps, with Damon Edwards
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Damon Edwards, co-founder and chief product officer of Rundeck. What I like to say about them is, Rundeck putting the Ops in DevOps. But Damon needs no introduction to...
View ArticleFrom Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations
What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring of the boundary...
View ArticleDevOps Chat: Shift Ops Left, Shift Dev Right with Kristian Stewart, IBM
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM’s Cloud Event Management team. Kristian has some keen insights into the role of dev and ops and how they interact. Kristian calls it Shift...
View ArticleFirst We Fixed Dev, But Let’s Not Forget About Ops
Since its beginning in 2008, DevOps has gone from an underground rebellion by developers to a mainstream movement with representatives in every industry and at every scale. You can see the change just...
View ArticleDevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?
In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: Lucas Carlson is an...
View ArticleAutomic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle
Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing...
View ArticleDevOps Leaders Share 2017 Reflections, Predictions
As the New Year kicks off, it is a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead and plan for what is to come. While many are making personal resolutions pertaining to their physique, job performance...
View ArticleVMs, Containers, Cloud, Cluster: Scheduling Differences
Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center work. While there are a...
View ArticleSwarms: Adapting Guilds To Scale Agility
In my first article in this series, “Using Guilds to Combat Information Silos,” I reviewed the adoption of guilds at xMatters. As our company has grown, we’ve used guilds to keep critical information...
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