In late 2007 Bruce Schneier, the internationally renowned security technologist and author, wrote an article for IEEE Security & Privacy. The ominously named article: The Death of the Security Industry predicted the future of the security industry or lack thereof. …
As a Web ops guy, I’ve used the Stack Exchange sites, especially Server Fault, a lot. They’re the best place to go do technical Q&A without having to go immerse yourself in a specific piece of open source software and…
Recently I have been reading on OPSEC (operations security). OPSEC, among many things, is a process for security critical information and reducing risk. The 5 steps in the OPSEC process read as follows: Identify Critical Information Analyze the Threat Analyze…
Hey, looks like I got quoted in Adrian Cole’s new “State of DevOps” presentation. Some quick thoughts on current state and futures of DevOps from a bunch of important DevOps people and then little old me.
I gave my thoughts on the first bunch of the essays in the great State of DevOps series on Agile Web Operations. And more are coming, so here’s my roundup! DevOps: Cleans and Shines Without Harsh Scratching by Julian “The…
I was just reading the newest “state of DevOps” post on Agile Web Operations by James Turnbull and he mentions a set of rules some mainframe guys taught him back in the day: Think before you act Change one thing…
So given the problem of DevOps being somewhat vague on prescriptions at the moment, let’s look at some options. One is to simply fit operations into an existing agile process used by the development team. I read a couple things…
Gartner has released a report with 2011 IT predictions, and one of the things they say is that all this DevOps (they don’t use the word) automation stuff will certainly lead to job cuts – “By 2015, tools and automation…
So this week, salesforce.com (the world’s #4 fastest growing company, says Fortune Magazine) bought Ruby PaaS shop Heroku, announced database.com as a cloud database solution, and announced remedyForce, IT config management from BMC. That’s quite the hat trick. salesforce.com has…
DevOps has been a great success in that all the core people that are engaged with the problem really ‘get’ it and are mainly on the same page (it’s culture shift towards agile collaboration between Ops and Dev), and have…
