So… DevOps. DevOps vs NoOps has been making the rounds lately. At Bazaarvoice we are spawning a bunch of decentralized teams not using that nasty centralized ops team, but wanting to do it all themselves. This led me to contemplate…
So… DevOps. DevOps vs NoOps has been making the rounds lately. At Bazaarvoice we are spawning a bunch of decentralized teams not using that nasty centralized ops team, but wanting to do it all themselves. This led me to contemplate…
A recent blog post on DevOps by the IT Skeptic entitled DevOps and traditional ITSM – why DevOps won’t change the world anytime soon got the community a’frothing. And sure, the article is a little simmered in anti-agile hate speech…
Hey, I’m not a sales guy, and none of us spend a lot of time on this blog pimping our company’s products, but we’re pretty proud of our work on them and I figured I’d toss them out there as…
As I’ve been involved with DevOps and its approach of blending development and operations staff together to create better products, I’ve started to see similar trends develop in the security space. I think there’s some informative parallels where both can…
Welcome to the second installment in Scrum for Operations, a series where I talk about (and go through) the process of doing systems work as part of a DevOps team according to the Scrum methodology. Last time, I introduced the…
Agile It’s not a mandatory part of DevOps, but I believe that DevOps works a lot better if operations teams adopt Agile. But all that most systems teams know about Agile is that “it’s that thing that makes the development…
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…
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…
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…
Lori MacVittie has written a very interesting post on the F5 blog entitled “Devops: Controlling Application Release Cycles to Avoid the WordPress Effect.” In it, she analyzes a recent WordPress outage and how “feathered” releases can help mitigate impact in…
