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A DevOps developer should be adaptable, creative

Source – techtarget.com DevOps developers have long focused on technology, but with feedback loops and automation becoming more and more essential in DevOps, Agile and SaaS operations, the developer role has started to change. As someone who has worked in the recruitment sector for over a decade, I have a mental picture of the typical developer — enthusiastic, hugely knowledgeable, focused, but usually not the most creative. That could seem unfair, but it isn’t that far from the truth. Development teams have had

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Google Explains Why Others Are Doing SRE Wrong

Source – infoq.com Stephen Thorne, customer reliability engineer at Google, recently spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit London on what Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is and how many organizations are failing to understand its basic premises and benefits . Confounding service level objectives (SLOs) which are focused on early failure detection with service level agreements(SLAs) which often serve as financial compensation for past incidents, not enforcing error budgetsand not dedicating at least 50% effort of SRE teams to improve the systems and tools (instead letting them continue to drown in

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Could Agile and DevOps be to blame for banking IT failures?

Source – computerweekly.com This is controversial and feel free to air your views or even vent your anger. During a conversation about the TSB IT disaster a contact of mine, a senior IT professional in banking, asked a question about the link between Agile and DevOps development methods and the bank IT failures in recent years.  Legacy systems are usually blamed, but what is the role of Agile and DevOps when things go wrong? I would be interested in hearing from other experts

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Why DevOps? The simple answer is it creates safer processes

Source – techtarget.com While we adopt new technologies to innovate, streamline, generate wealth and cut costs, there is another reason to do DevOps that might be even more important. Why DevOps? It can make you safe. Break down barriers We’re all familiar with the benefits of technology, but even today, a large number of businesses aren’t as quick to adopt new ideas as others. A number of research studies show the benefits of technology, but sometimes that’s not enough to force

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