Integrating UX with DevOps

Source:- devopsonline.co.uk Integrating UX with DevOps is essential for DevOps teams to ensure they solve the right problems and are understanding the user’s real needs. DevOps is a rapidly evolving organisational model with teams arranged around a product or service to deliver value to their users more quickly. Through breaking down organisational silos, the delivery teams work on a product or product improvements instead of projects which are usually no longer maintained or supported after they’re completed. For many organisations, it is

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When you create a DevOps workflow, avoid these missteps

Source:- searchitoperations.techtarget.com The operations team wants control, security and reliability. Developers need to create, enhance and experiment. So how does an organization integrate these sometimes-unaligned forces into a DevOps workflow that adds security and reliability to the dev process and at the same time empowers developers to deploy and test without miles of red tape? There are ways to do this that will deliver DevOps success. And there are plenty of paths that will lead to DevOps regret. Reorganizing development and

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Five steps to scaling up with DevOps transformation

Source:- itproportal.com Whether an organisation is contemplating a major DevOps transformation or a modest improvement to its current software delivery pipeline, it is important to assess where they stand, how far they have already progressed and what challenges remain. The combination of software development with information technology operations, more commonly known as DevOps, is a term that has been bounced about by IT departments for the last decade. Despite the range of benefits this process can offer to businesses, including greater

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Barriers and Approaches for DevOps Evolution at 1st DevOpsDays Portugal

Source :- infoq.com Ten years after the first DevOpsDays conference in Ghent, the evolution of DevOps and organizations trying to adopt it was at the forefront of the first DevOpsDays conference in Portugal. On the first day of the conference, a mix of local and international speakers addressed the barriers to DevOps adoption, shift left testing, team patterns, and more. Mirco Hering’s keynote on DevOps transformation set the tone and topic for the first day. Hering characterized the “The DevOps Phase”

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IT Alerting Software Market Projected to Show Strong Growth| Opsgenie, AWS, VictorOps

Source :- marketnewsreports.us HTF Market Intelligence released a new research report of 123 pages on title ‘Global IT Alerting Software Market Report 2019 with detailed analysis, forecast and strategies. The study covers key regions that includes North America Country (United States, Canada),South America,Asia Country (China, Japan, India, Korea),Europe Country (Germany, UK, France, Italy),Other Country (Middle East, Africa, GCC) and important players such as xMatters, Opsgenie, AWS, VictorOps,PagerDuty, Squadcast, Uptime,New Relic,DERDACK Enterprise Alert, Everbridge, AlertOps, StatusCast. Summary Global IT Alerting Software Market

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SKIL: A framework for humans, not the machines of DevOps

Source :- sdtimes.com The SKIL Framework created by the DevOps Institute focuses on a holistic approach to the human aspect of advancing DevOps rather than the machines involved in it. The DevOps Institute aims to connect people in the DevOps community and provide networking and educational opportunities. “We really feel very strongly that while automation is obviously a critical success factor for DevOps, it really is the human factor that’s going to make a difference,” Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Chasing DevOps Transformation

Source:- devops.com. In less than a decade, DevOps has become a buzzword of the IT industry, and enterprises are already reaping its benefits. But the implementation part still remains a question for many firms, considering the key mistakes that many organizations report in their very approach to DevOps. Most firms are also unsure about what outcomes they want to see from the process. Wondering if you’re making the same mistakes? Here are the five most common mistakes that can be included as

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What venture capitalists need to know about DevOps

Source – itproportal.com Venture capital (VC) investment into DevOps continues to rise. Already populated by some huge worldwide brands like Google, Microsoft and Amazon and estimated to be a $50 billion market, DevOps has graduated beyond a niche software sector for unicorns, and has made it to the mainstream. The amount of interest in this space from the VC community since the middle of 2018 is just one of many signals from investors that “now is a great time to jump

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3 new DevOps lessons learned

Source- enterprisersproject.com IT workers sometimes live in fear and too often loathe their jobs. Look no further than last year’s testimony by the former Equifax CEO as a reason why. He blamed a single IT worker for the company’s unprecedented data breach. That explains the fear, and his $90 million exit package may explain some of the loathing. But there is light and hope on the horizon, and that was on full display at the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) this year. Here are three of my takeaways:

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5 Competencies You Need to Succeed in DevOps and Beyond

Source – infoworld.com DevOps (development and operations) is an enterprise software development phrase that is used to define an agile relationship between development and IT operations, which encourages better communication and collaboration between the two business units. When an organization applies this same goal to its entire business, it can transform itself. Instead of siloed, traditionally adversarial groups, everyone collaborates with a common goal that will help the organization win in its market sector. Skills vs. competencies – What is needed? In

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Bringing The Future of DevOps to the Indian IT Industry

Source – entrepreneur.com In the ever-changing world of technology, the need to be agile is crucial. Businesses are innovating at a fast pace to keep up with the demands of their consumers. In times of such rapid innovation, the need to have successful and speedy software development is of primary importance. And here’s where DevOps comes into the picture. DevOps brings together software development and software operation for faster processes; it prioritises the organizational changes required for the same. Bringing together

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DevOps – Your 3-step Transformation Journey

Source – infoworld.com Greek philosopher, Heraclitus once said, “The only thing constant is change.” Today’s DevOps transformation is a prime example. The DevOps model aims at unifying software development (Dev) with software operations (Ops) so that everyone can better work together across the entire development lifecycle. As businesses search for the best ways to digitally transform, DevOps is at the center of it all – and it’s driving a constant state of change. As organizations all over the world adjust to

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Where Do You Want to be on the DevOps Maturity Scale?

Source – cbronline.com What kind of DevOps practices, tools, and culture are commensurate with your digital investments? According to Forrester, 50% of organisations are implementing DevOps principles – it has reached “Escape Velocity”. However, interpreting ‘implementing DevOps’ depends on where they are with DevOps maturity; when we look across organisations, we see three patterns emerge: DevOps Lite, Ops-Centric DevOps, and Dev-Centric DevOps. If you believe digital transformation will rapidly enable you to achieve scale, increase revenues, and stay ahead of competition, then

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A DevOps adoption strategy should be an operational overhaul

Source – techtarget.com When people struggle to bring their teams on the path to true DevOps adoption, the misalignment is usually obvious. I recently spoke to a developer who lamented that his DevOps team didn’t cooperate with the development team. I was dismayed their DevOps adoption strategy was reduced to simply coming up with a new team name instead of undertaking an actual operational overhaul. DevOps, like Agile and other trends before it, suffers from an identity problem. A great deal of time and

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How to turn DevOps fakers into believers

Source – enterprisersproject.com We recently shared some strategies for sniffing out DevOps fakers in your recruiting and hiring. By DevOps fakers, we mean candidates whose qualifications for a DevOps role might be more hype than substance. But what if the “faker” is already on your team? Moreover, what if they’re faking not their technical skills or other qualifications – you hired them, after all – but their commitment to your organization’s ongoing DevOps transformation? They’re talking the talk but not walking the walk, perhaps. Or

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IT pros debate upstream vs. packaged Kubernetes implementations

Source – techtarget.com Packaged versions of Kubernetes promise ease of use for the finicky container orchestration platform, but some enterprises will stick with a DIY approach to Kubernetes implementation. Red Hat, Docker, Heptio, Mesosphere, Rancher, Platform9, Pivotal, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco are among the many enterprise vendors seeking to cash in on the container craze with prepackaged Kubernetes implementations for private and hybrid clouds. Some of these products — such Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform, Docker Enterprise Edition and

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A DevOps Model: What It Is and Why It’s Beneficial

Source – securityboulevard.com Software development has changed significantly in recent years. This transformation is, in part, a response to challenges resulting from the traditional waterfall software development model. Under the old process, a software company receives a deadline for creating a product that’s ready to roll out to customers. The firm activates its team of developers, which spends its time working on the product before handing over the project to the operations team. These individuals are responsible for testing and ultimately

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DevOps Transformation: Leave No Ops Behind

Source – devops.com Have you ever found yourself struggling to explain something that you know how to do without a moment’s thought? I’m not talking about the amygdala, the part of our brain that initiates the automatic “fight or flight” response. No, I’m referring more to the muscle memory-type behaviors that we’ve collected through life and, likely, pay little attention to while executing. Things We Take for Granted Muscle memory is awesome. Through the magic of muscle memory I can type

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Qualys: How to be cool with DevOps

Source – computerweekly.com Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation that might lead to an informal pub discussion at best. But, as is often the way with these things, the industry has taken it as a clarion call for commentary and deeper analysis
 and who are we to turn down the opportunity for deeper inspection of the DevOps state of the nation? First among a small group of spokespeople invited

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Prioritize your DevOps strategies to become a digital attacker

Source – devopsagenda.techtarget.com You have probably heard the phrase, “your business needs to become a digital attacker.” While intense, it conveys the need to deliver a better, faster product. Without delivering quality at velocity, you won’t have room to disrupt, and ultimately, be more successful. To be a “digital attacker,” you must have DevOps strategies. You must be open to a DevOps transformation. You must try, test and optimize new ways of doing DevOps When these new strategies work, implement them; when

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