April 19, 2018 Bittu K Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

The DevOps process is hard. But here are seven ways it’s easy

Source – techtarget.com The DevOps process is hard. It’s hard to roll out, hard to scale, hard to get everyone on board and then hard to maintain. But something must be easy about it, right? We asked seven of our experts to talk about the easiest part of the DevOps process. Their answers may surprise you. Most agree the technology aspects — like implementing CI or automated deployment tools — are the simplest way to start doing DevOps. In that way, DevOps is actually an easy sell.

April 13, 2018 Bittu K DevOps Leave a comment

How DevOps Can Help in Improving Customer Satisfaction

Source – customerthink.com The advent of Digital Revolution has changed, not only the way people live their lives, but also the way businesses interact and reach out to their customers. In fact, major overhauls have occurred in terms of giving overall customer satisfaction, particularly in the technological aspect of a 21st-century company. These advancements in technology is widely influenced by the emergence of new consumer markets. These markets are composed of Millennials and Generation Z (Gen Z). By this time, it’s quite clear to everyone that these

March 24, 2018 Bittu K Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Four common barriers that impede DevOps at scale

Source – computing.co.uk The software producers that report the best performance across a variety of metrics are those that release code most frequently. So says Rob Vanstone, technical director at continuous delivery vendor XebiaLabs, speaking at the Computing DevOps Summit this week. The aim then is to iterate faster. The problem for large organisations is how to reduce the software delivery lifecycle at scale. “What we see is teams starting to do pockets of innovation, typically scripting, typically automation and then saying ‘hey,

March 15, 2018 Bittu K Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

From Measurement to Insight: Put DevOps Metrics to Work

Source – informationweek.com When you can measure the results of your DevOps program, that’s where the magic happens. Working in the software delivery industry today is not for the faint of heart. Blink and your competition have already passed you by with a product delivered that much faster and better. However, it is possible to stay on pace with even the best in the business by adopting the best practices and principles associated with DevOps. While there are many keys to

January 17, 2018 Bittu K DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Four key lessons to apply from DevOps success stories

Source – techtarget.com For teams in small organizations, embracing and applying DevOps practices is often a matter of just doing it. There are fewer constraints, fewer moving parts, and most of the time development and operations skills are already aligned and close together — on the same team, if not the same person, which makes for many DevOps success stories. For large organizations, though, any transformation can be daunting. Complex development programs and traditional org structure can result in no shortage

January 13, 2018 Bittu K Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

It’s critical to create the correct DevOps team structure

Source – techtarget.com DevOps is all about breaking down barriers. That’s great, up to a point. But what happens when you break down too many barriers? How do you find a balanced DevOps team structure without going too far? These are important questions for any DevOps shop to ask itself. There is such a thing as too much DevOps. Here’s how to tell you’re approaching this natural limit. DevOps versus structure DevOps doesn’t advocate for the total erasure of structure. It

December 20, 2017 Bittu K DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Four questions to ask about your DevOps strategy

Source – searchmicroservices.techtarget.com There’s a lot of information about DevOps out there, making it hard to determine exactly what it means. However, there are still key principles you can stick to in order to achieve success through DevOps. Here are four questions that, according to our experts, you should be asking when thinking about your DevOps strategy. 1. Have we established a zone of business impact? DevOps tasks should be clearly connected to the applications they support, and businesses should in

November 29, 2017 Bittu K DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Five ways to effectively manage team DevOps workflows

Source – techtarget.com If you’ve adopted DevOps, you’re already using tools to optimize and streamline your DevOps workflows and software delivery processes — like code integration, testing and deployment — as much as possible. But optimization opportunities are not limited to software delivery. You should strive to streamline all dimensions of your organization — including the way you manage your DevOps team. DevOps personnel management pitfalls Compared to software, people are fickle and unpredictable. Giving them the same input doesn’t always yield the

October 5, 2017 Bittu K Continuous Delivery, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

How devops changes both dev and ops

Source – techworld.com.au Devops is the literal and figurative fusion of development and operations. For years, these two groups have been separated by cultural and knowledge boundaries, particularly inside larger enterprise IT organizations. This separation was straightforward: Developers focused on nothing more than code and operations focused on taking that code and making sure it stayed running. The complete disconnect between these two groups led to long QA cycles and infrequent production deployments for fear of downtime or breaking something. A

September 6, 2017 Bittu K Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloudy DevOps optics? Should have gone to CloudBees

Source – computerweekly.com Enterprise Jenkins and DevOps outfit CloudBees has stuck a bit of extra Ops vision in DevOps with what it calls DevOptics (did you see what they did there?) as its latest play in the application delivery stream tools market. We’re all aiming for a holistic view of the software delivery process, so what does this new offering promise? Live data pipeline CloudBees DevOptics aggregates live data from software pipelines to derive metrics (as a live view) that

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