DevOps Best Practices

August 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Three DevOps practices to avoid the Thursday Night of Dread

Source:- infoworld.com I’ve found three specific DevOps practices that go the farthest in boosting team morale: Fast feedback Developers feel most engaged when they know they’re building something that works and adds value. You achieve this by creating a tight feedback loop, using test-driven development. Before you write a line of code, you define the criteria for success and create an automated test suite to verify you’ve hit your goal. You have to commit—really commit—to automation and telemetry. People sometimes

August 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Fundamental role of DevOps metrics in organizational development

Source:- itproportal.com In application, some metric are more suitable to particular processes and organization compared to others. When choosing DevOps for a particular organization, a clear understanding of DevOps metrics tools and cycle is desirable. The role of DevOps is primary for better performance and output regardless of the target organization. Developments and operations popularly known as DevOps, is enterprise based software that describes the agile relationship between IT operations and development. The primary goal of DevOps is to foster

August 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

DevOps security has not caught up

Source – networksasia.net With the world’s fourth-largest internet population, Southeast Asia has in recent years become an attractive target for cybercriminals, their task made simpler by an underdeveloped system of data protection laws and weak adoption of cybersecurity best practices. The pace of innovation and rapid adoption of new technologies such as cloud and DevOps also pose further vulnerabilities for Southeast Asia. DevOps is the future, but organizations are not future-proof While seventy (70) percent state their organization plan to – or

August 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Why the right infrastructure is crucial to your DevOps success

Source – itbrief.co.nz As businesses and organisations look to improve business agility and performance, DevOps is increasingly becoming the technology of choice to aid them in doing so. Many companies such as AMP and Commonwealth Bank have already embraced a DevOps model and we expect to see adoption of the technology increase within the next few years. In many ways, a DevOps methodology works off the block-building process and is similar to LEGO building blocks. While the tools and processes can change,

August 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

The benefits of intelligent DNS in DevOps projects

Source – betanews.com The DevOps model continues to gain traction because it’s an efficient and cost-effective development approach. It yields fewer errors, shorter development cycles and reduced need for expensive code fixes after deployment. One goal of DevOps is continuous development and deployment, which necessitates the automatic creation or removal of networks, as well as automated deployment to production. Automation is important because the fewer the number of manual steps involved, the less likely that human error will disrupt the process.

August 8, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Why DevOps is ideal for mobile app development

Source – softwebsolutions.com The demand for mobile app development services of every sort is at its peak. Being a new way of accessing web content, consumers want more than fundamental functionalities from mobile apps – including user interfaces and user experience. It’s the “age of the customer” as Forrester says, and enterprises need to not only meet their expectations but exceed them if they want to stay ahead of the competition. Drawbacks of existing mobile app deployment practices One of the

August 5, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Process, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Tips on Hiring and Interviewing for DevOps Roles

Souce:- stackify.com The DevOps field has become increasingly competitive as dev leaders hone in on the specific skill sets they need to round out their teams. If you’re hiring for a DevOps position, it’s important to determine whether an applicant understands software development principles and methods and is the right fit for your organization. Let’s take a look at the current demand and examples of questions you should ask (or be expected to answer) in an interview. Demand for DevOps

August 5, 2017 bestdevops Containerization, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

How to Make Docker Containers Faster and Improve Performance

Source:- containerjournal.com Your Docker containers are already fast, at least compared to virtual machines. But what if you want to make them even faster? Here are strategies for optimizing Docker container speed and performance. If you’re using Docker, it’s probably at least partly because you want your applications to start and run faster. Out of the box, containers offer significant performance advantages over infrastructure built using virtual machines. Making Containers Even Faster But why settle for the speed containers give

August 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

The Best Ways to Evaluate Your App

Source – informationweek.com For app developers, this statistic can seem especially grim. No one wants their hard work to end in abandonment, but it’s hard to figure out where you’re missing the mark. This is where user feedback and user evaluation comes in. But how do you know which technique to use? Many app developers prioritize user feedback over other evaluation techniques, such as heuristic evaluation and A/B testing. But is user feedback the only method you should use? Is there

August 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News Leave a comment

DevOps Security & the Culture of ‘Yes’

Source – darkreading.com I was talking to the CISO of a Fortune 500 healthcare company about how security teams work with their counterparts in other organizations. He lamented that he had recently overheard a peer refer to him derisively as the “C-S-No.” That was painful to hear because it brought into focus one of his most strategic challenges, one that security leaders everywhere are facing. That is, we as an industry haven’t figured out how to remain effective and relevant within

August 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Dev Ringers: DevOps engineers or full-stack developers?

Source – jaxenter.com For some businesses, deciding between investing in DevOps engineers or full-stack developers is no small feat. This is due, in part of course, to the fact that nobody really seems to know what DevOps is. As one of the most talked-about and on-trend tech roles in recent years, it’s initially kind of staggering how hard DevOps can be to define. Perhaps there’s a reason for that. Typical advice to businesses considering their options usually goes something along the lines of “If

August 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

DevOps Security & the Culture of ‘Yes’

July 26, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Opportunity focus: USCIS seeks agile innovation with DevSecOps

Source – bgov.com U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is prepping two solicitations for Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) services — with the first laying the foundation for the advanced programs requested in the second. DevSecOps, the combination of DevOps and information security, is an agile approach to delivering secure software applications quickly. In the first solicitation, the USCIS Office of Information Technology is looking for a vendor to build and enhance systems in the cloud. Click here to download the request for information. The second solicitation builds on that

July 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

The future of AppSec: Stop fighting the last war

Source – helpnetsecurity.com It’s a cornerstone of military doctrine: when you focus too much on the last battle you faced, you miss signs of the new battleground taking shape. The principle holds as true for cybersecurity as it does for cavalries and tanks. The surest way to put your organization at risk is to keep your defense strategy rooted in the past – especially it wasn’t all that effective in the first place. If tactics like slow gatekeeping controls haven’t been

July 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Stumped by DevOps? Experts share their views on how to do DevOps right

Source – geekwire.com Back in the day, there were software development teams, and there were operations teams, and they might say hello to each other a few times a year at the company picnic. But that hasn’t been the case for a long time, as the expectations for how quickly software should be developed and running have changed quite a bit. Now, teams are expected to collaborate more closely to deliver software when it is ready. This is called “DevOps,” and

July 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

5 mistakes Android developers must avoid

Source – jaxenter.com Android has matured to a great extent and has evolved as one of the most beloved platforms among smartphone users. In fact, “Android accounted for more than 80 percent of all smartphone sales to end users worldwide in 2016,” according to Statista. Moreover, according to Gartner, “Google’s Android extended its lead by capturing 82 percent of the total market in the fourth quarter of 2016.” With the introduction of Lollipop, Jelly Bean, Marshmallow, Nougat and O (which could come next month)

July 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Accelerate DevOps by Automating Security

Source – techtarget.com DevOps teams are under enormous pressure to accelerate development cycles and improve quality assurance. We live in a world where IT consumerization is a fact of life and speed to market is not just an enormous competitive differentiator but an absolute necessity. This is why DevOps teams are embracing modern initiatives such as agile development, containers and microservices. Demands for speed and accuracy—along with the potential for cost savings—are also driving DevOps’ growing reliance on cloud services: DevOps

July 21, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Using DevOps to Move Faster than Attackers

Source – darkreading.com DevOps could be security’s biggest boon for quickly mitigating the kinds of vulnerabilities that will be highlighted next week at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. And in a departure from the show’s typical doom-and-gloom demos of scary attacks and exploits, one speaker is taking the podium to explain the practicalities of tuning application security practices to DevOps speeds so organizations can finally get the jump on zero-days and other hard problems in vulnerability management. The rundown will come from

July 19, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps: When is it ok to fail?

Source:- ciol.com With a history going back to 2008, DevOps has been around for a while. And this movement is now making considerable inroads within the communications industry – with good reason. DevOps promises service providers the ability to deliver new products to market at a greater speed and higher quality than ever thought possible. But like all promises that sound too good to be true, faster product delivery and better service quality may elude certain aspects of your business.

July 19, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Events, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps Tips and Inspiration from DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Speakers

Source:- electric-cloud.com Our Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast – now in its 4th year – has hosted hundreds of experts from the DevOps community who shared their experience and expertise around a wide range of topics related to DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Among the panelists we had on the program are many of the speakers who appeared at DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) throughout the years. IT leaders from companies like Hearst Business Media, Nationwide Insurance, IBM, Capital One, Target, Pivotal,

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