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The top five in-demand cloud skills for 2018

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net As businesses of every size push forward with cloud projects in 2018, the demand for cloud skills is accelerating. Public cloud adoption is expected to climb significantly and the IDC predict spending will reach £197 billion in just three years. But as cutting-edge technologies, like machine learning, continue to reshape the job market the skills gap looms large across the industry. With over 350,000 specialists needed to help fill cloud roles there’s clearly a massive opportunity for professionals

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Chef Embraces Microservices to Advance IT Automation

Source – devops.com Chef at the ChefConf 2018 conference today unveiled a series of DevOps offerings, including a revamped version of Chef Automate that has been rewritten using the Go programing language to improve performance and scalability. Now based on a microservices architecture, Chef Automate 2.0 a new user interface based on a REST application programming interface (API) that also serves to enhance integration. There also are a variety of visibility and debugging tools built into the platform, including a streaming event feed,

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Microservices, DevOps and collaboration: The foundation for BSS Transformation

Source – vanillaplus.com Telecoms operators, by tradition, are not seen as fast-moving businesses. They are always striving to be agile, but their reliance on legacy systems – coupled with their dysfunctional, locked-in relationships with legacy vendors – has created a slow-moving animal, often at odds with the pace of the Internet generation. Indeed, when operators talk of the challenges they face with digital transformation, they are as often referring as much to their current vendors as they are to their own

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The Past, Present and Future of DevOps Infrastructure

Source – devops.com Infrastructure automation enables organizations to set up operating frameworks that allow smooth functionality with enhanced usage, minimal scope for error and faster deployment of code. The process of infrastructure automation eases development and operations processes by introducing good deployment practices such as computerized testing and versioning. The need for automation was realized when the demand for deploying error-free applications at a faster rate increased. Additionally, competition from similar businesses forced organizations to look for a way to bridge

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Continuous Testing in the DevOps Universe

Source – itbusinessedge.com One of the main challenges with DevOps is that the term itself does not adequately describe the functional integration taking place in the enterprise. If it was just a matter of combining development and operations, things would be a lot simpler. But the fact is that a number of processes need to gain equal footing in the DevOps pipeline in order to produce a truly agile IT environment. One of these functions is testing. Like other aspects of

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5 Common DevOps Transition Mistakes to Avoid

Source – tripwire.com When transitioning to a DevOps model, organizations must remember that people are essential to a successful switchover. It’s people who must learn new workflows, collaboration techniques, and tools during the move. This process will cause at least some disruption over a period as long as two years. Needless to say, they will need patience and ample support to get through such a substantial change. Fortunately, organizations can help their people acclimate to the new way of doing things. They can

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Cloud computing provides ‘flexible working conditions for government services’

Source – devopsonline.co.uk Regional Technical Services Manager at Gov Facility Services, Amanpreet Jalif, explains how a cloud environment means you are not limited to where you can be productive It’s that time again. The third Thursday of every lunar cycle when you produce the monthly report; so enthusiastically accepting the responsibility at the board meeting and now regretting it. Your inbox is brimming with 10 different Excel workbooks from your colleagues for you to painstakingly edit the master dashboard you created.

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Four Major Misunderstandings about public key infrastructure (PKI)

Source – ecns.cn China’s digital economy, or D-economy, has entered a “golden era” and has become a new economic growth engine, said an expert from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a government think tank. The internet, and technologies like cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, or AI, are helping transform several industries and sectors, thereby driving economic growth, he said. “The country’s digital economy has stepped into a new phase, with the focus shifting from high-speed growth

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Golden online era dawns for cloud, big data, AI

Source – ecns.cn China’s digital economy, or D-economy, has entered a “golden era” and has become a new economic growth engine, said an expert from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a government think tank. The internet, and technologies like cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, or AI, are helping transform several industries and sectors, thereby driving economic growth, he said. “The country’s digital economy has stepped into a new phase, with the focus shifting from high-speed growth

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Don’t fear chaos engineering if you are a DevOps tester

Source – techtarget.com I’m a DevOps tester on a newly formed team. The engineers and operations people want to implement chaos engineering on our product. Why am I the only one upset at this? Chaos engineering is the process of looking for weaknesses within an application by continually subjecting it to random behavior. A team sabotages its own application in production in order to evaluate how robust it is. The process can determine how applications endure unanticipated disruptions. The theory is that an application

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There are Five Biggest DevOps Mistakes You Must Need to Avoid

Source – bdaily.co.uk Most entrepreneurs discuss DevOps, yet with regards to executing them, issues begin. Having experienced the procedure with numerous organizations, a devops build disclosed to me the five basic devops botches associations make while doing devops advancement out of the blue. Adjusting to change isn’t simple for any association, yet in the event that you make enough of an effort and maintain a strategic distance from these slip-ups, your change to DevOps will be smooth. 1. Inability to think

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Cloud Computing and AI transform the Banking sector

Source – cioreview.com With the adoption and development of cognitive computing capabilities, the way customers interact with their banks will ultimately change for good. Artificial intelligence and cloud computing will empower banks to efficiently redefine the workflow, create innovative products and services, and transform customer experiences. Many banks have adopted AI, infusing it into their customer experience. This development is witness to AI’s role in banking becoming increasingly crucial and visible over the next few years. The introduction of cloud

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DevOps is a culture, but here’s why it’s actually not

Source – techtarget.com When we heard about DevOps for the first time, some of us imagined it was a buzzword that would disappear like many a hipster phenomenon. The fact that we still talk about DevOps every day and have for more than five years, proves it is not just a buzzword, but a necessity for the software industry. What’s hard about DevOps is its adoption. Even as many companies have become DevOps unicorns, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix, others continue to

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DevOps Dollars: Why There’s Big Money In Fast Software Development

Source – forbes.com With the first quarter of 2018 behind us, many companies will be taking stock of how successfully they started the year, what targets they need to adjust, and for those trading publically, how announcing their numbers will play with investors. While individual companies evaluate performance and progress, bigger picture trends will also start to appear. DevOps is one specific technology movement that is set to impact the financial bottom line of a broad spectrum of businesses, including software

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4 Bad Habits DevOps Administrators Fall Into

Source – devops.com The concept of DevOps is central to any organization’s ability to deliver applications and services quickly and efficiently. As it gains traction in many high-profile organizations, DevOps administrators must work to integrate DevOps practices, tools and techniques into a wide range of teams, from development and support to operations and management. Completing this implementation seamlessly leads to better productivity and a smoother overall workflow. Bad Habits Derail DevOps But along the way, administrators tend to fall into bad

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Hybrid clouds: building out orchestration, middleware, DevOps and management tooling

Source – siliconangle.com Hybrid clouds are a necessary step, but often a transitional one, for enterprises that are evolving toward more complete reliance on public clouds. If you sifted through vendor announcements from the recent Red Hat Summit, you’ll find ample corroboration of this trend. In their efforts to help customers converge their investments in hybrid-cloud platforms, tooling and services, Red Hat Inc. and its partners are making significant investments in four key capabilities: container orchestration, integration middleware, DevOps pipeline tooling and

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Continuous Discussions Video Podcast: DevSecOps, Best Practices and More

Source – devops.com In a recent episode of the Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) podcast, a group of industry experts discussed why DevSecOps is officially more than just a buzzword, tips on how to get everyone in the organization to own security and some of their own challenges and experiences baking security into the software delivery pipeline. The panel included: Alan Shimel, editor in chief at DevOps.com; Chenxi Wang, managing general partner at Rain Capital; Derek E. Weeks, VP and DevOps Advocate at Sonatype; Paula Thrasher, Chief Architect, National Security Division at

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Use event-driven architecture to design for DevOps 2.0

Source – techtarget.com When we begin to think about how DevOps 2.0 will function, event-driven architecture is a good place to start. An “event” can range from a left click of a mouse button to a request for a hotel reservation. The important thing to understand, though, is that in event-driven architecture, no one can really predict where a message will end up. The fact that event notifications can go anywhere at anytime has definite implications for systems in terms of design, implementation and

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Serverless continuous deployment for the AWS crowd: Feeding time in Lambda-land

Source – theregister.co.uk Continuous Lifecycle “You’ll never go hungry if you know AWS,” one of the workshop participants at the Continuous Lifecycle* devops-focused conference in London remarked. Mike Roberts, co-founder of consultancy Symphonia Cloud, was behind the lectern yesterday afternoon, preparing to conduct a tour of serverless continuous deployment on AWS. Such sentiment is transitory in the tech industry. In the mainframe era, people used to say, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” Today, that has become: “IBM fires everybody.” Nonetheless, AWS looks like

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Software development slow because ‘Most of our ideas suck’

Source – theregister.co.uk If you want a vision of the future of software creation, imagine a boot process spinning up a server, forever. Speaking at Continuous Lifecycle London* on Wednesday, Mike Roberts, co-founder of consultancy Symphonia Cloud, employed less Orwellian terminology for tomorrow: continuous experimentation. Perhaps you’ve heard of continuous delivery, the trending software engineering practice that aims to accelerate development cycles while making them simultaneously speedy and boring. Continuous experimentation takes that a step further by reducing development cycles to

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