How to scale DevOps: Tackle 7 common time-wasters

Source:-enterprisersproject.comFrom bad handoffs to over-production of functionality, these issues will slow down your DevOps work. Here’s how to identify and minimize them DevOps requires structure, visibility, and orchestration to make everything flow smoothly and continuously. The challenge: Throughout the different stages of DevOps work, the way that software development processes and cultures operate can lead to mistakes. In turn, these result in wasted time and slowed down software releases, thus negating the value of DevOps.An answer to scaling DevOps without incurring

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Third Annual GitLab Global Developer Survey Reveals Disconnect Between Developer And Security Teams

Source:-globenewswire.com Today GitLab, the single application for the DevOps lifecycle, released the results of its third annual developer survey highlighting the clear benefits — and tricky challenges — of the DevOps methodology. DevOps done right can go a long way to improve security, enable continuous deployment and bring developers, security professionals and the operations team together. The survey of over 4,000 respondents found security teams part of a good DevOps practice are 3x more likely to discover bugs before code

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Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

Source :- zdnet.com Three and a half years ago, Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Microsoft’s cloud, said, “One in four [Azure] instances are Linux.” Next, in 2017, Microsoft revealed that 40% of Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux-based. Then in the fall of 2018, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the cloud and enterprise group, told me in an exclusive interview, “About half Azure VMs are Linux”. Now, Sasha Levin, Microsoft Linux kernel developer, in a request that Microsoft be allowed to

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Why management thinks your DevOps implementation is great

Source – techtarget.com According to a survey of 5,296 development professionals, the three toughest challenges around DevOps implementation probably won’t surprise anyone. GitLab’s 2018 Global Developer Report indicates it’s still hard to choose the right technology, get clear directions from management and change long-standing habits. But what might surprise folks is the apparent disconnect between management and developers on what a successful DevOps implementation looks like — and how easy it is, or isn’t. “I was surprised to see that managers and

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