Apr
30,
2019
Jeff Sussna on the state of DevOps
10 years ago, DevOps introduced the idea that IT could be more effective without silos between development and operations. Since then, “cloud native” has entered the scene, along with practices and technologies such as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Serverless.
Apr
10,
2019
Ansible Tutorial: Multi-tier Deployment with Ansible
Ansible, by Red Hat, provides automated configurations as well as orchestrations of machine landscapes. The lightweight and flexible tool is increasingly used in DevOps toolchains and cloud computing. This article shows how to get a complex multi-tier setup on the server with it.
Feb
20,
2019
Expert Check: 10 Years of DevOps – Present, past, future
In the past 10 years and since its initial conception, DevOps has become a cornerstone aspect for company culture and the developer community. While DevOps is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, our experts are taking a step back and looking at its evolution so far and what awaits it...
Jan
9,
2019
Staying Alive: Patterns for failure management
Training for technical diving prepares you for situations in a high pressure environment where failures are unavoidable but also highly dangerous. It means surviving in a hostile environment with limited resources where the failure of individual components can trigger deadly failure cascades. A diver who can’t understand how to do...
Nov
22,
2018
Go 1.11: What the new modules in Go are all about
Go packages don't have versions or dependencies. At least, not yet. With Go 1.11 and its experimental support for versioned Go modules, this is changing. Go 1.11 brings native support for versions and modules in Go as a fixed component to the Go toolchain. The modules are meant to replace...
Oct
17,
2018
Beyond Cloud: Public Cloud, yes or no?
"Public Cloud: yes or no?" - a question radically outpaced by the train of technology. More and more companies are looking into the advantages and disadvantages of a public cloud infrastructure. There is no doubt that the public cloud has its advantages. Its elasticity, high vertical integration, and global distribution...
Jul
30,
2018
From DevOps to DevQOps: The Evolution of Quality
DevOps has become a part of good business etiquette for modern companies. Still, companies can achieve an optimal performance, if they integrate these methods with a maximum quality. What we need now isn’t just DevOps but “DevQOps”.
Jul
4,
2018
DevOps becomes BizDevOps
The full advantage of DevOps can only be achieved if development and operations work together with the specialist departments and management on a value adding product. Or to put more radical: The topic is no longer called DevOps, but BizDevOps. The integration of business and DevOps changes the cooperation, organization,...
Jun
13,
2018
Finding Metrics that matter and using them safely
Data-driven decision-making is a goal of most leaders today. Unfortunately, between the overwhelming amounts of data available to us and the ease of falling prey to misleading vanity metrics, how to begin this journey can feel extremely elusive. In this talk from DevOpsCon 2018 Julia Wester, co-founder and Principal Consultant...
Jun
4,
2018
“How to Modernize Legacy Applications for a Microservices-Based Deployment”
<div style="text-align: justify">We spoke with Slava Koltovich and Arkady Ocheretnoy about microservices and how to make Legacy Apllications modern for them</div>