The main idea behind DevOps is to enable companies to keep up with the increased software velocity and advancements in agile culture for a smoother end-to-end software delivery cycle. The main goal of DevOps is to accomplish integration and automation, which is why implementing this philosophy can be challenging. Not only do you…
What qualities and skills define a future-ready DevOps engineer? Hint: It’s about people, not code deployment There was a time when engineers worked almost completely in a vacuum, with little interaction on the business side and almost no direct feedback from those who used what they made. Then came DevOps. Today, the…
Covid-19 pandemic has hit the businesses very badly, worldwide. While the COVID-19 crisis blocked many business operations, it has, in some way, given the required boost to digital initiatives. Lockdown is of course, a hurdle. But companies must continue their product and service delivery with the same quality and reliability. This is…
The role of DevOps services mainly emphasizes on the practices adopted by IT professionals and software developers. This role is not merely a concept, philosophy, or practice. DevOps acts as a bridge between administrators and developers. DevOps solutions act as a catalyst to automate continuous integration and continuous delivery or CI/CD. Many…
DevOps — which syncs, organizes and automates the pace of software releases — ‘is by default built for remote operations’ such as that required for the COVID-19 crisis. However, DevOps skills have been hard to find. What effect is the tragic COVID-19 crisis — mandating the current scattering of employees across a…
IBM announced it will apply a range of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate the management of IT operations and modernize applications, also known as AIOps. Announced at IBM’s Think Digital conference, Watson AIOps leverages algorithms to continuously optimize IT operations while Accelerator for Application Modernization with AI is a suite of tools that…
The use of DevOps tools has increased rapidly in recent times. This is because these tools are aimed to develop, integrate, and provide a swift IT service delivery through improved communication between developers and operators. Be it a startup or a large enterprise, everyone is relying on DevOps tools to streamline their…
The pace of software development and delivery is where the organization’s success lies in the ever-evolving, speed-driven digital world. a Many IT organizations have been transforming over the period to leverage the technological trends for enhanced software delivery process. At this very juncture, DevOps has evolved on a larger scale and rendered…
Automation software producer Puppet has appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer, Paul Heywood It is hoping the move will mean generating new revenue paths and further its growth potential in the DevOps market. “DevOps is a massive and growing market. Living in a world where technology is changing at an unprecedented pace…
So you’ve adopted agile. You’re holding your stand-ups, scoring your stories, doing the ceremonies the experts recommend. You’re even beginning to see the value of the agile process. You’re showing development progress in biweekly increments, including user feedback on a continuous basis, and everyone’s excited! But something feels off. It was great…
With its inception in 2009, DevOps has come a long way within a short span of time and has now become mainstream. DevOps is all about combining development and operations. It facilitates faster and reliable software delivery along with automation, efficiency, and transparency. In the recent decade, many organizations have started embracing…
DevOps teams are expected to do more work in less time. They need to plan, test, build, secure and release applications at a fast-paced rate. Of course, the DevOps team needs to achieve all of this while maintaining high software quality. This is why automation is a crucial part of the DevOps…
DevOps offers plenty of efficiencies, but it’s no guarantee of business success. Here are three common challenges that require more than just a solid DevOps strategy. DevOps has been around for more than a decade now, and for companies that aspire to be cloud-native, its benefits are clear: shorter lead time for…
DevOps has become a big buzzword in software development. This cultural tech movement combines development and operations, and strives to break some of the more traditional, siloed approaches to code builds. More companies than ever are taking a stab at DevOps, especially after thriving companies like Netflix, Etsy, and Target attribute their…
BDCC Global’s latest research distinguishes the top 10 service providers in the “DevOps consulting companies in the USA” category. BDCC Global highlighted the top 10 DevOps service providers in the United States in the latest list published on their website. The list was announced on 10 January 2020 containing 10 most reliable…
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new…
Increasing consumer demand and changing business trends have intensified the market competition than ever. To maintain a competitive edge in this tough scenario means innovating faster, making quick releases and being up to date with less turnaround times. Especially if you have a customer-facing app, then the scenario will be much more…
So what are experts forecasting for DevOps this year? Here are three predictions: Chaos engineering as a control strategy. Yes, you read that right. This crazy “chaos” thing meeting the staid world of governance, risk, and compliance? Yes, because, in fact, that’s what chaos engineering excels at: identifying risk in systems that…
The IT industry can be categorized at a high level into three main streams of employees, one is generalist, the second is specialist and the third is virtualist. The generalists are the employees who know all the technologies used in their organization at an overview level like an IT support guy or…
This is what DevOps looks like inside one of the world’s biggest software factories. The goals: more collaboration, improved work lives. In this cloud-drenched era, software vendors have evolved from code-and-ship operations into 24×7 data center operators. So they, perhaps more than any other type of organization, need DevOps methodologies to keep…
