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…
WhiteSource has acquired Renovate, a provider of an open-source automated dependency update platform that the company plans to make available for free. Rhys Arkins, the co-founder of Renovate who is now director of product for WhiteSource, said that as software projects become more complicated, there’s an increased need for a mechanism to…
DevOps makes the world go round, especially a world where continuous software delivery is gold. If one seeks evidence of how hot DevOps is these days, look to demand appropriate skills as an indicator. And DevOps skills top the list these days. That’s the word from a survey of 250 IT managers…
IT industry, with its technological advancements, has revolutionized many other industries. Undoubtedly, IT is everywhere today in the form of its technology solutions. From exciting the public with never-seen experience, technology solutions have come a long way becoming part and parcel of business. Besides empowering the existing operations, they themselves are becoming…
Software development in the past decades has moved from being perceived as a form of alchemy to something that can be quantified and managed. Alongside good project management practices, those working in the DevOps world rely on complex tools that enable a team to contribute code to a common objective. These enable…
Software process delivery is at a new speed that early release makes the success for any organization. Moving away from traditional Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), now IT organizations have already begun their journey to new-age architecture that supports digital transformation initiatives. The most supporting technology solution in this journey is ‘DevOps’! DevOps…
DevOps security is a term that refers to the practice of providing security to all the tools and processes that form part of the DevOps environment. This can be done by effectively implementing policies, procedures, technology and strategies throughout the DevOps lifecycle. Also known as DevSecOps, this practice has the main aim…
Nowadays, security is a massive challenge for organizations across various industries all over the world. We have witnessed a data breach where the TalkTalk website was hacked exposing the data of 156,959 accounts, and the website lost £77m after the attack. Many IT professionals distanced themselves from this brand after the incident….
Many companies across the world are adopting DevOps mainly for the purpose of reducing the time taken for delivering software releases, without compromising on the quality of the software. It is estimated that in the next five years, the DevOps market would definitely touch close to $13 billion. When DevOps is first…
DevOps is being widely accepted and adopted by leading software development companies as the right way to integrate the various functions of the development and operations team for ensuring flexibility, reducing time-to-market, and increasing end-to-end responsibility. These companies are constantly on the lookout for new strategies and techniques for inculcating better DevOps…
