I spent last week in San Francisco at the RSA Conference. The annual event is the biggest event for the security industry and takes over the Moscone Center and surrounding area. Throughout the week I walked the show floor, visited […]
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Servers? We don’t need no stinkin’ servers. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that IBM won’t be using that as the marketing tagline for OpenWhisk, but it could. Microservices and containers abstract the applications–or even the components that
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Teams and organizations adopt a DevOps culture and implement DevOps tools and practices for a variety of reasons, but one of the primary goals is speed. The effort to develop and deploy at a quicker pace, however, does not mean leaving
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Cloud platforms became more or less commoditized pretty quickly. Sure, they each have their pros and cons, but the major cloud providers all do about the same thing in about the same way. The container trend is disrupting that status
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There are a handful of users in any organization who don’t work in IT, but know enough to work around the system, circumvent policies, and get things done–sometimes risky things that put the organization at risk. With cloud services and
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If you search online and read a few posts about DevOps you will quickly discover that there is a consensus that DevOps is–first and foremost–a function of the underlying culture. In other words, you can’t have DevOps by employing DevOps
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I may be dating myself a bit, but to me Gizmo will always be the lovable little guy from the movie Gremlins. The New York Times recently released an open source microservices toolkit called “Gizmo” as well, though. The toolkit
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DevOps–at it’s core–is about getting developers and operations to work together more seamlessly for more effective and efficient app development. However, DevOps is also about automation and many of the aspects that fall under “operations” can be automated, which makes
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In any project or business you have to periodically take a step back, review what’s going right and what’s going wrong, and then make some sort of course corrections to ensure you continue to make progress toward your objectives. In
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DevOps is a hot tech trend that has gained mainstream adoption. That means that many organizations are seeking the right DevOps talent to help them successfully embrace this new thing. When a tech concept is just gaining traction, though, there aren’t
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