Has DevOps Jumped the Shark?
It’s safe to say that #DevOps hasn’t reached its demise, but it has certainly jumped the shark. Just like the iconic TV show Happy Days, which resorted to having The…
A DevOps Journey from 2015
I had presented this publicly back in 2015-16 span of time. DevOps was just beginning to gain widespread attention beyond a small community. Reading over the document today, the messages…
The (Near) Future Is About Low Touch Operations
In the title I specify the “near future” so it won’t be taken as a vision for the long term in which I believe autonomous, self-healing systems will most likely…
If Everything is DevOps, Then Nothing is DevOps
Tom Healy of Jama Software published a blog entry entitled, “DevOps is Dead, Long Live DevOps” as did Andrey Akselrod and also Nir Cohen. Interestingly, I find these pieces to…
DevOps Is the Future of Service Integration & Management (SIAM)
Enterprises with internally sourced IT operations typically struggle with typical tensions associated with siloed application and infrastructure organizations. They are characterized by finger pointing and an inability to restore operational…
Cloud Native: The Next Major Developer Paradigm Shift
Every decade for the past forty years we’ve seen a major paradigm shift in software development. The next major paradigm shift for software developers—cloud native application development—is occurring now and…
Software Testing is Too Critical to Overlook
Today’s software testing practices are abysmal. You’re a major provider of health insurance services to general consumers. Your website is a primary means of interacting with your customers and allowing…
Can Telcos Succeed As Cloud Service Providers?
Someone sent me a link to this article this morning. While reading it I started to think about the competitive landscape for cloud service providers and the challenges telcos have…
PaaS Stumbles
“I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw…
Infrastructure-as-a-Service POC Proves To Be Informative
Regardless if you’ve migrated multiple applications or this is your first migration to a public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) you will want to run a small proof-of-concept to make sure that the…