The March issue of the BCS ITNow magazine is focused on the digital engine behind next generation UK. We are happy to say that our principal consultant and co-founder Matthew Skelton was chosen to demystify and overview DevOps in the article titled “Joined up thinking”. Based on recent industry experience, the author is sharing how youContinue reading “Overview of DevOps for Larger Enterprises – BCS ITNOW”
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Patterns of DevOps Culture
The latest InfoQ eMag is all about the DevOps and the culture patterns. It is a selection of popular DevOps articles published on InfoQ.com and hand picked by the editorial team. This eMag is a good learning tool and overviews the actualities that you need to know regarding DevOps. We are very happy to have beenContinue reading “Patterns of DevOps Culture”
Continuous Integration with Static and Dynamic Website Testing
This post was written by Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Continuous Integration (CI) enables you to have a reliable, repeatable, automated process to prepare your site for release, removing manual, error prone steps. With relative ease, you can add in automated checks, both generic static analysis and moving onto custom automated testsContinue reading “Continuous Integration with Static and Dynamic Website Testing”
Database Deployability – #1 Minimize changes in Production
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Deployability is now a first-class concern for databases, and there are several technical choices (conscious and accidental) which band together to block the deployability of databases. Can we improve database deployability and enable true Continuous Delivery for our software systems? Of course weContinue reading “Database Deployability – #1 Minimize changes in Production”
Next Generation DevOps – highlights
Next Generation DevOps, 2 December 2015 Supporting a Continuous Delivery Value Chain • Agile • Testing • QA • DevSecOps We recently attended the Next Generation Devops conference in London organised by Unicom. Our co-founder Matthew Skelton chaired the event and delivered a talk on ‘Un-broken Logging’ [slides]. Another of our consultants, John Clapham, was talking aboutContinue reading “Next Generation DevOps – highlights”
Snippets of IP Expo 2015
This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Reporting from the trenches at IP Expo I was able to attend the IP Expo 2015 show at ExCel London on October 7th and 8th, there were, as expected a huge number of vendors presenting a broad array of products, fromContinue reading “Snippets of IP Expo 2015”
Webinar – DevOps: Successful Communication Patterns for Effective Responsibilities
We were pleased to host a webinar on 14th October 2015 with Sabine Bernecker-Bendixen of Sof-IT and our own Matthew Skelton where we discussed some real-world successful communication patterns for DevOps. Here is what was discussed:
Operability.io Conference 2015 – Day 2
This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. BUILDING WORLD CLASS OPS TEAMS by Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) Slides Charity Majors started the second day with her energetic and passionate talk about bootstrapping the ops team, highlighting the main problems and solutions.
Operability.io Conference 2015 – Day 1
This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. WHAT EVEN IS OPERABLE? By Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) Andrew Shafer was the first speaker of the day and started the conference with explaining what Operability is and why IT Operations is/can be a huge competitive advantage.
Google Digital Garage in Leeds – developing a business ‘personality’
Summary: we went along to the Google Digital Garage in Leeds recently for a mentoring session. As a high-value, specialist technology consultancy, we wanted to find ways to make our voice heard above the bigger but less focused players. Here is what we found.
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