Tag Archives: DevOps

All Day DevOps – it is all about culture and collaboration

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Tuesday saw the first of its kind, All Day DevOps global online conference and it went great! Many interesting stories, many demos, useful tips and tricks and a lot of food for thought. One of the organisers Mark Miller mentioned that the aim was to make sure thatContinue reading “All Day DevOps – it is all about culture and collaboration”

Addressing Build & Deploy Anti-patterns for Continuous Delivery Success

What follows is a guest post from Fiercely, a software consultancy based in Coimbra, Portugal. After a great presentation at IPEXPO Europe on “Continuous Delivery Anti-patterns from the wild” by Matthew Skelton, we quickly drew parallels with our own work and experiences here at Fiercely.

Free eBook – DevOps Journeys

DevOps has become a highly common term with more and more organisations adopting it, however, the idea is still quite new and everybody has their own opinion on what it actually is. Considering this, Linux Recruit interviewed fourteen industry experts about their experiences and tried to reach a common definition, overviewing the current state of DevOps andContinue reading “Free eBook – DevOps Journeys”

Operability.io 2016 – Operations is crucial (Day 1)

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. After the success last year, the Operability.io returned to London on Monday 19th September. The two-day conference was single line, same as last year, and the speakers were hand-picked and carefully chosen by the organisers. Day 1 started with an opening speech by Marco Abis, with Mark Burgess delivering the firstContinue reading “Operability.io 2016 – Operations is crucial (Day 1)”

Database Deployability – #2 Reduce Accidental Complexity

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 – #2 Reduce Accidental Complexity”

WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server

(This is a guest post from Chris O’Dell, co-author of Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (with Matthew Skelton) and developer on the Platform team at JUST EAT) WinOps describes itself as “the world’s only dedicated conference to ‘Windows in a DevOps world’”.  The 2016 conference took place on 24 May in London; the event partnerContinue reading “WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server”

IP EXPO Manchester, May 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. The annual IP EXPO Manchester event started with a bang. The Day 1 (18th May, 2016) was full of people, vendors, excitement and amazing speakers.  The keynote by the Dame Stella Rimington (the first woman to be appointed as the Director General of UK’s counter intelligence service, MI5 and theContinue reading “IP EXPO Manchester, May 2016”

“Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline” – featured in DZone

DZone has recently published Matthew Skelton‘s and Manuel Pais‘ report on continuous delivery pipeline from the security perspective – “Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline”. The report was featured in their guidebook for continuous delivery as well – “The DZone Guide To Continuous Delivery, Vol III”, which is a collection of must-read articles featuring all you need to know aboutContinue reading ““Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline” – featured in DZone”

Expanding The Definition Of Done

This post was written by John Clapham. Look around your team board, is it there? Perhaps there’s a scruffy, and curled post-it to one side, maybe by now it has fallen face down and joined the dust, old avatars and used markers on floor. Perhaps though your definition of done is in better shape; whatContinue reading “Expanding The Definition Of Done”