In a world in which customers are very important, their opinion on your company is also valued highly. This is done by calculating the Net Promotor Score (NPS). For the IT department it is very hard to influence the NPS directly. The only thing that matters is to design, build and maintain highly resilient IT …
Ho Ming Li has written an excellent blog on the 5 common barriers when introducing DevOps. It comes down to: Barrier #1: People Who Do Not See the Light, Barrier #2: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It, Barrier #3: Dude, that’s my job!, Barrier #4: The Great Divide, Barrier #5: One vs. the Rest. …
DevOps for mobile apps challenges and best practices: 10 best practices of DevOps for the mobile enterprise, an interesting article through IBM developerWorks.
Recently I stumbled upon a new concept for building, shipping, deploying and running applications. It’s called Docker. So what is Dockerexactly? Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for …
In my search for good cloud providers I touched upon Microsoft’s Azure (as posted earlier) but also found DigitalOcean, a provider that promises simple cloud hosting, built for developers that can deploy a new SSD based cloud server in approximately 55 seconds. Ofcourse this an interesting challenge, so I tried it and it works! One …
The practice of DevOps — in which developers and operations people collaborate on applications as they are designed, built and tested — is increasing the speed of software deployments by 20 percent. Read more at ZDNet!
DevOps is the way to go, but it seems everyone has a different definition of DevOps. A good definition can be found at the AgileAdmin.
A very interesting presentation at Velocity 2012 by Richard Cook, “How Complex Systems Fail”.
What does it mean to have a ‘blameless’ Post-Mortem? Does it mean everyone gets off the hook for making mistakes? No. A great article on Blameless PostMortems by John Allspaw.
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