Agile Web Development & Operations
Practical advice for rapidly delivering customer value
In our DevOps category you find a collection of articles helping you improve cooperation between your developers and sysadmins.
The main advantage of the DevOps approach is streamlining the flow of your features and fixes from development into production. It will make you faster and more flexible by tearing down obstacles existing between developers and sysadmins. Especially if your development team is already working with agile or kanban, it specifically helps extend the reach of agile into the data center.
This is a guest post by John Allspaw (@allspaw) It’s been said by a number of smart people that DevOps is largely founded in an organization’s skillful collaboration and communication, and the culture that results. I agree with that idea, and I also think that it’s one of the reasons why the term DevOps is [...]
This is a guest post by Julian Simpson “The Build Doctor” (@builddoctor) Out of the frying pan Just as the .com boom turned to bust, I worked with a guy who had developed his own system for managing change: You backed any file youʼd change, with permissions, and a particular file extension. You copied the [...]
This is a guest post by R.I. Pienaar (@ripienaar) Many blog posts have been written about what DevOps is or what it means to specific people. While these blog posts are fantastic and well worth reading, there still seems to be a lot of misconception around its meaning. I’d like to point out some of [...]
This is a guest post by Chris Read (@cread) DevOps is gaining credibility. Industry analysts such as Gartner are talking about it, the big IT vendors are already trying to sell DevOps “solutions.” At its heart it is the integration of Agile principles into Operations practices. With its roots in dysfunctional Enterprises, it has enabled [...]
This is a guest post by Lindsay Holmwood (@auxesis). The DevOps Movement When Patrick Debois kicked off the DevOps movement, his experience as a project manager gave him a very unique perspective on the problems faced by development and operations teams. Patrick is visionary because he saw that while teams generally worked well by themselves, [...]
This is a guest post by John Arundel (@bitfield) In answering the question: ‘What does the red spectrum tell us about quasars?’, there are various words that need to be defined. What is a spectrum? What is a red one? Why is it red? And why is it so frequently linked with quasars? …What the [...]
I’m totally excited about what’s going on here at our blog. Some of the top guys driving DevOps have agreed to post their ideas about the current state of DevOps and its future combined into one big series. You won’t want to miss out on the thoughts of: John Arundel, Bitfield Consulting, who starts this [...]
I’ve recently finished reading Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time. Written by John Allspaw and Jesse Robins, by far my favorite chapter was Eric Ries’ submission for Chapter 4: Continuous Deployment. One of the graphs in this chapter compellingly portrays Flickr’s “release early, release often” mantra. This inspired me to start monitoring my own [...]
To deliver customer value rapidly, it’s important that developers and operations work together closely. There are certain traits of organizations which make it either harder or simpler for both to collaborate. In this post, I want to show you three examples which make DevOps simpler.
If you’re stuck with someone in an elevator and have only a few seconds to explain why introducing agile Methodolgies and DevOps is a good idea, these five goals might help you:
