As predicted the Cloud IDE race is picking up. Now I’m sure. Cloud IDE or no Cloud IDE it is not a choice. But it is an huge opportunity.
Author: Chris Riley
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The Delivery Pipeline is your DevOps Signature
Where is DevOps? Searching for it is like querying a rainbow for pots of gold. No single element in a development team’s lifecycle defines them as a DevOps-enabled organization. Were anything the rainbow and the gold, it would be the delivery pipeline. The deployment pipeline centers the team and the process, functioning as the signature of any DevOps shop.
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A/B Test with Caution
When the morning news starts talking about A/B Testing of course my ears perk up, and I eat my cereal a little slower. But when it becomes a conversation about how ethical it is to use customer usage data to iteratively improve the product, it spawns this blog post.
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DevOps, Growth Hacking & other ways to rule the world
DevOps will disrupt management styles, speed the end to ancient IT practices, and flatten away processes that don’t focus on doing more with less. But DevOps is not the only dev-led movement that will impact and reshape the High-Tech industry. So called “growth hacking” will also disrupt organizational charts by bringing development tools, methods and practitioners into roles previously filled by marketing, sales, and customer success pros. As DevOps and growth hacking become more mainstream, the inevitable result is developers ruling the world.
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Environment Variables – The Ultimate Gotcha
We all think that we understand variables very well. After all, if you are a coder, a variable is something you create and use every day. But when it comes to DevOps the variable is the thing we seek to eliminate, but often neglect.
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Releasing your team from Release Thinking
How much time do you spend optimizing your delivery pipeline? My guess is none. Many teams have figured out great ways to automate their releases, and some even automate testing and monitoring. But they don’t often take the next step and learn from those results to refine the delivery processes.
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Who’s side are you on anyway? DevOps Culture
Shame on you! Yes you, because there is a good chance you are thinking about DevOps all wrong. If you are a developer you might be thinking DevOps means IT goes away and you control all the infrastructure. If you are from IT you are thinking that DevOps is just automating what you already do, more. You’re like a seagull from “Finding Nemo”, trying to claim ownership of this DevOps thing. “Mine!”. And both of you are wrong.
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The Cloud IDE and it’s impact on DevOps
Recently I did an interview with IBMs Ken Walker. Co-lead on the Eclipse Orion Project, a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE). My interest in Cloud IDEs peaked at the beginning of the year and has been steadily growing since the interview and being an active user of Cloud9 ( My current favorite Cloud IDE). During this time I realized the Cloud IDE has the ability to totally transform teams. We all know where the IDE belongs in the developers life, but what, if any, is the Cloud IDEs impact on the DevOps movement?
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Meet Infrastructure as Code
Maybe you have already heard the terms “Programmable Infrastructure” and “Infrastructure as code”. But even if you have not, if you are interested in DevOps it’s something you need to know. Most new lingo causes me to roll my eyes. But in this case, it’s not just new lingo, it’s an entirely new concept. Besides making the nerdy feel cool when they say it, these terms describe a new idea of what an application consists of. (more…)
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Does DevOps spell death for Line-of-Business (LOB) Applications?
Perhaps wrongly, “DevOps” has been associated with “new” and “that thing for the cool kids” and the “hipster developers”. This is used both as an excuse and as a source of animosity against the movement. But more subtly, I sometimes observe IT departments that acknowledge DevOps as a thing, but claim it wont work for their applications. I always pause and ask: What are the applications they are referring to, and are they correct?