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  • Sustainable IT and Data Innovation: Driving the Future of DevOps

    The worlds of sustainable IT and data innovation are converging, and two upcoming events are set to showcase the latest developments in these critical areas of sustainable IT and data innovation. The SustainableIT Impact Awards & Symposium and the DevOps + Data Impact 2024  promise to bring together industry leaders, experts, and practitioners to explore how technology can drive positive change in both business and society.

    Inaugural Impact Summit & Awards, SustainableIT.org

    Sustainability Takes Center Stage

    Sustainable IT has become a key focus for organizations across the globe, as the environmental impact of technology comes under increasing scrutiny. The SustainableIT Impact Awards & Symposium will be held in Austin, Texas. It aims to celebrate the institutions and individuals who are leading the way in this field. The event, organized by the nonprofit SustainableIT.org, will feature a range of awards, including the Environmental Award, which recognizes success in reducing energy consumption and emissions across technology infrastructure, and the Governance Award, which celebrates institutions that have woven sustainability into their decision-making processes.

    Meanwhile, the DevOps + Data Impact 2024, presented by Perforce and Delphix, also in Austin, will dive deep into the world of data management and its role in driving innovation. As enterprises grapple with the challenges of managing and leveraging vast amounts of data, the conference promises to offer valuable insights and solutions. Attendees can expect to learn about the latest trends in data analytics, security, and compliance. Plus they will gain insights on strategies for optimizing data management to drive business success.

    Perforce’s Acquisition of Delphix: Driving Sustainable Data Management

    Perforce’s recent acquisition of Delphix, a leading provider of DataOps solutions, reflects the growing importance of data management in the DevOps landscape. This strategic move aims to help customers automate and accelerate their DevOps pipelines while promoting sustainable IT practices. As Perforce CEO Jim Cassens noted, “Data is at the heart of how enterprises operate today and essential for successful software development, but accessing and managing that data is extremely challenging. Many teams do not have rapid access to solid, high-quality test data.”

    By integrating Delphix’s capabilities, Perforce seeks to address these challenges and enable more efficient and sustainable data management practices. As Cassens stated in a blog post announcing the acquisition, “Another unique ability of the Delphix platform is how it virtualizes data and ultimately reduces storage footprints, which is good news for sustainability and operational costs.”

    Bridging Sustainable IT and Data Innovation

    The convergence of these two events points to a broader trend in the DevOps world: the need to balance sustainable IT and data innovation. Organizations are increasingly recognizing that sustainability efforts can drive efficiency and innovation. Accordingly, robust data management can support environmental goals.

    As the DevOps landscape continues to evolve, look for more initiatives that emphasize balance with AI-driven energy management in data centers, sustainable IT and software development practices, and circular economy approaches to IT hardware. Certainly, the upcoming events in Austin serve as a barometer for these trends, offering a glimpse into how industry leaders are navigating the complex intersection of technology, data, and sustainability. By attending these events and engaging with the insights they provide, DevOps teams can position themselves at the forefront of sustainable innovation, driving both business success and positive environmental impact.

  • Microservices Days coming to a city near you

    Microservices Days coming to a city near you

    Microservices is rapidly becoming a design paradigm for developing software. While there are many benefits to microservices designs, it is more complex than traditional application design. For this reason we are formulating a new community around microservices architecture. This community will explore design issues and the intersection with Mobile/IoT, Containers, Cloud, DevOps and APIs.

    Microservices Journal is a newly-launched online community where practitioners can share their experiences and learn from others.

    Microservices Days are a series of regionally delivered one-day seminars led by practitioners.

    Who should attend: CIO/CTO, Application Development Management, Software Engineers, DevSecOps, and IT Operations.

    For our 11/16 program we are lucky to have some strong industry experienced speakers come speak:
    • Michael Cote – Pivotal
    • JP Morgenthal – DXC.technology
    • Deepak Kulkarni – Charles Schwab & Co
    • Irakli Nadarishvilli and Mark Donovan – CapitalOne
    • Ryan Bagnulo – Guarden.io

    This is a great opportunity to come hear from early adopters and learn from their experiences.

    Register Now: http://www.innotechconferences.com/austin/about-2/microservices-day/

    Microservices Days, Austin – Agenda

    Time Presentation 
    8:00am
    9:30am – 10:15am
    10:20am – 11:05am
    jpmorgenthal
    11:10am – 12:00pm Deepak_Kulkarni

    12 Factors for the Enterprise
    12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch and Expo
    1:00pm – 1:45pm Microservices_Irakli_MarkImplementing Microservices at Capital One
    2:30pm – 3:20pm TBA
    3:30pm – 4:20pm RyanBagnulo
    Microservices Maturity Matrix, Token Authentication & API Gateway Mediation

     Register Now: http://www.innotechconferences.com/austin/about-2/microservices-day/

    — JP Morgenthal

  • DevOps Luminary, Ernest Mueller Set to Return to DevOps Days Austin Stage

    DevOps Luminary, Ernest Mueller Set to Return to DevOps Days Austin Stage

    Ernest Mueller, the Agile Admin has been part of the DevOps scene almost since the very beginning. He was one of the founders and still a leader of the Austin DevOps scene. Ernest after many years of speaking at DevOps Days Austin had announced that he was “semi-retired” from speaking at DevOps Days Austin and would no longer appear there.  devopsy.kinsta.cloud in an exclusive, is now reporting that Ernest Mueller, the Agile Admin is back!

    Via unnamed confirmed sources we have verified that Mueller will be reprising his “State of DevOps” presentation at this year DevOps Days Austin on May 2nd and 3rd. If this is indeed true, what a great turn of events for the DevOps community.

    Our unnamed confirmed sources also tell us that the his fellow organizer crew for DevOps Days Austin crew is ecstatic that Ernest has reconsidered. Just on the rumors alone ticket sales for the event have immediately picked up.

    Will this be Mueller’s swan song? Will this years presentation rekindle his burning desire to present at DevOps Days Austin? Only time will tell. We hope to confirm details with Mueller shortly and will have a follow up story shortly. For now though the news is that Ernest M is back!

  • DevOps Connect: cdSummit at Austin Innotech

    DevOps Connect: cdSummit at Austin Innotech

    Last week I was down in Austin, Texas for the DevOps Connect: cdSummit @Innotech show. With almost 1900 people registered for Innotech, we had a solid 150 folks specifically for cdSummit.  I think it fair to say that the attendees got their money’s worth!

    The morning started off with a great presentation by Jez Humble.  If you are talking CD, who better than the guy who literally wrote the book to kick things off.  Jez never disappoints and he didn’t last week.  His presentation is below.

    After Jez, Andy Pemberton of CloudBees presented.  Andy has a great delivery and I have seen him present before. It was a great engaging presentation and it is below for you to view.

    Following Andy we were very lucky to have David Lindquist, IBM Fellow, VP of Development, Mobile and Cloud DevOps. David gave us some great insight into IBM’s own journey of using DevOps to make an enterprise work at startup speed. Again his slides are below.

    We then broke for a great, relaxing lunch break and to give our attendees a chance to explore Innotech. There was a demo theater on the show floor featuring Jenkins, BlueMix, New Relic and AppDynamics demos. Innotech also featured a “Women in Tech” show and CIO roundtable with some great content.

    After lunch we broke into two rooms in a dueling track format. We have enclosed those below. My favorites were from the great, welcoming and amazing Austin DevOps community. Ernest Mueller previewed the talk he is giving at DOES next week.  James Wickett, one of my heroes from the Rugged DevOps movement did a great job on his session and Boyd Hemphill brought the house down closing out with his HomeOps presentation which I found witty and incredible.

    All of the speakers were really good and the feedback from the attendees echoed this.  Many thanks to our sponsors, CloudBees and IBM as presenting sponsors, AppDynamics and New Relic as gold sponsors. Most of all thanks to all of the people who came out and spent a great day with us! We are holding the next cdSummit on December 3rd in Los Angeles and if you are interested in speaking, attending or sponsoring, contact me at editor@devops.com.  We will announce more details shortly.

     

     

  • My picks for opening day of DevOpsDays Austin

    My picks for opening day of DevOpsDays Austin

    As we wrote earlier, we are happy to be attending and sponsoring DevOpsDays Austin 2015.  The opening day morning is chocked full of great sessions with the afternoon dedicated to openspaces as is the norm.  While everything from breakfast to Damon Edwards keynote through JJ Ashgar’s session on Chef before lunch look tasty.  Here are three sessions that I will be attending that I am really looking forward to:

    michael coteThe Coming Donkey Apocalypse by Michael Cote’ –  Cote’ formally of 451 Research and now with Pivotal is going to talk about the “state of the union” of Devops. From the abstract:

    DevOps is growing in popularity and even usage in “the real world.” It seems like we’re slowly getting past unicorns only and seeing many “horses” do DevOps. Soon we’ll see the mainstream market – the “donkeys” – start to pick it up and bend DevOps to its will. This talk will go over “the state of the union” of DevOps and provide some guidance for how to prepare for the donkey apocalypse.

    I don’t know what to make of this title but it peaked my curiosity. I don’t think DevOps adoption moving mainstream is equal to moving from horses to donkeys and so it is not a very flattering title. On top of this not only don’t I think main stream adoption of DevOps means it is Donkeys adopting it, I do not think it means an apocalypse for DevOps.  In fact I think it is a good thing. On top of this, I think the idea of calling mainstream adoption, adoption of the  donkeys and them causing an apocalypse smacks of elitism and is against what DevOps is about. I don’t think it is a bad thing that more organizations will get involved and that they will “bend DevOps”. I don’t know Michael well and have only spoken to him once briefly. Everything I hear though is that he is a very bright guy and dynamic speaker and writer.  So i am interested to hear what Michael has to say in this session and whether he thinks it is a good thing, bad thing or how we can help move it along. You can’t judge a book by its cover and you sometimes you can’t judge a session by its title and abstract.

    jpaulreedFixing your Organization by Continually Breaking It by J Paul Reed – Reed is a consultant and has over a decade of experience in the trenches as a build/release and tools engineer, working with such organizations as VMware, Mozilla, and Symantec. In 2012, he founded Release Engineering Approaches, a consultancy incorporating a host of tools and techniques to help organizations “Simply Ship. Every time.” From the abstract:

    When we discuss DevOps, we often find ourselves mired in the “tools vs. culture” debate. A point often forgotten is the “amplify feedback loops” of DevOps “3 Ways” and how to build that into our cultures. In this talk, we’ll look at the importance of continually breaking your organization with experiments, some surprising examples, and how to do it in such a way that you aren’t left with a broken organization.

    I love this concept going back to Netflix and the Simian Army and have heard similar talks before on it. Looking forward to what Reed has to say and learning. Amplifying feedback loops is something I would like to see more written about as well.  I am looking forward to this one!

    josh cormanContinuous Acceleration: Why Continuous Everything Needs a Supply Chain Approach by Josh Corman – Josh is of course the CTO of Sonatype and a former 451 Research analyst too. Besides all that Josh is a friend from the security world that I know a long time. This talk sounds like a continuation of what Josh and Gene Kim presented at DevOps Connect at RSA Conference a few weeks ago. Also Ericka Chickowski wrote a good article on her interview with Josh on this last week.  Here is the abstract:

    Today we write less code & consume more re-usable open source code. Innovation accelerates & complexity grows. Complexity is the enemy of quality. Poor quality creates break-fixes & slows dev. It’s a continuous loop.
    Learn about software supply chain management strategies to accelerate delivery: scrutinize your ‘suppliers,’ minimize risk & bloat, and improve traceability, visibility & response times. 

    Josh is a great presenter. I have seen him present many topics over the years at several events, I am sure this one won’t disappoint.

    There are other good presentations including some stuff on Dockers and containers (what would a conference be without them?). Additionally the I am sure the open spaces will spawn some good stuff as well.

    I will try to update throughout the day and give those who can’t attend a sense of what is going on.

    I realize many of you can’t make Austin tomorrow, but if you are going and see me please introduce yourself and say hi.