Tag: Silicon Valley
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SVB: When Silly Valley Sneezes, DevOps Catches a Cold
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The Long View—where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let’s work out what really matters.
This week: Silicon Valley Bank and what it means for DevOps. After the débâcle of Wednesday’s fire sale, Thursday’s bank run and Friday’s FDIC seizure, came Saturday’s impotent panic, Sunday’s “not a bailout” federal guarantee and Monday’s tentative restart of “bridge” bank operation. (more…)
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Imaginea partners with WaveMaker to deliver low-code digital transformation and application modernization solution
Partnership will enable enterprises to execute quickly, efficiently, and flexibly on digital transformation efforts
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 24, 2018 – Imaginea Technologies Inc., a Silicon Valley-based software engineering and professional services provider, today announced a collaboration with WaveMaker, Inc., a leading enterprise low-code Rapid Application Development platform, to provide critical digital transformation solutions for customers looking to modernize their applications efficiently and strategically.
WaveMaker will make its low-code platform available to Imaginea customers seeking the tools needed to modernize their software stacks and industry solutions in order to remain competitive. The WaveMaker platform is characterized by a wide range of capabilities and features, including open technology standards, containers, microservices, and API connectivity across any combination of cloud and legacy on-premise applications.
Through this partnership, Imaginea will be better positioned to help customers easily turn around non-performing systems rapidly with modern, comprehensive solutions.
“As two companies that are focused on enterprise productivity and agility, our synergy will enable customers to accelerate their transformations into modern digital enterprises,” says Imaginea Chief Revenue Officer, Suresh Babu. “Partnering with WaveMaker gives our customers the new technology they need to gain a competitive advantage in their industries.”
“Our customers must be able to easily identify the tools they need to quickly and successfully implement a digital transformation or extend the useful life of a legacy application. A low-code approach enables enterprises to jumpstart and complete large and complex digital projects faster and without losing steam,” says Babu.
“Low-code platforms not only empower enterprises to effectively execute on digital transformations and application modernization projects, but they also enable customers to future-proof their efforts and safeguard their software investments. With WaveMaker, customers can avoid the challenges of vendor lock-in through unmatched flexibility combined with full code access that is portable and based on open standards,” says WaveMaker VP of Engineering, Deepak Anupalli.
“Our partnership targets forward-thinking companies that are looking to transform their businesses with software development methodology that is fast, flexible, and leverages modern cloud-native technology,” says Suresh Babu.
The collaboration comes at a time when both Imaginea and WaveMaker are seeing rapid growth as they work with a rising number of Fortune 1000 companies seeking to implement digital transformation strategies and modernization plans.
Modernization is a strategic imperative for most organizations seeking to remain competitive in their industries, and a low-code approach can help enterprises transform aging applications quickly and economically based on their unique business goals. For more information on Imaginea’s Enterprise offering, visit https://www.imaginea.com/enterprise/or write to connect@imaginea.com.
ABOUT IMAGINEA
From startups to Fortune 500s, Imaginea helps customers leverage product thinking in their domain, to solve their toughest technology problems, as they rush to meet rising customer expectations and tackle unpredictable moves by digital competitors. Headquartered in Mountain View, they work with over 200 global customers across US, Europe, and India turning ideas into amazing products. For more information, visit www.imaginea.com, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
ABOUT WAVEMAKER
WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver, and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in low-code such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.
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DevOpsDays Silicon Valley is Coming!
DevOpsDays Silicon Valley is coming, so mark your calendar! DevOpsDays events are a global phenomenon, bringing together practitioners across roles for two days of scheduled presentations and networking in a community-organized event. You won’t want to miss this year’s conference!
The 7th annual DevOpsDays Silicon Valley is scheduled for June 24-25 at the world-famous Computer History Museum. Silicon Valley is the oldest of the U.S. events and was originally the third DevOps Days ever. The conference, which started in 2010 as a low-key event hosted on the campus of LinkedIn, has grown into a major event.
This year’s lineup includes talks from a variety of perspectives including security! Jennifer Davis, co-author of “Effective DevOps,” will open the conference up with “Devops is for Everyone.”
DevOpsDays Lineup
Here is the 2016 speaker lineup:
Keynotes:
- Troubleshooting Troubleshooters: Debug Your Colleagues for Fun and Profit, by Bethanye McKinney Blount, CEO/Co-Founder
- From Divided to United – Aligning Technology & Business Teams, by Dominica DeGrandis, Director, Learning & Development
- Cost versus Performance: Analytics for Walking the Tightrope, by Elizabeth (Betsy) Nichols, Chief Data Scientist
- The Future of Automation, by Adam Jacob, CTO and Founder of Chef
Presentations:
- Behind Closed Doors: Managing Passwords in a Dangerous World, by Noah Kantrowitz
- At the Intersection of Happy and Healthy: DevOps Meets IoT, by Gail Ferreira
- Heresy in the Church of Docker, by Corey Quinn
- DevOps Army of N – Recovering From Being a Human SPOF, by Jonathan Disher
- (Parental) Leave Actually, by Dave Dash, Nicole Grinstead, Melissa Sandgren
- How to Onboard Entry-Level Talent to a DevOps Culture, by Angel Tian and Sophia Castellarin
- Autoscaling Containers … with Math, by Allan Espinosa
- How I Learned to Change My Mind and Became a Better Engineer, by Ramin Khatibi
- Removing the Stigma of P0w3rship, by Ed Anderson
Ignites Include:
- How Do You Measure Availability? Performance and Availability and SLMs, oh my! by Warren Turkal
- Feature Feature, by Linda Goldstein
- The Elements of Developer Experience (DX) Design, by Stephen Boak
- Reflections of an Operations Burnout, by Jamie Dahl
- Breaking Brooks’ Law with DevOps, by Jason Yee
- A DevOps Team is a Daft Idea and You Should Feel Bad! by Caedman Oakley
- How Can You Scale It If You Don’t Trust It? by David Blank-Edelman
- From WWW to GGG, by Anne Ahola Ward
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Protocol, by Pete Sclafani
Following the inspiring talks, each afternoon is dedicated to Open Space, where the agenda is dedicated to small-group, participant-led discussions chosen on the fly. This is the chance to dive into specific topics, ask for help, discuss what you’ve done, find like-minds or just be a fly on the wall and take it all in.
If you are in the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley area, get your tickets for the June 24th and 25th DevOpsDays Silicon Valley ($199) before they sell out. We also have a limited number of education tickets for faculty, staff and students ($100). If you live elsewhere, be sure to keep an eye on the main DevOpsDays site for upcoming events. Also, check out DevOpsDays Silicon Valley recorded talks from 2015.
About the Author / Damon Edwards
Damon Edwards is the co-founder and managing partner of the DTO Solutions, a DevOps and automation engineering consultancy whose clients include leading SaaS, e-commerce, gaming, and financial services companies. Damon Edwards is also the co-founder and vice president of SimplifyOps, a provider of support and services for the users of the Rundeck open source project. Damon has spent over 14 years working on both the technology and business ends of IT operations. Damon is also a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps and operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, including co-organizing the DevOps Days conference series, co-hosting the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a co-author of the DevOps Cookbook from IT Revolution Press. -
Devops Days Silicon Valley, you don’t want to miss it
DevOps Days have become a global phenomenon. These are unique, community-organized events that bring together development and operations practitioners for two days of scheduled presentations, open spaces (more about that later), and networking.
How instrumental to the DevOps movement are DevOps Days? “DevOps” actually got its name from the discussions that happened at the first DevOps Days organized by Patrick Debois in 2009 in Ghent, Belgium.
The 6th annual DevOps Days Silicon Valley is happening on November 6th and 7th at the world-famous Computer History Museum. Silicon Valley is the oldest of the US events and was originally the third DevOps Days ever. Starting as a low-key event hosted on the campus of Linked-in in 2010, DevOps Days Silicon Valley has grown into a major event.
True to past reputation, this year’s speaker lineup blends industry favorites, like John Willis, with a unique mix of soon to be well-known speakers who have been selected by the community. The 2015 line-up includes:
- State of the DevOps Union by John Willis
- Anomaly Detection 101 by Elizabeth A. Nichols
- Not Everybody is Kelsey Hightower by Gregory Poirier
- Securing the Heart of Automated Infrastructure by Jamesha Fisher
- Caching Versioned MetaData with Git by Kirsten Hunter
- Flaming Poo and the Human Response by Jason Hand
- DevOps Army of One – How to Survive When You’re the SPoF by Jonathan Disher
- Single Point of Failure… Expert by Sasha Rosenbaum
But that’s not all! Unlike most conferences where the scheduled speakers are the main event, at DevOps Days, facilitating the interaction between attendees is the main event. Both afternoons are dedicated to Open Space, where the agenda is dedicated to small-group participant-lead discussion and the discussion topics are chosen on the fly each day. This is the chance to dive into specific topics, ask for help, discuss what you’ve done, find like-minds, or just be a fly on the wall and take it all in.
The DevOps Days experience is one that is unique among technology events — from the local community driven organizing (each one is totally run by local volunteer organizers) to the 50% of time dedicated to Open Space discussions. The whole point behind DevOps Days is to push those with fresh knowledge and insights, no matter how small, into direct contact with those who can benefit from or add to it.
Of course there is a good bit of fun involved as well. Evening events, ignite talks, and the seemingly cult-like status of the locally designed t-shirts all add to the unique flavor of a DevOps Days event. Austin 2015 was famous for their dueling social themes of Star Wars (May 4th / “May the Force” day) and Cinco de Mayo (complete with large Mariachi band).
If you are in the San Francisco Bay / Silicon Valley area, get your tickets for the November 6th and 7th DevOps Days Silicon Valley ($150) before they sellout. If you live elsewhere, be sure to keep an eye on the main DevOps Days site for upcoming events. You can also watch presentations from past events on the DevOps Days video site.
About the Author/Damon Edwards
Damon Edwards is the co-founder and managing partner of the DTO Solutions, a DevOps and automation engineering consultancy whose clients include leading SaaS, e-commerce, gaming, and financial services companies. Damon Edwards is also the co-founder and vice president of SimplifyOps, a provider of support and services for the users of the Rundeck open source project. Damon has spent over 14 years working on both the technology and business ends of IT operations. Damon is also a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps and operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, including co-organizing the DevOps Days conference series, co-hosting the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a co-author of the upcoming DevOps Cookbook from IT Revolution Press.
