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How to Avoid Tool Chaos to Succeed in DevOps

In Integration by Johnathan McGowan

As enterprises continue to add more tools to handle specialized portions of software delivery, an alignment has begun to place more emphasis on data than tools. This alignment realizes the value of data — not just processes or applications. The result: a real need to leverage insights into the practices and better optimize them. Multiple technologies, processes, applications, and systems need to be updated and maintained on a regular basis to keep this fragile ecosystem functioning properly. What does “DevOps success” really mean, and why do we need to avoid tool chaos? Of course in a multi-team enterprise environment it …

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DevOps Goes Mainstream: Top Trends for 2018

In DevOps by Soumya Menon

DevOps gets a jumpstart in 2018 with predictions of an early mainstream adoption and implementation. Analysts, IT leaders, and DevOps experts declared 2017 as ‘the year of DevOps’ and have predicted some major trends for DevOps in 2018. After digging deep and picking the brains of a few DevOps experts, we believe that DevOps will slowly enter the turf of mainstream adoption but it comes with barriers that may continue to exist through 2020. We can only be prepared for what’s coming! Several analysts’ surveys and reports over the past two years have indicated that at least 40-50% of companies have successfully …

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Five Tips to Kick Some Butt in Your DevOps Journey

In DevOps by Soumya Menon

“The key to following the continuous delivery path is to continually question your own assumptions about what’s possible.” — Jeff Sussna The benefits of DevOps are clear — high-performance, faster deployment, and quicker response to crisis. Businesses today are either getting started with DevOps or have it in pockets but find it difficult to scale up to an enterprise-wide implementation. As DevOps has emerged as the new ALM methodology and a generation beyond agile, we look at some of the most practical and basic things that enterprises need to do to successfully make the DevOps adoption. In a previous post, we pointed …