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Everyone is trying to define DevOps. Whether it's a three page white paper or an annotated diagram/model, this is perilous territory as the most vibrant thing in the DevOps movement is its lack of a singular definition (i.e., a litmus test ).
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DevOps practitioners are among the highest paid IT professionals today, and the market demand for them is growing rapidly. That's the conclusion of research from information technology (IT) automation provider Puppet Labs, which released its DevOps Salary Report (registration required) yesterday.
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I don't know how many more years I'll be able to keep it up -- every year I try to make predictions that are unique, bold and a little bit against the grain. Last year I predicted the rise of lefties, two years ago I went with big data finding an Andy Warhol all of its own. This
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Smaller providers are tired of big players monopolizing the cloud — and now they are banding together to do something about it. Intent on balancing out a market they claim is unfairly dominated by large public cloud providers, the newly formed Open Cloud Alliance (OCA) claims it has a strategy to
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The cloud space continues to evolve at an astounding pace. As recently as 12 months ago, we were still educating many clients about what they could achieve with cloud computing. We tirelessly explained the differences and benefits of options such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
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Velocity 2014 was nice -- I really enjoyed it. But DevOps Enterprise Summit ? It was the bomb! It could have been the “new-ness.” It could have been the smaller crowd. It could have been the tighter focus on enterprise concerns.
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A small eruption emerged on Twitter in response to my article that covered the Adaptive Path acquisition. At the root of it was a conversation about the differences and overlaps between user experience (UX) and service design.
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“The times they are a changin’.” For anyone who’s not a fan of rock music history that quote may not resonate, but it comes from a song that Bob Dylan wrote in the 1960s.
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One hundred and four. That's the number to beat. I use the number 104 because that's the number of keys on a physical keyboard. You know the keyboards I'm talking about.
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"Why should the business pay for that? How will that impact top line revenue?" Although it may have been a while since you asked or have been asked either of these questions at your place of business, I bet you are familiar with them — and just as familiar with
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Steve Souders, a web performance engineer at Google, was a bit disheartened when he made his closing remarks at the recent Velocity conference in New York City. "It's been seven years. I thought we'd be done by now," he said.
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We have all felt the pain of the schism. In corporate America, it is everywhere. You go to a meeting, it is there. In the offices when the doors are closed, it is there. Even in the cafeteria and in the elevator it is there.
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