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DevOps at Seamless: The Why, How, and What

The key thing about DevOps is understanding under which circumstances it should be introduced to your organization. Organizations that adopt DevOps go through a change that affects both processes and culture. This article focuses on why DevOps is needed, what concepts and values should support it, as well as how we implemented it at Seamless, what results we obtained and the challenges we faced.

Tomek Pająk
on Nov 29, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Agendashift with Mike Burrows

Agendashift is a values-based Kanban approach to organizational transformation, covering delivery, change and leadership. An interview with Mike Burrows on how Kanban and Agendashift can strengthen each other, making changes stick in organizations, the depth of Kanban survey, the value of Kanban practices, end-to-end process views, leadership, and doing sustainable change with Kanban.

Ben Linders
on Nov 09, 2015
DevOps

The Five Qualities of Application Delivery Done Right

This article explains the goals of proper application delivery using immutable infrastructure: automated, flexible, scalable, secure and transparent; and how to take gradual steps toward those goals.

Kevin Fishner
on Oct 19, 2015
DevOps

Build Quality In Book Review and Interview

Book review and interview with Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton, authors of "Build Quality In", a collection of experience reports (including their own) on Continuous Delivery and DevOps initiatives, by authors ranging from in-house technical and process leaders to external consultants implementing technical and organizational improvements.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 30, 2015
DevOps

Infrastructure Code Reviews

As infrastructure becomes code, reviewing (and testing) provides the confidence necessary for refactoring and fixing systems. Reviews also help spread consistent best practices throughout an organization and are applicable where testing might require too much scaffolding.

Chris Burroughs
on Sep 24, 2015
Q&A with Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky and Barry O’Reilly on Lean Enterprise

The "Lean Enterprise" book authors discuss how traditional management practices fail to balance innovation and product exploitation as they require very different sets of capabilities.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 20, 2015
The Practice and Future of Release Engineering

This article features highlights from interviews with release engineers on the state of the practice and challenges in release engineering space. The interview questions cover topics like release engineering metrics, continuous delivery's benefits and limitations.

Tamara Marshall-Keim Christian Bird Foutse Khomh Bram Adams Kim Moir Stephany Bellomo
on Jul 19, 2015
Book Review and Q&A on Agile IT Organization Design

Sriram Narayan’s book – Agile IT Organization Design, provides a basis for reviewing and reshaping the IT organization to equip it better for the digital age. The book covers how structural, political, operational, and cultural facets of the organization design influence overall IT agility.

Savita Pahuja
on Jul 17, 2015
Lessons Learned Adopting Microservices at Gilt, Hailo and nearForm

This article contains an extensive interview on the microservices adoption process, the technologies used, the benefits and difficulties of implementing microservices, with representatives from Gilt, Hailo and nearForm.

Abel Avram
on Jul 07, 2015
Q&A with Paul Swartout on the Evolution of Continuous Delivery and DevOps

InfoQ reached out to "Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide" book author Paul Swartout in order to find out what have been the major changes in this space (and in the book) in the last couple of years. Swartout shares his view on cultural challenges to DevOps adoption and how the rise of mobile and microservices impacts Continuous Delivery approaches, among other topics.

Manuel Pais
on Jun 26, 2015
Q&A with Benjamin Wootton on DevOps Landscape in 2015

InfoQ talked with Benjamin Wootton, DevOps consultant, to get an update on his view of the DevOps landscape in 2015. Wootton shares his experience, low hanging fruit to kickstart DevOps transformations, how to leverage monitoring, cloud and containers. Also how the market is lacking engineers with the required attitude and skill set for DevOps.

Manuel Pais
on May 30, 2015
Using Experiments and Data to Innovate and Build Products Customers Actually Use

An interview with Jan Bosch, professor of software engineering and director of the Software Center at Chalmers University of Technology, about the benefits that companies can get from increasing delivery speed, the next steps that organisations can take after adopting Agile and DevOps, using experiments to innovate, practices for experimentation and how organisations can become more innovative.

Ben Linders
on May 28, 2015

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