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Q&A with Eveline Oerhlich on Building an Effective DevOps Culture
The DevOps Institute recently released their latest report entitled "Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report". The report found that automation and security remain vital to business success. A focus on building the human skills of DevOps was also identified as companies with the best learning cultures were most likely to succeed.
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Containers Are Contagious and Often Misused
Let’s get something straight right right from the start— this article is not to argue that containers are bad; containers are certainly one of many great options developers have in their hands today. This article is also not scoped at the pros/cons of containers; my intent is just to present the developers and dev leads with some considerations around containers.
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Implementing Microservicilities with Quarkus and MicroProfile
Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how Quarkus and MicroProfile may be used to implement these concerns.
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Can We Trust the Cloud Not to Fail?
I will start with the theory behind failure detection, and then review a couple of real-world examples of how the mechanism works in a real cloud - on Azure. Even though this article includes real-world applications of failure detection within Azure, the same notions could also apply to GCP, AWS, or any other distributed system.
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Continuous Learning as a Tool for Adaptation
The fifth and capstone article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores key themes with a special view on the practicality of organizational resilience. It also provides practical guidance to engineering leadership and recommendations on how to create this investment.
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Key Metrics to Track and Drive Your Agile Devops Maturity
To promote DevOps and Agile process improvement, a meaningful set of metrics should be tracked. In this article we will discuss which metrics are appropriate based on the stage of the culture change. Coupling these metrics with strong support from leadership will ensure the best improvements in team measures such as cycle time, deployment frequency, and software quality.
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Cloud Native and Kubernetes Observability: Expert Panel
InfoQ recently caught up with Observability experts to discuss several topics including fundamental questions about what Observability really entails, the misconceptions and challenges that the users are facing, the open standards that are influencing the industry in general and why there is more interest in this area off late.
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Why DevOps Culture Matters: Leaders Talk About the Keys to Making Change Successful and Sustainable
A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. The panel stressed the importance of an aligned culture around the DevOps adoption. This includes setting strategic organizational goals, cultivating psychological safety, and treating your culture as a product.
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Site Reliability Engineering Experiences at Instana
With the popularity of distributed architectures, distributed databases, containers and container orchestrators, an approach that emphasizes automation and a culture of collaboration is a natural fit for modern day operations. Site Reliability Engineering takes engineering practices that have been established and proven in software engineering and applies them to the field of operations.
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Indestructible Storage in the Cloud with Apache Bookkeeper
At Salesforce, we required a storage system that could work with two kinds of streams, one stream for write-ahead logs and one for data. But we have competing requirements from both of the streams. Being the pioneers in cloud computing, we also required our storage system to be cloud-aware as the requirements of availability and durability are ever more increasing.
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A Reference Architecture for Fine-Grained Access Management on the Cloud
In this article, we will define a new reference architecture for cloud-native companies that are looking for a simplified access management solution for their cloud resources, from SSH hosts, databases, data warehouses, to message pipelines and cloud storage endpoints.
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Nine Trends That Are Influencing the Adoption of Devops and Devsecops in 2021
While it’s important to recognize the value of both DevOps and DevSecOps, they are not one-size-fits-all, monolithic, permanent paradigms. In this article, we’ll take a look at that ongoing development – isolating and explaining nine key trends that are driving and changing the adoption of DevOps, DevSecOps, and a number of related approaches to development and management.