This article, following on from the Culture and Methods piece we published last week, provides a summary of how we currently see the operations space, which for us is mainly DevOps and cloud.

Eduardo Piairo on why databases and applications should coexist in the same deployment pipeline and goes through different scenarios and steps to achieve it. 15

Consumer-driven contracts enable our teams at Rightmove to work independently, and be confident that their changes won’t break other services when deploying their own.

Mikael Hakansson looks at five critical areas that require focus to ensure IoT success: business ownership, team skillsets, device onboarding, ability to handle change, and comprehensive testing.

InfoQ interviews Eberhard Wolff, author of Continuous Delivery: A Practical Guide, for an overview of his work on CD and some of the major concepts behind successful CD adoption in organizations.

InfoQ encourages practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length papers.

InfoQ recently sat down with Charity Majors, CEO of honeycomb.io and co-author of “Database Reliability Engineering” (with Laine Campbell), and discussed the topics of observability and monitoring.

InfoQ recently sat down with Mike Julian, author of Practical Monitoring , and discussed the role and implementation of effective monitoring within software development and the business.

We know what "cloud-native apps" are, but what about the data services they depend on? In this article, we look at ten characteristics of cloud-native data and the implications of each. 2

How do you take all very different kinds of applications and make them ready for cloud? This article by Pete Johnson looks at cloud-ready criteria and strategies. 4