DevOps Foundation

Please understand, dear Reader, that I write this with positive intention. I'm not here to impugn any person or organization. I want to talk about some decisions and their natural consequences. These consequences seem negative to me and after reading this post you may agree. When an established company faced a technology innovation, they often create a new team to adopt and exploit that innovation. During my career, I've seen this pattern play out with microcomputers, client/server architecture, open systems, web development, agile development, cloud architecture, NoSQL, and DevOps.

The mission of a DevOps team is to eliminate itself.

There’s no doubt the 94-year-old The Walt Disney Company has embraced technology as the key factor in driving its growth

The field of DevOps is now in its 11th year and still relatively new. It was not long ago that the job title "DevOps engineer" did not exist. But like many things in technology, radical change can happen in flash. Within the past few years and 53 percent of respondents to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report saying they had recently hired or plan to hire someone for that title. Read on to learn why this relatively new DevOps job title is here to stay!

Learn about the top 9 skills that a successful DevOps engineer has that allows them to bridge the divide between siloed development and operations teams.

Don't go chasing waterfalls

The 7 key skills that Ops pros need for DevOps

DevOps requires change in IT culture. But when recruiting DevOps talent, what are the specific skills and traits to look for? This article offers...

DevOps skills are in high demand. So what are the keys to successful DevOps recruiting? Here's six tips to finding the right people for your team.

Most devopsdays events are a combination of curated talks and self organized conversations. The self organized content is known as “open spaces”. Open Spaces give attendees the opportunity to talk about anything they’d like. A person might suggest a topic they want to learn about, or one they feel like they can help others with. The topics range widely, from highly technical, to pure culture, to board games for networking.

Target introduces an innovative agile training ground for its employees

Information security must adapt to development processes and tools, not the other way around.

Hubot is your friendly robot sidekick. Install him in your company to dramatically improve employee efficiency.

Automation is the fuel that drives DevOps. Automating routine, repeatable tasks is one of the defining characteristics of DevOps culture. As artificial

Here's how to use your DevOps data to streamline your operation and learn from your mistakes.

The path to modernizing legacy applications is paved with containers and microservices, as well as new tooling and development processes. The trick...

AI, machine learning, and deep learning are terms that are often used interchangeably. But they are not the same things.

Just over a year ago, Pearson, who published Continuous Delivery, approached Martin Fowler and I with a proposal to do a series of videos on the topic of continuous delivery. We filmed a bunch of material for these videos, but then both Martin and then I dropped out of the project due to other commitments.

Communities of practice bring together people who share areas of interest or concerns. They have specific applications in agile organisations: scaling agile development and allowing individuals to connect with others who share similar concerns. Communities of practice bring people together to regain the benefits of regular contact while keeping the value of multidisciplinary agile teams.

To succeed in DevOps you need the right people with the right skills in the right roles. Here are the seven must-have DevOps roles for a successful...

Resistance to change is natural when employees are asked, well, to change. You can reduce employee resistance to change by taking these actions.

Collaborative leaders are organizationally focused facilitators rather than siloed directors. Learn about this leadership style and how to lead collaboratively.

Learn the best ways to boost team collaboration and understand which collaboration software tools fit your business needs.

Learn how collaborative leadership can break down silos in the workplace, boosting productivity and increasing team engagement.

Change is an inevitable part and truth of life, and there is no running away from it. If change is well planned and formulated, it can produce positive results but even in spite of planning, change is hard to incorporate, accept and appreciate. This article shall throw light on the Kubler-Ross Change Curve (or also Kubler-Ross Model) that is the most reliable tool to understand change and the stages associated with it. The Kubler-Ross Change Curve can be effectively used by business leaders across the world to help their workforce adapt to change and move towards success. In this article,

Discover the most in-demand skills, job titles, trends and more in the fourth annual 2022 Upskilling IT Report.

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