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11 entries filed under DevOps principles in the Zkybase devops blog.
At my new job we’re reigniting an effort to move to continuous delivery for our software releases. We figured that we could learn a thing or two from Facebook, so we reached out to, Facebook’s first release engineer and…
Read entryOne important issue that comes up when undertaking a configuration management effort is how to design “the schema” for configuration management data. Obviously there’s no one size fits all answer here. But there are a…
Read entryMost of the time, when organizations pursue a continuous delivery capability, they’re doing that in pursuit of increased agility. They want to be able to release software at will, with as little delay between the…
Read entryWhere large development teams and codebases are involved, code modularity is a key enabler for continuous delivery. At a high level this shouldn’t be too terribly surprising—it’s easier to move a larger number of…
Read entryOne lesson I’ve learned in building CMDBs is to cleanly separate the UI from the web service API. In the Java world, for example, this means that the API should be its own package (e.g., WAR file). The UI should be…
Read entryEstablishing a devops platform in an enterprise environment is challenging because there are a bunch of groups who own different pieces of the puzzle, and they will generally have different ideas on how to move forward…
Read entrySometimes it’s easy to fall into myopic ways of seeing the world. Let’s talk about my favorite recent example, which is the so called “cowboy developer”. The cowboy developer, the thinking goes, is an organizational…
Read entryUntil fairly recently, I thought of devops mostly in terms of various sorts of automation: build, test, deployment, operations and SDLC. And while it’s true that automation is key to devops, I think it’s secondary to…
Read entryThis could be brogramming. It's not devops. Devops is a big deal nowadays, and there’s a variety of ways people describe it and its benefits. Here we’ll move past the fluffy characterization involving developers and…
Read entryHi all, Willie here. Happy New Year! In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data, I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM data approaches that I and others have attempted in the past. Most of…
Read entryHi all, Willie here. This time we’re going to step away from the keyboard and get architectural. But no ivory towers here. In my next two blog posts, I’m going to give you something that will get you out of lots of…
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