By Mike Kavis  Our guest on the podcast this week is Steve Thair, Co-Founder of DevOpsGuys. We discuss the importance of each step within the CALMS Model for DevOps. Many organizations stress interest in automation, however, culture, measuring improvement and open communication are equally important.... Feb. 17, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,268 |
By Rex Morrow  Bottom line up front, IDC estimates that application downtime costs the collective Fortune 1000 an average of $1.25 to $2.5 billion per year. More granularly, IDC estimates the average hourly cost of an infrastructure failure at $100,000/hr., and puts the hourly cost for the failure o... Feb. 17, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,705 |
By Dynatrace Blog  In Agent version 1.61 we introduced support for the communication protocol Thrift.
Thrift is a cross-platform cross-language communication framework that behaves very much like web services and so therefore automatically show ups in ruxit monitoring.
It’s used by a wide variety p... Feb. 17, 2015 10:00 AM EST Reads: 4,832 |
By Trevor Parsons  Log data provides the most granular view into what is happening across your systems, applications, and end users. Logs can show you where the issues are in real-time, and provide a historical trending view over time. Logs give you the whole picture.
Modern infrastructure constantly g... Feb. 17, 2015 09:15 AM EST Reads: 4,384 |
By AppDynamics Blog  Hang around any IT department (or the AppDynamics offices) and you likely won’t finish a cup of coffee before somebody brings up the cost of downtime or the ascent of DevOps. And that’s a good thing, because these are two topics that are central to the value that IT brings to enterpris... Feb. 17, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 4,636 |
By Sematext Blog  By default, Elasticsearch does a good job of figuring the type of data in each field of your logs. But if you like your logs structured like we do, you probably want more control over how they’re indexed: is time_elapsed an integer or a float? Do you want your tags analyzed so you can ... Feb. 17, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,380 |
By Sanjeev Sharma  IBM InterConnect is next week! It is IBMs premier conference focussed on all aspects of the IT Industry – Cloud, Mobile, Analytics, Internet of Things – you name it! I will of course be there for DevOps.
With literally 100s of sessions dedicated to DevOps, this is the largest DevOps... Feb. 16, 2015 11:22 PM EST Reads: 2,291 |
By Dynatrace Blog  Your #monitoringlife is about to get better!
Next week’s release introduces support for asynchronous I/O in Java through Netty. This enables you to monitor any application that’s built on top of Netty-based technology.
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application fra... Feb. 16, 2015 10:00 PM EST Reads: 2,865 |
By PagerDuty Blog  Monitoring systems can help you better manage your uptime, but even though you may spend a lot of time configuring checks and thresholds to identify problems early, your alerts are only as good as your incident response processes. One of the biggest challenges we’ve seen when talking w... Feb. 16, 2015 07:45 PM EST Reads: 4,693 |
By Dynatrace Blog  Selling your startup’s product using a freemium model can be an enticing option early on, seemingly offering you the best chance to get as many new customers on board using your product as possible. Be aware however that going with a freemium model may distract you from your real goals... Feb. 16, 2015 07:45 PM EST Reads: 3,160 |
By Dynatrace Blog  With “microSOAvices” environments, it seems like everything is different—software development methodologies, continuous deployments, and more. Another difference—one that’s often overlooked—is the importance of application performance monitoring in microSOAvices . This blog post explai... Feb. 16, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,121 |
By Dynatrace Blog  This is aimed to be your one-stop-shop for everything microservices: Interesting posts and interesting people. Microservices is a software architecture approach that propagates small (in terms of responsibility) and independent components instead of monolithic all-in-one components. Se... Feb. 16, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,939 |
By Jason Bloomberg  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile organizations. SOA was one of the hottest topics in information technology (IT) back off... Feb. 16, 2015 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,232 |
By Sematext Blog  New functionality is rolling out in SPM Performance Monitoring!
Watch this space for future posts on Transaction Tracing, Global and App-specific Server Views, Kafka 0.8.2 monitoring and other cool stuff.
For this post, those of you who use HAProxy are in luck as we just adde... Feb. 16, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 4,982 |
By Lori MacVittie  "Programmability in the network" is a wordy yet simpler way to describe the extension of network capabilities through the use of software-defined techniques.
See what I mean?
In any case, whatever you want to call it, there are two distinct methods of leveraging programmability in ... Feb. 15, 2015 09:00 PM EST Reads: 3,105 |
By Lori MacVittie  Microservices, for the uninitiated, are essentially the decomposition of applications into multiple services. This decomposition is often based on functional lines, with related functions being grouped together into a service. While this may sound a like SOA, it really isn't, especiall... Feb. 15, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,915 |
By Skytap Blog  In the spirit of Valentine's Day, here's a little love letter from "the Cloud" that originally appeared in our partner Parasoft's perspective guide to Service Virtualization. But we think it's especially appropriate now. Enjoy! - N.W., Ed.
Hey, I know it’s been a while since we start... Feb. 15, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,082 |
By Jason Bloomberg  How much time does it take between collecting data and taking meaningful action based upon the insight you are able to glean from those data? Depending on the technology, it might take a week to a month or more.
Today, of course, we can do better than a week. As our technology impro... Feb. 15, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 4,938 |
By Stackify Blog  Dev and Ops dated for about four years before they decided to get married. Now they will be living together and sharing so much more; will their relationship last? How will it need to change to support the additional closeness? Read more about their journey and how they are planning to... Feb. 14, 2015 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,883 |
By Tim Hinds  Just as big box stores will see an increase in foot traffic, web outlets will also see more consumer transactions in the days prior. With increased mobile use, it is important to remember to test both your web and mobile application versions, and everything in between. If not, you may ... Feb. 14, 2015 09:30 PM EST Reads: 3,351 |
By PagerDuty Blog  Last year, we launched Single Sign-On (SSO) to make it easier and more secure to manage your PagerDuty users. We’re excited to add Google Apps as an SSO partner alongside Okta, OneLogin, Ping Identity, Active Directory, and more.
Why Use SSO with PagerDuty?
Revoke User Access. Us... Feb. 14, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,976 |
By Sematext Blog  “Solr or Elasticsearch?”…well, at least that is the common question I hear from Sematext’s consulting services clients and prospects. Which one is better, Solr or Elasticsearch? Which one is faster? Which one scales better? Which one can do X, and Y, and Z? Which one is easier to ... Feb. 14, 2015 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,491 |
By Mehdi Daoudi  The annual holiday shopping season, which starts on Thanksgiving weekend and runs through the end of December, is undoubtedly the most crucial time of the year for many eCommerce websites, with sales from this period having a dramatic effect on the year-end bottom line.
Web performanc... Feb. 13, 2015 06:00 PM EST Reads: 5,231 |
By Trevor Parsons  Log data provides the most granular view into what is happening across your systems, applications, and end users. Logs can show you where the issues are in real-time, and provide a historical trending view over time. Logs give you the whole picture.
In the age of Big Data we are taug... Feb. 13, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,756 |
By Mike Kavis  DevOps is gaining serious momentum within enterprises as of late.
The big business driver is the pursuit of agility and improved reliability and quality.
Adopting DevOps can be challenging because it often requires drastic changes in culture, process, and technology.
Those com... Feb. 12, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,472 |
By Mike Kavis  I have seen many DevOps initiatives at various levels of maturity.
One common pattern in successful ones is that they have made progress in automating the build process or the provisioning of environments.
Both of these accomplishments are necessary and worthy of focus, but the e... Feb. 12, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,330 |
By Skytap Blog  In late August, voke, Inc. debuted its “Market Snapshot Report: Virtual and Cloud-Based Labs,” about how companies of all sizes and levels of testing sophistication view, use and benefit from virtual and cloud-based development and testing technologies. The results were pretty amazing―... Feb. 10, 2015 11:45 PM EST Reads: 5,574 |
By David Dossot  I'm super excited to announce RxMule, my latest open source project. RxMule provides reactive extensions for Mule ESB, via a set of specific bindings for RxJava.
For several years, I've been mulling over the idea of creating a DSL for configuring Mule. Indeed, there is a treasure tr... Feb. 10, 2015 06:45 PM EST Reads: 3,821 |
By Andrew Phillips  Evolve or Die: What Agile and Continuous Delivery Mean for Change Management
Change Management was designed to cater for “big bang” software changes with enormous risk, as a means of preventing disaster by exhaustive review. Modern software development has moved on. Continuous Deliver... Feb. 10, 2015 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,179 |
By David H Deans  But is DevOps really a significant trend, or merely a fad? International Data Corporation (IDC) believes that DevOps will be adopted -- in either practice or discipline -- by 80% of Global 1000 organizations by 2019.
IDC released a summary the findings from their "2014 DevOps Benchm... Feb. 10, 2015 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,266 |
By Automic Blog  A focus on automation is now a very common trait for large enterprises today. Faced with rising competition and the unrelenting need to evolve their user experience to match changing customer expectations, enterprises now need to innovate even faster than before.
Automation is part ... Feb. 10, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 5,185 |
By Automic Blog  In between trying to organise my brothers I spent my teenage years involved in a couple of ventures, including building a telephone-based equivalent to ‘match.com'. I spent a great deal of time graphing and projecting the results from the content we posted to try and predict how engagi... Feb. 10, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 4,953 |
By Automic Blog  You need to get to a stage where Dev and Ops are not only working together and understanding what each other are doing, but where IT is a real driver of business performance. Getting to that stage is going to require some heavy lifting in the background, but get it right and you'll be ... Feb. 10, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,374 |
By Tim Hinds  This week's post is taken from a collection of stories and a Q&A session based around the experiences of Brad Stoner, an expert in testing, performance and Virtual Users. Brad is a senior performance engineer at Neotys and was the manager of the Load and Performance Team at H&R Block. ... Feb. 10, 2015 01:00 PM EST Reads: 4,146 |
By Automic Blog  It's an exciting time in technology! The role of IT Ops is undergoing a seismic shift in meeting the ever increasing and pressurized demands from the business they serve. It seems only yesterday that client-server computing was being adopted by business users as a new-world alternative... Feb. 10, 2015 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,460 |
By Automic Blog  How does finance meet this expectation, when running critical processes such as reconciling finances by running month-end, quarter-end or year-end close consumes enormous amounts of resources? What kind of resources do you have tied up each time you close the books? An even scarier tho... Feb. 10, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 3,354 |
By Automic Blog  Certainly it will include the megatrends of cloud, mobility, Big Data and the Internet of Things, which we previously explored in, The Future of Retail and What it Means for CIOs. These are hugely important topics that will disrupt all industries. The winners will be those companies th... Feb. 10, 2015 11:30 AM EST Reads: 4,180 |
By Automic Blog  The example of a huge company might alienate. It's DevOps on a massive scale, with a budget enough to create custom tools and personnel time enough to constantly develop initiatives.
But DevOps can take any form you like, you can introduce it to your organization at any time, and it... Feb. 10, 2015 10:45 AM EST Reads: 3,570 |
By Automic Blog  In our working lives, this kind of work is common. It might be checking a business dashboard here or there, tweaking some copy or making a few phone calls. Not work that we tend to consider glamorous in any way. Yet once again, if we were to stop doing it, our sites and apps would begi... Feb. 10, 2015 10:45 AM EST Reads: 3,404 |
By Mark O'Neill  This week there has been a great discussion between David Berlind of ProgrammableWeb and Kin Lane of APIEvangelist.com, on the topic of categorizing Public and Private APIs. David quotes my ProgrammableWeb piece on Uber and ESPN, which talks about different API strategies, public and p... Feb. 9, 2015 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,256 |