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Lori MacVittie with @DevOpsSummit conference chair Andi Mann before
delivering her session at Cloud Expo New York
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DevOps tends to focus on the relationship between Dev and Ops, putting an
emphasis on the ops and application infrastructure. But that's changing with
microservices architectures.
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In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks,
focused on how microservices are changing the underlying architectures needed
to scale, secure and deliver applications based on highly distributed (micro)
services and why that means an expansion into "the network" for DevOps.
Speaker Bio
Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application
services available across F5's entire product suite. Her role includes
authorship of technical materials and participation in a number ... (more)
"We provide DevOps solutions. We also partner with some key players in the
DevOps space and we use the technology that we partner with to engineer
custom solutions for different organizations," stated Himanshu Chhetri, CTO
of Addteq, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held
June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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Orchestrating Distributed Deployments with Docker and Containers
Thanks to Docker, it becomes very easy to leverage containers to build, ship,
and run any Linux application on any kind of infrastructure. Docker is
particularly helpful for microservice architectures because their successful
implementation relies on a fast, efficient deployment mechanism - which is
precisely one of the features of Docker.
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Microservice architectures are therefore becoming more popular, and are
increasingly seen as an interesting option even for smaller projects, instead
of being reserved to the largest, most complex application stacks. But those
architectures bring a new set of challenges. Breaking down an application
into many smaller components means that each individual piece is simpler and
easier to reason with; but now we need something to tie all thos... (more)
2016 has been an amazing year for Docker and the container industry. We had
3 major releases of Docker engine this year , and tremendous increase in
usage. The community has been following along and contributing amazing Docker
resources to help you learn and get hands-on experience. Here's some of the
top read and viewed content for the year:
Releases
Of course releases are always really popular, particularly when they fit
requests we had from the community. In particular, we had:
Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows Beta and GA release blog posts, and the
video
Docker 1.12 Built-in Orchestration release, and the DockerCon keynote where
we announced it
And the release of the Docker for AWS and Azure beta
Windows Containers
When Microsoft made Windows 2016 generally available, people rushed to
Our release blog to read the news Tutorials to find out how to use Windows
c... (more)
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Leveraging WebRTC for the Internet of Things
Web Real-Time Communication APIs have quickly revolutionized what browsers
are capable of. In addition to video and audio streams, we can now
bi-directionally send arbitrary data over WebRTC's PeerConnection Data
Channels.
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With the advent of Progressive Web Apps and new hardware APIs such as
WebBluetooh and WebUSB, we can finally enable users to stitch together the
Internet of Things directly from their browsers while communicating privately
and securely in a decentralized way.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Luis Montes, founder and CEO of Iced
Development, discussed in some detail how we can build web apps like this
today.
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Speaker Bio
Luis Montes is the founder and CEO of Iced Development. He brings 18 ... (more)
It's been way too long, but the next in the series of IoT
"Build-along-at-home" videos is done. In this edition I will show you the
"Hello World" project for interacting with the IO ports on your Raspberry Pi.
Please click here to watch the video and as always, comments and questions
are appreciated and welcomed!
Watch the video on YouTube here if you prefer!
Also, it is in the video, but my GitHub library of code for all the projects
we will be doing in the video series can be found here:
Git Hub Repository
If you are the type (like me) who just likes to figure stuff out on their
own, I have heavily commented the code for you so you can get started quickly
without the video, but it will help you with the hardware assemblies! Also I
am already working on the next projects, using the moisture sensor (the
original project), and another future project using a sound sen... (more)
From Our Faculty Archives: @DevOpsSummit New York 2015
DevOps at Enterprise: Capital One Shifts Left
In his session at DevOps Summit, Tapabrata Pal, Director of Enterprise
Architecture at Capital One, told a story about how Capital One has embraced
Agile and DevOps Security practices across the Enterprise - driven by
Enterprise Architecture; bringing in Development, Operations and Information
Security organizations together.
Capital Ones DevOpsSec practice is based upon three "pillars" - Shift-Left,
Automate Everything, Dashboard Everything.
Within about three years, from 100% waterfall, Capital One now has 500+ Agile
Teams delivering quality software via Agile and DevOps practices.
Speaker Bio
Tapabrata Pal has 20 years of IT experience in various technology roles
(Developer, Operations Engineer and Architect) in the retail, healthcare and
finance industries. Over... (more)
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How to Transform Your Cloud Validation Strategy from Cloudy to Clear
Security, data privacy, reliability and regulatory compliance are critical
factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house
client hosted environments to a cloud platform.
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In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Vandana Viswanathan, Associate Director at
Cognizant, provided an orientation to the five stages required to implement a
cloud hosted solution validation strategy. The five learning objectives
include:
Step-by-step process for qualifying a cloud provider Developing a validation
strategy to ensure quality and compliance of a cloud solution Developing and
implementing an end-to-end risk based testing approach Ensuring governance
through change management and user access control How to p... (more)
2017 Predictions -- from AI and Machine Learning to Security, Mobile, IT
Employment Landscape and M&A; Activity
Specifically, in 2017 we predict that machine learning will show up in new
and exciting ways. Some people believe that machine learning is the same as
artificial intelligence, but what you are really looking at is this concept
of being able to be more human with your IT infrastructure. At the Microsoft
Build Event last year developers were shown the concept of bots being able to
write code that can interact with you in the communication channel you use -
be it Skype, email, or something different. The ultimate concept is that the
infrastructure IT you use will have the ability to interface with an
intelligent back-end system that benefits you - the everyday user. These
interfaces are now exposed to developers and, in turn, are being embedded
into business ... (more)
"Splunk basically takes machine data and we make it usable, valuable and
accessible for everyone. The way that plays in DevOps is - we need to make
data-driven decisions to delivering applications," explained Andi Mann, Chief
Technology Advocate at Splunk and @DevOpsSummit Conference Chair, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3,
2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2,... (more)
Private Clouds - What Enterprises Should Know Before Implementation
Enterprises are rapidly implementing private clouds for sound business
reasons. Private clouds offer greater agility, enabling companies to quickly
adapt to constantly changing business needs and innovate faster than
competition. Digital and cloud services can be provided to developers at a
pace of innovation that equals any public cloud. Companies can maintain
security and compliance, along with the reliability, availability and
stability of IT systems of large enterprises. Private clouds also provide
better SLAs for new services than most public clouds offer.
While there is a sense of urgency surrounding implementation, enterprises
must still carefully choose the best technology stack to deliver their new
dynamic cloud infrastructure and services. They must carefully develop a
transition plan, un... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  WebRTC is about the data channel as much as about video and audio conferencing. However, basically all commercial WebRTC applications have been built with a focus on audio and video. The handling of “data” has been limited to text chat and file download – all other data sharing seems to end with screensharing. What is holding back a more intensive use of peer-to-peer data? In her session at @ThingsExpo, Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, WebRTC Applications Team Lead at National ICT Australia, looked at differ... Jan. 20, 2017 02:30 AM EST Reads: 5,014 | By Elizabeth White  Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren’t always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools have cloud orchestration plugins that can be leveraged, but there are also cloud-native tools that can dramatically improve the efficiency of managing your application lifecycle.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, ... Jan. 20, 2017 02:15 AM EST Reads: 6,041 | By Liz McMillan Security, data privacy, reliability and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house client hosted environments to a cloud platform. In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Vandana Viswanathan, Associate Director at Cognizant, In this session, will provide an orientation to the five stages required to implement a cloud hosted solution validation strategy. Jan. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 3,619 | By Liz McMillan  The security needs of IoT environments require a strong, proven approach to maintain security, trust and privacy in their ecosystem. Assurance and protection of device identity, secure data encryption and authentication are the key security challenges organizations are trying to address when integrating IoT devices. This holds true for IoT applications in a wide range of industries, for example, healthcare, consumer devices, and manufacturing.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Lancen LaChance, vic... Jan. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 6,571 | By Elizabeth White  With the proliferation of both SQL and NoSQL databases, organizations can now target specific fit-for-purpose database tools for their different application needs regarding scalability, ease of use, ACID support, etc. Platform as a Service offerings make this even easier now, enabling developers to roll out their own database infrastructure in minutes with minimal management overhead. However, this same amount of flexibility also comes with the challenges of picking the right tool, on the right ... Jan. 20, 2017 02:00 AM EST Reads: 5,320 | By Liz McMillan  With all the incredible momentum behind the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, it is easy to forget that not a single CEO wakes up and wonders if “my IoT is broken.” What they wonder is if they are making the right decisions to do all they can to increase revenue, decrease costs, and improve customer experience – effectively the same challenges they have always had in growing their business. The exciting thing about the IoT industry is now these decisions can be better, faster, and smarter. Now ... Jan. 20, 2017 01:45 AM EST Reads: 4,263 | By Elizabeth White "Splunk basically takes machine data and we make it usable, valuable and accessible for everyone. The way that plays in DevOps is - we need to make data-driven decisions to delivering applications," explained Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk and @DevOpsSummit Conference Chair, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Jan. 20, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 2,138 | By Liz McMillan  Security, data privacy, reliability, and regulatory compliance are critical factors when evaluating whether to move business applications from in-house, client-hosted environments to a cloud platform. Quality assurance plays a vital role in ensuring that the appropriate level of risk assessment, verification, and validation takes place to ensure business continuity during the migration to a new cloud platform. Jan. 20, 2017 01:15 AM EST Reads: 1,346 | By Pat Romanski  Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last four digits of his social security number? Assuming you don’t, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ben Klang, Founder & President of Mojo Lingo, discussed the impact of technology on identity. Sho... Jan. 20, 2017 12:45 AM EST Reads: 4,109 | By Pat Romanski  A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights. Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 AM EST Reads: 6,336 | By Elizabeth White In his session at DevOps Summit, Tapabrata Pal, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Capital One, will tell a story about how Capital One has embraced Agile and DevOps Security practices across the Enterprise – driven by Enterprise Architecture; bringing in Development, Operations and Information Security organizations together. Capital Ones DevOpsSec practice is based upon three "pillars" – Shift-Left, Automate Everything, Dashboard Everything. Within about three years, from 100% waterfall, C... Jan. 19, 2017 11:45 PM EST Reads: 9,924 | By Liz McMillan  WebRTC has had a real tough three or four years, and so have those working with it. Only a few short years ago, the development world were excited about WebRTC and proclaiming how awesome it was.
You might have played with the technology a couple of years ago, only to find the extra infrastructure requirements were painful to implement and poorly documented. This probably left a bitter taste in your mouth, especially when things went wrong. Jan. 19, 2017 09:45 PM EST Reads: 7,704 | By Pat Romanski "We provide DevOps solutions. We also partner with some key players in the DevOps space and we use the technology that we partner with to engineer custom solutions for different organizations," stated Himanshu Chhetri, CTO of Addteq, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jan. 19, 2017 09:00 PM EST Reads: 4,574 | By Pat Romanski DevOps tends to focus on the relationship between Dev and Ops, putting an emphasis on the ops and application infrastructure. But that’s changing with microservices architectures. In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks, will focus on how microservices are changing the underlying architectures needed to scale, secure and deliver applications based on highly distributed (micro) services and why that means an expansion into “the network” for DevOps. Jan. 19, 2017 08:45 PM EST Reads: 5,408 | By Liz McMillan  WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus o... Jan. 19, 2017 07:30 PM EST Reads: 4,241 | By Elizabeth White  Web Real-Time Communication APIs have quickly revolutionized what browsers are capable of. In addition to video and audio streams, we can now bi-directionally send arbitrary data over WebRTC's PeerConnection Data Channels. With the advent of Progressive Web Apps and new hardware APIs such as WebBluetooh and WebUSB, we can finally enable users to stitch together the Internet of Things directly from their browsers while communicating privately and securely in a decentralized way. Jan. 19, 2017 05:15 PM EST Reads: 3,121 | By Carmen Gonzalez  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2016 in New York. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, is co-located with 20th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry p... Jan. 19, 2017 04:45 PM EST Reads: 3,776 | By Carmen Gonzalez  @DevOpsSummit at Cloud taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center, New York City, is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long developm... Jan. 19, 2017 04:45 PM EST Reads: 3,501 | By Elizabeth White  "We're bringing out a new application monitoring system to the DevOps space. It manages large enterprise applications that are distributed throughout a node in many enterprises and we manage them as one collective," explained Kevin Barnes, President of eCube Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Jan. 19, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 5,424 | By Liz McMillan  In his General Session at 17th Cloud Expo, Bruce Swann, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Campaign, explored the key ingredients of cross-channel marketing in a digital world. Learn how the Adobe Marketing Cloud can help marketers embrace opportunities for personalized, relevant and real-time customer engagement across offline (direct mail, point of sale, call center) and digital (email, website, SMS, mobile apps, social networks, connected objects). Jan. 19, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 5,446 |
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Online travel and events pioneer lastminute.com leverages Big Data analytics with speed at scale to provide business advantages to online travel services.
We'll explore how lastminute.com manages massive volumes of data to support cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms to allow for speed and automation in the rapidly evolving global online travel research and bookings business.
The insurance industry is well aware that digital transformation is coming, even if some CIOs can’t really say what their individual companies will look like at the end of it all. In a survey of thousands of C-level execs around the world, insurance came in among the top five industries that are most likely to see “moderate to massive” digital disruption within the next 12 months. Only 20 percent of business leaders felt that they had the talent they needed to transform the enterprise, though. Here’s a closer look at what’s coming next in the exciting new era of software-defined insurance comp...
The mad dash to connect virtually every noun to the internet or The Internet of Things, is creating a massive M2M network for all the devices, systems, sensors and actuators to connect & communicate on the Internet. With that, they need a communications protocol to understand each other. One of those is Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT). MQTT is a “subscribe and publish” messaging protocol designed for lightweight machine-to-machine (or IoT) communications. In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I light up how MQTT works.
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It wasn’t that long ago when the first smartphone came out, and we saw the pace of connected devices and associated mobile applications accelerate beyond what anyone could have imagined. Shortly after that, something incredible happened, we reached the point where there were more connected devices than people on the planet. Since then, we’ve used this to measure the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Research predicts there will be as many as 50 to 100, and possibly even 200 billion connected devices by 2020. Some businesses are already set up for IoT, like operators of large networks of ...
With artificial intelligence and big data making prominent waves in industries everywhere, IBM is offering several new cloud services that will pair with their BlueMix service. It will offer better organization, smoother data generation, and accelerated migration to the cloud. Ultimately, businesses can experience greater effectiveness in every department. 
It's 3 am in California, and you are still awake trying to sort through a release process that has been delayed by several hours. The deployment to the main application cluster took several extra hours due to an unanticipated problem with the servers, and now everyone is waiting on the lead database administrator to call into a conference bridge so you can all move on to Step 53.5b of the deployment. Your production deployments always seem to be problematic and this one might be the worst you've experienced yet.
Everyone's Tired: Bad Decisions AboundBy "everyone," I mean the 30 QA testers and...
‘Tis the season for technology predictions in 2017. This one goes in-depth on the job skills that will be most important in the year ahead. There's nothing too extreme (we're not actually hiring robots yet) but mobile and big data jobs, two trends a few years back, are at the bottom of this top ten list. Programmers and help desk employees are in highest demand. Any and all of these job roles will likely be involved with cloud apps and services in some way.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Catchpoint, a leading digital experience intelligence company, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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I’m told that it has been 21 years since Scrum became public when Jeff Sutherland and I presented it at an Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) workshop in Austin, TX, in October of 1995. Time sure does fly. Things mature. I’m still in the same building and at the same company where I first formulated Scrum.[1] Initially nobody knew of Scrum, yet it is now an open source body of knowledge translated into more than 30 languages[2] People use Scrum worldwide for developing software and other uses I never anticipated[3].
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The 20th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Containers, Microservices and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
Synthetic monitoring is hardly a new technology. It’s been around almost as long as the commercial World Wide Web has. But the importance of monitoring the performance and availability of a web application by simulating users’ interactions with that application, from around the globe, has never been more important. We’ve seen prominent vendors in the broad APM space add this technology with new development or partnerships just in the last 18 months.
We’re starting to see predictions about what’s going to be hot in enterprise technology in 2017. Cloud (yet again), Blockchain, Big Data / Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) are all among the top of the list. However, it was Krish Subrumanian’s humorous tweet that started me thinking about what will be the single most important contribution from the enterprise technology community in 2016. While all the aforementioned technologies will certainly see a lot of interest and growth, they’re all enabled by a Web platform.
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