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The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase
system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are
faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can
change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and
by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce
implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This
paper provides a logical overview of the Microservices Reference Architecture
that highlights various sub systems needed to support Microservices
deployment and execution.
Introduction
Switch over to Microservices is an hour of need in web application
development and delivery and is crucial for the success of Enterprises today.
Of late, enterprises are adopting technologies like analytics, mobility,
social media, IoT... (more)
Fifteen Metrics for DevOps Success
By Matt Watson
How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need some help measuring
just how well it is going, we have prepared a list of some key DevOps metrics
to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over
time.
Define what DevOps means to your organization
The word DevOps means different things to different people. Some say it a
culture and every vendor in the industry claims that their tools help with
DevOps. Depending on how you define DevOps, some of these metrics may matter
more or less to you and your team.
I define DevOps as everything that relates to deploying and monitoring your
applications. In many ways, this bleeds over to site reliability engineering.
At Stackify, we don't even have an operations team to collaborate with. Our
developers deploy directly to the cloud and we operate... (more)
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Implement Advanced Scheduling Techniques in Kubernetes
Is advanced scheduling in Kubernetes achievable?
Yes, however, how do you properly accommodate every real-life scenario that a
Kubernetes user might encounter?
How do you leverage advanced scheduling techniques to shape and describe each
scenario in easy-to-use rules and configurations?
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Oleg Chunikhin, CTO at
Kublr, answered these questions and demonstrated techniques for implementing
advanced scheduling. For example, using spot instances and cost-effective
resources on AWS, coupled with the ability to deliver a minimum set of
functionalities that cover the majority of needs - without configuration
complexity.
You'll get a run-down of the pitfalls and things to keep in mind f... (more)
DevSecOps - a trend around transformation in process, people and technology -
is about breaking down silos and waste along the software development
lifecycle and using agile methodologies, automation and insights to help get
apps to market faster. This leads to higher quality apps, greater trust in
organizations, less organizational friction, and ultimately a five-star
customer experience.
These apps are the new competitive currency in this digital economy and
they're powered by data. Without data or data-based interactions, these apps
would be of little value to the user and would be just static one-dimensional
bulletin boards. Imagine a banking app, for example, that does not give you
data about your account or let you take some action. How much value is this
bringing to the user?
IT's dirty little secret
Most companies, with the exception of recently born-in-the-... (more)
Planning for 2018? Put These Three DevOps Items at the Top of Your Digital
To-Do List
For many of us laboring in the fields of digital transformation, 2017 was a
year of high-intensity work and high-reward achievement. So we're looking
forward to a little breather over the end-of-year holiday season.
But we're going to have to get right back on the Continuous Delivery bullet
train in 2018. Markets move too fast and customer expectations elevate too
precipitously for businesses to rest on their laurels.
Here's a DevOps "to-do list" for 2018 that should be priorities for anyone
who wants to make sure their organization is running at the front of the
digital pack through next year - and beyond.
#1: Shift digital security left
Digital security has become a boardroom-level issue - and it's only going to
grow in importance as headline-worthy breaches alienate customers and ... (more)
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Digital Transformation Requires Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation
Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software
world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their
organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that
threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core
competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an
essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the connection
between building better software and business agility has been a tenuous one
at best. But now that Agile is maturing and Digital Transformation is driving
change across enterprises large and small, companies are realizing that their
best bet for ... (more)
"CA has been doing a lot of things in the area of DevOps. Now we have a
complete set of tool sets in order to enable customers to go all the way from
planning to development to testing down to release into the operations,"
explained Aruna Ravichandran, Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy
at CA Technologies, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 21st
Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center
in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successfu... (more)
"Grape Up leverages Cloud Native technologies and helps companies build
software using microservices, and work the DevOps agile way. We've been doing
digital innovation for the last 12 years," explained Daniel Heckman, of Grape
Up in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2,
2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on
being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable... (more)
Continuous Monitoring for Your Hybrid Cloud Systems Now Available on AWS
Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring
continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments,
containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web
Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalability
and clear pay-as-you-go pricing.
Although native to AWS, it also supports assessment and remediation of
virtual or container instances within Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
(GCP), or on-premise. By drawing on a comprehensive library of curated
industry guidelines, control frameworks, and best practices, Cavirin promises
to keep a wary eye on your hybrid cloud security and help you harden it
against real and potential threats.
Cloud chaos
Most enterprises have embraced the cloud trend and hybrid cloud e... (more)
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No
longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this
global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent
storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is
important.
Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing
today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated
enterprise storage. Key marketplace players were EMC (before the Dell
acquisition), NetApp, IBM, HP (before they became HPE) and Hitachi. Company
employees managed information technology resources (compute, storage,
network) and companies tightly controlled their data in facilities they
managed. Data security, legal and regulatory concerns, for the most part,
were very localized. The data itself was highly structur... (more)
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Making Data-Driven Decisions for Better DevOps Outcomes
DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration.
But in real terms, how do you:
Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective
decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning
and improvement?
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With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at
@DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at
Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close
their feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
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You will learn:
What are ‘known good prac... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories By Aruna Ravichandran For many of us laboring in the fields of digital transformation, 2017 was a year of high-intensity work and high-reward achievement. So we’re looking forward to a little breather over the end-of-year holiday season.
But we’re going to have to get right back on the Continuous Delivery bullet train in 2018. Markets move too fast and customer expectations elevate too precipitously for businesses to rest on their laurels.
Here’s a DevOps “to-do list” for 2018 that should be priorities for anyone w... Jan. 10, 2018 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,396 | By Stackify Blog How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need some help measuring just how well it is going, we have prepared a list of some key DevOps metrics to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over time.
The word DevOps means different things to different people. Some say it a culture and every vendor in the industry claims that their tools help with DevOps. Depending on how you define DevOps, some of these metrics may matter more or less to you and your team. Jan. 10, 2018 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,724 | By Dalibor Siroky  If testing environments are constantly unavailable and affected by outages, release timelines will be affected. You can use three metrics to measure stability events for specific environments and plan around events that will affect your critical path to release. Jan. 6, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 925 | By Kevin Jackson  In a recent post, titled “10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace:
Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system.
94% of SMBs have experienced security benefits in the cloud that they didn’t have with their on-premises service Dec. 30, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,076 | By PagerDuty Blog  DevOps failure is a touchy subject with some, because DevOps is typically perceived as a way to avoid failure. As a result, when you fail in a DevOps practice, the situation can seem almost hopeless. However, just as a fail-fast business approach, or the “fail and adjust sooner” methodology of Agile often proves, DevOps failures are actually a step in the right direction. They’re the first step toward learning from failures and turning your DevOps practice into one that will lead you toward even... Dec. 30, 2017 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,143 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Dec. 30, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,375 | By Gopala Krishna Behara; Sridhar Chalasani; Tirumala Khandrika The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This paper provides a logical overview of the Mi... Dec. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,277 | By Shelly Palmer  While walking around the office I happened upon a relatively new employee dragging emails from his inbox into folders. I asked why and was told, “I’m just answering emails and getting stuff off my desk.” An empty inbox may be emotionally satisfying to look at, but in practice, you should never do it. Here’s why.
I recently wrote a piece arguing that from a mathematical perspective, Messy Desks Are Perfectly Optimized. While it validated the genius of my friends with messy desks, it also gener... Dec. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,447 | By Elizabeth White  The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure environment takes collaboration, patience and persistence. Building CICD in the cloud requires rigorous ar... Dec. 29, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,300 | By Kevin Jackson The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.
Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated enterprise storage. Key marketplace play... Dec. 29, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,618 | By Madhavan Krishnan, VP, Cloud Solutions, Virtusa  The cloud revolution in enterprises has very clearly crossed the phase of proof-of-concepts into a truly mainstream adoption. One of most popular enterprise-wide initiatives currently going on are “cloud migration” programs of some kind or another. Finding business value for these programs is not hard to fathom – they include hyperelasticity in infrastructure consumption, subscription based models, and agility derived from rapid speed of deployment of applications. These factors will continue to... Dec. 29, 2017 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,358 | By Derek Weeks  Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT Disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual, looked at Liberty Mutual's transformation to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps. For a large, heavily regulated industry, this task ... Dec. 28, 2017 10:45 AM EST Reads: 1,774 | By Jason Bloomberg  Following a tradition dating back to 2002 at ZapThink and continuing at Intellyx since 2014, it’s time for Intellyx’s annual predictions for the coming year.
If you’re a long-time fan, you know we have a twist to the typical annual prediction post: we actually critique our predictions from the previous year.
To make things even more interesting, Charlie and I switch off, judging the other’s predictions. And now that he’s been with Intellyx for more than a year, this Cortex represents my first ... Dec. 28, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,635 | By Elizabeth White "Grape Up leverages Cloud Native technologies and helps companies build software using microservices, and work the DevOps agile way. We've been doing digital innovation for the last 12 years," explained Daniel Heckman, of Grape Up in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 28, 2017 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,426 | By SmartBear Blog  The Toyota Production System, a world-renowned production system is based on the "complete elimination of all waste". The "Toyota Way", grounded on continuous improvement dates to the 1860s. The methodology is widely proven to be successful yet there are still industries within and tangential to manufacturing struggling to adopt its core principles:
Jidoka: a process should stop when an issue is identified prevents releasing defective products Dec. 27, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,184 | By Don MacVittie  We seem to run this cycle with every new technology that comes along. A good idea with practical applications is born, then both marketers and over-excited users start to declare it is the solution for all or our problems. Compliments of Gartner, we know it generally as “The Hype Cycle”, but each iteration is a little different.
2018’s flavor will be serverless computing, and by 2018, I mean starting now, but going most of next year, you’ll be sick of it. We are already seeing people write such... Dec. 27, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,314 | By Mehdi Daoudi  Defining the term ‘monitoring’ is a difficult task considering the performance space has evolved significantly over the years. Lately, there has been a shift in the monitoring world, sparking a healthy debate regarding the definition and purpose of monitoring, through which a new term has emerged: observability. Some of that debate can be found in blogs by Charity Majors and Cindy Sridharan. Dec. 27, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 905 | By XebiaLabs Blog  It’s “time to move on from DevOps and continuous delivery.”
This was the provocative title of a recent article in ZDNet, in which Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google Cloud Platform, suggested that “software shops should have put these concepts into action years ago.”
Reading articles like this or listening to talks at most DevOps conferences might make you think that we’re entering a post-DevOps world. But vast numbers of organizations still struggle to start and drive transfo... Dec. 22, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,258 | By Stackify Blog  Let's do a visualization exercise. Imagine it's December 31, 2018, and you're ringing in the New Year with your friends and family. You think back on everything that you accomplished in the last year: your company's revenue is through the roof thanks to the success of your product, and you were promoted to Lead Developer. 2019 is poised to be an even bigger year for your company because you have the tools and insight to scale as quickly as demand requires. You're a happy human, and it's not just... Dec. 21, 2017 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,629 | By Liz McMillan  "Opsani helps the enterprise adopt containers, help them move their infrastructure into this modern world of DevOps, accelerate the delivery of new features into production, and really get them going on the container path," explained Ross Schibler, CEO of Opsani, and Peter Nickolov, CTO of Opsani, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 21, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,334 |
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