DevOpsWire

DevOps is the word on technologists’ lips right now – everyone is trying to define it, demystify it and solve the challenges that the traditional demarcation of the territories between the development and operations teams create. These challenges are becoming ever more prevalent and severe as application and…

Ted Dziuba has a great blog entry: "DevOps is a Poorly Executed Scam. The post has been around a while, but I just noticed it and wanted to comment. " The " scam " he points out is that unlike Agile, nobody has put out the book, performed and (as the author of that book or common speaker on the circuit) cashed in with massive consulting rates. I'm sure someone is hard at work in doing that. Ted highlights the folks…

In reviewing Patrick Debois' great new slides on DevOps for DevOps down under, I noticed that he says that if you have a DevOps team you are doing it wrong. He later hedges with the idea that a team to help transition to DevOps is a good thing.

I find myself working with teams that support DevOps efforts in their enterprises pretty regularly, so this was thought provoking. How I take it, is…

The DevOps movement which has been doing hard work to break down silos, improve deployment quality and even push towards continuous production deployments has focused on improved cooperation and communication between developers and the system admins (operations) who deploy releases out into production.

Recently, I've been wondering, "Where's QA and test?" The DevOps community has put a…