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Who's in the CI/CD space, and what is it?

I’m starting to put together some research into CI/CD. That might even be the wrong name: I’m more interested in starting to catalog different parts (and vendors/projects) in The DevOps Pipeline. Looking at Jenkins and crew seems like a good start. Inspired by @krishnan’s ever excellent Docker ecosystem mind-map, I thought I’d start one for CI/CD. What would you add and correct about it? http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/public_map_shell/487228559/ci-cd?width=600&height=400&z=0.4 There’s also an excellent DZone overview of the space (with a positive example of native advertising if you’re into over-thinking on that kind of thing), and I like this question from the most recent Eclipse Community survey (2014):
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company.

From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy

This is a management point I’ve been thinking about over the years: it turns out well rested employees are better long-term. I don’t think most (American) management believes that, at all.

The subtle point to make explicit here goes the other way: employees are work-gluttons if you let them be. They “over-eat” and can’t help themselves. Part of management’s job, then, is to help employees here.

Both management and employee are at fault, and there’s lots of work to be done.

The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps

A good looking list from the press release: Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the major expense of all airlines — fuel — permitting pilots to view flight schedules, flight plans, and crew manifests ahead of time, report issues in-flight to ground crews, and make more informed decisions about discretionary fuel. Passenger+ (Travel and Transportation) empowers flight crews to offer an unmatched level of personalized services to passengers in-flight – including special offers, re-booking, and baggage information.
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Cloud is developers

I often brow-beat people into the notion that “cloud is all about developers.” That’s hyperbolic - there’s actually a lot more to cloud than just supporting custom written software…and yet, that seems like the bulk of it. By “developers” I mean you’re running a SaaS (you’re a company who sells the SaaS, like an “ISV” would sell packaged software) or you’re a company that uses cloud-based applications to help run their business (think of online banking, or Uber, or mobile loyalty apps like the Starbuck’s app…or internal applications just used to help run a company).
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Good journalism takes money. If you are made to pay, it's to serve you better and please you

The advertisements will be a little bigger, too, and my advice is for you not to complain, but to engage with our sponsors, who pay the bills around this joint and who make our strategic, tactical, and technical material possible. I’m a fan of everything TPM writes, he’s excellent and his coverage is always deep and timely. The Four Hundred/IT Jungle is about the best place for keeping up with IBM news.
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They dubbed it Slack and released it in August 2013. Since then, Slack has grown swiftly: more than 300,000 people use it each day, and the company has more than 73,000 paid users. The company has also raised a lot of venture capital funding—about $163 million since the company switched its focus to Slack.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532606/three-questions-with-slacks-ceo/

Jimminy-fuck-crickets that’s a of lot of cash to raise. People do talk about Slack a lot. Any of you knuckleheads out there use it?