Tag: automation
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Link: Progressive Delivery, a History…. Condensed
“On the business side, Progressive Delivery involves two core changes in the delivery model: Release progression – progressively increasing the number of users that are able to see (and are impacted by) new features (e.g. Stage 1: visible to developers only; Stage 2: visible to developers and beta users; Stage 3: visible to more users;…
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Link: “Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset eschew control of their production systems. I encourage the use of a CMDB, but again, it’s live, automatically updated, and software-based. It’s ca
“Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset eschew control of their production systems. I encourage the use of a CMDB, but again, it’s live, automatically updated, and software-based. It’s called a Chef server. Similarly, ITIL places a strong emphasis on configuration. Teams I have built do the…
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Link: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process
“AI-powered image recognition couldhelp speed up the claims process for damages related to, for example, windshields. Windshield claims are common and easy to resolve but still often require claims adjusters to go out in the field and make assessments, Mr. Guerra said.” Original source: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process
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Link: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary
“Part of me likes being a programmer—because we’re the last job. I can see a future—if we don’t manage to blow ourselves up first—in the robot paradise where people are either robot engineers or programmers, or I guess do marketing. Or maybe bake pies, or smell things? Those are essentially the hardest things for a…
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Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
How Netflix thinks about standardized platforms and tools, plus their adaptation of DevOps and SRE. “Full cycle developers apply engineering discipline to all areas of the life cycle. They evaluate problems from a developer perspective and ask questions like “how can I automate what is needed to operate this system?” and “what self-service tool will…
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Link: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure
A lengthy profile of Puppet. Original source: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure
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Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
Gartner “predicted that, by 2020, 75% of organisations will experience visible business disruptions because of I&O skills gaps – a big jump from less than 20% in 2016.” Original source: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
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Link: Putting the transformation into digital
“Too many people are claiming that there is digital transformation happening – when really it is just automating legacy processes. It’s improvement for sure. Less time for customers, less money for providers – but it’s not ‘transformation’, a word possibly even more abused than innovation.” Original source: Putting the transformation into digital
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Link: DevOps success is about culture, culture culture
As ever, just getting a build pipeline in place is the big, important first step that most need to make: “Continuous integration remains a top priority for development teams with 63 percent of respondents saying they plan to invest in CI tools in 2018. Nearly half of all respondents (47 percent) strongly agree that practicing…
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Link: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation – Keith Rodwell
Original source: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation – Keith Rodwell
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Link: Cisco jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with its new Container Platform
“The company said the Container Platform takes care of the “setup, orchestration, authentication, monitoring, networking, load balancing and optimization” of containers. Deployment of containers is also simplified through automation, as the platform takes care of the most repetitive tasks in this process. It can also be extended to other important aspects of IT, such as…
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Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
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Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation
“In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure resource, namely VMs, container clusters, virtual storage and networks, configuration and deployment and Concourse for the development pipeline. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently patch all applications using the PaaS environment. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently…
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Automation at Goldman, The Computer takes out four people
Today, nearly 45 percent of trading is done electronically, according to Coalition, a U.K. firm that tracks the industry. Pay: Average compensation for staff in sales, trading, and research at the 12 largest global investment banks, of which Goldman is one, is $500,000 in salary and bonus, according to Coalition. Seventy-five percent of Wall Street…
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The Practice and Future of Release Engineering
Some metrics and practices used for releasing, and QA’ing. The Practice and Future of Release Engineering
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StackStorm automates and monitors a core DevOps asset: the software delivery pipeline – 451 Report
I’ve been speaking with StackStorm on and off for a few months now. I finally got around to writing up a report on them, available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take: StackStorm fancies itself an automation company, and with experience from Opalis Software, it’s little wonder. What’s interesting about its approach is that it’s automating…
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BMC BladeLogic integrating with Chef
So we’ve built some first-generation integration between Chef and BladeLogic 8.5, which we’re demoing in our booth for the first time here at ChefConf. You can use BladeLogic to call Chef cookbooks and recipes on a push/scheduled basis, and you can reference BladeLogic compliance policies from inside your Chef cookbooks. It’s all very early and…
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