Tag: devops
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Backstage, Java, and remote work – three more things to watch in 2024
Here are the other three things I’m going to watch in 2024. By “watch,” I suppose I mean “I really hope something interesting and definitive happens here instead of just a continuation of what was going on in 2023.” I put the first one (our old k-friend) in yesterday’s episode. Backstage – in 2022 and…
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Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? – 2024 Watch List
I don’t like annual predictions. Thankfully, no one’s asked me to do a big post about them this year, but usually I’m asked to do something formal. I always end up just predicting the same thing – predictions turn a lot more into hopes and dreams. I do like flagging things to pay attention to,…
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What is a Kubernetes “distro,” and why are there so many of them?
Here’s the second little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Torsten says that last he counted, there were over 140…
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The Tech Marketer’s Problem
Thought Leadership Hidden in Plain Sight There’s a variation of The Plumber’s Problem that I suffer from: The Tech Marketer’s Problem. When I see a new idea in tech bubbling up and I can smell the marketing strategy behind it (which, with my background, I usually can), I stop enjoying the, you know, story. This…
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What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
The infrastructure drives the app architecture A cloud native applications is typically designed as a bunch of little components that coordinate with each other over a network. They may use events instead, and while that isn’t the same as point-to-point network communications, it follows the same idea: you have a bunch of indepedent-ish bundles of…
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Second Wave DevOps – The tools keep changing: “Let’s face facts: our implementation is what’s letting us down. What worked for John and Paul in 2009 is, in broad strokes, exactly what we have been asking every single DevOps practitioner to do since. We’ve replaced all the individual tools in the system multiple times (look…
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DevOps Patterns for Private Equity: Technology organization strategies for high performing software investments – Wait, wut? As someone in the Software Defined Slack quipped, this should really be sponsored by Thomo Bravo, Silverlake, Vista, etc.
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The next generation of developer productivity – O’Reilly – As ever nowadays, developer productivity is the top problem. Also, full CI/CD (or just good pipeline automation) is still hovering around 50% as it has been for a decade or more: “Over half of the respondents (51%) said that their organizations are using self-service deployment pipelines…
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How’s DevOps been going?
Has DevOps reached its goals from way back in the late 2000’s: deploying multiple times a day and having developers work closely with operations people? Adam Jacob brought up this question in two interviews recently, on my podcast, interviewed on my podcast by Matt Ray this week (which I [cough] haven’t, well actually listened to…
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What is platform engineering? – “Here are the key pillars of platform engineering, as I see it: Self-service; Platform operations; Platform as product.” And: “at CWT we created a series of DevOps services like a CI/CD pipeline, self-service performance testing, an image service for pre-approved, hardened images (consumable via source templates or the built images…
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DevOps vs. Platform Engineering
Midjourney: a Soviet style poster with a software developer standing triumpantly on-top of a pile of software developers robots. Names are magic I don’t really know what I think about the idea and movement of “platform engineering.” It definitely has the feel of a market and category now. I reference it all the time, as…
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Improving developer productivity with Platform as a Product, from PlatformCon 2023 – Great talk from the Cloud Foundry team at Mercedes-Benz on how they’ve been doing platform engineering. 300 apps, 1,500 platform services, and by my count, about 7 years of running it.
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7 Core Elements of an Internal Developer Platform – The reinvention of PaaS continues // The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps. To be fair, this time there’s tighter integration with CI/CD and ops doing some territory grabbing into SDLC.
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📹 Kubernetes is getting better for developers, especially as they manage it less themselves
{{< youtube GJoFKzNKYIw >}} This is the first of a few videos and blog posts I have on our annual Kubernetes survey, which you should check out if you’re into that kind of thing.
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As developers manage kubernetes less, their productivity goes up, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey
Developers using kubernetes are seeing a steady growth in benefits as represented by shortening release cycles. 60% of respondents say that their developers are more productive with kubernetes. That’s according to the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. Check out the full survey for the full findings, including more on the operational benefits and challenges,…
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The Silo Unifier’s Paradox
If no one owns the problem, no one can fix it – The Silo Unifier’s Paradox Solving the IT silo problem is challenging as there’s no one person responsible for the entire process. Each solo is owned by different groups like software developers, operations, security, project managers, and more. These groups often have competing goals,…
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Shifting to new metrics for platform engineering
Suggested theme song for this episode: download share download share Embed this tracksmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native HTML audio or have the Flash plugin installed. Changing Infrastructure People’s Metrics…
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They were just wearing Levi’s because of what it symbolizes
Not much time for original content today: a Link Gourmand, my own links, the wastebook, and quick chair. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, March, 2023 For several years, I took a lot of pictures of thrown out chairs in Amsterdam. Here’s a small selection of early ones – I’ll have to upload…
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