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From Silos to DevOps – Going Cloud Native | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DevOps

Although the conversation about DevOps typically focuses mostly on the tool sets and platforms – Puppet, Docker, Microservices et al, the more profoundly challenging aspects for most large organizations will be in the organizational transformation is proposed as part of the ‘Cloud Native‘ mix. The Inverse Conway Maneuver As is described in the complimentary ebook from Pivotal – Migrating to Cloud Native Application Architectures: DevOps sets out to break down the artificial boundaries that develop profusely in large, hierarchical organizations, and instead self-organize around a ‘delivery pipeline’ of the work required to deploy code faster and with fewer errors. In short a ‘Lean’ system, one with zero process waste. They reference the intriguing ‘Inverse Conway Manever‘ to describe this transformation from a silo-based organization to one optimized for DevOps. Org... (more)

Angular 2 Workshop at @ThingsExpo | #IoT #Angular #TypeScript #JavaScript

SYS-CON Events announced today the How to Create Angular 2 Clients for the Cloud Workshop, being held June 7, 2016, in conjunction with 18th Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Register for 'Angular 2 Cloud Workshop' Here! Angular 2 is a complete re-write of the popular framework AngularJS. Programming in Angular 2 is greatly simplified. Now it's a component-based well-performing framework. The immersive one-day workshop led by Yakov Fain, a Java Champion and a co-founder of the IT consultancy Farata Systems and the product company SuranceBay, will pr... (more)

Cloud APM: It’s the Economics, Stupid | @CloudExpo @CAinc #APM #DevOps

As the race for the presidency heats up, IT leaders would do well to recall the famous catchphrase from Bill Clinton's successful 1992 campaign against George H. W. Bush: "It's the economy, stupid." That catchphrase is important, because IT economics are important. Especially when it comes to cloud. Application performance management (APM) for the cloud may turn out to be as much about those economics as it is about customer experience. Consistently great experiences - but at what price? Consistently great digital customer experiences are central to success in today's swipe-to-sho... (more)

APIs: A Costly Blind Spot | @CloudExpo #Cloud #API #APM #IoT #DevOps

APIs: A Costly Blind Spot for Your Application by Priyanka Tiwari APIs have taken the world by storm in recent years. The use of APIs has gone beyond just traditional "software" companies, to companies and organizations across industries using APIs to share information and power their applications. According to SmartBear's State of API 2016 Report: More than half of API providers began developing APIs within the last five years. 1 in 5 API providers began developing APIs in the last two years alone. The increased adoption of APIs brings with it some exciting opportunities. For som... (more)

Monitoring Your APIs | @DevOpsSummit #API #DevOps #Microservices

Why You Should Be Monitoring Your APIs by Priyanka Tiwari Gone are the days when SOAP, REST and microservices were buzzwords that did not apply to you. Gone are also the days when monolithic applications were built by organizations end-to-end. The availability of specialized components and services from different organizations and the access to these components through RESTful services has resulted in a major inflexion point with APIs becoming the mechanism for data interchange and systems to interact. Most organizations are familiar with the benefits of developing APIs that can ... (more)

Composability and Integration | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices

Episode #26: The Future of IT Is Composability and Integration Our guest on the podcast this week is JP Morgenthal, Global Solutions Executive at CSC. We discuss the architecture of microservices and how to overcome the challenge of making different tools work together. We learn about the importance of hiring engineers who can compose services into an integrated system. Check out this episode! ... (more)

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By Tim Hinds
Whether you’re a beginner simply looking to get started or a seasoned vet brushing up on your subject knowledge, this post will serve as a definitive guide on how to perform effective load testing on a web or mobile application. Load Testing: A performance-related testing process that places simulated demand on software, web or mobile applications in order to measure responses and systems' behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions.
Mar. 21, 2016 09:45 AM EDT  Reads: 881
By XebiaLabs Blog
If you’re not employing DevOps tools and methods, chances are your software delivery deployment practices look something like this: It takes you weeks, sometimes months to deploy new software to production. You test for bugs and try to pinpoint why your deployment only works in the development environment and not the production one. Because your development and operational teams are separated, there is a lack of clear communication and instruction between the two, leading to a wide range of i...
Mar. 21, 2016 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 591
By Cloud Best Practices Network
Although the conversation about DevOps typically focuses mostly on the tool sets and platforms – Puppet, Docker, Microservices et al, the more profoundly challenging aspects for most large organizations will be in the organizational transformation is proposed as part of the ‘Cloud Native‘ mix. As is described in the complimentary ebook from Pivotal – Migrating to Cloud Native Application Architectures: DevOps sets out to break down the artificial boundaries that develop profusely in large, hie...
Mar. 21, 2016 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 217
By Mike Kavis
Our guest on the podcast this week is JP Morgenthal, Global Solutions Executive at CSC. We discuss the architecture of microservices and how to overcome the challenge of making different tools work together. We learn about the importance of hiring engineers who can compose services into an integrated system.
Mar. 21, 2016 07:15 AM EDT  Reads: 955
By SmartBear Blog
APIs have taken the world by storm in recent years. The use of APIs has gone beyond just traditional "software" companies, to companies and organizations across industries using APIs to share information and power their applications. For some organizations, APIs are the biggest revenue drivers. For example, Salesforce generates nearly 50% of annual revenue through APIs. In other cases, APIs can increase a business's footprint and initiate collaboration. Netflix, for example, reported over 5 bi...
Mar. 21, 2016 02:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,021
By Aruna Ravichandran
As the race for the presidency heats up, IT leaders would do well to recall the famous catchphrase from Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 campaign against George H. W. Bush: “It’s the economy, stupid.” That catchphrase is important, because IT economics are important. Especially when it comes to cloud. Application performance management (APM) for the cloud may turn out to be as much about those economics as it is about customer experience.
Mar. 21, 2016 01:30 AM EDT  Reads: 844
By SmartBear Blog
Gone are the days when SOAP, REST and microservices were buzzwords that did not apply to you. Gone are also the days when monolithic applications were built by organizations end-end. The availability of specialized components and services from different organizations and the access to these components through RESTful services has resulted in a major inflexion point with APIs becoming the mechanism for data interchange and systems to interact. Most organizations are familiar with the benefits ...
Mar. 21, 2016 01:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,291
By Victoria Livschitz
DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley was a terrific event for us. The Qubell booth was crowded on all three days. We ran demos every 30 minutes with folks lining up to get a seat and usually standing around. It was great to meet and talk to over 500 people! My keynote was well received and so was Stan's joint presentation with RingCentral on Devops for BigData. I also participated in two Power Panels – ‘Women in Technology’ and ‘Why DevOps Is Even More Important than You Think,’ both ...
Mar. 20, 2016 04:00 PM EDT  Reads: 11,615
By XebiaLabs Blog
The rise of microservices has enabled teams to branch out from developing for innately complicated, monolithic applications and work with small, flexible and comparatively simple components. But when these components (numbering anywhere from the hundreds to the thousands for one application) need to work together, traditional tools and release processes can be lacking. Organizations need to adopt new delivery models, release strategies and tooling that can handle this new multitude of services ...
Mar. 20, 2016 03:30 PM EDT  Reads: 901
By Liz McMillan
Intacct and LBMC Technology Solutions have announced that University Clinical Health (UCH) chose Intacct to shorten its monthly close process and improve the organization’s cash flow. UCH selected Intacct for its new ERP system in favor of NetSuite due to Intacct’s flexibility, ease-of-use, and significant cost savings. University Clinical Health is a nonprofit organization that offers quality primary and specialty healthcare from over 100 renowned physicians who also serve on the faculty at th...
Mar. 20, 2016 09:45 AM EDT  Reads: 651
By Liz McMillan
Avi Networks has launched an integrated solution with Mesosphere to help enterprises build and deploy microservices applications at scale using Docker Containers. Unlike monolithic applications for which static, appliance-based load balancers were sufficient, dynamic microservices architectures require complete application services that match their agility. The Avi Vantage Platform works with the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) and Docker containers to provide a dynamic service f...
Mar. 20, 2016 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 626
By Pat Romanski
New Relic, Inc. has announced a set of new features across the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud that offer IT operations teams increased visibility, and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance problems quickly. The new features further IT operations teams’ ability to leverage data and analytics, as well as drive collaboration and a common, shared understanding between teams. Software teams are under pressure to resolve performance issues quickly and improve availability, as the comple...
Mar. 20, 2016 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 796
By Craig Lowell
If your website receives heavy traffic and you are hosted across multiple infrastructures across the world or you are using multiple CDNs, then you ought to use a DNS Load Balancer to reroute traffic for better performance. While there are some large companies who create their own DNS load balancing system, which is complex and tedious to implement and manage, some companies make life easier by opting for ready-made solutions such as those from Cedexis, Dyn, NSONE, Rage4 etc Most of the above ...
Mar. 19, 2016 02:30 PM EDT  Reads: 875
By Xenia von Wedel
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of healthcare, agriculture, and high-tech polymer materials. Founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863, Bayer has 118,900 employees and had sales of €42.2 billion ($45.9 billion US) in fiscal year 2014. Its capital expenditures amounted to €2.5 billion and R&D; expenses to €3.6 billion.
Mar. 18, 2016 05:00 PM EDT  Reads: 848
By Pat Romanski
As the world moves towards more DevOps and Microservices, application deployment to the cloud ought to become a lot simpler. The Microservices architecture, which is the basis of many new age distributed systems such as OpenStack and NetFlix, is at the heart of Cloud Foundry – a complete developer-oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is IaaS agnostic and supports vCloud, OpenStack and AWS.
Mar. 18, 2016 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 827
By Anders Wallgren
While DevOps has moved into the mainstream and is no longer a novel idea, taking the plunge towards DevOps still make some enterprise organizations and IT leaders weary. This week’s Top 10 news should quell some fears, as there was no shortage of best practices and tips for a smooth transition to DevOps in the enterprise and how to sell the practice to any team. Continue reading for more on cultural transformations, tips for microservices and the emerging trend – DevSecOps.
Mar. 18, 2016 03:45 AM EDT  Reads: 574
By Gary Kaiser
Why a discussion around Application Performance Analytics? There’s a lot of buzz in this industry around the topic of performance analytics – an informal subset of IT operations analytics (ITOA) – as a solution to the growing mountains of monitoring data and the increasing complexity of application and network architectures. At the same time, there exist many purpose-built performance analysis solutions. Many are domain-centric – server monitoring and network monitoring, for example – while som...
Mar. 18, 2016 03:15 AM EDT  Reads: 788
By PagerDuty Blog
No matter how resiliently you build your application, incidents will happen. And as your application grows, the complexity of troubleshooting and resolving an incident also grows. With prior virtualization technologies, this might involve a virtualization admin, a network admin, a storage admin, and an applications developer to sort through the issue, put a resolution in place, and determine a root cause. With microservices architectures and Docker containers, this complexity is taken to the nex...
Mar. 18, 2016 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,041
By SOASTA Blog
Alexandre Dumas’s classic portrayal of a young man seeking to join the elite guard of his day seems an unlikely source of inspiration for a blog post about digital performance management, but there’s something about groups of three — each balancing the others’ strengths and weaknesses — that makes a great team. And, while most operators today might view digital systems monitoring in terms of two players — synthetic and real users — there is a third member of the team that turns performance moni...
Mar. 15, 2016 12:30 PM EDT  Reads: 462
By Kevin Benedict
The evolution of JavaScript and HTML 5 to support a genuine component based framework (Web Components) with the necessary tools to deliver something close to a native experience including genuine realtime networking (UDP using WebRTC). HTML5 is evolving to offer built in templating support, the ability to watch objects (which will speed up Angular) and Web Components (which offer Angular Directives). The native level support will offer a massive performance boost to frameworks having to fake all...
Mar. 15, 2016 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,556
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