True Story. Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in
which they delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200/month to
15,000/month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28% while
reducing costs by 30%. But, how did they do it?
During the All Day DevOps conference, over 13,500 practitioners from around
the world to learn from their peers in the industry. Barry Snyder, Senior
Manager of DevOps at Fannie Mae, was one of 57 practitioners who shared his
real world journey through his enterprise transformation.
Choke Point or Checkpoint. Eddie Webb, Director of Software Delivery
Platforms at Liberty Mutual, also shared his organization's journey into
DevOps. Eddie described how they evolved their organization, tool chain,
and processes to go from 20% of builds being deployed to 60% over the past 18
months. He described how they document... (more)
Wow, if you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it
DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott
Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number of important topics including
internal war games, culture hacking, gamification of Rugged DevOps and
starting as a small team. There are 100 gold nuggets in this conversation for
novices and experts alike.
Derek: I have some of the Intuit DevSecOps team here with me today. We're
going to talk to them a little bit about Rugged DevOps and how things work
over at Intuit. Let's start with some introdu... (more)
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let's keep them in nature.
They don't belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where
every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary
security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT
infrastructure, in the DevOps realm, they are gradually becoming ancient
history.
At the recent All Day DevOps conference, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull),
with Blank and head of the OWASP Norway chapter, discussed the benefits of
immutable infrastructure practices within serverless architectures. Erl... (more)
At the recent DEVNEXUS conference in Atlanta, Sonatype's Mark Miller
(@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for the latest
segment in our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences
at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools like
Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet, and Datadog.
Watch the full interview with Ian Buchanan - Atlassian Developer Advocate
Ian Buchanan: I'm Ian Buchanan. I'm a Developer Partisan at Atlassian which
is developer advocacy for our developer tools.
Mark Miller: Ian, most people know Atlassian from solution... (more)
DevSecOps: Catching Fire
In DevOps, those who can’t keep pace are often left behind. For many people
leading DevOps initiatives over the past few years, this led to a painful
choice of leaving security by the wayside. Many Waterfall-native approaches
to security could not keep pace with their new DevOps-native requirements and
they were shunned.
Gene Kim and Josh Corman first sounded the death knell for security as we
knew it during their 2012 RSA presentation, Security Is Dead. Long Live
DevOps: IT at Ludicrous Speed. However, as with so many things in our world,
necessity is ... (more)
In 2015, Derek Weeks led the largest and most comprehensive analysis of software supply chain practices to date across 160,000 development organizations. He is a huge advocate of applying proven supply chain management principles into DevOps practices to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and sustain long-lasting competitive advantages.
Nick Basinger
Alex Moskov
Jonathan Alonso
Lisa Juley
Pramod Pawar
Zakia Bouachraoui
Terry Ray
