2020 Vision—What Does the Future Hold for DevOps?
01/15/20 2019 was busy year for DevOps as measured by the events held on the topic. Whether it be DevOps days around the globe, DockerCon, DevOps Enterprise Summits, KubeCon, or Cl…
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Ruairi McBride
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5 Ansible Playbook Steps to Success
01/08/20 There are many configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tools available, ranging from open-source tools to automation engines. Ansible is one such software …
Don’t Let Technical Debt Be Your Company’s Subprime Loan: Mapping Your Way to Better Software
12/16/19 I was in the pub recently for the local quiz and afterwards, I got talking to someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After a few minutes, we started discussing a certain app h…
IT—More Than a Fancy Calculator: Moving From Cost Center to Business Value
11/22/19 It’s time to stop seeing IT as just a black hole to throw money towards and instead, give back to the business. Often, the lack of proper measurement and standardization a…
I Feel the Need for Speed—Evolving From a Loris to a Peregrine. How to Get Started With DevOps
11/07/19 In the IT industry, you’ll hear “I’ll sell you a DevOps; how much is it worth?” But the joke’s on you because you can’t sell (or buy) DevOps, as it is, in fact, an intangi…
I Have My Plates Spinning, Now Where’s My Crystal Ball? What We Can Expect from Hybrid Cloud
04/03/19 In my final post in this series, I want to talk about some things that we have not touched on already and how it relates to what we’ve already discussed. First, let’s take…
Getting the On-Prem Part of Hybrid Cloud Right
03/20/19 Whether it’s using public cloud infrastructure or changing operations to leverage containers and microservices, we all know not everything can or even should move to the p…
21st Century Application Development
03/07/19 In my previous post on digital transformation, I looked at examining the business processes you run and how to position a new digital strategy within your organization. In…
What Is Digital Transformation? And Why Do You Need a Strategy?
02/25/19 Companies are trying to figure out a way to adapt to today’s digital world. How can they change to find new customers, increase customer satisfaction, and gain repeat busi…
To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
02/11/19 There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you finally make th…
Why Move to the Cloud? Benefits of the Ever-Onward Advancement of Hybrid IT
01/29/19 Why Cloud? I remember being asked this exact question during a technical presentation I got drafted into very last minute with a well-known, high street brand. During the …