DevOps

Dealing With Burnout In Open Source
What it is, why you should care, and how you can help prevent burnout. Burnout is something you don’t expect to happen to you—until it does. The technology industry is one of the worst offenders; over 60% of industry professionals report they’ve experienced burnout. Sixty percent! Chances are, you or someone you know has dealt with it. …

VMworld 2021 Returns In October, Bringing Together The Best In Multi-Cloud
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced that VMworld 2021 will be a global online event, taking place October 5 – 7, 2021. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here. This year’s theme, “Imagine That,” encapsulates the breadth of opportunities that VMworld 2021 offers attendees to learn and connect. Attendees will learn about innovative new solutions, hear …

Rackspace Technology Optimizes Zeotap Network Infrastructure by Implementing DevOps And Automating Internal Processes To Accelerate Product Delivery By 40%
Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, today announced it has worked with Zeotap, a leading customer intelligence platform, to optimize its network infrastructure by implementing DevOps and automated internal processes to accelerate product delivery by 40% and reduce its operations load by 80%. Zeotap, a customer intelligence platform (CIP) helps brands …

Top 5 Programming Languages For DevOps
We round up five of the top programming languages for DevOps and a few handy learning resources for each. I’ve been focused on infrastructure for the majority of my career, and the specific technical skills required have shifted over time. In this article, I’ll lay out five of the top programming languages for DevOps, and the …

Why Path-to-Production Analysis Is A Must For Software Development Teams
One of the key metrics IT leaders care about is the total time it takes for a release to go from development to being live in production. The metric used to measure that duration is called the “release lead time.” It can range from days to months, depending on factors such as team agility, enterprise …

A DevOps Guide To Documentation
Bring your documentation writing into the DevOps lifecycle. DevOps is challenging technical documentation norms like at no other time in IT history. From automation to increased delivery velocity to dismantling the waterfall software development lifecycle model, these all spell the need for making dramatic changes to business and the philosophy of technical documentation. Here are …

GitLab Inc. Brings Future Of Work Leaders Together For REMOTE by GitLab Event
GitLab Inc., a company that offers a complete DevOps Platform, announced its half-day remote work symposium, REMOTE by GitLab, taking place virtually on June 29. REMOTE by GitLab offers attendees the opportunity to learn how to create and sustain scalable remote practices within their teams and organizations from remote leaders across tech verticals. These experts, …

The Operational Analytics Loop: From Raw Data to Models to Apps, and Back Again
Over the next decade or so, we’ll see an incredible transformation in how companies collect, process, transform and use data. Though it’s tired to trot out Marc Andreessen’s “software will eat the world” quote, I have always believed in the corollary: “Software practices will eat the business.” This is starting with data practices. To understand …

Are We There Yet? Thoughts On Assessing An SRE Team’s Maturity
One facet of our work as Customer Reliability Engineers—Google Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) tapped to help Google Cloud customers develop that practice in their own organizations—is advising operations or SRE teams to improve their operational maturity. We’ve noticed a recurring question cropping up across many of these discussions, usually phrased along the lines of “is what …

How To Become A Cloud Developer: Requirements, Salary, And Courses
Cloud computing used to be considered a buzzword a few years ago, but as of this year, over 88% of organizations that responded to the O’Reilly Cloud Adoption survey reported using some kind of cloud computing services — from databases, analytics, servers, and even software that is delivered via the Internet. By 2025, 80% of businesses are …