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DevOps

Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes

Dynamic IT professional with a proven track record in optimizing production processes and analyzing outages in complex systems handling millions of TPS. The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the importance of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices. Passionate about elevating operational excellence through strategic reviews and effective process enhancements.

Tejas Ghadge
on Sep 11, 2024
Culture & Methods

How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps

Companies are now looking to grow and more effectively manage DevOps with platform engineering and site reliability engineering roles. No one has these roles perfectly carved out right now — there’s just too much to do and not enough people to do it — but knowing where these three disciplines do and don’t overlap will help organizations evolve and take advantage when they are ready.

Narayanan Raghavan
on Feb 06, 2024
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making - Software Delivery Performance Indicators at Different Granularities

Optimizing a software delivery organization is not a straightforward process standardized in the software industry. Getting the organization to analyze the data and act on it is a difficult undertaking. This article presents insights into how a socio-technical framework for optimizing a software delivery organization has been set up and brought to the point of regular use.

Vladyslav Ukis
on May 23, 2023
DevOps

AIOps: Site Reliability Engineering at Scale

AIOps can simplify and streamline processes which can reduce the mental burden on employees while improving communication and collaboration between departments.

Dominick Blue
on May 02, 2023
Culture & Methods

Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption

SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation. It provides a roadmap of small culture changes accumulating over time, and shows how the leadership facilitated the necessary culture changes

Vladyslav Ukis
on Apr 04, 2023
Cloud

Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) as a Technique to Raise Productivity in Teams

In essence, EaaS addresses developer productivity issues by providing settings that make it simple for developers to test and mimic real-world uses of their system. This article discusses the benefits of EaaS.

Oghenevwede Emeni
on Feb 17, 2023
DevOps

The Hows and Whys of Effective Production-Readiness Reviews

At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents.

Nora Jones
on Sep 15, 2022
Culture & Methods

Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Aug 23, 2022
Culture & Methods

Establishing a Scalable SRE Infrastructure Using Standardization and Short Feedback Loops

This article explores an SRE implementation where the operations team builds and runs the SRE infrastructure and the development teams build and run the services leveraging the SRE infrastructure. This SRE solution enables the software delivery organization to scale the number of services in operation without linearly scaling the number of people required to operate the services.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Jun 27, 2022
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022

This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2022, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.

Steef-Jan Wiggers Matt Campbell Lena Hall Renato Losio Daniel Bryant Feynman Zhou Mostafa Radwan Shaaron A Alvares
on Jun 21, 2022
Mobile

InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022

This report summarizes the views of the InfoQ editorial team and of several practitioners from the software industry about emerging trends in a number of areas that we collectively label the mobile and IoT space. This is a rather heterogeneous space comprising devices and gadgets from smartphones to smart watches, from IoT appliances to smart glasses, voice-driven assistants, and so on.

Sergio De Simone Abhijith Krishnappa Tridib Bolar
on Feb 21, 2022
Culture & Methods

Improving Speed and Stability of Software Delivery Simultaneously at Siemens Healthineers

In this article, we focus on the software delivery process at Siemens Healthineers Digital Health. The process is subject to strict regulations valid in the medical industry. We show our journey of transforming the process towards speed and stability. Both measures improved at the same time during the transformation, confirming research from the “Accelerate” book.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Aug 24, 2021