The software development lifecycle is shrinking. It used to be that new versions of source code would be released every month or so. But now,...

By now, every IT professional in a software development organization has heard of DevOps. Though the definition can vary greatly depending upon the source, DevOps...

Over the past few years, cloud computing has enabled agile, dynamic management of software and hardware components, on-demand. Nowadays, we can define our desired infrastructure...

System configuration, testing, release management, service desk management, security, network upkeep and incident management have always been core responsibilities for IT operations and security teams....

Modern software development and IT operations depend on transparency, speed and collaboration more than any technical tool. While writing new code, building new features and...

Holidays always strike me with an equal amount of panic, leisure and fun. We casually talk about the ways that holidays impact our work but...

In this day and age, the overarching expectation for software development teams is that they develop and release quality products rapidly and frequently. In general,...

Simplicity is dead – accept it. I know it feels wrong, but the only area you can simplify is the customer’s experience when they interact...

In some ways, modern application monitoring has become a paradox. On one hand, today’s applications and the environments that host them spew out more data...

Software engineers and IT professionals know the pains of being on-call during the holidays all too well. While many parents are woken up at the...