Software defined networking (SDN) has seen a lot of attention lately. Networking giants like Cisco and Juniper Networks have been actively scouting for emerging tech around SDN. VMware’s acquisition of Nicira has been a defining moment in the SDN industry.

The air transport industry, till recently was popular for its legacy systems. Cobbled together pieces with single point failure, exposing risks of system wide outages. Cancellations, delays and stranded passengers had become occasional, if not frequent . Though the outages have somewhat reduced –...

Organizations all over the world are looking towards digital transformation to streamline infrastructure, increase efficiency and reduce overheads. With the advent of cloud and virtualisation, tradition server side architecture has undergone a huge revamp. Virtualisation is the age old practice of running applications on...

Many organization beginning their DevOps journey create a separate DevOps team to start thinking about implementing practices to achieve efficiency promised with DevOps. Thinking about DevOps adoption and breaking it into steps which are to be followed, are influenced from the term itself ‘DevOps’,...

A lot of companies today talk about digital transformation and how embracing it can help them stay ahead of the curve. The term digital transformation, is closely related to two more terms thrown around like nobody’s business – Cloud and DevOps. A lot has...

Cloud computing is the new kid on the block that everyone is talking about. Introduced as a conceptual ‘Intergalactic Computer Network’ in the 1960s, it was only in the late 1990s that the technology became mainstream. The past decade has seen a lot of...

DevOps today is known as a process that helps software driven organizations speed up their delivery timelines. From a niche development process, a decade ago, to a full blown robust practice today, DevOps has been adopted by over 25% of the Global 2000 companies...

Anyone who has worked in the software industry will tell you that writing code is just one part of the development process. The code, so written, needs to go through a host of checks and measures before being given a thumb up for deployment....

As software owners we want to make our system of work safer by creating fast, frequent, high-quality information flow throughout our value stream, which includes feedback/feedforward loops. While problems are in their nascency, remediation is smaller, cheaper, and easier to fix.

It’s said that ‘If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It’. In any case, how would you quantify behaviour or mind-set? Therein lies the challenge with measuring DevOps. DevOps is about a mind-set – a culture that is comprised of procedures and practices that...