Chris Tozzi
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Practical Approaches to Long-Term Cloud-Native Security
There is no shortage of advice out there about how to secure modern, cloud-native workloads. By now, most developers and IT engineers who work with → Read More
Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a → Read More
Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term
Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they'll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an → Read More
Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success
At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend → Read More
Operational Excellence and the Success of Software Deployments
When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the → Read More
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s → Read More
To Build a Healthy DevOps Culture, Look to Your Ecosystem
How do you do DevOps? Here’s a hint: Don’t fixate on finding the right tools or implementing the right processes. Instead, think about the broader → Read More
Why and How to Collect KPIs for Z DevOps
It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure out how to do DevOps. That’s because DevOps is not about tools—there are lots of different tools that → Read More
Shift-Left Testing, Continuous Integration and the Mainframe
“Mainframe” is one of the oldest terms in tech. “Shift-left” is much newer. You may not think, then, that mainframes and shift-left testing have much in → Read More
Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories
As we look back at the history of DevOps, it's worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take off when it did? Let's explore those questions. → Read More
3 Reasons Why DevOps Is More Popular Than Ever
How popular is DevOps? More popular than ever, if Google Trends is to be believed. Here's a look at how the popularity of DevOps has increased over time, → Read More
DevOps Is Killing the ITOps Engineer (and That's Bad)
In theory, DevOps is about bridging the gap between developers and ITOps teams. In practice, however, DevOps often can feel as though its real goal is to → Read More
Tips for Migrating and Managing Data Workloads in the Cloud
Unless you are an alien life form who just beamed down from space, you've heard all about the why of moving data workloads to the cloud. The cloud is a → Read More
Doing DevOps in an Interconnected World
Doing DevOps would be simple if you had total control over the tools, code and infrastructure that your company used. But the fact is, you don't. → Read More
How DevOps Teams Can Skill Up on DataOps
How do DevOps engineers (most of whom weren’t trained in the intricacies of data management) learn to support data operations? Keep reading for tips. → Read More
The Taxonomy of DataOps
Data Operations, aka DataOps, is one of those IT buzzwords that lots of people use, yet few can define precisely. So let's look at the taxonomy of DataOps. → Read More
4 Things Developers Should Know About Security in the Age of DevSecOps
If you’re a developer, most of your experience when it comes to security probably centers on designing and writing secure code. You know how to prevent → Read More
Can DevOps and MSPs Work Together?
DevOps and the adoption of MSP-based IT operations are both surging trends in the IT industry today. They are also trends that contradict each other in → Read More
Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?
Which OS is best for DevOps engineers to use on their workstations? We weigh the pros and cons of Windows, Linux and macOS in doing DevOps work. → Read More
Textbook DevOps vs. Real-World DevOps
Real-world DevOps is much messier than it often seems in theory. Not many organizations have the configuration or resources to do textbook DevOps. → Read More