Will Kelly
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How to craft a cloud services catalog entry
A well-crafted cloud services catalog promotes cloud cost optimization, frees up your engineers and architects, and promotes self-service cloud adoption. Here’s how. → Read More
Reach your open source community with content marketing
Technology and content marketing teams can work together to target and reach the community around an open source software project your organization supports. → Read More
Following a DevSecOps maturity model
Following a maturity model also helps tell a story that includes the people, process, and technology changes that come with a DevOps-to-DevSecOps transformation. → Read More
4 steps to make DevSecOps adoption a team effort
To mitigate the challenges that come with DevSecOps adoption, you'll need to make it a team effort. → Read More
Launching a DevOps to DevSecOps transformation
Widespread adoption of DevSecOps is inevitable. Security and delivery velocity are unrealistic expectations as part of a waterfall software development life cycle (SDLC). Businesses and government agencies are under constant pressure to deliver new features and functionality to their customers, constituents, and employees. → Read More
DevSecOps: An open source story
Recent supply chain breaches, plus President Biden's new Cybersecurity executive order, are bringing renewed attention to DevSecOps' value for the enterprise. DevSecOps brings culture changes, frameworks, and tools into open source software (OSS). To understand DevSecOps, you must understand its relationship with OSS. → Read More
What is a CI/CD pipeline?
A continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is an anchor for every DevOps initiative. The CI/CD pipeline breaks down traditional silos and enables development and operations teams to collaborate throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Better yet, moving to DevOps and a CI/CD pipeline can help your organization deliver software more securely at a higher velocity. → Read More
The role of empathy in DevOps
DevOps teams dig in their heels for strength as they face stress and challenges at work and home. It’s not something covered in the DevOps manifesto. There’s also no software you can integrate into your toolchain to help either. What needs to happen is your DevOps teams need to put empathy before tools. → Read More
Create a DevOps culture with open source principles
Now that most workforces are remote, DevOps teams can maximize their collaboration and productivity by following open source principles. → Read More
Solving the AIOps, DevOps, and ITSM conundrum
Quickly shifting to remote work has enterprises looking to meet the ops needs of a suddenly distributed team, and there are open source options to get them there. → Read More
5 things to look for in an open source alternative to SharePoint
We're entering a collaboration platform renaissance as remote work becomes the norm for enterprises large and small. Microsoft SharePoint—a collaboration platform available on premises or in the cloud—is the de-facto standard for corporations and government agencies. However, SharePoint implementations are infamous for the challenges that prevent their completion. → Read More
6 tips for building mental resilience while working from home
Staying in your house is no longer optional for many of us; try these tips and open source tools for adjusting to your new required routine. → Read More
How I've adjusted my work-from-home habits
WFH newbs and veterans alike have to adjust to self-quarantine; here's how to maintain some balance. → Read More
How to solve the DevOps vs. ITSM culture clash
Since its advent, DevOps has been pitted against IT service management (ITSM) and its ITIL framework. → Read More
Learn BYOD policy best practices from templates
No two BYOD policies are or should be alike. Here are four BYOD policy templates that might help you seed your BYOD policy discussion and development process. → Read More
Hiring a technical writer in the age of DevOps
It's common for enterprises to leave the technical writer's role out of the DevOps discussion. Even the marketing department joins the discussion in some DevOps-first organizations—so why not the writers? → Read More
Cloud cost implications of the 5 V's of big data
Big data in the cloud has become a popular option for companies that want something that is both scalable and cost-effective. However, users shouldn't take potential challenges lightly as they adapt to the differences from on-premises systems. Learn the 5 V's of big data and the cost implications of cloud analytics. → Read More
How continuous deployment impacts the entire organization
Even though dev and ops get the most focus, moving to CD affects every piece of your organization. → Read More
DevOps to DevSecOps adjustment banks on cross-group collaboration
With HIPAA, GDPR and myriad other regulations, DevOps organizations face mounting compliance challenges. What's the solution? Go from DevOps to DevSecOps, and start communicating across groups and into the C-suite. → Read More
It's time to convey the value of DevOps to your CFO
If you want to kick-start a DevOps adoption, at some point, you'll need to convince your CFO. So how do you explain the value of DevOps? Look at competitors, talk to business users, build prototypes and, most of all, speak the language. → Read More