Scott M. Fulton III
The New Stack
Indianapolis, IN, United States
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Try a Neo4j Graph Database Right Here, Right Now
If you’ve got five minutes, you have time to interact with a fully functional graph database. Watch 60 years of database history become antiquated in about 6 seconds. → Read More
The Graph of Life in a Post-Relational World
Management of our data requires us to think differently, to stop perceiving infrastructure as boring and to risk being perceived as geeks in mixed company. → Read More
GraphQL and REST Can Coexist, Author Will Lyon Says
It’s been called 'the better REST' by more than one vendor. GraphQL champion Will Lyon believes GraphQL to be the REST we’ve needed all along. → Read More
Accenture: DevOps Will Be Moot in 5 Years
an interview with Keith Pleas, DevOps Architecture Senior Manager for the global IT consulting firm Accenture, recorded at DevOps World 2018 in San Francisco for The New Stack Makers podcast. → Read More
DevOps Power Panel: Can DevOps Apply to Everyone?
DevOps may be an indicator of the directions that institutions and enterprises must evolve to stay relevant in the long term, but how many iterations of change will they require before they can declare themselves, technically speaking, “there?” → Read More
Is Salesforce Really Talking about a ‘DevOps Transition?’
The concept of business transition is so synonymous with Salesforce that a Google search for both phrases will automatically omit one phrase as being superfluous. So it will come as an absolute shock to perhaps several of our readers that Salesforce finds itself just as much a journeyman to the concept of the “DevOps transition” … → Read More
Two Transitions Make ‘Cloud Native DevOps’ a Challenge
When a company is making a strategic effort to shift the infrastructure hosting burden away from IT operations and toward the public cloud, it’s not always clear whether those infrastructural processes are due to be perpetuated or expunged. → Read More
Security’s Case Against ‘Cloud-Native DevOps’
The whole point of the movement-within-a-movement that Utsav Sanghani, senior product manager for desktop and AppDev security for code security platform provider Synopsys, calls “DevSecOps,” is to engage information security professionals in the task of automating enterprise processes. That engagement requires a shared understanding among all departments of the infrastructure with which… → Read More
Dr. Nicole Forsgren on DevOps: 'You Are What You Measure'
In this CloudBees-sponsored podcast, we interview Dr. Nicole Forsgren, the CEO and Chief Scientist of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), and the principal author of the annual State of DevOps Report. → Read More
Defining Company Values and DevOps Practices
CloudBees sponsored this podcast. “Where do you put your value as a company?” asked Sacha Labourey, CEO of DevOps automation platform maker CloudBees, speaking with The New Stack. “Where do you think your differentiation will come from? I’ll be a bit sarcastic here, because I have great regard for the IT Ops people, but a … → Read More
Cloud Native DevOps Offers the Vision of a New Organization
An interview with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Chief Technology Officer of CloudBees, about DevOps. → Read More
DevOps World 2018: No DevOps-in-a-Box
“Remember Nicholas Carr? He actually had a point,” stated Nicole Forsgren during her keynote address to close CloudBees’ DevOps World 2018 in San Francisco last month. She was referring to the best-selling former editor-at-large of Harvard Business Review who in 2003 published an article entitled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” There, Nicholas Carr suggested that the novelty … → Read More
DevOps World 2018: Does DevOps Mean ‘Ops-olescence?’
Exactly what is the end goal of DevOps? Ask ten people, said an IBM practice leader at DevOps World 2018 in San Francisco last week, and you’ll get eleven answers. A measurable plurality of active participants in the DevOps movement will tell you its goal is automation — more specifically, the elimination of human effort … → Read More
DevOps World 2018: ‘Jenkinstein’ and a Cloud Native Jenkins
“What if Jenkins stopped being a snowflake?” asked its creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, arguably the architect of whatever snowflake his automation platform may have become. “Meaning, you understand every part of how Jenkins’ configuration is put together,” he continued, “because there’s a record of who made what configuration change, when, and for what purposes. So every … → Read More
Microsoft Rebranding Leads to Cloud Native Azure DevOps
Microsoft has rebrandeds its Visual Studio Team Foundation Services as "Azure DevOps," exapnding it to offer a full cloud native DevOps pipeline. → Read More
7 Promises, and Potential Pitfalls, in Adopting a Cloud Native Approach to DevOps
This post is part of a series, sponsored by CloudBees, exploring the emerging concept of ‘Cloud Native DevOps.’ The cloud, at one level, is the problem. From the perspective of the people at the right-hand side of the DevOps portmanteau, “the cloud” is that part of an enterprise’s information technology that resides outside the organizational model … → Read More
Doing DevOps the Cloud Native Way
This post is part of a series, sponsored by CloudBees, exploring the emerging concept of ‘Cloud native DevOps.’ Cloud native DevOps is not some trend or methodology that we all need to embrace and embody before it overtakes us like a tropical storm. DevOps is about people and how they work together. Cloud native technologies change … → Read More
VMworld 2018: Pivotal Container Service and the Long Road to NoOps
One year after VMware’s and Pivotal’s joint introduction of their Pivotal Container Service (PKS), it’s far too soon to say that organizations have “adopted” it. But enterprises are investigating whether the commercial Kubernetes platform, available on Google Cloud Platform but also part of vSphere and also IBM Cloud Private, is robust enough to help them move … → Read More
VMworld 2018: Who’s Responsible for Programmable Infrastructure?
Supposing a great many attendees at last week’s VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas could jointly articulate the pre-eminent question working its wayward way towards the tip of their tongues, it would sound like this: If the future truly does include a paved route for infrastructure-as-code, then are our jobs as network operators and administrators … → Read More
VMworld 2018: VMware Wants to Re-Architect Your Containers for NSX
One of the compelling advantages that Pivotal Container Service (PKS) has exhibited over the other container platforms in which VMware has invested, is that it promises to be an implementation of “plain vanilla Kubernetes,” requiring nothing special and no exclusive treatment from developers. In fact, add-ons intended for Kubernetes are supposed to plug into PKS … → Read More