An email came in from Dani Shomron pointing to various articles that deal with scalability in SaaS operations. I think that this should interest most of Nolio’s readers.
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The first article takes a high level view of SaaS Service Scalability – S3 and discusses the secret formula for making it happen 2 X E3 = S3.
Another great post by @patrickdebois titled “Devops – a Romance of Many Dimensions”. Patrick takes us through an old-world book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin Abbott in 1884, and compares the rules of a two-dimensional world to our well known environments of operations and development. “Our field is continuously improving itself. The emergence of virtualization, cloud, nosql, configuration management, and infrastructure as code are all signs of technological improvements. I would catalog them under the term Agile Infrastructure.” is Debois’ interpretation of Flatland’s primary goal in life, children having more sides than their parents, consistently improving themselves in many ways. Read More
Kief Morris (@kief), a continuous delivery enthusiast and American living in London tweeted the six reasons for ops to love devops. If you’ve missed it, here are his points:
The folks at the Agile Web Operations blog added another couple of guest posts surrounding Devops.
Written by James Turnbull, this post takes us back in a time machine to the days where the client-server was a passing fad and serious conversations where held in the car park. Jame’s summarized those conversations with three principles:
From Developer to Devops: What System Administration Skills Should You Know?
With the rising trend of Devops, Steve Jin – the author of VMWare VI and vSphere SDK, got curious about the system administration from a software developer’s perspective. Here you will find Steve’s take on “The Path to Senior Sysadmin” session from the recent LISA 2010 conference.
Analyst: Rachel Chalmers
Date: 16 Dec 2010
Nolio has released version 3.0 of its Application Service Automation Platform (ASAP), with new measurement, audit and control features designed to elevate the product from automation tool to management suite. A new DevOps Manager exposes useful data to senior executives responsible for the application deployment process. With this dashboard, executives should be able to answer questions like: How long does it take to release an application, on average? How many deployments succeed? How many fail? How long does it take to perform a rollback? Which applications need the most remediation? Which users executed tasks in production? Which users touched a given application?
Patrick McKenzie, while playing Bingo with Devops, documents his experience and insight while working for a Japanese mega-corporation. Familiar with the too well known bubble gum, duct tape, and praying methodology, Patrick explains that without engineering being an integral part of the organization you will not likely know much about the other side.
The focus of ITIL Release Management is the protection of the live environment and its services through the use of formal procedures and checks. Working in conjunction with ITIL Change and Configuration Management, Release Management is employed for:
ITIL Release Management’s goal is to protect the live or production environment services through use of formal procedures and checks.
BMC recently released a white paper with the title the same as this post. It’s always good to read material created and promoted by marketing people ; ) I’ll summarize the main topic for your reading pleasure.
Application release automation will:
