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 Sites don’t perform at their peak without great performance testers, and it takes time and effort to acquire them. You want the best in the business, just like any other department at any other company. But what do they want? What will convince them to join your organization? This post...May. 10, 2015 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 899 |
 “Life,” according to a saying often attributed to John Lennon, “is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Nowhere is this truer than in IT – especially in the world of ops. Operations staffs spend much of their time firefighting infrastructure emergencies. These un...May. 10, 2015 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,068 |
 In this 4-part blog series, I am exposing DevOps best practices using a metaphor inspired by the famous 6th century Chinese manuscript: “The Art of War.” It is worth reminding that Sun Tzu, just like me, considered war as a necessary evil, which must be avoided whenever possible. What ...May. 10, 2015 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 DevOps Summit, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The widespread success of cloud...May. 10, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,484 |
 John Zachman, Chairman and CEO of Zachman International, and originator of the Zachman Framework, examines the role and benefits of how EA frameworks can co-exist well.
What is the relationship between the major Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks? Do they overlap, compete, suppo...May. 10, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,016 |
 I recently wrote about how Amazon’s new Dash service embodies the Stackato vision; in that post I discussed how Dash reflects the Business Agility portion of our vision. As the image to the left shows, Dash is a service that offers a small button; when pressed, magic happens and an ord...May. 10, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,284 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® and DevOps Summit 2015 New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Cent...May. 10, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,295 |
 Everyone’s talking about the Internet of Things recently, but one topic I don’t see addressed much is the difference between Service-Focused IoT and Device-Focused IoT. The concept of “The Internet of Things” has always been about vast, heterogeneous networks of small, limited-purpose ...May. 10, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,556 |
 People and organizations are accustomed to relying upon “on average” guidelines in order to manage their lives and businesses. But “on average” guidelines are severely flawed. In reality, you are either spending too much or spending too little on your individual customers; you are wa...May. 10, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 807 |
 The IoT market is on track to hit $7.1 trillion in 2020, according to an IDC's study. Are we ready for this massive demand? How can we deal with the challenges?
Some firms choose to take no action by claiming they are too busy with what they are doing. Some organizations blindly jump ...May. 10, 2015 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,220 |
 I had a very interesting discussion the other day with an executive for a technology company. He had just come from a presentation about the Internet of Things (IoT) market. The presenter projected that the market would be valued at around $7 trillion market within the next decade. Wha...May. 10, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,411 |
 There are BIG changes on the horizon for the healthcare industry – the power struggle between healthcare providers such as hospitals, and healthcare payers such as insurance companies – and Big Data is at the heart of driving these changes.
I’m struck by what’s happening in the health...May. 10, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,126 |
 Between the compelling mockups and specs produced by your analysts and designers, and the resulting application built by your developers, there is a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral out of control, and applications fall short of requirements.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Ch...May. 10, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,368 |
 Healthcare providers continue to assume increasing amounts of risk in care delivery. This has major implications, not just for providers and patients, but also vendors in IT, diagnostics, therapeutics and devices. If providers assume risk, why shouldn’t their vendors?
We're already se...May. 10, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 744 |
 Online tax companies go from an absolute standstill to 100 mph in a matter of days.
How do these companies do it? Tax laws change every year, so that online application is basically a brand new release when users start pounding away at it in February. What is it like to test the perfo...May. 9, 2015 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,344 |
 The mantra of the day is – performance, performance, performance! It is clear that everything needs to be totally available all of the time, function at the fastest speeds and performance as close to perfect as is possible. In all the business discussions swirling around us we hear the...May. 9, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,217 |
 Our guest on the podcast this week is Jeff Sussna, Founder of Ingineering.IT. We discuss the parallels between LeanUX and DevOps, identifying how each can benefit from the other's methodologies. LeanUX uses nimble processes to create a digital experience designed for the end user, whil...May. 7, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,141 |
 Those from a dev-centric background might discount monitoring from their DevOps approach. But if you're already automating deployment and testing, why wouldn't you use the right set of tools to avoid manual performance monitoring?
Of course, you do performance tests each time you rele...May. 7, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,292 |
 This is a no-hype, pragmatic post about why I think you should consider architecting your next project the way SOA and/or microservices suggest. No matter if it’s a greenfield approach or if you’re in dire need of refactoring. Please note: considering still keeps open the option of not...May. 5, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,041 |
 We’re proud to announce availability of the first complete end-to-end queue support in an APM product. We’ve been working hard on this and are excited to share the results of our work with you.
A couple months ago we announced support for JMS and Rabbit MQ messaging services. Once you...May. 5, 2015 03:12 PM EDT Reads: 312 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, the leading independent Cloud Foundry and Docker-based PaaS provider, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's DevOps Summit New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
ActiveState bel...May. 1, 2015 01:02 PM EDT Reads: 668 |
 From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, shared some of the new...Apr. 29, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,778 |
 The rise of cloud computing has ushered in an era of unprecedented productivity for developers over the past several years. For those who have embraced this new world order, gone are the days of long lead times for hardware procurement and installation, architecture defined by slow-mov...Nov. 23, 2014 11:45 PM EST Reads: 2,588 |
 The last couple articles presented an introduction to Application Performance Management (APM) and identified the challenges in effectively implementing an APM strategy. This article builds on these topics by reviewing five of the top performance metrics to capture to assess the health...Apr. 28, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 433 |
 PaaS has been such a great innovation for developers. They can develop and deploy applications from their desktop to the cloud, all in a consistent environment. They can deploy to production themselves, bypassing the IT middleman and speeding up the application delivery process. And th...Apr. 27, 2015 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,096 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, an IBM company, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place June 9-11, 2015 at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place Novem...Apr. 27, 2015 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,193 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ProfitBricks, the provider of painless cloud infrastructure, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY., and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which...Apr. 27, 2015 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,219 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that WHOA.com, an ISO 27001 Certified secure cloud computing company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
WHOA.com is a le...Apr. 27, 2015 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,231 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that GENBAND, a leading developer of real time communications software solutions, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON's WebRTC Summit, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
The GENBAND team will be on...Apr. 26, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,036 |
 PubNub on Wednesday released an open source template to allow developers to add Skype-like video chat into their apps. The free template provides a fully functional video chat platform using WebRTC, PubNub and Google Authentication for a global, reliable collaboration solution.
“While...Apr. 26, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,446 |
 At first glance, the idea of more connected things suggests simply that there will be more devices around and, as such, more products for manufacturers to make and sell. Of course that’s true, but increasingly the industry is realizing that there is actually more value in the services ...Apr. 24, 2015 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,739 |
 Google, with one fell swoop, changed their search algorithm and changing the lives (and livelihoods) of billions. Enter Mobilegeddon.
With smartphones becoming as ubiquitous as ever, people are increasingly using them for tasks that they used to do on their PCs, like search. And just ...Apr. 24, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 904 |
 Change becomes the central principle of today’s enterprises, and thus business agility becomes the most important characteristic our organizations must exhibit. Agile Architecture lays out a best practice approach for achieving this agility – and thus drives and coordinates the other r...Apr. 23, 2015 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,892 |
 Our guest on the podcast this week is Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder of HashiCorp. We discuss golden images which ensure that every copy of a replicated environment is identical. Image creation has historically caused organizational problems, however, new technologies utilize configuratio...Apr. 23, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,599 |
 Since Time is a natural concept, in an ideal world, dealing with it should be simple, but unfortunately it is not the case and we humans made it more complex by introducing different time zones and day light saving.
As a programmer, we want that programming languages immune us from th...Apr. 21, 2015 06:02 AM EDT Reads: 142 |
| In my previous post, I discussed the importance of APM. The APM market has evolved substantially over the years, mostly in an attempt to adapt to changing application technologies and deployments. When we had very simple applications that directly accessed a database then APM was not m... Apr. 18, 2015 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,612 |
 Even though it’s now Microservices Journal, long-time fans of SOA World Magazine can take comfort in the fact that the URL – soa.sys-con.com – remains unchanged. And that’s no mistake, as microservices are really nothing more than a new and improved take on the Service-Oriented Archite...Apr. 16, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,837 |
 Recently I wrote a blog showing how to use the WebSocket protocol to push the data from a Java server to a JavaScript client. This time I’ll keep the same code on the server, but the client will be written in Dart. For this example I was using GlassFish 4.1 server, and IntelliJ IDEA 14...Apr. 9, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 710 |
 Hosted PaaS providers have given independent developers and startups huge advantages in efficiency and reduced time-to-market over their more process-bound counterparts in enterprises. Software frameworks are now available that allow enterprise IT departments to provide these same adva...Apr. 8, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,210 |
| Incorporating the Cloud as part of an IT operations environment can help organizations control costs and gain competitive advantage. However, there are significant challenges when integrating and automating business application workload that spans on-premises and Cloud environments. Im... Apr. 8, 2015 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 456 |
