Developer Ecosystems in Large Enterprises

Large Enterprises are neither Monolithic nor Homogenous. They have a long history of adopting myriad technology tools and technologies that come and (sometimes) go. I say ‘sometimes’ as we as an industry do a great job a adopting new technologies, but a horrible job at retiring old ones. In addition, many organizations also grow via…

Understanding DevOps – Part 7: Continuous Improvement

A simple description of DevOps is such: ‘An approach to Application Delivery that applies Lean principles to accelerate feedback and improve time to market’ What does this mean? In a nutshell it implies that DevOps is a set of principles and practices that enables an organization to make their delivery of applications ‘lean’ and efficient,…

Headed to IBM Innovate

I am writing this on my flight to IBM Innovate in Orlando, FL. Innovate is always exciting as IBM Rational’s flagship Users Conference it is the place to be to learn where Rational is headed and meet all the experts, both Rational Employees and customers. This year is going to especially exciting with the even…

What do tools and automation buy me?

As someone working in technical sales, one of the questions I have been asked hundreds of times is why do we need tools? I mean, we could just code in a text editor or in Emacs or VI, like we did in the old days. Build and deployment can be done with hand written scripts…