We put in all this work to create a fully customized toolchain tailored to your situation. Great! I bet you’re happy you can change small bits and pieces of your toolchain when circumstances change, and the Periodic Table of DevOps tools has become a staple when looking for alternatives. You’re probably still fighting the big vendors that want to offer you a one-size-fits-all solution.
How to Prevent Tool Sprawl in Your DevOps Toolchain
Licensing Monitoring Tools: What Types of Models There Are and When Each Could Be a Good Fit
This is a continuation of one of my previous blog posts, Which Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Are Right for You? On-Premises vs. SaaS, where I talked about the considerations and benefits of…
Why Businesses Don’t Want Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
Did you come here hoping to read a summary of the past 5+ years of my research on self-driving, autonomous vehicles, Tesla, and TNC businesses? Well, you’re in luck… that’s…
What Makes a Good Project Manager? Why a Big Project Without a Great PM Is Bound to Fail
The bigger the project, the more risk there is. Any decent-sized project needs a professional project manager to run it and help mitigate that risk. When it comes to big…
Hybrid IT Opens the Door for New Skills
Hybrid IT merges private on-premises data centers with a public cloud vendor. These public cloud vendors have a global reach, near limitless resources, and drive everything through an API. Tapping…
The Weakest (Security) Link Might Be You
In the second post in this information security in a hybrid IT world series, let’s cover the best-designed security controls and measures, which are no match for the human element.…
How to Choose the Right Tools in Your DevOps Toolchain
We’ve established that choosing a one-size-fits-all solution won’t work. So, what does work? Let’s look at why we need tools in the first place, and what kind of work these…
Machine Learning and Destroying the Library of Alexandria
In my last post, you may have noticed I mentioned “evil” four times, but also mentioned “good” four times. Well, you’re in luck. After all that talk about evil and ethics, I want…
Why Choosing a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Won’t Work
In my previous post, we talked about the CALMS framework as an introduction to DevOps, and how it’s more than just “DevOps tooling.” Yes, some of it is about automation…
When “Trust but Verify” Isn’t Enough: Life in a Zero Trust World
Welcome to the first in a five-part series focusing on information security in a hybrid IT world. Because I’ve spent the vast majority of my IT career as a contractor…