By Dubravko Dolic, Head of Applied Analytics & AI, Continental Tires Since Continental Tires began researching the topic of machine learning and AI several years ago, it has had to manage a lot of challenges to industrialize software products based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence. While many companies started out by trying out different use cases in many business areas, we had the advantage of setting our focus on the industrialization of use cases from the beginning. By … [Read more...]
Exclusive Excerpt from The Value Flywheel Effect
By David Anderson, with Mark McCann and Micheal O'Reilly After twenty-five years in the technology industry, I can now look back and empathize with all the people I drove crazy—mostly IT managers. Let’s face it, software engineers are usually hired to build things quickly, not fix the sociotechnical issues of the larger organization. And yet that is what I have found myself drawn to time and time again. After all, I have always believed that if you fix the system then everyone can build quicker … [Read more...]
Putting the Ops in DevOps – An Infrastructure Story
In this transcript from the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit, Stephen Farley shows how a large-scale fortune 100 company is infusing DevOps principles into Infrastructure engineering even though DevOps has had a strong presence for many years at Nationwide Insurance. Hear the story of “Putting the Ops in DevOps” after many years of DevOps adoption for our Software Development community. Come on the journey of how infrastructure teams both support Software teams while at the same time need to think … [Read more...]
Topo Pal’s DevOps Metrics & Measurements Playlist
Tapabrata “Topo” Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is also a DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee member, and a coauthor of Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (available September 13, 2022). What to Measure? After more than a decade into the DevOps movement, “what to measure?” … [Read more...]
How Google SRE and Developers Work Together
One of the prominent themes in so many DevOps Enterprise Summits has been Site Reliability Engineering, which I've always been dazzled by. There are so many interesting things about these principles and practices that Google pioneered back in 2003. I think it's one of the most incredible examples of how one can create a self-balancing system that helps product teams get features to market quickly, but in a way that doesn't jeopardize the reliability and correctness of the services they create. … [Read more...]
Gene Kim’s Audit and Security Playlist
“How does DevOps ideally interact with information security and compliance?”This is a problem that was extensively explored in The Phoenix Project, and I have learned so much about the amazing ways that solutions can be found. Here are my favorite videos that describe how information security has shifted from being viewed as a burdensome obstacle to people helping everyone across the organization.The Audit Mythbusting Panel (DevOps Enterprise Summit - Las Vegas 2019)If you think that … [Read more...]
Driving a Tech-Led Reimagination through DevOps at eBay
According to Mark Weinberg and Randy Shoup, eBay is too slow and lags behind industry leaders in engineering velocity. At the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit, Mark Weinberg, the VP of Core Product Engineering, and Randy Shoup, the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect, described how they are using DevOps to transform engineering at eBay. Their mission is to make eBay’s software delivery velocity a competitive advantage for the company by addressing the systemic challenges that have accumulated … [Read more...]
DevOps and Internal Audit: A Great Partnership at Nationwide Insurance
Nationwide Insurance offers financial services, property and casualty lines, and pet and travel insurance, among other services. At the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summit, Ethan Culp (NETC Sr. Associate), Rusty Lewis (IT Audit Specialist), and Clarissa Lucas (IT Audit Director) described how the Nationwide Internal Audit office is putting DevOps theories into practice, how they think about risks and controls, and the influence of automation on risk mitigation. As the Nationwide team shared, here are … [Read more...]
Iterative Enterprise SRE Transformation at Vanguard
Vanguard, a global asset management company, began to adopt SRE best practices to make their DevOps teams more effective around 2016, and shared their experiences at the 2021 DevOps Enterprise Summits. At the time Vanguard began its transformation, they had not yet begun public cloud migration. All monolithic applications were hosted in a privately owned data center. All deployments were released on a quarterly schedule by deployment and operations teams—not development teams. These deployments … [Read more...]
Building a DevOps Mindset across the Business and Technology at Target
Circa 2015, Target, one of the largest retailers in the US, was struggling with multiple priorities on which they were making very little progress. Their delivery model was based on third parties, so they retained very little IP, which presented morale and stability challenges, especially since the organization was rooted in legacy ways of working. Target needed to address issues of what the company was prioritizing, update the skill-set and makeup of the workforce, anchor more to architecture, … [Read more...]
