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...]
Flow Engineering
By Steve Pereira, CEO Visible Value Stream Consulting, and Andrew Davis, Sr. Director of Research & Innovation, Copado Sharon is a VP of Engineering at a Fortune 2000 company that’s struggled with digital transformation attempts over the past ten years. Sharon’s company, Bolt Global, is facing increasing market pressure. Competitive pressure is pushing them to make operational efficiency improvements and to open up new lines of business. They’ve launched a dozen new improvement initiatives. … [Read more...]
Value Stream Management and Organizing Around Value
By Saahil Panikar, Pricipal Project & Team (with contribution from Cindy Van Epps, Principal, and Jeff Shupack, President, Project and Team) There is an ever-increasing push to organize around the value stream to improve the flow of value to customers. The most important aspect of understanding how to do that is first understanding what the actual value is that you create. For many organizations, there is a heavy weight placed on return on investment (ROI), and profit is the driving force … [Read more...]
DevOps for Low Code Platforms
By Andrew Davis, Sr. Director of Research & Innovation, Copado The history of computer science has seen the development of higher and higher layers of abstraction. Software has evolved from machine code to assembly language to C to Java to Kotlin. Hardware has evolved from custom-built computers to commodity servers to virtual machines to cloud servers to containers. Every new layer of abstraction hides enough complexity that we feel, for a time, that building and managing these systems has … [Read more...]
Jason Cox’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist
Jason Cox is a Director of Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee member. He is also a coauthor of Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (available September 13, 2022). What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is often considered an expression of DevOps. Like DevOps, SRE seeks to bridge the traditional gap between development and operation … [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...]
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