Chris Riley
Posts by Chris Riley
Your Guide to Building a DevOps Culture
Depending on when you were introduced to DevOps, your perception of how DevOps is implemented will vary. DevOps started as a culture-only movement, ...
DevOps Is for Everyone — Even Enterprises
Is there such a thing as enterprise DevOps? You bet. After all, at the end of the day, DevOps is simply a methodology — one...
Incident Management & Response
To Build or To Buy?
The typical techie will face every challenge with a simple question: “Can I build the solution myself?” And often, the question is valid enough ...
Incident Management & Response
Next-Gen Incident Management: Scripted Infrastructure
The big advantage of configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible is that they turn your data center into “scripted” ...
Incident Response Dictates Financial Services Customer Perception
Financial institutions most often suffer the greatest consequences of a security breach because, as the infamous bank robber Willie Sutton once said...
Incident Resolution Frameworks Make Investing in IT Monitoring Worthwhile
Monitoring applications and systems is one thing — knowing what to do with all the data being gathered is quite another. Most IT organizations today...
Incident Management & Response
After the Disaster: How to Learn from Historical Incident Management Data
Your high school history teacher no doubt delivered to you some variation on George Santayana’s famous remark that, “those who cannot ...
Incident Management & Response
Break Down the Silos: Correlate Data Between Vendors
Thanks to the DevOps movement, we now understand why software delivery chains that consist of a series of silos are bad. They complicate communication...
Monitoring in the Microservices Age
Managing Increased Complexity Against Greater Agility Thanks to Docker and the DevOps revolution, microservices have emerged as the new way to build ...
Incident Management for ITOps Teams: Learning to Centralize
Can ITOps teams centralize incident management? If you work in ITOps, your first answer to that question may be a resounding “no.” After all, ...
8 Ways to Reduce Alert Fatigue
Silo’d responsibilities have wreaked havoc on team communications, making it difficult for different departments to have the full context of a ...
6 DevOps Case Studies
Admittedly, two years ago I was a bulk contributor to the DevOps noise with conversations rooted in the movement around culture, principles, and goals...