Agile DevOps is Obsidian’s approach to agile development, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deliverythrough the use of automated tools, and streamlined processes. We deliver incremental development continuously to production, which reduces defects, eliminates excess cycle time, provides continuous feedback and eliminates outage windows when deploying to production.
In this white paper, we will take a deeper dive into Obsidian’s Agile DevOps approach and how leaders in the federal government can leverage this solution for faster adoption of DevOps into existing and new federal IT programs.
This document provides an overview of DevOps concepts and adoption. It discusses adopting DevOps through a focus on people, processes, and technology. It outlines implementing continuous delivery pipelines and integrating systems of engagement with systems of record. The document proposes applying Lean principles to software delivery to create continuous feedback loops with customers.
DevOps 101 provides an overview of DevOps concepts and adoption in the enterprise. It discusses why DevOps is important to accelerate software delivery, improve quality, and increase collaboration between development and operations. The document outlines key aspects of adopting DevOps, including focusing on people, processes, and technologies. It also provides an overview of IBM's DevOps solution to help organizations continuously deliver innovation through improved software development and delivery.
This document provides an overview of DevOps concepts and the IBM DevOps solution. It defines DevOps as a software development method that emphasizes communication and collaboration between development and IT operations. The key concepts discussed include continuous integration, delivery, testing, monitoring, infrastructure as code, build pipelines, and the need for organizational change. It also outlines IBM's DevOps reference architecture and toolchain, including solutions for application release management, cloud provisioning, and deployment automation.
Everything You Need to Know About the 2019 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps Re...Red Gate Software
Each year, the DevOps Research and Assessment group (DORA) publishes critical research revealing the impact of DevOps on organizations of all sizes. The findings show what makes some teams successful at DevOps, while others fall behind.
Jez Humble, a founding member of DORA well known for his groundbreaking research on IT performance, and Redgate’s Microsoft MVP Steve Jones offer the latest insights from the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report – and what they mean for your organization and career.
Reedy Feggins presented on adopting scaled agile practices. Some key points:
1. Feggins has over 15 years of software development experience and various agile certifications.
2. Innovation is increasingly driven by software, but software delivery faces challenges like changing requirements, unpredictable schedules, and high costs.
3. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides a proven approach for applying agile practices at an enterprise scale across many teams. It aims to synchronize alignment, collaboration, and delivery.
DevOps evolution architecting the modern software factory - cloud expo east 2017Anand Akela
This document discusses the evolution of DevOps and how companies are adopting DevOps practices like continuous delivery to accelerate software delivery and improve customer experience. It outlines how traditional development methods can no longer keep up with rising customer expectations for faster and higher quality software. Companies are turning to DevOps and agile methodologies like continuous development, testing and delivery to reduce cycle times, improve quality and collaboration between development and operations teams. The document provides examples of how companies across industries like PayPal, L'Oreal, Sprint and Charter have benefited from DevOps adoption including increased velocity, reduced costs and better customer satisfaction.
This document discusses the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevOps. It provides an overview of the SDLC phases and Agile Scrum framework. It describes the need for DevOps by explaining problems that can occur when development and operations teams are separated. It proposes DevOps as a solution to automate software delivery and infrastructure changes through a cross-functional team and toolchain. The document outlines various tools used in a DevOps toolchain for version control, IDEs, project management, continuous integration, testing, security, collaboration and more. It concludes by discussing future plans to implement OpenStack, Docker and gain experience with Amazon Web Services.
Udvikling af apps til mobile enheder med IBM Worklight, Christina Møller, IBMIBM Danmark
This document discusses IBM's mobile application development platform, IBM Worklight. It provides a comprehensive solution for mobile development, deployment, and management. Key components include Worklight Studio for development, Worklight Server for middleware functions, and Worklight Console for analytics and control. Worklight allows creating cross-platform apps using HTML5 that can be optimized for different devices and platforms. It supports various app types from web apps to hybrid and native apps.
This document provides an overview of DevOps concepts and adoption. It discusses adopting DevOps through a focus on people, processes, and technology. It outlines implementing continuous delivery pipelines and integrating systems of engagement with systems of record. The document proposes applying Lean principles to software delivery to create continuous feedback loops with customers.
DevOps 101 provides an overview of DevOps concepts and adoption in the enterprise. It discusses why DevOps is important to accelerate software delivery, improve quality, and increase collaboration between development and operations. The document outlines key aspects of adopting DevOps, including focusing on people, processes, and technologies. It also provides an overview of IBM's DevOps solution to help organizations continuously deliver innovation through improved software development and delivery.
This document provides an overview of DevOps concepts and the IBM DevOps solution. It defines DevOps as a software development method that emphasizes communication and collaboration between development and IT operations. The key concepts discussed include continuous integration, delivery, testing, monitoring, infrastructure as code, build pipelines, and the need for organizational change. It also outlines IBM's DevOps reference architecture and toolchain, including solutions for application release management, cloud provisioning, and deployment automation.
Everything You Need to Know About the 2019 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps Re...Red Gate Software
Each year, the DevOps Research and Assessment group (DORA) publishes critical research revealing the impact of DevOps on organizations of all sizes. The findings show what makes some teams successful at DevOps, while others fall behind.
Jez Humble, a founding member of DORA well known for his groundbreaking research on IT performance, and Redgate’s Microsoft MVP Steve Jones offer the latest insights from the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report – and what they mean for your organization and career.
Reedy Feggins presented on adopting scaled agile practices. Some key points:
1. Feggins has over 15 years of software development experience and various agile certifications.
2. Innovation is increasingly driven by software, but software delivery faces challenges like changing requirements, unpredictable schedules, and high costs.
3. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides a proven approach for applying agile practices at an enterprise scale across many teams. It aims to synchronize alignment, collaboration, and delivery.
DevOps evolution architecting the modern software factory - cloud expo east 2017Anand Akela
This document discusses the evolution of DevOps and how companies are adopting DevOps practices like continuous delivery to accelerate software delivery and improve customer experience. It outlines how traditional development methods can no longer keep up with rising customer expectations for faster and higher quality software. Companies are turning to DevOps and agile methodologies like continuous development, testing and delivery to reduce cycle times, improve quality and collaboration between development and operations teams. The document provides examples of how companies across industries like PayPal, L'Oreal, Sprint and Charter have benefited from DevOps adoption including increased velocity, reduced costs and better customer satisfaction.
This document discusses the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevOps. It provides an overview of the SDLC phases and Agile Scrum framework. It describes the need for DevOps by explaining problems that can occur when development and operations teams are separated. It proposes DevOps as a solution to automate software delivery and infrastructure changes through a cross-functional team and toolchain. The document outlines various tools used in a DevOps toolchain for version control, IDEs, project management, continuous integration, testing, security, collaboration and more. It concludes by discussing future plans to implement OpenStack, Docker and gain experience with Amazon Web Services.
Udvikling af apps til mobile enheder med IBM Worklight, Christina Møller, IBMIBM Danmark
This document discusses IBM's mobile application development platform, IBM Worklight. It provides a comprehensive solution for mobile development, deployment, and management. Key components include Worklight Studio for development, Worklight Server for middleware functions, and Worklight Console for analytics and control. Worklight allows creating cross-platform apps using HTML5 that can be optimized for different devices and platforms. It supports various app types from web apps to hybrid and native apps.
This document discusses IBM's Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management software. It promotes the software as providing capabilities for in-context collaboration, real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, development intelligence, and continuous improvement. These capabilities are presented as five imperatives for effective application lifecycle management. The document also provides overviews of IBM Rational's core ALM offerings and their integration capabilities.
This document summarizes a presentation about adopting DevOps practices to improve software delivery. It discusses how delivering software is challenging and costly, and that DevOps can help by improving collaboration between development and operations teams. A case study is presented from HM Health Solutions, who saw a 75% reduction in time spent fixing defects in testing and an 82% reduction in production after adopting DevOps practices like continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment. Tips are provided on getting started with an enterprise DevOps rollout.
Why is dev ops essential for fintech developmentnimbleappgenie
Indeed DevOps brings endless opportunities for FinTech organizations to speed up time to market. Most of the FinTech development companies are familiar with Agile development methodologies, but haven’t yet adopted DevOps.
Nimble AppGenie, fintech development teams that are sound with DevOps methodologies. It has become our standard practice to build products faster and efficiently.
This is the presentation that I presented with Ruth Willenborg that provides a review of IBM's DevOps strategy as well as the roadmap for recently developed capabilities and future directions.
DevOps CD and Multispeed IT in regulated industries (FUG Presentation)Serena Software
This document discusses DevOps, continuous delivery, and multi-speed IT in regulated environments. It addresses how organizations can drive competitive advantage through faster delivery while still maintaining stability, security, and compliance. DevOps aims to align development and operations goals, continuous delivery ensures software is always production-ready, and multi-speed IT understands different approaches and speeds for different applications and contexts. The document outlines challenges in regulated industries and provides recommendations around people, process, and technology to support DevOps adoption.
Mobile DevOps: Rapid Response to Feedback and continuous delivery in a mobile...Roger Snook
The document discusses strategies for continuous delivery of mobile applications. It begins with an overview of DevOps and how taking a closed-loop approach to application delivery can extend lean and agile practices across the software value chain. It then discusses how mobile applications shift the focus to time to feedback and quality. The document outlines challenges like how poor mobile app quality can impact business and how the best apps evolve rapidly in response to feedback. It proposes solutions like continuous integration, deployment automation, automated testing, and using feedback to prioritize improvements to reduce the time it takes to respond to users.
DOES15 - Sherry Chang - Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation Gene Kim
Sherry Chang, Enterprise Architect, Intel
Is it possible to transform large enterprises with 100’s of in-flight projects across myriad technology stacks and entrenched processes, requiring massive workforce re-skilling? In this session, I’ll share approaches we employed to increase the likelihood of success through DevOps adoption by:
-Offering of a common Continuous Delivery Service, similar to industry offerings from Codeship.io, CloudBees, and others
-Establishing a Maturity Model to help teams incrementally adopt DevOps practices
-Coaching teams through Kaizen sessions to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in their value stream
1) The document discusses enterprise DevOps and provides an overview of what DevOps is, why it is important now, and how to implement it. It presents case studies of companies that have implemented DevOps and realized benefits like increased speed, quality, and efficiency.
2) The document outlines DevOps service offerings from HPE that can help increase automation, reduce latency, and improve visibility across various DevOps domains from build and test to deployment and operations.
3) Case studies show benefits companies achieved including reduced cycle times, deployment times, and costs through DevOps implementations with HPE's help.
Building a DevOps Organization and CultureRapidValue
This whitepaper explains adopting the DevOps practice and how teams should be structured and re-structured. It discusses in detail how organizations can achieve increased collaboration within the team through DevOps. It also, describes the different roles and responsibilities of people involved in the DevOps
approach with real-world examples.
Abstract:
Cybercrime in its various forms is expected to cost the world more than US$6 trillion per year by 2021. There are nearly 1 Million Viruses and Malware created daily. With the increased usage of open source and third-party components, it becomes challenging to ensure these externally developed components do not introduce security vulnerabilities into the final product. While adoption of Agile practices leads to continuous software release but security checks get pushed towards the end of the release cycle. This more often than not leads to uncomfortable situations. Many times it leads to delays also. With higher code velocity comes the challenge of making sure every change is secure.
Security can no longer remain an after-thought, it has to be integrated at every stage of the software delivery life-cycle (design for security, secure coding, security testing, penetration testing in staging, and security monitoring in production). These controls can be tightly integrated in DevOps pipeline and become operational much like monitoring tools. Engineering teams have to continuously test for security at Development, QA and Staging phases. This session will explore how to integrate the ecosystem of technologies to build security checks in all phases of software development like Architecture, Design and Implementation in order to create a true DevSecOps practice.
Key Takeaways:
1. What is the impact of Lean and Agile practices on Security verification?
2. How does adoption of Opensource and third party software increase the challenges of keeping our products secure?
3. How can you perform Security testing continuously in different phases of Agile software development?
4. How can adoption of DevSecOps practices lead to a culture of Continuous Security testing?
5. How to integrate tools and technologies to perform security checks in all phases of software development?
This document discusses how infrastructure as code (IaC) is key to faster software delivery. It finds that IaC removes friction from the most difficult stages of development, testing, and configuration. IaC fosters better collaboration between Dev and Ops teams, reducing errors and increasing efficiency. Both experienced IaC users and those considering it agree on its core benefits, such as improved collaboration, customer satisfaction, and business performance. However, challenges remain in establishing common toolsets and skills across Dev and Ops teams, as well as aligning processes.
This document discusses how DevOps can help companies adapt to today's fast-paced technology environment by breaking down silos between development and operations teams. It argues that DevOps allows for faster software releases, continuous delivery, and greater agility while still maintaining quality and control. The document outlines five benefits of adopting DevOps and how it impacts different roles within an organization. It also provides an overview of the typical phases involved in a DevOps transformation project.
This document discusses approaches for DevOps teams to contain complexity and enable continuous deployment. It begins with introductions from the author and a poll about development teams. It then discusses the overall business goal of minimizing lead time by focusing on flow throughout the process. The document covers sources of complexity and risk in software development. It proposes focusing on necessary elements and better practices for areas like source control, testing, automation, and architectures. The document also discusses concepts from frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and The Phoenix Project. It proposes initial approaches for medium and small organizations and challenges of implementing continuous deployment.
To successfully implement continuous delivery in an enterprise, there are specific needs and obstacles which must be addressed. In this webinar, we’ll address the pain points that most enterprises face, and how they can be overcome.
DOES14 - Stephen Elliot - IDC - Delivering DevOps Business Metrics that MatterGene Kim
Stephen Elliot, VP of IDC
DevOps is the modern way to deploy new IT capabilities that drive and deliver business results. This session will dive into the key metrics that large companies are using to gauge the success and measure results utilizing the DevOps discipline. The session will answer the following questions:
What are some of the key technology and business metrics that large organizations are using to measure and manage DevOps projects?
What are the critical success factors required when communicating with the business on Devops delivered projects?
What role do the security and compliance teams play in DevOps, and related metrics?
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
DOES14 - Scott Prugh - CSG - DevOps and Lean in Legacy EnvironmentsGene Kim
10 Techniques for Flow & Continuous Delivery
Startups are continually evangelizing DevOps to be able to reduce risk, hasten feedback and deploy 1000’s of times a day. But what about the rest of the world that comes from Waterfall, Mainframes, Long Release Cycles and Risk Aversion? Learn how one company went from 480 day lead times and 6 month releases to 3 month releases with high levels of automation and increased quality across disparate legacy environments. We will discuss how Optimizing People & Organizations, Increasing the Rate of Learning, Deploying Innovative Tools and Lean System Thinking can help large scale enterprises increase throughput while decreasing cost and risk.
Using Lean Thinking to Identify and Address Delivery Pipeline BottlenecksIBM UrbanCode Products
Inefficient software delivery impacts the entire business, from line of business units, to operations, to development and test, and the variety of suppliers.
Wastes in your processes are causing bottlenecks.
Join Eric Minick, IBM DevOps Evangelist (and UrbanCode guy), as he explores how ‘Lean Thinking’ techniques can be leveraged to help identify ‘bottlenecks’ in your delivery pipeline that can be addressed by adopting DevOps.
Get Mapped: Using Value Stream Mapping to Create a DevOps Adoption RoadmapIBM UrbanCode Products
Adopting DevOps is not a “one-and-done” project. It is adopting a mindset, a culture. It is a commitment to a journey of continuous improvement by adopting a set of capabilities and practices that are based on Lean principles. Adopting DevOps requires process improvement, automation of the processes using tools, and organizational change to enable a DevOps culture.
The question then becomes – where does one start?
The document discusses adopting DevOps practices at enterprise scale, outlining three patterns of DevOps adoption: driving business agility, scaling for the enterprise across hybrid environments, and driving innovation through rapid experimentation and feedback using techniques like containerization and microservices. It provides examples and case studies of organizations addressing bottlenecks in their development and deployment processes by applying practices like continuous integration, deployment automation, test automation, and service virtualization.
Game Development in the Cloud - Live Q&ARightScale
Rightscale Webinar: Do you have questions about building and running your game on the cloud? Are you looking for tools to help you increase your speed to market for a new game or app? Ever wish you could just ask someone who’s been there? Here’s your chance!
Join us for a special interactive webinar to learn how and why TransGaming built their game platform on the cloud. You’ll hear about the infrastructure, software, and tools they deployed to speed up their time to market and achieve gaming success at scale.
Through a lively panel discussion, we’ll address questions about how to build your IT infrastructure to power your game or app, how to architect for scalability, and how to increase confidence in your app through performance testing and monitoring.
Attend this webinar and you will walk away with a better understanding of how RightScale, AWS, Couchbase, and Apica can help you manage the opportunities and challenges in the game industry.
Integration of Technology & Compliance Presented by John Heintz, CPS EnergyTheAnfieldGroup
This document provides an overview and history of CPS Energy, a municipally owned energy utility in San Antonio, Texas. It discusses CPS Energy's assets and operations, including its generation facilities, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and customer base. The document also summarizes the Enterprise IT Security organization's efforts to improve security practices using the Forrester Information Security Maturity Model. It identifies key security challenges and the goal of moving practices towards a more optimized level of maturity. Additional sections cover compliance activities for control systems and the future of securing these environments.
This document discusses IBM's Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management software. It promotes the software as providing capabilities for in-context collaboration, real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, development intelligence, and continuous improvement. These capabilities are presented as five imperatives for effective application lifecycle management. The document also provides overviews of IBM Rational's core ALM offerings and their integration capabilities.
This document summarizes a presentation about adopting DevOps practices to improve software delivery. It discusses how delivering software is challenging and costly, and that DevOps can help by improving collaboration between development and operations teams. A case study is presented from HM Health Solutions, who saw a 75% reduction in time spent fixing defects in testing and an 82% reduction in production after adopting DevOps practices like continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment. Tips are provided on getting started with an enterprise DevOps rollout.
Why is dev ops essential for fintech developmentnimbleappgenie
Indeed DevOps brings endless opportunities for FinTech organizations to speed up time to market. Most of the FinTech development companies are familiar with Agile development methodologies, but haven’t yet adopted DevOps.
Nimble AppGenie, fintech development teams that are sound with DevOps methodologies. It has become our standard practice to build products faster and efficiently.
This is the presentation that I presented with Ruth Willenborg that provides a review of IBM's DevOps strategy as well as the roadmap for recently developed capabilities and future directions.
DevOps CD and Multispeed IT in regulated industries (FUG Presentation)Serena Software
This document discusses DevOps, continuous delivery, and multi-speed IT in regulated environments. It addresses how organizations can drive competitive advantage through faster delivery while still maintaining stability, security, and compliance. DevOps aims to align development and operations goals, continuous delivery ensures software is always production-ready, and multi-speed IT understands different approaches and speeds for different applications and contexts. The document outlines challenges in regulated industries and provides recommendations around people, process, and technology to support DevOps adoption.
Mobile DevOps: Rapid Response to Feedback and continuous delivery in a mobile...Roger Snook
The document discusses strategies for continuous delivery of mobile applications. It begins with an overview of DevOps and how taking a closed-loop approach to application delivery can extend lean and agile practices across the software value chain. It then discusses how mobile applications shift the focus to time to feedback and quality. The document outlines challenges like how poor mobile app quality can impact business and how the best apps evolve rapidly in response to feedback. It proposes solutions like continuous integration, deployment automation, automated testing, and using feedback to prioritize improvements to reduce the time it takes to respond to users.
DOES15 - Sherry Chang - Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation Gene Kim
Sherry Chang, Enterprise Architect, Intel
Is it possible to transform large enterprises with 100’s of in-flight projects across myriad technology stacks and entrenched processes, requiring massive workforce re-skilling? In this session, I’ll share approaches we employed to increase the likelihood of success through DevOps adoption by:
-Offering of a common Continuous Delivery Service, similar to industry offerings from Codeship.io, CloudBees, and others
-Establishing a Maturity Model to help teams incrementally adopt DevOps practices
-Coaching teams through Kaizen sessions to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in their value stream
1) The document discusses enterprise DevOps and provides an overview of what DevOps is, why it is important now, and how to implement it. It presents case studies of companies that have implemented DevOps and realized benefits like increased speed, quality, and efficiency.
2) The document outlines DevOps service offerings from HPE that can help increase automation, reduce latency, and improve visibility across various DevOps domains from build and test to deployment and operations.
3) Case studies show benefits companies achieved including reduced cycle times, deployment times, and costs through DevOps implementations with HPE's help.
Building a DevOps Organization and CultureRapidValue
This whitepaper explains adopting the DevOps practice and how teams should be structured and re-structured. It discusses in detail how organizations can achieve increased collaboration within the team through DevOps. It also, describes the different roles and responsibilities of people involved in the DevOps
approach with real-world examples.
Abstract:
Cybercrime in its various forms is expected to cost the world more than US$6 trillion per year by 2021. There are nearly 1 Million Viruses and Malware created daily. With the increased usage of open source and third-party components, it becomes challenging to ensure these externally developed components do not introduce security vulnerabilities into the final product. While adoption of Agile practices leads to continuous software release but security checks get pushed towards the end of the release cycle. This more often than not leads to uncomfortable situations. Many times it leads to delays also. With higher code velocity comes the challenge of making sure every change is secure.
Security can no longer remain an after-thought, it has to be integrated at every stage of the software delivery life-cycle (design for security, secure coding, security testing, penetration testing in staging, and security monitoring in production). These controls can be tightly integrated in DevOps pipeline and become operational much like monitoring tools. Engineering teams have to continuously test for security at Development, QA and Staging phases. This session will explore how to integrate the ecosystem of technologies to build security checks in all phases of software development like Architecture, Design and Implementation in order to create a true DevSecOps practice.
Key Takeaways:
1. What is the impact of Lean and Agile practices on Security verification?
2. How does adoption of Opensource and third party software increase the challenges of keeping our products secure?
3. How can you perform Security testing continuously in different phases of Agile software development?
4. How can adoption of DevSecOps practices lead to a culture of Continuous Security testing?
5. How to integrate tools and technologies to perform security checks in all phases of software development?
This document discusses how infrastructure as code (IaC) is key to faster software delivery. It finds that IaC removes friction from the most difficult stages of development, testing, and configuration. IaC fosters better collaboration between Dev and Ops teams, reducing errors and increasing efficiency. Both experienced IaC users and those considering it agree on its core benefits, such as improved collaboration, customer satisfaction, and business performance. However, challenges remain in establishing common toolsets and skills across Dev and Ops teams, as well as aligning processes.
This document discusses how DevOps can help companies adapt to today's fast-paced technology environment by breaking down silos between development and operations teams. It argues that DevOps allows for faster software releases, continuous delivery, and greater agility while still maintaining quality and control. The document outlines five benefits of adopting DevOps and how it impacts different roles within an organization. It also provides an overview of the typical phases involved in a DevOps transformation project.
This document discusses approaches for DevOps teams to contain complexity and enable continuous deployment. It begins with introductions from the author and a poll about development teams. It then discusses the overall business goal of minimizing lead time by focusing on flow throughout the process. The document covers sources of complexity and risk in software development. It proposes focusing on necessary elements and better practices for areas like source control, testing, automation, and architectures. The document also discusses concepts from frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and The Phoenix Project. It proposes initial approaches for medium and small organizations and challenges of implementing continuous deployment.
To successfully implement continuous delivery in an enterprise, there are specific needs and obstacles which must be addressed. In this webinar, we’ll address the pain points that most enterprises face, and how they can be overcome.
DOES14 - Stephen Elliot - IDC - Delivering DevOps Business Metrics that MatterGene Kim
Stephen Elliot, VP of IDC
DevOps is the modern way to deploy new IT capabilities that drive and deliver business results. This session will dive into the key metrics that large companies are using to gauge the success and measure results utilizing the DevOps discipline. The session will answer the following questions:
What are some of the key technology and business metrics that large organizations are using to measure and manage DevOps projects?
What are the critical success factors required when communicating with the business on Devops delivered projects?
What role do the security and compliance teams play in DevOps, and related metrics?
DevOps - The Future of Application Lifecycle Automation Gunnar Menzel
Development to Operations (DevOps) will have a profound impact on the global IT sector in the near future. Realizing DevOps’ full potential, IT vendors have been agile enough in providing new products and services under the label “DevOps inside”, at an ever- increasing pace. However, with the growth in product choices, conflicting definitions and competing services, customers often encounter confusion, while making complex purchase decisions. They often seem to be unsure about how to deploy DevOps and get the most out of the solution.
While not trying to delve deep into DevOps, the Whitepaper tries to answer the following key questions:
What is DevOps?
What is DevOps trying to achieve?
How will DevOps achieve this?
How best to make use of the new developments?
Its aim is to help the reader:
Understand the DevOps concepts
Understand its current value and restrictions
DOES14 - Scott Prugh - CSG - DevOps and Lean in Legacy EnvironmentsGene Kim
10 Techniques for Flow & Continuous Delivery
Startups are continually evangelizing DevOps to be able to reduce risk, hasten feedback and deploy 1000’s of times a day. But what about the rest of the world that comes from Waterfall, Mainframes, Long Release Cycles and Risk Aversion? Learn how one company went from 480 day lead times and 6 month releases to 3 month releases with high levels of automation and increased quality across disparate legacy environments. We will discuss how Optimizing People & Organizations, Increasing the Rate of Learning, Deploying Innovative Tools and Lean System Thinking can help large scale enterprises increase throughput while decreasing cost and risk.
Using Lean Thinking to Identify and Address Delivery Pipeline BottlenecksIBM UrbanCode Products
Inefficient software delivery impacts the entire business, from line of business units, to operations, to development and test, and the variety of suppliers.
Wastes in your processes are causing bottlenecks.
Join Eric Minick, IBM DevOps Evangelist (and UrbanCode guy), as he explores how ‘Lean Thinking’ techniques can be leveraged to help identify ‘bottlenecks’ in your delivery pipeline that can be addressed by adopting DevOps.
Get Mapped: Using Value Stream Mapping to Create a DevOps Adoption RoadmapIBM UrbanCode Products
Adopting DevOps is not a “one-and-done” project. It is adopting a mindset, a culture. It is a commitment to a journey of continuous improvement by adopting a set of capabilities and practices that are based on Lean principles. Adopting DevOps requires process improvement, automation of the processes using tools, and organizational change to enable a DevOps culture.
The question then becomes – where does one start?
The document discusses adopting DevOps practices at enterprise scale, outlining three patterns of DevOps adoption: driving business agility, scaling for the enterprise across hybrid environments, and driving innovation through rapid experimentation and feedback using techniques like containerization and microservices. It provides examples and case studies of organizations addressing bottlenecks in their development and deployment processes by applying practices like continuous integration, deployment automation, test automation, and service virtualization.
Game Development in the Cloud - Live Q&ARightScale
Rightscale Webinar: Do you have questions about building and running your game on the cloud? Are you looking for tools to help you increase your speed to market for a new game or app? Ever wish you could just ask someone who’s been there? Here’s your chance!
Join us for a special interactive webinar to learn how and why TransGaming built their game platform on the cloud. You’ll hear about the infrastructure, software, and tools they deployed to speed up their time to market and achieve gaming success at scale.
Through a lively panel discussion, we’ll address questions about how to build your IT infrastructure to power your game or app, how to architect for scalability, and how to increase confidence in your app through performance testing and monitoring.
Attend this webinar and you will walk away with a better understanding of how RightScale, AWS, Couchbase, and Apica can help you manage the opportunities and challenges in the game industry.
Integration of Technology & Compliance Presented by John Heintz, CPS EnergyTheAnfieldGroup
This document provides an overview and history of CPS Energy, a municipally owned energy utility in San Antonio, Texas. It discusses CPS Energy's assets and operations, including its generation facilities, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and customer base. The document also summarizes the Enterprise IT Security organization's efforts to improve security practices using the Forrester Information Security Maturity Model. It identifies key security challenges and the goal of moving practices towards a more optimized level of maturity. Additional sections cover compliance activities for control systems and the future of securing these environments.
FinfraG: Opportunities & Challenges for Global Trading PlatformsCognizant
The Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA), commonly known by its German name, FinfraG, spells out regulations for global derivative trading platforms and central clearing parties, including reporting, clearing, platform trading and risk mitigation. The act also incorporates laws pertaining to insider information/market abuse and shareholdings/public offers.
WhiteHedge Technologies is a global company with over 100 employees that provides agile product development and DevOps services. It discusses how traditional IT models are not designed for today's business needs and how DevOps can help through improved communication, collaboration, and integration between development and operations. DevOps allows for more frequent releases, improved quality, and better cooperation compared to traditional models. The document provides an overview of DevOps benefits and describes how DevOps is not just about automation or increased deployments but enabling continuous improvement and efficient delivery of production-ready code.
Test Automation Strategies in a Continuous Delivery EcosystemCognizant
This document discusses strategies for test automation in continuous delivery environments. It outlines some of the challenges of automating tests in continuous integration workflows, such as ensuring full test coverage and addressing defects found later in the development cycle. It then describes several automation techniques that can help overcome these challenges, such as automating tests early in the development process, testing at the component and backend levels before the user interface is fully developed, and optimizing testing to focus on code changes. The document advocates adopting intelligent test automation approaches that validate applications at all stages from code to components to user interfaces.
DevOps and the Culture of High-Performing Software OrganizationsJosiah Renaudin
The DevOps movement emphasizes the importance of culture in creating high-performing teams. However, often perceived to be subjective and intractable, culture is often neglected in favor of more concrete drivers such as tools and processes. And this is a major failure mode in organizations attempting to achieve substantially improved performance through implementing agile and DevOps. Jez Humble takes a practical, data-driven approach to culture, illustrated with examples from large, successful enterprises. Learn how to measure culture and examine what a generative, high-performance culture looks like. Explore how to change organizational culture, and discover how high-performing organizations use the patterns and practices of continuous delivery and lean management to outcompete their peers. Jez concludes by presenting the principles behind successful organizational change―and how to make your changes stick.
Docker Container As A Service
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In container Java development with STS or Eclipse in a container.
Docker UCP and swarm load balancing with Interlock.
What does a Maturity Curve for Enterprise Adoption of Agile and DevOps look like? Where would an organization like yours rank on the curve? Are there specific areas of improvement you might want to consider?
Identity Beyond Employees: How Customer Experience Impacts Your IAM PracticesPing Identity
Customer identity and access management (CIAM) is a high-priority imperative in the age of the customer. If your customers can’t register or log in for service, and can’t conduct transactions in an easily usable manner, it really doesn’t much matter how your website, mobile app, or phone channel is architected; they may move on to your competition.Learn how customer experience influences IAM and security and what actions you can take to meet both sets of goals.
Rundeck is an open source automation tool that allows users to break processes down into reusable workflows called jobs. It provides a central platform for visibility of operations tasks and enables teams to easily share tasks. Rundeck aims to connect disparate tools and resources through its APIs. The document discusses how Rundeck is used in different organizations for tasks like continuous delivery, data processing, test environment provisioning, and more. It provides demonstrations of Rundeck's job scheduling capabilities and plugin ecosystem. The document outlines Rundeck's system architecture and roadmap and encourages users to get involved through discussions, writing plugins, or sponsoring features.
How do I do DevOps when all I have is Ops?Chris Swan
The document discusses how to implement DevOps practices when an organization only has operational capabilities. It recommends focusing on operational data mining to enable continuous learning and experimentation. Specific approaches include training operations staff on infrastructure as code using tools like Git, Ansible, and Jenkins. Emphasis is placed on empowering frontline staff by giving them insights from operational data to identify constraints and make improvements. The overall goal is to help organizations gain the agility benefits of DevOps through incremental cultural and process changes rather than waiting for full development capabilities.
Martin Börjesson vil introducere Gartners teori om Bimodal IT og forklare, hvorfor den er en vigtig driver i IT innovation. I oplægget vil Martin Börjesson trække på sine mange års erfaring fra dansk erhvervsliv. Han vil blandt andet fortælle om, hvordan et digital lab efter 18 måneders snak, politik og diskussion nu endeligt kører og netop har leveret sine første brugbare resultater.
This document discusses web game development. It defines games and outlines their key characteristics and classifications. It also covers game development aspects like gameplay, characters, levels, and use of artificial intelligence. Game production involves subsystems like graphics, sound, and networking. Game architecture may involve a single-threaded or multi-threaded kernel, and a client-server model for multiplayer games. Resources for learning web game development are also provided.
The document provides an overview of Agile, DevOps and Cloud Management from a security, risk management and audit compliance perspective. It discusses how the IT industry paradigm is shifting towards microservices, containers, continuous delivery and cloud platforms. DevOps is described as development and operations engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle. Key differences in DevOps include changes to configuration management, release and change management, and event monitoring. Factors for DevOps success include culture, collaboration, eliminating waste, unified processes, tooling and automation.
This document discusses continuous monitoring, which involves leveraging ambient displays to provide project teams with real-time information on overall project health beyond just build status. It describes using visual boards and displays to make key metrics and potential issues transparent and provide accountability. Examples mentioned include using screens to display metrics like velocity, throughput, production pace and integrating with tools to pull in data on branches, stages, regressions from sources like Cruise and Ganglia. The document suggests designing simple operational dashboards that are readable from a distance and clearly alert teams to problems as they happen.
Infrasructure As Code: Fueling the Fire For Faster Application Delivery - Whi...David J Rosenthal
To achieve success in today’s digital age, enterprises mustbe customer-obsessed and systematically reinvent themselves to serve informed and empowered customers. Leading companies rely heavily on software applications to win, serve, and retain these customers. Software creates better customer experiences, and delivering innovative software faster gives companies a distinct competitive advantage.
But faster delivery of applications is challenging for both infrastructure and operations (i.e., Ops) professionals and application development and delivery (i.e., Dev) teams. Both are under pressure to increase speed without compromising quality. To maximize their efforts, neither team can go it
alone — they must work together to find a common set of processes and tools that help them both. This is the core of the DevOps movement.
This document discusses performance reviews in an Agile environment. It recommends setting both individual goals that are adapted to being part of an Agile team, as well as shared team goals. The individual goals should focus on areas like involvement in requirements, cross-functional tasks, and expanding knowledge, while team goals focus on deliverables, quality, and continuous improvement. Both individual and team goals should be set collaboratively.
This document provides an overview of DevOps and how to adopt a DevOps approach. It discusses that DevOps aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. The document outlines that adopting DevOps involves changes to an organization's people, processes and technologies. It provides strategies for building a collaborative culture and implementing shared goals and metrics. It also discusses implementing efficient processes for continuous integration, delivery, testing and monitoring. The document recommends technologies like infrastructure as code, collaboration tools, and release automation to support the DevOps approach.
Culture Is More Important Than Competence In IT.pptxmushrunayasmin
The DevOps implementation will simplify the current support structure inside operations by automating environment build and application release management tasks.
This would guarantee the quicker delivery of online software items of greater quality, increasing client satisfaction.
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Software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) are the roots of the term "DevOps" (Ops). The term refers to a culture change that will enable the continuous delivery of high-quality software and reduce the development cycle. It is primarily distinguished by shared ownership, automated workflow, and quick feedback principles. As a result, all phases of the software development cycle, not just a few, must be understood by the team members.
Culture is more important than competence in IT outsourcingBJIT Ltd
Culture and competence both play important roles in IT outsourcing, but when it comes to selecting the right outsourcing partner, culture can be a critical factor. A strong cultural fit is essential for successful collaboration, effective communication, and building long-term relationships with outsourcing partners. Culture encompasses a wide range of factors, including language, communication style, values, and business practices, among others. If these factors align with your company's culture, it can create a more seamless and efficient outsourcing process, leading to greater success in achieving business objectives.
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DevOps4Gov aims to accelerate IT for modern federal agencies using DevOps. DevOps promises to reduce costs and risks while improving efficiency. It integrates development, testing, security and operations for faster application delivery. CSRA's DevOps4Gov capability is tailored for federal challenges like legacy systems and tight budgets while leveraging commercial DevOps successes. Examples show how CSRA helped agencies like the FAA deploy applications on time and at scale through Agile/DevOps practices.
This document discusses DevOps, including what it is, why it is used, its history and practices. DevOps combines cultural philosophies and tools to increase an organization's ability to deliver applications and services faster. It involves development and operations teams working together throughout the entire service lifecycle. Key DevOps practices include continuous integration, delivery and deployment; use of microservices; infrastructure as code; monitoring and logging; and communication between teams. The DevOps lifecycle aims to continuously deliver products through automation and monitoring at each stage of development and deployment.
A Digital Software Quality Magazine for all the Quality Professionals in IT Industry. This Quarterly Magazine intend to discuss and share new concepts, pilots, analysis related to the modern IT technologies and platform from the Quality perspective. The magazine is promoted by DigitQ.in website. This is collaborative platform to share and know the latest information in Quality field. The intent is to Digitize the Quality Concepts to fit to Modern IT needs.
The document discusses emerging trends in software engineering and development after the COVID-19 pandemic and in preparation for sustainable development goals. It notes that digital transformation is a priority for many businesses as they adapt to remote work and contactless services. Software developers will play a key role in building the post-pandemic world and achieving sustainability. DevOps and agile methodologies are discussed as approaches that can provide continuous delivery of high quality software. Benefits of agile include increased speed, customer satisfaction, valuing employees, and eliminating rework. Best practices and tools to support agile are also outlined.
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Question 1
1.1 You are working on a DevOps project that involves multiple teams working on different
components of a web
application. How can you configure effective communication channels between these teams to
ensure smooth
collaboration, and motivate your answer with software applications that could be used?
1.2 Your team is adopting Agile methodologies for software development, and you want to
ensure that daily
stand-up meetings are conducted efficiently. How can you configure a process to facilitate these
meetings?
1.3 You're responsible for managing a large-scale cloud infrastructure. How can you configure
automated
notifications and alerts to keep your team informed about any critical issues or downtime?
1.4 You're tasked with configuring a Continuous Integration (CI) process for a software project.
How can you
ensure that code changes trigger automated builds and tests whenever they are committed to the
repository?
1.5 Your organization is transitioning to a microservices architecture, and you need to ensure
smooth
communication between different microservices. How can you configure a process to enable
effective
communication between microservices?
1.6 You're working on a project where you need to deploy infrastructure as code (IAC) using
Azure Resource
Manager (ARM) templates. How can you configure a process to manage and deploy these
templates
efficiently?
1.7 In a microservices-based architecture, how can you establish effective communication
between individual
microservices while maintaining scalability and fault tolerance?
Question 2
Study the scenario and complete the question(s) that follow:
Design and implement a release strategy
You are the lead DevOps engineer for a software development company that specializes in
building e-commerce
applications. The company is working on a major update for its flagship product, which includes
new features,
performance improvements, and bug fixes. The project involves multiple development teams
located in different
countries. As the release date approaches, you need to design and implement a release strategy
that ensures
smooth deployment, minimal downtime, and quick rollback options in case of any issues.
2.1 What factors should you consider when designing a release strategy for the e-commerce
application?
2.2 How would you implement blue-green deployments as part of the release strategy for the e-
commerce
application?
2.3 What is the purpose of feature toggles, and how can they enhance the release strategy?
2.4 Describe how you would implement canary releases in the release strategy for the e-
commerce application.
2.5 In the context of a release strategy, what are the benefits of utilizing automated testing and
validation?
2.6 How would you handle rollbacks in case of a failed deployment during the release process?
2.7 Explain how continuous monitoring and feedback play a crucial role in the release strategy
for the e-commerce
application.
Question 3
Study the scenario and complete the .
DevOps is a one-stop solution for all software engineering. From creating the software to implementing it in real-time, DevOps does all. This creates an infinite demand for excellent DevOps developers in the market. Since the platform is quite fast and effective, it is attracting the attention of many organizations that are looking to develop a software solution for their own business. Thus, here are a few DevOps interview questions that can help you crack an interview.
The document provides an overview of DevOps including definitions of DevOps, why DevOps is needed, common DevOps automation tools, the future of DevOps, and advantages of DevOps. DevOps is defined as an approach where business owners, development, operations, and quality assurance teams collaborate continuously to deliver software. It promotes better collaboration and improves delivery speed and agility. Common automation tools described include AWS, Chef, Jenkins, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Nagios. The future of DevOps includes faster delivery timelines, more user control, and DevOps as a valuable IT skill. Advantages are improved customer value, efficiency, delivery speed, and trust between teams.
DevOps is a practice that aims to break down barriers between development and operations teams. It originated as teams adopted Agile methodologies and moved toward continuous delivery of software. DevOps aims to speed up delivery through practices like continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and breaking down silos between teams. The document outlines the history and benefits of DevOps, including increased speed, reliability, collaboration and security. It also defines key DevOps practices and provides examples of how they work.
In the past few years, we have seen a rapid rise in digitalisation and automation. The importance of DevOps has also grown a lot as businesses run on the path to digital transformation. However, security has been a concern in the DevOps community, but a robust DevSecOps environment can be the solution.
Using DevOps' Intelligent Insights to Deliver Greater Business ValueCognizant
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What is the future of DevOps and its growing trends.pptxCalidad Infotech
Over the years, digitalization has seen a tremendous rise across the globe. Many businesses have become a part of this digitalization by making the optimum utilization of cloud & DevOps services. The DevOps market crossed the $8.5 billion mark in 2022 and is estimated to touch the $10 billion mark by the end of 2023.… Continue reading What is the future of DevOps and its growing trends?
Why is dev ops essential for fintech developmentnimbleappgenie
DevOps is basically a term for modern software engineering practices that focus on delivering software solutions faster and better. Similar to most buzzwords, DevOps is claimed to be important and needed, but not necessarily understood – Why? In this article, I’ve simplified the FinTech DevOps partnership and explained why it is essential for modern FinTech development projects to incorporate DevOps.
DevOps Culture transformation in Modern Software DeliveryNajib Radzuan
DevOps culture aims to shorten development cycles and enable continuous delivery of software through practices that combine software development and IT operations. This presentation discusses how digital transformation requires changes to applications, infrastructure, and processes. It defines DevOps and outlines the DevOps process and tools used. Challenges of adopting DevOps culture include overcoming resistance to change and lack of collaboration between teams. The benefits of DevOps include rapid innovation, faster time-to-market, and improved customer focus. Adopting DevOps requires improving skills, evaluating processes and tools, and starting with small changes.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Letter and Document Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Sol...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on automated letter generation for Bonterra Impact Management using Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Interested in deploying letter generation automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...alexjohnson7307
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process MiningLucaBarbaro3
Presentation of the paper "Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining" given during the CAiSE 2024 Conference in Cyprus on June 7, 2024.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary....................................................................................................................1
Agile DevOps Approach .............................................................................................................2
Agile Development in Federal Contracting.....................................................................3
Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) .........................................4
Continuous Monitoring and Continuous Feedback.......................................................6
Measuring Agile DevOps Success.............................................................................................7
Agile DevOps Metrics for Baselining and Measuring Success.....................................7
Process Metrics................................................................................................................7
Why Ask for an External Agile DevOps Maturity Assessment......................................8
Next Steps ...................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................9
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Executive Summary
Today we live in a culture where we must have everything instantly from social media, news,
instant messaging, and the web. Customers, whether they are commercial customers or Federal IT
customers, all live in the same era of astonishing technology, instant information and rampant
social networking. IT organizations have been traditionally setup to deal with a long tedious
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that has customers waiting for releases every quarter, bi-
annually or annual updates to software that doesn’t meet the end-user needs, and still has defects
requiring addional updates.
In 2001, The Manifesto for Agile Software Development (Agile) was first introduced to address
changing requirements, incremental delivery, self-organizing development teams, and quality
software. Agile development, particularly SCRUM, started becoming prevalent in the Federal
market around 2010, and yet many Federal IT organizations are still using traditional waterfall
methodology to deliver capability to agency customers. Why? The reasons are simple. 1.) Many
agile development efforts have been seen as failures in the federal government, 2.) adoption has
been slow because of FAR regulations, and 3.) educating both the contractor and federal IT
community didn’t start making traction until after 2010. Some Federal CIO’s might have lobbied
earlier, but in general RFI’s and RFP’s didn’t start including agile as a preferred methodology for
software development until after 2010 and still today we see many RFI’s and RFP’s that specify
waterfall as the preferred methodology for delivering software.
Is Agile the answer to delivering software faster, better, and cheaper to customers? Yes and No.
Agile only addresses the requirements through software development and doesn’t address rapid
delivery of software to production systems. To address the rapid delivery to production and
disconnect between development and operation teams, a new trend has immerged - software
developmentand operations (DevOps). DevOps addresses the collaboration, and automation
between software development and operation teams. Agile DevOps is Obsidian’s approach to
agile development, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deliverythrough the
use of automated tools, and streamlined processes. We deliver incremental development
continuously to production, which reduces defects, eliminates excess cycle time, provides
continuous feedback and eliminates outage windows when deploying to production.
In this white paper, we will take a deeper dive into Obsidian’s Agile DevOps approach and how
leaders in the federal government can leverage this solution for faster adoption of DevOps into
existing and new federal IT programs.
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Agile DevOps Approach
While most IT Executives, Program Managers, and technical staff are well versed in both Agile and
DevOps methodologies, most implementations are partial forms of either Agile or DevOps because
of a number of extenuating circumstances. For example, many programs implementing Agile suffer
from a lack of understanding as to how to manage requirements, deal with change, and still deliver
quality code while staying “agile”. Other programs implementing DevOps do not have a complete
understanding of the processes/toolsets required, and how to manage diverse teams who may be
working under different contracts, using different toolsets and may not be incentivized to work
collaboratively to achieve a continuous stream of production-ready software.While there is not a
single approach to address all scenarios, Obsidian has developed a methodology for Agile DevOps
and an approach for leaders in the federal government to adopt these methodologies within their IT
programs.
Figure 1. Obsidian’s Agile DevOp Approach. Our approach enables rapid implementation with
continuous feedback throughout software development, testing, and deployment to
deliver quality services.
The Obsidian Agile DevOps approach encompasses the entire SDLC. As seen in Figure 1, our
approach includes agile development, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous
delivery while providing continuous monitoring and feedback throughout every phase of the
lifecycle. Automation is a critical component of a successful DevOps approach, and the tools in this
space continue to rapidly advance.Our approach is agnostic to a particular toolset, and is
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customizable based on customer preference. The key steps for automation that enable our Agile
DevOps approach include:
1. Daily Code Commit. Developers on a daily basis check-in code into a central source code
repository.
2. Automated Builds. A Continuous Integration (CI) server is continually polling the source
repository for changes, and when a change occurs the code is checked out of the repository
and built. The built software is stored in a repository manager by the CI server.
3. Automated Testing. The code is automatically unit tested, code quality tested, smoke and UI
tested, and performance tested.
4. Automated Delivery. The built version is deployed using provisioning tools that treat
infrastructure as code.
The entire pipeline, described in the next sections, is tailorable to add in manual validation at any
phase. We increase efficiencies by automating the promotion of software code from development
to testing and into production. Our Agile DevOps approach forms collaborative teams, and reduces
the number of issues occurring during development, deployment, and operations, resulting in faster
delivery of applications/features, and reduces Operations & Maintenance (O&M) costs.
Agile Development in Federal Contracting
Our agile development approach is flexible
enough to use Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven
Development (TDD), Feature Driven
Development (FDD), SAFe, and others. Our
experience is that many federal contracts are
using Scrum, shown in Figure 2, and are
becoming quite successful at using it. The trend
as of late has been for the federal government to
act as the Product Owner and ScrumMaster. In
our experience it is more beneficial to have the
ScrumMaster be part of the contractor
development team to identify impediments and remove them without buderning our government
customer. In either case, there are going to be pro’s and con’s to both models, and both can be
successful. It’s up to the federal government which model works best for them. In cases where the
government might not have the best certified ScrumMasters it might work best for the contractor to
fill that role.
The most important challenge to overcome is the management of the product backlog with the
requirements. There are two common scenarios we’ve encountered:
1. Thousands of requirements are provided at the time of RFP.
2. No detailed requirements exists for the product backlog.
Figure 2. Obsidian’s Agile Development.
Our agile development teams produce
quality software quickly, and manage
changing requirements efficently providing
continuous feedback to stakeholders.
Agile Development
2
Weeks
Daily Standup
Sprint
Backlog
Product
Backlog
Burndown
Chart
Potentially
Shippable
Product
User
Stories
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With programs where thousands of the requirements are created and included in a RFP, we have
found that the requirements are usually created without the domain knowledge or understanding of
the system needed to develop systems that accurately represents the desired outcome. In this
scenario, we overcome this challenge by providing a Sprint 0 where the entire team does a product
backlog grooming exercise. We work as a partner with the government to identify requirements
that are valid,requirements that should be discarded, and requirements that need further
clarification so they are reflective of what the government wants.
In the scenario where no requirements exist, we work with the government in a Sprint 0 to develop
a product backlog at the Epic level and develop a product roadmap. Taking this approach provides
the government with a high level product roadmap which gives them the ability to forecast for the
option years of the contract and is usually done under a single award BPA. Using the product
backlog that is developed during Sprint 0, the Product Owner can prioritize the Epics, and then
break the epics into user stories and detailed tasks for each sprint.
We find that taking the time up-front to develop a good product backlog that is reflective of the
government’s desires, and setting up our Agile DevOps environments is key to program success.
With a good product backlog, and the proper environments we can develop a good sprint backlog
for Sprint 1+, and then conduct development using agile Scrum. We understand that requirements
and priorities are going to change, but by establishing a good foundation we can alleviate the
majority of the complexity that comes with implementing an agile development contract.
Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD)
Our Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) approach is designed to create an
automation environment for the entire end-to-end release process so that every change to the
application results in a releasable version that is built automatically. With our approach applications
are built from a very early stage in the development process at specific frequent intervals or on
every change checked in by the developers. This effectively eliminates the need for integration
testing because the code is incrementally being integrated on a daily basis. This removes the cost
associated with developers spending time on this phase. The enablement of frequent incremental
builds and mandating a comprehensive automated testing process also allows developers to
detect problems early and as a result, ensure higher application quality.
A typical CI/CD workflow is shown in Figure 3.
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Figure 3. CI/CD Workflow. Our approach eliminates the extra workload from merges and multiple
baselines.
To support rapid deployment and release we use tools that allow us to automate provisioning of
infrastructure resources and platforms. The server configuration, packages installed, relationships
with other servers are modeled with code, and is automated and has predictable outcomes,
removing error-prone manual steps.
Our approach uses software development best practices for the infrastructure code and stores the
code in a Code Repository with tags and branches, and releases the code just as if it were
applications software. Our infrastructure code is continuously integrated, tested and deployed right
along the application software and is treated no differently.
We configure our CI server with build steps to check for coding style, coding standards, static
analysis, and other features using tools such as SonarQube. We run unit tests from the CI server
and deploy the code to the development integration environment and execute additional functional
test scripts. We use tools like Selenium for smoke and UI testing. Performance testing is part of our
automated testing using tools like JMeter for load testing. Using CI server, we produce artifacts
that documents the results of the build, unit testing, and deployment and functional testing along
with the source version used for the build.
Our automated deployment provides a continuous delivery pipeline that automates deployments to
test and production environments. Our approach significantly reduces the manual intensive tasks,
resource lag time and errors prone from manual repetition. We provide automated deployment
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• The Continuous
Integration server
monitorsthe version
controlsystem for
changes and
launchesthe build
process.
• The Continuous
Integration server
runs unit tests to
validate the quality.
• The code isthen run
through the code
quality tools like
SonarQube.
• The Continuous
Integration server
deploysthe same
package on the
testing environments
(created and
configured through
infrastructure as
code toolslike
Puppet or Chef) for
thorough user
acceptance testing.
• Once the
acceptance tests
are successfulthe
same package is
deployed on the
production servers
(created and
configured through
infrastructure as
code toolslike
Puppet or Chef).
Implementing
infrastructure and
release automation
enables end to end
automation and
allows provisioning
and deploying the
application
packageson all
servers with a click
of a button.
Commit Build
Unit Test and
Quality Check
Deploy Testing
Environments
Deploy
Production
• During the
development of the
application, the
developersare
working on their
local machines and
once they are ready
to submit their new
code changesthey
commit them to the
central source code
repository.
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tools and processes reducing deployment risk, and giving the option of deploying code multiple
times per day without any degradation in service. The releases are small which reduces the risk for
system instabilities and customer user experience issues. Every change is easier to roll back and
easier to test because the number of changes per release is very small.
Continuous Monitoring and Continuous Feedback
Continuous monitoring across all phases of the application development, testing and deployment is
crucial for a successful Agile DevOps implemenation. Our approach lowers the costs of errors and
changes by providing continuous feedback throughout each phase of the lifecycle.
Obsidian offers a unique approach to monitoring using multiple tools to monitor the applications,
environments, and systems. Using tools like Evolven and LMC for environment management
provides real-time user tracking and work flows to manage the technical users that develop and
operate the application on a daily basis. We use tools like Splunk for log analysis for developers
and tools like New Relic to monitor the performance of the applications from the user’s perspective
such as page-load times, database-transactions, and systems monitoring to focus on CPU load,
memory utilization, and disk space. These tools allow our teams to better understand issues and
metrics, and ensures that we are optimizing resources to reduce operational expenditures.
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Measuring Agile DevOps Success
A survey from the Vanson Bourne market research agency (with CA) late in 2013 indicated that
39% of those surveyed had adopted some form of DevOps and 27% were planning to do so in the
near future. Despite this being such a hot topic in the IT sector with a high level of adoption, the
question we are still most commonly asked is: “Where do we start?”. Organization’s must first
baseline their current position. Having a baseline means you can build a business case, apply
targets and goals to your projects and measure your success as you progress through your
project.
Agile DevOps Metrics for Baselining and Measuring Success
There are hard, quantifiable technical and financial metrics we can measure, such as:
Number and frequency of software releases
Volume of defects
Time/cost per release
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR*)
Number and frequency of outages / performance issues
Revenue/profit impact of outages / performance issues
Number and cost of resources
Process Metrics
Agile DevOps encompases the entire SDLC that affects both development and operations staff to
greater or lesser degrees that need to be taken into consideration. All of these process
components can be improved and then optimized as the appropriate automation tools are
integrated into the environment. An ultimate goal of an Agile DevOps project is often to attain true
continuous delivery (CD) by linking these processes and tools together to allow fully tested,
production ready, committed code to proceed to productionwithout impediment. When baselining
the current state, it’s useful to measure these component processes and their relative maturity
(taking into account use of existing tools and success of implementation). We look at:
Requirements management
Agile development
Build
Release and deployment
Unit testing
User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance
Application Performance Monitoring
* The MTTR is the Mean Time to Repair, Resolve or Resolution - each of the definitions means the same and can be
used interchangeably. This term is more commonly used when talking about Application Performance Management and
the speed at which an outage or performance issue can be fixed, but equally can be used when talking about testing and
eliminating defects
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Why Ask for an External Agile DevOps Maturity Assessment
While no one is going to understand your business better than you do, we often meet organizations
who are struggling to find the time to focus on becoming more effecient. They know there are
improvements to be made but they are so busy with firefighting they can’t conceive of stopping to
baseline and evaluate their current position. It’s easy to stick with “the devil you know”, but that
won’t help you with your competitive posture or allow you to use newer technologies to cut costs
and improve quality. That’s why it’s important to have an external assessment of your approach to
Development and Operations.
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Next Steps
Understanding Agile DevOps and its benefits are just the beginning. Obsidian can help facilitate
the adoption of Agile DevOps in existing and new programs. Obsidian offers expertise to help cli-
ents align business process and technology to their business needs. We help clients develop a
strategic roadmap for how Agile DevOps technology may be used to meet mission and business
requirements. Our approach helps clients understand the goals and IT strategies within the
roadmap, and we execute projects to implement these Agile DevOps strategies. Our Agile DevOps
experts assist clients in identifying the drivers, key considerations, and other important factors for
migrating and modernizing IT Services. Our experts develop comprehensive IT Transformation
plans that provide clear steps to increase the value of technology.
Conclusion
Our Agile DevOps approach addressess the entire SDLC. With the implemenation of automation
tools and repeatable processess, we continuously deliver to production systems without outage
windows, and unnecessary manual processes. Our approach reduces costs by providing
environments that are automated thus removing the need for staff to spend time with manual
processes. We make processes repeatable which allows for more frequent and less error-prone
releases. Our vendor-agnostic approach drives increased efficiencies through improved
development and operational processes, transparency via continuous monitoring and feedback,
improved quality from continuous integration and testing, and less risk due to an automated
enviornment. Obsidian has the vision, experience, and technical know how to assist Federal
agencies to take full advantage of Agile DevOps.
For more information on Obsidian’s Agile DevOps solution, contact David Callner,
dcallner@obsidiang.com, 571.425.3031.
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About the Author
Mr. Callner is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Obsidian Global, LLC
and is responsible for the establishment and oversight of the technical direction
of the company. He is charged with ensuring that Obsidian takes a proactive
approach to identifying and deploying new technologies and ensuring alignment
with our client’s technology and strategies. Mr. Callner received a M.S. in
Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and his B.S. in Computer
Science from University of Texas.
About Obsidian Global, LLC
Obsidian Global, LLC is a certified Small Business provider of Agile Development, DevOps, Cloud
Integration Services, Solution Architecture Services, and IT Services. For more information, visit
www.obsidiang.com.