How DevOps and development in general can benefit from a new way of looking at provisioning and configuring systems by viewing common terminology in a new light. — I recently watched a presentation on configuration management tools and techniques, which sparked an idea worth exploring. Everyone agrees that tools for infrastructure-as-code configuration management are essential and valuable, but at the same time, the frustration with using these tools is relatively high. What if the existing mechanisms for configuration…

AWS re:Invent is a reliable bellwether for what’s coming next. — AWS re:Invent offers almost limitless opportunities for learning and collaboration, with training and certification sessions, workshops and labs, not to mention the Jams and GameDays. But the real draw of AWS re:Invent is finding out what’s on the horizon for AWS. Last year’s product announcements included Amazon ECS Anywhere and…

In modern software development, specifically when releasing new versions, we often need to deploy the same application with different configurations. Depending on where we are deploying the software and other related factors or requirements, these configurations can change your application’s behavior. …

Santa Clara, Calif., February 16, 2021 — In the most recent acquisition for the company, DoiT International (DoiT), a global multi-cloud software and managed service provider with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Machine Learning, and Big Data, today announced that it has acquired ProdOps, a top provider of scalable software operations…

Not surprising that even in 2019, there are still people in IT who think that a single server’s utilization should be a significant measurement, completely forgetting the importance of holistically looking at the system as a whole. This post explains the Systems Thinking way to think about IT, with a…

In an earlier post on DevOps Transformation using Theory of Constraints, I explained how adopting “DevOps” as a buzzword is likely to improve very little in an organization. …

A short presentation that I made during the DevOps in Israel meetup event about healing organizations with DevOps culture. Link to the event — http://www.meetup.com/devops-in-israel/events/157983792/ This blog post includes slides and a bit of narrative for each of the slides. …

A couple of days ago one of our client websites was DDoS attacked by BitTorrent clients from China. This short article explains the attack and suggests a way to better protect from this particular type of attack. Denial of Service attacks can disrupt a service on the internet and deny…

One of the most popular tools to improve security is the CIS (Center for Internet Security) Benchmarks, particularly the CIS Distribution Independent Linux Benchmark. The CIS Linux Benchmark details important security measures that should be applied to a Linux server to make it more secure. Section 4 of the CIS…