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New Toy!!! IBM Workload Deployer
The company I work for serves many large corporations in our customer base, many of whom are IBM shops with the commensurately large WebSphere installed bases. So, as you might imagine, it behooves us...
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DevOps is about Developing a Change Application System
As the DevOps movement rolls on, there is a pattern emerging. Some efforts are initiated by development, seeking relief on test environment management. Others are initiated by operations departments...
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A System for Changing Systems – Part 4 – Groundwork for Understanding the...
In the last couple of posts, we have talked about how application systems need a change application system around them to manage the changes to the application system itself. A “system to manage the...
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A System for Changing Systems – Part 5 – Top-level Categories
The first step to understanding the framework is to define the broad, top level capability areas. A very common problem in technology is the frequent over-use of terms that can have radically different...
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A System for Changing Systems – Part 6 – Change Management and Orchestration...
This post covers the first two capability areas in the system taxonomy. This discussion will begin with where the changes come into the “system for changing systems”, Change Management, and proceed...
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A System for Changing Systems – Part 7 – Deployment Capabilities
The third capability area is that of Deployment. Deployment deals with the act of actually putting the changes into a given target environment. It is not prescritive of how this happens. Many shops...
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A System for Changing Systems – Part 8
The fourth capability area is that of Provisioning. It covers the group of activities for creating all or part of an environment in which an application system can run. This is a key capability for...
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A System for Changing Systems – Part 9
The last capability area in the framework is that of Monitoring. I saved this for last because it is the one that tends to be the most difficult to get right. Of course, commensurate with the...
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What Makes a Good DevOps Tool?
We had an interesting discussion the other day about what made a “good” DevOps tool. The assertion is that a good citizen or good “link” in the toolchain has the same basic attributes regardless of...
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When is Technology ‘Legacy’?
I recently got into a discussion with someone about what made a technology ‘legacy’. This happened because I pointed out that the typical enterprise Java / .NET infrastructure was effectively ‘legacy’...
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