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Why DevOps is all about creating one team

What is DevOps and how should organizations introduce it? In this series of articles, we talk to DevOps thought leaders who are leading the way in implementing advanced software development practices like DevOps for database as well as application development. What are the challenges they’ve faced, how have they overcome them, and what lessons... Read more

Introducing DevOps to the US Government – Part 2

In the first post in this series, I talked about the challenges for the US Government sector when attempting to introduce DevOps. The sector lags behind others such as Financial Services on every measure, yet the technical obstacles like a disruption to workflows and a lack of appropriate skills are the same. Beyond those... Read more

Introducing DevOps to the US Government – Part 1

Over the last five years, Redgate’s annual State of Database DevOps Report has provided valuable insights into how and why DevOps is being adopted, along with the drivers for introducing it for both application and database development, and the obstacles businesses and organizations face. Importantly, with responses from developers, database specialists and IT leadership... Read more

Why you don’t just buy tools to make DevOps happen

Why DevOps needs a change from a ‘me’ to a ‘we’ mindset

Challenges to Database DevOps: Dealing With Drift

Sometimes, people start their DevOps journey by getting their database into source control, but then, they don’t deploy from source control. Instead, they continue their manual deployments to production. Quickly they find that the database code in their production instances and the database code in their source control system don’t match. Alternatively, you may... Read more

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: How Do You Get The Data Team On Board?

I think this is my single favorite question that came up at the recent panel discussion: How do you get DB folks who just go in and make changes to understand they need DevOps, source control, change management, etc.? There’s a lot to answer in this question, however, to keep this down to a... Read more

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Where To Start With a Separate Team?

There were so many questions asked at a recent presentation that I just didn’t have time to answer them all. However, many of them were really interesting, so I promised to address them over time as blog posts. The next question is: I manage an ETL team that supports highly customized code for all... Read more

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: What If I Get It Wrong?

Another great question that I think I can try to answer: I always gets bogged down in the details and worry about doing it wrong and making a mess that is difficult to maintain. How do you deal with this? I’m doing a series of blog posts on the questions from a recent panel... Read more

Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps: Minimum Team Size

The next question in this series of blog posts I want to tackle is: What’s the smallest recommended size of development team that can reasonably set up and manage a DevOps process? These questions all came from a panel discussion during PASS Summit. The audience interaction was amazing and we had so many great... Read more

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