Database security has often been treated as a final checkpoint before release. But DevSecOps ensures security is integrated throughout the DevOps process, making compliance more efficient, reducing manual effort, and ensuring organizations stay ahead of evolving threats.Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more
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…Read more