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How to Recruit Smarter: Best Tips to Start Your DevOps Hiring

October 24, 2022

A lot of DevOps hiring goes amiss because people are starting in the wrong place. If you view DevOps as simply another job title instead of something...

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How to Recruit Smarter: Best Tips to Start Your DevOps Hiring

October 24, 2022

A lot of DevOps hiring goes amiss because people are starting in the wrong place. If you view DevOps as simply another job title instead of something...

What Are the DevOps Roles?

September 15, 2022

What do tech giants like Amazon, Netflix, and Etsy have in common? They all use DevOps to ensure high-quality products and optimal stability. Now,...

What Emerging Tech Companies Are Looking for in DevOps/SRE Roles

August 23, 2022

Tech companies are launching and growing at a rapid pace. These emerging organizations all understand the importance of fostering a DevOps culture...

Is Your DevOps/SRE Team Meeting Your Business Needs?

July 26, 2022

The last two to three years have been full of disruption and uncertainty. As the pandemic continues to be a constant, the business needs of...

Women in DevOps and the Importance of Diversity in DevOps Culture

July 13, 2022

Careers in information technology have long been male-dominated, but the world is changing. Diversity in information technology is becoming a...

The Ultimate List of Open-Source DevSecOps Tools to Improve SRE Performance

July 5, 2022

Every DevSecOps team needs a set of tools to effectively manage security concerns and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) performance. This tool kit...

Attractive Equity Package Deals for Top-Performing DevOps/SRE Hires

June 16, 2022

When negotiating salaries and other benefits while considering an opportunity, many DevOps and site reliability engineer (SRE) candidates look for...

The Best SREs Don't Want to Be Found...Yet

June 3, 2022

Careers have parallels to supply and demand models. In roles with high demand and low supply, candidates tend to be passive and aren’t seeking out...

How to Hire a DevOps Engineer: 4 Best Practices

May 5, 2022

Recruiting and hiring in the tech field can be challenging. You need to align the right skill sets with your specific needs. That’s especially true...

4 Reasons Working with a Niche DevOps/SRE Recruitment Agency Is Crucial

April 14, 2022

Hiring in the DevOps market is growing significantly. The roles involved with DevOps approaches, such as site reliability engineers (SREs), keep...

What to Look for in a DevOps Engineer

April 7, 2022

Hiring the right site reliability engineer (SRE) candidates is essential to strengthening your DevOps culture. SREs play an important role in your...

The Top Technical and Business Benefits of a DevOps Culture

March 31, 2022

Establishing a DevOps culture drives many benefits for companies. Your organization can derive technical and business value from this philosophy....

What's Driving DevOps Services Hiring? Reliability is No Longer Optional

March 21, 2022

Organizations are shifting to a DevOps culture for software development, and the transition is accelerating due to the impact of COVID-19. 

DevSecOps Framework Plays a Major Role in the Financial Software Development Lifecycle

February 16, 2022

Applying a DevSecOps framework is critical in financial software development. It fits the needs of a rapidly changing product and a highly regulated...

The history of Silicon Valley and the Venture Capital industry

February 2, 2022

Looking at the history of Silicon Valley is one way to better understand why it outperformed other technology hubs and remained for decades the...

Edge Computing vs. Cloud Computing

January 13, 2022

Edge computing and cloud computing are two types of data processing and storage technologies that enable high-performance and innovation-driven...

DevSecOps and Supply Chain Security

December 22, 2021

With the proliferation of distributed systems, edge computing, and cloud-native technologies, software development and delivery lifecycles are...

The corporate-fintech startup procurement process

December 2, 2021

The ongoing rise of fintech, modern technological capabilities, and changing customer expectations are pushing the traditional banking industry to...

Benefits of Observability for Site Reliability Engineers

November 18, 2021

In today’s technology-driven world, bringing new and higher quality services to market fast is critical for business success. Plus, to stay ahead of...

Stuck in mid-level DevOps evolution?

October 28, 2021

Technology underlines the way modern businesses bring value to customers, with speed and agility playing a crucial part in staying ahead of the...

Improve security at the edge with DevSecOps

October 26, 2021

From simple temperature sensors to the most complex machine vision cameras, the growing number of IoT devices produce a colossal stream of data that...

What Is Edge Computing and Why It Matters

October 21, 2021

Enterprises across the globe are increasingly migrating towards multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies to strengthen their system reliability, drive...

Developer productivity and business performance

October 19, 2021

The introduction of Agile Software Development and DevOps methodologies enabled technology-led organizations to develop and deliver better software...

When Should You Hire Your First SRE or DevOps Engineer?

October 14, 2021

The one time the answer is straightforward is if you are building a product in the DevOps or SRE market, then you should have one or more engineers...

Technical Evangelists – The role figureheads (leaders) play in the world of DevOps/SRE

October 12, 2021

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, DevOps adoption entered the mainstream, with enterprises across industries acknowledging that DevOps practices...

How a DevOps Culture Affects Product Readiness and Customer Satisfaction

October 7, 2021

Every company that seeks to stay relevant in today’s digitalized world needs its software to be market-ready and deliver a great experience—no matter...

A Look Ahead: The DevOps Hiring Demand Increase

September 7, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic enabled an unexpected acceleration in digital transformation that has irrevocably changed the role of software and the internet...

Shifting left - How and why has the DevSecOps movement come about

September 2, 2021

Speed is crucial to stay ahead of the competition. With DevOps, organizations can now release code faster than ever. However, working in increasingly...

Pitch Decks - Three Keys to Success

August 31, 2021

Building a company is a thrilling yet agonizing journey. Driven by a strong belief that their product will positively impact customers’ lives, tech...

What Are Distributed Systems?

August 26, 2021

A distributed system designates a group of independent software components that run as a single system. These independent components, or nodes, are...

The history of DevOps – How has DevOps evolved over the years

August 24, 2021

The significant influence of DevOps transcends the simple origin story of removing the barriers between developers and operations teams. What became...

Why is DevOps important for business?

August 19, 2021

DevOps has come a long way since breaking barriers between dev and ops. As all businesses strive to be more responsive to customers’ rising...

FinOps and Cloud Migration

August 12, 2021

The cloud transformed the way businesses bring value to customers. Companies that have successfully moved their assets to cloud register lower IT...

What it takes to be a founding Site Reliability Engineer- Experts weigh in on the matter

August 10, 2021

In today’s dynamic socio-economic climate and advanced state of technological capabilities, consumers’ persistent demand for new features and...

Embedded SREs within the SWE team or a separate SRE team entirely? - Pros and Cons

August 5, 2021

Companies running high-reliability services are getting better at defining their unique Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) needs and understanding which...

What startups can learn from big tech companies' hiring process

July 29, 2021

From buzzword to essential practice, DevOps grew significantly in popularity in a short time. As the discipline gradually established its crucial...

What are the key phases in DevOps?

July 27, 2021

Development teams first implemented an agile approach to software development to accelerate delivery and improve application quality. Agile software...

Problems Solved by DevOps

July 20, 2021

DevOps is an organizational culture shift founded on collaboration, communication, and shared responsibility between development and operations teams...

The Rise of the Site Reliability Engineer

July 13, 2021

The meaning of Site Reliability Engineering and the role of Site Reliability engineers has evolved over the last 15 years, adapting and incorporating...

Why is DevOps referred to as a culture?

July 8, 2021

DevOps grew out of the Agile manifesto formulated in 2001 as a new way of developing software that focused on “individuals and interactions over...

Diversity and Inclusion in DevOps

June 29, 2021

“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that...

6 Reasons Your DevOps Team Is Failing to Meet Growing Customer Expectations

June 22, 2021

Experts say that the last year significantly accelerated digital transformation. The pandemic didn’t create the need to transition, but it made it...

Buy vs. Build Webinar

June 21, 2021

The buy vs. build dilemma is widespread among modern technology organizations. On the one hand, most of the solutions in the market involve a...

Harrison Clarke 2021 DevOps Compensation Survey

June 17, 2021

The past year marked an unforeseen acceleration in digital adoption that further established the strategic value of DevOps and Site Reliability...

DevOps and Remote Work

June 10, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has dramatically affected the labor force. Many sectors with high physical proximity shut down; workers deemed essential...

DevSecOps Strategy: Finding the Right Balance Required to Be Both Fast and Safe

May 25, 2021

Digitization across all companies hit a massive acceleration in response to the pandemic. This urgency means businesses need to respond quickly and...

The Need for SRE Observability

May 20, 2021

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) have many goals and objectives. Above all is ensuring the reliability of the applications and an excellent customer...

COVID-19 Made Site Reliability an Essential Practice

May 13, 2021

The tech world instated the norm to provide reliable, uninterrupted service at all times, long before the global health pandemic forced us to reshape...

5 Tips for Creating a Tight DevOps Culture while Working Remote

May 12, 2021

The pandemic changed the way the world works. Remote work was gaining adoption pre-COVID but quickly became a necessity rather than a perk. Technical...

6 Common Mistakes Companies Hiring SREs Make

May 5, 2021

Companies hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) seek exceptional talent with considerable experience, but they often rush to make decisions. When...

Survey Says: There Are Still Many DevSecOps Gaps to be Bridged

May 3, 2021

DevOps ushered in a new ecosystem for software development. It took two siloed areas, development and operations, and created a new framework and...

Debug your Hiring Methods to Create a Successful DevOps Culture

April 28, 2021

Hiring Site Reliability Engineers is challenging. All the data points to this as a high-demand, low-supply field. Most professionals are passive and...

DevOps and Security: The Pressure to Compromise

April 23, 2021

In the race to get your product to market, there’s pressure from many sources. That’s especially true for venture capital-backed startups, whose...

The DevOps Competitive Advantage

April 15, 2021

Anchoring your digital project development with a DevOps/SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) team provides many advantages over those without such a...

The Top Site Reliability Engineer Skills

April 6, 2021

The role of site reliability engineer (SRE) is critical to any DevOps company culture. SREs focus on performance and reliability at scale, which is...

Why a High-Performing DevOps/SRE Team is Critical to a Business’s Success

April 2, 2021

Businesses expect every team to perform at a high level. When teams collaborate, communicate, and trust one another, success is a natural byproduct....

How to Enhance CI/CD Security with DevSecOps

March 12, 2021

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are two critical components of DevOps practices. They are often at the crux of where...

Hiring for DevOps/SREs: Expectation vs. Reality

February 18, 2021

Hiring for any role has an expectation and a reality. Recruiting for DevOps professionals and site reliability engineers (SREs) is no different....

The ‘Why’ Behind Harrison Clarke: Thoughts from Founder Firas Sozan

February 10, 2021

Every company has an origin story, and many times, businesses launch because there’s a gap in the market. Although tech recruiting has become a...