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Chris Riley

Chris Riley (@hoardingio) is obsessed with bringing modern technologies to those who need to solve real-world problems, from unicorn to reality. Chris speaks and engages with end-users regularly in the areas of DevOps, SecOps, and App Dev. He works for Splunk as a Tech Advocate and is a regular contributor to industry blogs such as ContainerJournal.com, DevOps.com and Sweetcode.io. He is also the host of the podcast, Developers Eating the World. As a bad-coder-turned-technology-advocate, Chris understands the challenges and needs of modern engineers, as well as how technology fits into the broader business goals of companies in a demanding high-tech world.
Feature Flags and DevOps

The Relationship Between Feature Flags and DevOps

| benefits of feature flags, devops, feature flags, production
From 2017 I’ve started most DevOps conversations with, “DevOps is now boring, and I love it!” What I mean by boring is that we are arguing less and less about why you ...
How IT Engineers Can Learn DataOps

How IT Engineers Can Learn DataOps

| data operations, data performance, DataOps, IT engineers, IT operations, ITOps
To seasoned IT engineers, DataOps may not sound very difficult. After all, if you work in IT, you know all about managing databases, provisioning data storage, moving data around and so on ...
Why Workload Security Is Not Just for IT Anymore

Why Workload Security Is Not Just for IT Anymore

| developers, devops, it, security, Symantec, testing, workload protection
Once upon a time, workload security (which means making sure an application and its environment are configured and deployed securely) was something that developers didn’t have to think much about. Developers’ only ...
An Even More Modern Continuous Integration

An Even More Modern Continuous Integration

| ci, codeship, devops, Release Automation, tapinfluence
It would be strange for me to tell you that there is an even newer new approach to release automation, as if the processes of continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous ...
Why a Dev/Test Cloud Is Not Optional

Why a Dev/Test Cloud Is Not Optional

| Dev/Test, development, integration, testing
How do you create a private Dev/Test cloud to standardize processes, tooling and environments across teams? Recently, I participated in an online panel on the subject of, "Creating an Internal Dev/Test Cloud," ...
PTC: Using DevOps to Transform Applications

PTC: Using DevOps to Transform Applications

| cloud, delivery chain, devops, modern applications
Large companies and monolithic applications are not usually associated with DevOps. But I recently discovered that some of the best DevOps operations have come from the largest organizations and most complex applications, ...
Booz Allen Helps the GSA Put Your DevOps to Shame

Booz Allen Helps the GSA Put Your DevOps to Shame

| booze allen, containers, gsa
Production Docker, automated workflows, open source projects and microservices are just some of the ways that Booz Allen is helping the General Services Administration (GSA) modernize its IT operations. And frankly, after ...
Defining What DevOps is Not

Defining What DevOps is Not

| governance, pipeline, sustainability
It’s not often that my emails turn into full-blown conversations on DevOps. But when it happens, it’s a great time to take advantage of the insights. John Purrier of Automic and I ...
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) - Episode 33: Measuring DevOps: The Metrics that Matter Along Your...

How do you measure DevOps? What does that even mean?

| KPIs
What are some of the metrics you should be monitoring to track your DevOps efforts, and which metrics should you abandon? ...
Virtuoso: Focused on Quality as the First Step in DevOps Innovation

Virtuoso: Focused on Quality as the First Step in DevOps Innovation

| automation, software quality
I’ve found that those who have been most successful with DevOps do not actually care for the phrase. What they care about is the ability to automate, respond to, and improve their ...