The HEAP (Healthcare, Economics, Anthropology and Performance Engg) blogs

DevOps is all over the town. It's like the vitamin supplement without which no food is complete.  Be it CIO scorecard or request for proposal, lack of DevOps will debilitate you as much as lack of of Vitamins would do to your health. Like vitamins they also come in different variants. Generally anything expedited can be called DevOps and then there is a lot of off-label usage. For those not aware of 'off-label' usage-Rogaine, the popular hair growth gel, was originally devised for treating acnes until some incidentally realized that it also grows hairs. I wonder how that realization dawned. It might be accidental in case of Rogaine, but its deliberate for DevOps as vendors look for bigger pie of budget. We take code as quickly as possible to test and production and then report as quickly as possible from production. Then the team is quickly out of business as well. DevOps runs out of ideas as it is built on narrow use case of expediting code movem...

DevOps is walloping up IT shops and like it or not, all have to roll along in the great DevOps marathon.  We all have to be cognizant of this upcoming wave and consider aligning our expertise and operating model to this world. Everyone have their own interpretations and way of using DevOps to solve their business problems (like, 'I don't like this fella, lets DevOps him'). Let me share on whats DevOps need to be doing. I am heavily colored by experiences with projects that took too long and fell out of end user's favor and I acknowledge that there could be more than one use cases for DevOps. Objectives 1.  DevOps originates from need for agile infrastructure where Development team and  Operations collaborate. 2. Quick releases and reduce time to go to market. This I believe was not one of original goals but a natural outcome as conflicts diminish thus reducing the need for paperwork and process. It may also be an outcome of market demand of doing t...

Some original quotes that you may use with due credits in your presentations, smart alec responses or generally to relieve stress. First quote is provided in template that I would like to request you to use. I automated the totally useless activity that we should not be even doing and saved huge money for the company.          ~ Vikram Chandna NoDev, need is the mother of invention. Unpredictive Analytics, 'tell me what I  don't know' Artificial Intelligence- fed bank statements, credit card details, diary scans,  lipid profile, facebook timeline, blog hits analytics and recent job performance appraisal and applied K-means clustering algorithm and ARIMA model to get some guidance. It told me I should be sleeping on left side at 45 degrees angle. Thanks God for creating all the species. We would be running out of names for the latest products. Doc prescribed Agile for 'collective am...