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Many see architects as a dying breed, reasoning that with infrastructure moving to the cloud, who needs them anymore? But even with cloud, infrastructure is complex and somebody is needed to sit between the goals of the CSuite and the demands of the developers, and ultimately to make the business’s digital dreams a reality. Architects are becoming more prominent – as the IT consultants of the business, helping everyone realize their ambitions.

The implementation of DevOps tactics and culture isn’t slowing down anytime soon. How can you become a DevOps engineer? What does a DevOps engineer do? If you are an Ops person and would like to explore what DevOps is all about, here are some details on how to become a DevOps engineer, the required skills and the expected salary.

Do you know your worth? Stack Overflow updated its Salary Calculator with new data for 2019, adding Italy to the list of countries that can search for sample salaries. Stay updated with what your experience is worth and use the calculator to calculate how much you should make, depending on your location, skillset, and experience level.

For effective, modern, cloud-connected software systems we need to organize our teams in certain ways. Taking account of Conway’s Law, we look to match the team structures to the required software architecture, enabling or restricting communication and collaboration for the best outcomes.

According to research, 90% of startups fail. What does the 10% have that sets them apart? One of the ways to prevent failure is by keeping up with good DevOps practices and using essential DevOps monitoring tools, like Docker and Ansible. In this article, find out why DevOps practices help make startups more stable, secure, and save on time and money.

DevOps has achieved widespread success. However, that success has been uneven for those who work in Operations. In most enterprises today, it is not uncommon for engineers who come anywhere near Operations to find themselves buried in interruptions, tickets, and repetitive work.

Service meshes offer users a way to control different parts of an application and how they share data with one another. MuleSoft, an integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs, announced its newest product, Anypoint Service Mesh. Check this new offering out, what some of its features are, as well as a few other service meshes available and some additional reading for learning more.

Today we pay close attention to scaling our systems, testing for chaos, and reducing MTTR (mean time to repair) in production. Yet our continuous delivery pipelines don’t get nearly as much love. This talk presents tried and tested patterns for increasing accelerating delivery of changes in a safe manner.

The year 2020 will bring some major changes regarding our very own DevOps Conference: We will be visiting five locations around the globe with our unique speaker line-up and a vast array of topics, trends, and talks. From next year on, you can attend at the DevOps Conference in Singapore, London, Berlin, New York City, and Munich. All the information you need is collected on our brand new conference website www.devopscon.io – Have a look!

Docker is a hard beast to tame, so it’s essential that you know the basics inside out. At DevOpsCon, Gabriella Querales gave a talk about Docker components and how they work, and what to do if they don’t. In Silicon Valley, engineers deploy-and-tell, so sit a while and listen.

DevOps and Serverless, two frames for making sense of the waves of change in IT. Moving beyond a modernist organizational concept, large enterprises and start-ups alike are no longer simply asking “can this be automated (the modernist conception)” but are instead turning towards understanding “what it will mean when this is automated”.

The demand for DevOps continues to grow. As IT infrastructures become more complex, the resources to efficiently manage them grow increasingly important. What’s the next stop on its journey? The next evolution for addressing IT challenges is AIOps—the application of machine learning (ML) and data science to solve IT operational problems.

Event-driven microservices architecture has gained a lot of attention recently. The trend in the industry is to move away from Monolithic applications to microservices to innovate faster. While microservices have their benefits, they also come with drawbacks.

Meet the newest monthly release from GitLab. GitLab version 12.3 adds features for free users and premium users alike. As an added bonus, you can also watch all the talks from GitLab Commit Brooklyn 2019 with a handy YouTube playlist. The good news for GitLab keeps coming. Recently, the company reached a valuation of $2.7 billion.