Month: 2021 1월

Managing Your Greatest Asset – People One of the best managers I ever worked under as a network engineer had a knack for helping me understand which projects and tasks were important to the business, and which were not. I was working for a medical manufacturing company, and during team meetings, we would hear, “Upper management is putting a focus on this project. Let’s talk about the rumors … now let’s talk about what’s real.” Following those discussions, Richard would start divvying out project assignments to meet the business goals. This management method has some fantastic benefits for individual contributors: It points the team towards a common goal. Most network engineers want to be proud of the work they do and have it contribute to the business. When direct‑line managers can help separate the wheat from the chaff, work requirements [ more… ]

Self-Service Application Delivery Bridges the Divide Between Developer Productivity and Infrastructure Reliability The modern market demands agility, flexibility, and above all, speed. The faster you crank out new applications and features, the better – and companies are taking note. As of 2018, 72% of enterprises planned to implement DevOps methodologies within the next year, and the DevOps market will reach $9.4 billion by 2023. But as organizations put their DevOps visions into action, infrastructure teams are facing a new development‑centric reality, one in which they must work at the same pace as development teams to deliver the services and policies required across a complex web of data centers, cloud, and virtualized environments – all without getting in the way. The Infrastructure Bottlenecks that Developers Dread Many organizations feel the pain of balancing faster development with operational requirements like reliability, scalability, stability, and security. The rise of [ more… ]