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Larry Gordon is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of New York-based xOps, an IT services company exclusively focused on devops. Larry has held senior leadership positions at Cognizant and Capgemini and has founded and led IT services and software companies in the security, devops and digital transformation segments. He has also been a successful angel investor in the energy and cloud spaces.
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Product managers need devops, too
Product managers need devops, and devops people need product managers. There are a number of things they can do to help one another create better products more efficiently

Cloud migration will drive devops adoption
Cloud migrations provide a great opportunity to do a culture shift. Devops and automation are compelling goals that become suddenly viable

How to leverage offshore developers for devops
Devops is expensive, potentially 24/7, and key to the business, so offshore considerations should be in the strategic mix

Eliminating alert fatigue: a devops secret
Alert fatigue is a common plague among devops organization. To eliminate it requires the right tools and techniques and managers have to make sure the processes thresholds are correct

Devops starts with leadership and culture
Devops is not just tools and skills. It requires the right leaders and the right leadership skills to make sure the culture and processes are correct

Devops open source monitoring tools can reduce cost and increase uptime
Open source tools can cost-effectively help devops engineers see and correlate data from multiple data streams more easily