Archives for July 2014
Month: July 2014
Mobile App Development Will Soon Grow More Enterprise-Focused
As the global mobile app market begins to swell, many consumer-focused developers inexperienced in the ways of enterprise development will soon follow the money to become better initiated, a new report out ...
Think the Developer Tool Market Is Annoying? Just Wait…
I recently attended the Velocity Conference and DevOps Days in the Bay Area. While I usually pride myself in being “in the know” of what is available and possible. It never fails ...
DevOps’ weakness and what it does best
Every great movement has its weaknesses, be the movement social, technical, or political, there are always ways in which it falls short and steps must be taken. DevOps is not some special ...
Bringing Collaboration, Orchestration and Lifecycle Management to Docker Containers
As you most likely know, Docker is a Linux container technology that stands to revolutionize or standardize the delivery mechanism of applications and services in the cloud. Docker, which just turned 1.0, ...
IT Operations, Production Support and DevOps: 5 Tips for Remote Systems Tech Support
Cloud computing is a paradigm shift in how applications are delivered, developed, and managed. Because of this, Information that was available in the IT operations infrastructure may no longer accessible or available, ...
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline — What it is and Why it’s so Important in Developing Software
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software strategy that enables organizations to deliver new features to users as fast and efficiently as possible. The core idea of CD is to create a repeatable, ...
In Support of DevOps: Kanban vs. Scrum
The Kanban software development methodology is getting a lot of attention as of late, particularly for its ability to enable DevOps. Some organizations are even going so far as to move from ...
Will you have your IDE in a box? On a Train? With a Firefox?
As predicted the Cloud IDE race is picking up. Now I’m sure. Cloud IDE or no Cloud IDE it is not a choice. But it is an huge opportunity ...
The WhiteBox PaaS
One of my favourite blog posts about PaaS is James Urquhart's ‘Is your PaaS composable or contextual? (Hint: the answer matters)’. In the post, James distinguishes two different types of PaaS: Contextual and ...
DevOps by any other name still gets things done
My version of “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is not nearly as eloquent as Shakespeare’s, but the sentiment is the same. Juliet argues in Romeo and Juliet ...
Five Top Tips for DevOps At Scale
Since I published my blog explaining the topic of 'Big DevOps' late last year, the concept of Enterprise DevOps has exploded, with commentary, experience, and advice (some good, some awful) popping up ...
Docker acquires Orchard to extend platform leadership
Experienced team brings talent and technology to strategic developer initiatives San Francisco, CA - July 23, 2014 - Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor of the Docker open source project, today announced that ...
