Archives for September 2014
Month: September 2014
Why We Build in Docker Containers
We are using Docker as a virtualization technology for our continuous delivery/deployment pipelines, in Rultor.com. We experimented with other technologies and Docker's approach proved to be the best fit for our needs ...
BlazeMeter Adds New Relic Insights to Drive Testing
BlazeMeter a performance / load testing as a self-service platform for mobile apps, websites, and APIs lets developers test mobile and API backend performance and view KPIs in a dashboard. BlazeMeter tools ...
Counterpoint: Right-Picking the First Project to Go DevOps On
Lori and I were discussing DevOps and surveys the other day, and in what must be described a rare occurrence, we disagreed on the best path to undertake your first DevOps project ...
Four key vectors for closing the DevOps feedback loop
A question I am asked frequently about DevOps – and a perennial challenge to all DevOps slide artists – is what exactly we mean by the idea of 'closing the feedback loop' ...
ShellShock vulnerability: Impact, analysis and protection
This week Stephane Chazelas, an Akamai security researcher, discovered an interesting bug in the Unix Bash (Bourne Again Shell) shell – known as “Shellshock” or “Bash Bug”. This vulnerability affects a wide range of operating systems ...
CloudBees nurtures the Jenkins community to new highs
One of the linchpins in the DevOps tools box is Jenkins. Just about everyone knows Jenkins. For those few not familiar with Jenkins, here is an excerpt from the “What is Jenkins” ...
Why Continuous Integration Doesn’t Work
Continuous integration is easy. Download Jenkins, install, create a job, click the button, and get a nice email saying that your build is broken (I assume your build is automated). Then, fix broken ...
DevOps and Infor’s Journey to the Cloud
Infor, a leading provider of micro-vertical application suites, has introduced DevOps as part of an initiative to migrate its enterprise application suites to a cloud platform. The significance of this should not ...
Right-Picking the First Project to Go DevOps On
One of the hardest things to do when starting a new initiative is picking the right project to work on. Should I start with App A? App B? Does it really matter as ...
Top 3 Must-Haves in Development/IT Operations Project Handoffs, Part Two
As you may recall, in part one we uncovered 1.5 of the top three must-haves in development/IT operations project handoffs. We now know that operations really needs to know what the normal ...
Enterprising DevOps in Banking sector
"Shift left" is common in project life cycle management where the risks are mitigated early in the cycle by involving QA team early in the planning & development phase. In the IT ...
IBM and Rackspace join as premier sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston, tickets now only $5
We are very happy to report that IBM and Rackspace have signed on as a premier sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston on October 28, 2014. They join CA Technologies ITInvolve and JumpCloud ...
