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What’s hot with DevOps
DevOps as a movement to transform people, technology, processes for higher business value is here to stay. It’s disrupting organizational processes replacing the old with the new. Command and control IT, a historical approach to regulating tech top-down, is trending toward decentralization thanks to DevOps. Software source control is another such case. We saw Git take on the source control […]
May 26, 2015 · 3 minAll articles by Alberto Arias Maestro
Showing 1–7Turn IT into a Service Catalog
Unless you live under a rock in the world of cloud computing, you’re probably aware of a growing generational gap between public clouds and enterprise IT. Public clouds versus enterprise IT Consider the size of budgets public cloud companies invest in R&D. The budgets are astronomically huge when you compare to the budget of a […]
Bird’s Eye View of IT as a Service
In working closely with large enterprises for several years, we consistently hear businesses talk of IT needs to achieve critical and strategic goals. Commonly these large enterprises span many verticals like technology, online media, finance, banking, and more. At the heart of their business goals, lie technology hurdles they need to overcome to scale as […]
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, has created an enormous amount of buzz, a vibrant community, and an extremely interesting ecosystem upon which developers and operations teams can draw […]
ElasticBox Jenkins Plugin – Easy Continuous Integration Setup
Introduction to Jenkins and ElasticBox ElasticBox has recently released a Jenkins plugin which makes it possible to configure a continuous integration or continuous deployment scenario without writing any code or scripts! How have we done this you ask? Simple, it was magic. In all seriousness, magic is the end result if you integrate ElasticBox and […]
Deploying a MongoDB Cluster with ElasticBox
Our founders, back in the day, were part of the .NET framework team at Microsoft. So it’s no surprise that their first version of ElasticBox was written on C#, .NET framework and SQL Server. Fast forward to 2012. As the ElasticBox vision crystallized, we wanted a robust, scalable architecture to match our vision. So we reevaluated all the existing technologies. Among other things, we […]
Flexible and Scalable Multi-tier Application Deployments
This is a guest post from Alberto Arias Maestro, CTO and co-founder of ElasticBox One of the biggest problems facing software engineers since the dawn of the multi-tier application is, well, how to make it multi-tier. It’s more than just having several supporting applications – it is about connecting the layers correctly and allowing them […]