The Software Agents: Lucidworks – Will Hayes, CEO – Remaking Retail Overnight
The Software Agents – Episode 1: Lucidworks – Will Hayes, CEO – Remaking Retail Overnight 07/15/2020 The Software Agents is a new podcast series sponsored by CloudBees. Each week we bring you leaders from many fields applying software to reimagine them for the new world under construction. Our first guest this week is Will Hayes, CEO […]
Work from Home Tips
Bees have worked remotely since our founding 10 years ago. We have an internal Slack channel used to discuss topics related to working from home. We threw out a question or two, asking the Bees for their best tips and practices to make working from home easier. We got back a ton of responses and […]
Why Software Delivery Management Matters
Continuous Everything: Why Software Delivery Management Matters In the DevOps world, implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a long and arduous digital transformation process. That said, many organizations are succeeding and reaping the benefits of automation. Despite an organization’s ability to deliver software faster, there’s still missing gaps from silos that exist […]
Creating Software-First Businesses with SDM
Organizations striving to be “software-first” businesses are focusing their investments narrowly – on creating the best development and deployment practices they can. They’re implementing DevOps cultures, standing up CI/CD pipelines, integrating new sets of tools, training staff, and organizing new procedures – all to make software delivery more efficient. To an extent, the moves are […]
The 2020 State of Software Delivery Management Report
To read the latest software industry research from Accelerate Strategies Group, download the report. To hear ASG discuss the results, listen to episode 77 of DevOps Radio here. Despite years of embracing DevOps, organizations are nowhere near extracting maximum value and efficiency from their software delivery pipelines. That’s one of the key takeaways from a just-released survey of software […]
Overheard at CloudBees Connect: The Reality of Delivering Modern Software
What’s it like delivering modern software today? We posed that question to eight DevOps leaders from a diverse range of industries and development organizations. They were all participants in panel discussions I moderated at CloudBees Connect – held virtually this year. Needless to say, there were no short answers to our questions, but here’s a sampling of […]
How to Do Agile Software Development the Right Way
Agile development has been around for years, but not everybody is doing it the right way. Just ask Elisabeth Hendrickson, who until recently was vice president of quality assurance at Pivotal Labs, a leader in agile software development and now a division of VMware. Hendrickson’s career in the software industry spans a few decades and includes stints […]
How IHG Puts DevOps Developers First
The following is a guest post by Robert Kelley, Director of Delivery Engineering at IHG, based on his session at CloudBees Connect. His full presentation is available below. You may not necessarily recognize the company name IHG – the company I work for – but I bet you’ve heard of our brands and stayed in […]
All CloudBees (Approved and Proprietary) Tier 1 Plugins Support Configuration as Code
Plugin Configuration So how do plugins come into this picture? As you may know Jenkins and CloudBees CI are largely the sum of the plugins that have been installed. A lot of these plugins come with their own configuration, which is used to customize their behavior or define what they integrate with. Below is an […]
How to Disable Code
The following is a guest post written by Carlos Schults. Being able to disable code in production is a power that many developers aren’t aware of. And that’s a shame. The ability to switch off some portions—or even complete features—of the codebase can dramatically improve the software development process by allowing best practices that can […]
Technical Debt Management with Feature Flags: Strategy & Best Practices
Technical debt is accumulated as unmanaged flags accrue in an application’s code. And the associated marginal gain (i.e. each unmanaged flag added) directly impacts the amount of time and resources needed for testing. This can lead to more serious issues with the affected development, performance/testing and product processes becoming more expensive. As software teams grow […]
Testing with Feature Flags to Improve Developers Productivity
Feature Flags can improve your continuous integration process in a number of ways. This post will focus on how CloudBees Feature Flags can help improve your developer productivity and shorten the feedback loop with the Flag Override view for frontend validation. It includes Javascript in examples, but the override view can be used in all available platforms. The flag […]
Fidelity drives Software Delivery Performance
The following blog post is based on a presentation at CloudBees Connect. The full recorded session is available below. Few industries depend on software more than financial services. Jimmy McNamara, software engineering product manager at Fidelity, should know: He’s worked in the industry as a software developer and project manager for over two decades, most […]
Securing Open Source Libraries: Managing Vulnerabilities in Open Source Code Packages
This book will help both development and application security architects and practitioners address the risk of vulnerable open source libraries and discuss why such vulnerable dependencies are the most likely to be exploited by attackers. It will also guide you through best practices and tools for: Finding vulnerabilities across your open source packages Quickly remediate new […]
Building Container Security Into Development Processes
This interactive video gives you the best insights on how to best utilize Snyk Containers and how they stay secured. devopsy.kinsta.cloud
Snyk Open Source Security Overview
Snyk Open Source helps developers to easily find and fix vulnerabilities and license issues in open source dependencies throughout the SDLC. Watch the video to learn how you can: Detect vulnerabilities and license issues as early as possible Analyze easily and make data-driven security decisions Fix quickly to reduce exposure with automated remediation Monitor continuously […]
A first look at emerging team challenges
We surveyed employees from a wide range of industries to understand how the abrupt transition to working from home has impacted the quality and pace of teamwork. Through this survey, it was found that there are many challenges emerging for these employees. For more information on this survey, download the eBook here: [su_button url=”https://devops.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-state-of-WFH-eBook.pdf” target=”blank” […]
CloudBees Core for AWS – A Solution Brief
Accelerate software delivery through seamless collaboration. CloudBees® makes it easy for teams to focus on delivering features with the flexibility of choosing the right continuous delivery stack for their needs. Companies can scale their operations in a centralized manner without having to worry about infrastructure restricting the growth. CloudBees integrates with every DevOps tool so […]
Digital Darwinism: Driving Digital Transformation with DevOps and Continuous Delivery
The need for innovation has never been greater. The success of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple — five of the eight largest and most successful companies in the world — is largely due to their ability to rapidly develop and deliver innovative software. Conversely, former market leaders like Borders, Blockbuster and Kodak buckled because […]
Continuous Everything: Why Software Delivery Management Matters
The widespread move towards an integrated DevOps approach to software engineering, building software fast, bringing it safely to market while combining it with maximum product adoption, is still fraught with bottlenecks and inefficiencies. It’s not uncommon for a company to use more than 50 different development tools in an attempt to move faster and reduce […]
Exploring DevOps: Charting a Course for the Enterprise
If you are reading this eBook, we can assume that you are interested in the process required to roll out a DevOps initiative across an enterprise. If that is the case, we’ll also assume that you wish to successfully embed DevOps into the DNA of your enterprise and drive a transformation in software delivery. In […]
The Business Value of Continuous Delivery
Continuous delivery allows you to deliver new software and update existing software faster, with lower risk. Reducing risk is important, but the processes that underpin continuous delivery translate into even more important values to the business: Accelerate time-to-value, Data-driven decision making, Quality, Experimentation = innovation, and Reduce cost. Together these values make continuous delivery a […]
Monitoring In the Cloud
In the 10 years since Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering cloud computing services to the world, the nature of IT infrastructure has changed dramatically. The cloud has transformed the economics of infrastructure, essentially crumbling the barrier to entry for building applications on world-class technology. It has brought about a fundamental change on the operations […]