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Testing is a major element of development. Without effective testing, you’re essentially releasing beta software and forcing your customers to be the guinea pigs in discovering any flaws or issues. But Microsoft ...
“I feel the need … the need for speed!” ~ Maverick According to a recent report from Chef, one of the driving motivations for companies is based on this Maverick quote from ...
Collaboration is part of the foundation of developing code in a DevOps environment. The ability to share code or leverage snippets from open-source projects enables developers to be more productive and efficient—creating ...
DevOps has attained mainstream status. It is no longer a cutting-edge concept that only startups and progressive companies embrace—it’s a business imperative that delivers a significant competitive edge. If you want evidence ...
Networks often are complex and expansive. It’s easy to think of them as a singular entity, but the array of devices that interconnect, route and segment the network can make monitoring and ...
The ultimate goal of DevOps is to streamline development. DevOps doesn’t necessarily require tools and is not defined by its tools, but for most organizations, they play an integral role in automating ...
DevOps is a lot of things. What DevOps is, what DevOps does and how an organization adopts and implements DevOps tools and practices are largely subjective, but there are some foundational elements ...
Log management and analysis is a crucial element of effective DevOps. In an effort to work more effectively and efficiently at the same time, gathering and analyzing feedback provides essential input that ...
From month to month or even week to week, more organizations are developing with containers. The concept of containers isn’t all that new, but the dramatic rise in adoption of container technologies ...
Automic is in the business of automation. The company recently launched a unified suite of business automation tools called Automic v12 that promises to streamline operations even more. I wrote about Automic ...
