Release Engineering vs. Release Management

January 25, 2016 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 4 Comments

Release management and release engineering are two terms in DevOps that often get confused. They look and sound similar, but their functions are completely different in what they do and how they are implemented. That said, both serve the same purpose in the bigger picture of software releases. Release Management According to Wikipedia, release management […]

Open Source software license and security management with WhiteSource

September 18, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 1 Comments

With the growing speed and availability of open source components, it becomes easy to add features and integration of software with other components which makes software development easier. But there are a few points to be remembered while using any open source component. Security vulnerabilities Licensing risks of open source component. Outdated open source components. […]

Tool Development – In-House or Ready made

September 9, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 1 Comments

Tool development and adoption The current pace of software development cannot manage its speed without the automation. Automation is the most important element in order to achieve agility in delivery of the product. Every part of the software development life cycle needs tools to perform their action automatically. These phases could be coding, code review, […]

Code Review – Write your code right

August 19, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 3 Comments

Writing code is definitely subjected to individual thinking, logics and perspective. How one writes code is completely depend on their technical and logical skills. Two different people can write the same code in an entirely different tactic (May be both logics of the code are right in their own way). Even two persons can write […]

Essential Ingredients for Continuous Deployment

August 3, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 2 Comments

To build the system to automate the build and deployment (continuous deployment) process there are few main areas which need to be covered. Following are our prerequisites. – Source code – Builds System – Deployments – QA Automation To describe above here are the main ingredients – Configuration Management – continuous integration/ Automated Build – […]

Managing Open source software components

June 30, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 2 Comments

Building any software need lots of efforts including resources, time, money, etc. It is really a great pleasure when it goes live or gets released. In parallel, there is always a chance that bugs may put the release in a difficult condition even after multiple rounds of testing. Teams can fix bugs related to software features […]

A Puzzle – Gradle or Maven

March 27, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 23 Comments

Build Tool Gradle vs Maven (or Both) The world of build tools evolved from simple compilation (gcc) to make files, then evolution of ant(+ivy) and Maven, now the latest build tool is Gradle. It’s always a puzzle which build tool to choose – Maven, Gradle or both. Sometime it’s first time project setup or it […]

15 must have Jenkins plugins to increase productivity

January 15, 2015 by vishal sahasrabuddhe 14 Comments

Jenkins is a vastly used continuous integration tool for the IT industry which is built and used around plugins. It’s core is the Jenkins tool and there are 100’s of plugins available to enhance its power and usability. Let’s take a look at a few of the best plugins to increase the productivity. Global Build […]