Continuous Delivery

Jellyfish Adds Tool to Visualize Software Development Workflows
Jellyfish today unveiled a tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes using data the company collects via Git repositories and project management software from Atlassian. Krishna Kannan, head of product for ...

How To Build Anti-Fragile Software Ecosystems
Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across ...

The Strategic Product Backlog: Lead, Follow, Watch and Explore
The economic outlook for 2023 suggests many organizations will be leading through a period of resource scarcity as IT budgets are scrutinized and organizational priorities are re-evaluated. For the product manager, smaller ...

Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach
Atlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it's now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within ...

GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to ...

Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...

Harness Acquires Propelo to Surface Software Engineering Bottlenecks
Harness this week announced it has acquired Propelo, a provider of an analytics tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Propelo offering will ...

Digital Experience and the Future of Observability
Over the past two years, there’s been significant hype around observability in the IT operations and DevOps world. As shorthand for providing better insights, observability has seen a rise in lockstep with ...

6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity
A big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many ...

Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize ...

Why Can’t We Be Friends? Improving Developer-Tester Alignment
Sometimes coding can be such an art form that it deserves to be a masterpiece in a museum. Developers are proud of their code—at least until the so-called art critics (aka testers) ...

Devs Increasingly Rely on IaC to Manage Multiple Clouds
A survey of more than 300 DevOps professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for automating cloud provisioning, found that more than a third of organizations (36%) have allocated the ...