Continuous Delivery
CircleCI Injects Workflow Flexibility into CI/CD Platform
Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations ...
Application Release Automation: Why and Not
You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored ...
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery ...
Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck
It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication ...
Automated Testing: Remember Security
Between continuous integration (CI) and release automation (RA), we’ve come a long way in making testing both integral and automated. This testing has allowed QA staff and developers to spend more time ...
Clean Up Those Ever-Fail Tests
One of the points of DevOps is to streamline development and focus on what is important. Things that don’t raise to a high enough level of importance end up in the category ...
Testing What’s Important: Keep Growing Your Test Base
In most human endeavors that take a stretch of time to complete, the idea is latched onto and people become excited about being involved. It doesn’t matter if it is building a ...
Moving That Big Project to CI/CD
Any organization that has been around for more than a few years (and many who haven’t) have a massive system that would cost a fortune to replace. Most midsized enterprises have several ...
Why Your Company Needs An Automated Infrastructure
IT teams and software have started to embrace automation across all levels of the development life cycle, from planning and testing to deployment and maintenance. With the advent of DevOps, and the ...
Why DevOps Success Depends on the Right Infrastructure
Do you remember building with LEGOs? You could follow the directions that come in the box down to the letter, or you could go off-script to create something totally your own and ...
7 Highly Effective Continuous Delivery Principles
If you’re in the IT space and you weren’t born yesterday, then you understand the need for speed. Development and release cycles are now faster than ever as companies implement continuous integration ...
Stop Talking About the Number of Times You’ll Deploy
It’s the late 1940s and the automobile industry is just taking off. You run one of the product marketing teams at Chrysler. Wanting to make the best of an exploding market, your ...

