DevOps and Open Technologies
Government Asks: What’s in Your Software?
Multiple agencies across the U.S. government are paying closer attention to the software they are buying. More specifically, they want to know what open-source and third-party components were used to build the ...
Native Docker for Windows Arrives: Are Containers Finally Serverless?
Chris Tozzi | | container, devops, docker, linux, microsoft, serverless, support, windows, Windows Server 2016Is Docker finally ready for the age of serverless computing? That's the message from the announcement this week of native Docker container support for Windows Server 2016. If you've been following Docker ...
To Be Continuous Podcast: Category Creation featuring Martin Casado
Malia Powers | | marketing, Martin Casado, open source, podcast, software-defined networking, To Be ContinuousIn this episode of "To Be Continuous," Paul and Edith are joined by Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He previously was co-founder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired ...
5 DevOps Techniques to Improve Software Hygiene
Thinking about frequent food contamination outbreaks, perhaps the old adage, “You are what you eat,” should be modified to, “You are what you eat—as assembled across an unknown supply chain.” Even foods ...
Don’t Make Me Code: Environment Protection
Malia Powers | | application, developers, docker, Don't Make Me Code, environment, Heavybit, kitematic, podcastThanks for listening to "Don’t Make Me Code," a Heavybit podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. "Don’t Make Me Code" is hosted by Steve Boak, ...
To Be Continuous Podcast: Have We Forgotten How To Code?
Malia Powers | | circleCI, coding, developers, Heavybit, Kik, LaunchDarkly, left-hand, module, NPM, open source, podcast, To Be ContinuousWelcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Paul and ...
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal "easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their ...
Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB
Shalabh Goyal | | backup and recovery, cloud-based backup and recovery, global devops platform, mongodb, Platform 3This blog is the first in a two-part series about MongoDB backup and recovery. In this first part, I will discuss the motivations for protecting data that resides on MongoDB and the ...
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Shalabh Goyal | | agile, automation, AWS, cloud, continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing, development, devops, devops culture, QA, security, testingMaking real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today's world. That's why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache ...
To Be Continuous Podcast: Open Source Economics
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode of ...
FLAP, Part 3: Full Data Center Provisioning
Don Macvittie | | Application provisioning, automation, Configuration Management, datacenter, datacenter automation, devops, Provisioning, server provisioningIn the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one blog ...
FLAP, Part 2: Application Provisioning
In part 1 of this series we talked about server provisioning tools. In that post, we mentioned some of the more prominent application provisioning tools on the market with regard to integrations. This ...
