Throughout the history of IT, we’ve had our share of purists. OS purists, language purists, etc. The stark one was the “That is not Object Oriented Programming” crowd. While the poster-children of ...

As we expand our digital world, there is an ever more urgent need to look after businesses that need to operate faster and with more agility. Because of this, DevOps has grown ...

As more organizations use feature flags and experiments, it’s critical to understand that some of these changes should exist for only a short or specific period of time, and then be removed ...

Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to ...

There is little argument that automated testing has emerged as an industry best practice. Yet, there remains a wide variety of adoption and maturity in the market. While automated testing is imperative ...

In my last piece on cultural SRE, I covered the basics of defining what SRE means for your team. However, some teams may not need dedicated SRE support. This is where the ...

As developers and entrepreneurs create new products and services, it is critical for a powerful communication solution to sit at the heart of the solution and support all customer engagement. Reason being, when ...

It seems that every firm is trying to include DevOps in their software delivery cycle these days. This is understandable. According to the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, companies using DevOps ...

You would be hard-pressed to find something more complex than a modern data center. A state-of-the-art building stocked with all the necessary software for a major company might run into billions in ...

The concept of shift-left has been a popular trend in continuous testing practices for a while. We are now beginning to see shift-right practices as an emergent trend in testing.  Shift-right entails doing ...

More potential searches than there are stars in the universe. Source code search is not like searching for text on the web—it is more complex and has many more nuances. When we ...

Outages happen, it’s inevitable. But, unplanned downtime often comes with substantial costs—not only in terms of recovery and revenue loss, but also customer happiness, brand reputation and employee morale. While there is ...