DevOps Practice
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 ...
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 4: Tips for Launching a DevOps Team
DevOps has become a hot strategy for IT teams across just about every industry—and for good reason. DevOps is built around increasing the velocity of the development pipeline, and in businesses where ...
Predictions 2020: The Year of DevOps Empowerment
Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020 ...
Predictions 2020: Application Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Without wheeling out all the usual clichés, 2019 has been another whirlwind of disruptive innovation and opportunity–with plenty of challenges to tackle and circumvent along the way. The threat landscape mutated with ...
DevOps at Longtail UX
Longtail UX is an Australian SaaS startup that boosts traffic to e-commerce sites by automating the selection of relevant long-tail search terms and the creation of custom landing pages for each of ...
Predictions 2020: Five Real-Time Data Predictions
According to Gartner, 85% of big data initiatives end in failure. In 2020, organizations are out of budget and operational runway, and need to start executing and getting the big data recipe ...
App Mobility Is the New Use Case
Selling increased investment in DevOps is not always easy. It takes time to implement, resource away from other projects and inevitably there is cash outlay. If not done carefully, it also appears ...
Social Media Marketing for Businesses
There are over 3 billion social media users worldwide, and over 70% of successful marketers are convinced that social media have, in one way or the other, contributed to their businesses' exponential ...
Moving Things Around: The Acquisition of Protego
I received a note from Protego Labs’ vice president of marketing about Check Point Software acquiring Protego. We see a fair number of acquisition announcements, and usually don’t write about them–though we ...
IBM Z Open Editor Support for Language Server Protocol is a Game Changer
The integrated development environment (IDE) is an indispensable tool for software developers. Before it came along, coding was a laborious, detail ladened undertaking. We’ve become accustomed to the syntax checking and code ...
The Use of Feature Flags in Code: Too Many Flags?
It is interesting to watch the growth of an idea over time. The idea of using flags in code to do different things is as old as programming itself. Old-school configuration files ...
The Benefits of Test-Driven Design
At John Hancock, we use Test-Driven Design (TDD) for all our new initiatives. TDD has three simple steps: Before you write functional code, write a test that proves if the implementation works ...

