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Tailoring Enterprise Collaboration: Strategies for Success
contributor | | applications, best of breed collaboration, collaboration, developers, enterprise collaboration, messagingIn the age of SCRUM, Agile and DevOps, developers collaborate with their peers and colleagues more than ever before. Many developers already use a variety of collaboration tools on a daily basis, ...
DevOps 2.0 for Digital Transformation
We already know that DevOps is a culture, a movement, a philosophy of software development and delivery. It focuses on the communication, collaboration and continuous integration of the entire organization—a new conception ...
Feature Branching vs. Feature Flags: What’s the Right Tool for the Job?
contributor | | app development, code changes, code development, codebase, developers, feature branching, feature flags, GITA dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of several ...
Best Practices for Internal Communication in DevOps
contributor | | communication, data insights, devops, digital communications, meetings, soft skills, team communication, time managementDevOps has become a widely popular method of collaboration in the IT world. The combination of development, operations and quality assurance, DevOps requires every project have clear communication channels between development teams ...
5 Team Skills That Make DevOps a Success
contributor | | Andon session, collaboration, communications, devops, kanban, retrospective, soft skills, standup, teamWhen starting their DevOps journey, your team will discover it needs to develop some new skills. Most likely the team is good at typing code and solving issues, but what about the ...
SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?
Asaf Yigal | | development, devops, google, operations, production, site reliability engineering, SRE, sysadminJust a few days before he died at the beginning of the 1990s, a wise man taught us that “the show must go on.” Freddie Mercury’s parting words have long provided the ...
ChatOps: Has the Fat Lady Already Sung?
Alan Shimel | | Assembla, ChatOps, ChatWork, collaboration, eXo, Flock, github, HipChat, Quip, Ryver, SlackOne of the sometimes unsung stars of the DevOps scene is ChatOps. I have heard lots of folks use the term, but what does it really mean to you? ChatOps is a ...
Get Your DevOps Right With These 7 Technologies
Editors' Note: As with all of our contributed articles, the views expressed in this article are of the author, not DevOps.com. Due to its vendor-agnostic stance, DevOps.com does not endorse any particular ...
How Much QA is Enough in Software Development?
contributor | | agile, automation, developers, devops, engineers, managers, QA, Quality Assurance, software development, testersPeople working in quality assurance as testers, managers or engineers know what it’s like having to justify their existence; it’s been part of the job for many years. QA experts have had ...
DevOps: Here’s How to Slack Securely
With 1.7 million daily active users, it’s clear Slack has come to dominate the team chat world, especially in the tech industry. This, however, means that a fair amount of security is ...
Site Reliability Engineering: How to Make the Operations Side of DevOps Actually Work
Dominic Wellington | | AIOps, alert correlation, Enterprise IT Operations, IT operations, ITSM, monitoring, Moogsoft, SREThe DevOps movement often has been accused of focusing too much on the first half (Development) and not enough on the second half (Operations). Certainly there has been more attention paid to ...
The Postman Delivers More
Most of us use Postman during API development. The company claims 3 million users, and as one of them, that number doesn’t raise my eyebrows any. But if you are like me, ...
