As organizations adopt DevOps, they not only release smaller changes sooner, but they also change the way they develop software. Additionally, applications no longer are seen as giant monoliths, but rather as ...

Jenkins World 2016, the world’s largest gathering of Jenkins users, is coming to the Santa Clara (California) Convention Center, Sept. 13-15. The lead organizing sponsor is CloudBees, along with a number of ...

Even experienced programmers can sometimes be thrown for an infinite loop–or other code failure–with these common MySQL mistakes. When a database application goes belly up, the cause often can be traced to ...

Automation is key to success in the cloud. When your entire infrastructure is accessible via an API, it doesn’t make sense to configure and install your applications by hand. This is where ...

NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database provides linear ...

Times are changing rapidly in the world of IT monitoring. A once stable landscape consisting of just a few monolithic solutions has exploded and fragmented as a new wave of tools better-suited ...

Cassandra is a popular next-generation database system (NoSQL) that powers the back end of high-performance web-scale applications in enterprises. It is database software for cloud applications that accelerates the organizations' ability to ...

One of the biggest challenges for an organization is producing IT response models that accurately reflect real-world scenarios. It’s pretty straightforward to establish protocols for predictable situations. We call these “standard” scenarios ...

This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise ...

In today’s era of data-driven business, enterprises are continuously adopting new technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Distributed and cloud databases is one such technology. These databases are fundamentally different from relational ...

As tempting as building your own DevOps incident communication tool sounds, you should think twice. My colleagues and I recently were on the phone with a company seeking an IT incident communications ...

Let me start by admitting that I am not a test automation expert. I have done some work with test automation and have supervised teams who practiced it, but when it comes ...