***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, "Continuous Testing," by our friends at Parasoft. Enterprise software development models have presented many innovative solutions for IT to align ...

Industry studies and market indicators show the exploding growth of the DevOps movement, and it’s for one simple reason – in today’s application driven economy, DevOps teams have proven that they can ...

Ansible Tower is used in a variety of different ways, from traditional configuration management, to custom application deployment, to the orchestration of zero-downtime rolling updates. Companies like Gawker Media use Ansible to ...

While many organizations are looking to agile methods to deliver mobile apps faster, they are also facing challenges in embracing the methodology across the organization. The keystone of agile for mobile apps ...

At QCon London, David Farley (@davefarley77) told the audience that “continuous delivery changes the economics of software delivery”.  I could not agree more. If you have been drawn to the evangelists like ...

This is 3rd part of the multi-part series covering Automation, provisioning and Configuration Management. In this follow up article best practices for Puppet shall be covered. Why Puppet? While every system administrator comes ...

Despite the fact that information security is a top priority, many organizations face challenges integrating security assurance practices into their product and service development practices. All too often security problems are only ...

The tally of smartphone usage worldwide is mind-numbing:  Even as far back as 2012, more people on earth had access to a mobile phone than had access to a toothbrush. Even more ...

The effort to speed up continuous testing will be wasted if the underlying system that continuous testing depends on is not stable. In my prior blog Continuous Test Results Analysis – at ...

Fast continuous testing is counterproductive if the analysis of test results does not keep up with the speed of testing. In my prior blog Continuous Testing - Accelerated! I discussed the importance ...

The modern software delivery pipeline breaks the mold of traditional process and tool acquisition, but doesn’t warrant any less consideration. Measuring the impact of log analysis for your ops and dev teams ...

The financial industry, especially banks, are still using a programming language that is over 50 years old. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean they are out of date, rather these giant institutions have ...