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 However, this doesn’t necessarily mean they are out of date, rather these giant institutions have ...

Open source standards hold a lot of potential for networking. Already, initiatives such as OpenStack and OpenDaylight have gained a fair amount of momentum due to the contributions of major vendors such ...

Introduction Chef is an influential configuration management and automation platform that transmutes the complex infrastructure and helps you in describing your infrastructure with code, by bringing your servers and services to life ...

The logs go in and the visualizations and insights come out. You suddenly have access to data you never had before—data that helps improve your operations and your DevOps environment. But is ...

Except for cases where test duration is the point of the test, as indicated in my prior blog "Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?”, faster continuous testing cycles are preferred because ...

The modern software development landscape places a premium on speed. It's good to be first to market. If you're going to fail then you should fail fast. A rapidly evolving product can ...

Accordingly to Jim Coplien: "an anti-pattern is something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied. “ In DevOps context, continuous testing is an attractive solution for the ...

Amazon has packed a box full of services and covered nearly every aspect in making cloud a smooth experience for developers to put up exceedingly operational and structurally complex applications on AWS. Large numbers ...

Whether you’re an operations engineer or a customer, scheduled maintenance is often viewed as a given when delivering software as a service. While far better than surprise outages, planned downtime is still ...