Picking a Git for the Enterprise

June 18, 2018 by Aditya Vadaganadam 0 Comments

Some of my Agile and DevOps transformation work, not surprisingly, involves helping clients with tooling adoption—to set up, scale and operate across the organization. This blog piece is about a recent experience of setting up Git across a client organization. Git, as most of you are aware, is a fundamental building block for many of […]

Continuous Delivery is Not Continuous Deployment

June 12, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

Every once in a while, it is worth revisiting a topic that flies under most people’s radar. The differences between continuous delivery and continuous deployment is one of those topics. While those steeped in DevOps are well-aware that software can be delivered daily (or even more frequently), deployment is less frequent, and more dependent upon […]

EDAT for ERP Increases Velocity, Ensures Quality

May 25, 2018 by Richard Dowdy 0 Comments

IT organizations today are faced with the challenge of delivering new capabilities at higher velocity to enable digital transformation. While enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems provide a stable integrated foundation and emerging capabilities to meet business needs, their integration and deployment processes were built for a waterfall methodology. As business agility is paramount to market […]

Functional Programming: Island of Misfit Functional Programming

May 23, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

The age of functional programming is dawning. The hype cycle has heated up, and IT departments are getting both real and perceived benefits out of the idea that a function runs on demand only. For some, the benefits are very real. Bursty processing, or things that are frequent and quickly resolved, see a benefit from […]

The Past, Present and Future of DevOps Infrastructure

May 22, 2018 by Veritis 1 Comments

Infrastructure automation enables organizations to set up operating frameworks that allow smooth functionality with enhanced usage, minimal scope for error and faster deployment of code. The process of infrastructure automation eases development and operations processes by introducing good deployment practices such as computerized testing and versioning. The need for automation was realized when the demand […]

Watch Your Language: Behavior Driven Development

May 15, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

There are two basic design methodologies in the software development world: top down and bottom up. In bottom up, the goal is to piece functionality together to “build up” to the desired result. In top down, the goal is to break the problem into smaller and smaller parts until you have implementable pieces. Both have […]

Appian World CEO Keynote: Low Code for Sophisticated Applications

April 24, 2018 by Alan Shimel 3 Comments

Here I am at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach for Appian World 2018, where the theme is “Transform.” The event, which is the biggest one yet with 1,500 registered attendees, is all about low code, and in his keynote address, CEO Matt Calkins emphasized that low code app-building isn’t for unsophisticated, simple apps—we don’t need powerful […]

Catan vs. DevOps Implementation

April 23, 2018 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

My family has been playing a fair amount of the board game Settlers of Catan lately and, as happens with me, I got to considering the balancing act of the game versus the balancing act of moving to full-on DevOps. Most orgs have some amount of DevOps running at this point, but most have not […]