Enterprise DevOps
ITV, Allianz, UK DWP and 2 Authors Take a ‘Deep Dive into DevOps’
On the heels of our latest DevOps Enterprise Summit London speaker and programming announcement, I had the pleasure of being joined by Tom Clark, head of Common Platform at ITV; Andrea Hirzle-Yager, ...
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, ...
Using Load Balancing in Blue/Green Deployment
One of the biggest pains of automating the deployment process is that final step, when everyone agrees it is time to take the accumulated changes and expose them to the public. This ...
The Top 10 Reasons to Use Cassandra
The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice of database if you are looking for scalability and high availability without compromising performance for your mission-critical applications. Additionally, Cassandra’s support for replicating across ...
Replication: Complementing Disaster Recovery, not Replacing
Many people believe that replicating a distributed database is a replacement for having a solid disaster recovery (DR) plan or backup system. While there are certainly elements of truth to this, it ...
Boots and Sandals: Know the Market
Boots and sandals are basically the same thing—something to protect your feet while you walk about. The thing is that they are intended for slightly different purposes. You wouldn’t wear sandals outside ...
Scaled Agile: Faster Feature Cycle Time, Improved Time to Value
Do you remember when the business imperative was improving feature cycle time? As if we just needed to deliver more stuff faster to win in the marketplace. I wouldn’t say that times ...
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
All Day DevOps: DevOps at Massive Scale
When you have a billion users, people notice. That’s where our story about DevOps and Yahoo! starts. For Kishore Jalleda and Gopal Mor, both engineers at Yahoo!, when something goes wrong on ...
Maintaining Control in a Cloud-Dependent Environment
AWith digital transformation changing the face of businesses worldwide, we have increased our reliance on public cloud providers and their services. As we host and deliver our software applications and services to ...
Boosting Time-to-Market by Improving Software Development
Today’s business environments require “agility” in terms of being able to quickly understand and adapt to information, trends and new developments. For example, a company might employ a business intelligence suite that ...
Dispelling the Myths Around Continuous Testing
You may have seen the term "continuous testing" and thought it was just the DevOps flavor of the month. Some might even think it isn’t part of DevOps or isn’t for cloud ...

