DevOps has become a hot strategy for IT teams across just about every industry—and for good reason. DevOps is built around increasing the velocity of the development pipeline, and in businesses where ...

Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020 ...

Longtail UX is an Australian SaaS startup that boosts traffic to e-commerce sites by automating the selection of relevant long-tail search terms and the creation of custom landing pages for each of ...

According to Gartner, 85% of big data initiatives end in failure. In 2020, organizations are out of budget and operational runway, and need to start executing and getting the big data recipe ...

Selling increased investment in DevOps is not always easy. It takes time to implement, resource away from other projects and inevitably there is cash outlay. If not done carefully, it also appears ...

There are over 3 billion social media users worldwide, and over 70% of successful marketers are convinced that social media have, in one way or the other, contributed to their businesses' exponential ...

I received a note from Protego Labs’ vice president of marketing about Check Point Software acquiring Protego. We see a fair number of acquisition announcements, and usually don’t write about them–though we ...

It is interesting to watch the growth of an idea over time. The idea of using flags in code to do different things is as old as programming itself. Old-school configuration files ...

At John Hancock, we use Test-Driven Design (TDD) for all our new initiatives. TDD has three simple steps: Before you write functional code, write a test that proves if the implementation works ...

The chief digital officer has always been a position that has struck me as a bit awkward as part chief marketing officer and part chief information officer. Since the CDO position started ...

The practice of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is fundamental to modern software development. And yet, many organizations are still using slow, error-prone, manual processes to build, test and deploy their ...

Open source technology works best when it’s adopted as a series of strategies and tactics that support a core business model—not the other way around. With all the talk about open source ...