Best Practices

State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized ...

5 Best Practices for Implementing Cloud-Native DevOps
As the world transitions to cloud-native offerings as an industry norm, DevOps is gaining traction for its critical role in supporting more efficient IT infrastructure. DevOps is designed to boost collaboration and ...

Shift Left Testing in Microservices Environments
By now, it’s common knowledge that the later a bug is detected in the software development life cycle (SDLC), the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to fix that ...

5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it's rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring ...

Looking to the Future of Developer Experience
Developer experience is where it's at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox ...

Choosing the Right API Solution
There are more choices than ever when it comes to APIs–and that’s a good thing. But it also means you’ll need a strategic plan for choosing the right API solution. Two questions ...

Latest DORA Report From Google Surfaces Raft of DevOps Challenges
The annual Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 report published today by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google found the percentage of high performers is at a four-year low, with ...

8 Web Development Trends to Follow
Since the inception of the internet in 1983, many web development tools have been introduced to simplify complex processes that would otherwise take months to finish and cost companies a great deal ...

Understanding the Importance of Developer Experience
If you're creating a developer tool, you're bound to run into this dilemma—you know the inner workings of it really well, but others don't. And without solid documentation and samples to follow, ...

Free Dev Tools! But What’s the Catch?
Software companies, especially young startups, are always in a development race – by definition, they are trying to maximize achievements and minimize their burn rate. That means development teams naturally face an ...

What You’re Getting Wrong About DevOps (and How To Make it Right)
DevOps is now the top software deployment strategy by a mile — 77% of organizations say they use the approach to roll out new software. This is good news because a DevOps ...

Future of DevOps: Trends to Watch
Technology is transforming every aspect of industry, and digitalization and automation have flourished in the past few years. DevOps has established itself as an indispensable software development methodology for successful digital transformation ...

