Scalability in the Age of DevOps: A Must for Success
DevOps seems to be an emerging topic “du jour” in the world of software development. And like it or not, it is showing no signs of slowing down. If used correctly, DevOps can be helpful—from making teams (developers and testers) work seamlessly to automating routine tasks, DevOps has proved its awesomeness in just a few […]
DevOps Tools Democratize the View From Both Sides
How modern product decisions platforms marry the key metrics of features changes to organizational KPIs In 1967, Joni Mitchell released one of her most iconic songs, “Both Sides Now.” The song was inspired by the book, “Henderson the Rain King,” in which author Saul Bellow writes about flying to Africa and looking out the plane […]
Successful Digital Transformation Starts With Developers
Digital transformation (DX) continues to be a primary focus as companies both large and small look to become more agile, improve and accelerate the delivery of product and service offerings and enhance data-driven business decisions. The C-suite typically leans on IT departments and developers to champion such transformations, designing the software and tools that will […]
5 Tips for Launching New App Features
Are you looking to improve your organization’s mobile app? For some the process may be relatively straightforward. But ensuring you cover all steps correctly will go a long way to a successful app feature release. Here are five practical tips to successfully launch a new app feature. Include the App Feature Release at the Start […]
Continuous Reliability: How QA and SREs Can Improve Their CI/CD Workflow
A key challenge in maintaining and accelerating the speed of software delivery is balancing the rate of change with the reliability of your software. With the move toward an increasingly automated workflow, as well as teams of dozens to hundreds of engineers introducing changes at a high frequency, the ability to identify the issues that […]
Getting the Enterprise Digital Core in Shape
While enterprises rush to transform their business digitally, most are taking tactical steps rather than building a comprehensive digital core that can be improved over time. Very few are taking a thorough view of their entire technology portfolio and looking for ways to create a cohesive core—their digital core—to provide them the strength and stability […]
Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps
Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines. This article talks about how to achieve an end-to-end DevOps setup in Azure Pre-requisites: Subscription Project […]
Why Your Test Automation Is Failing
If you have been investing in test automation, but it’s not getting you where you think it should, it could be that you approached it superficially. One of the most common issues is that the test part of test automation is rather straightforward to automate, especially with today’s abundance of great automation tools. But jumping […]
Can DevOps and MSPs Work Together?
DevOps and the adoption of MSP-based IT operations are both surging trends in the IT industry today. They are also trends that contradict each other in some key respects. Here’s a look at what MSPs mean for DevOps, and vice versa. DevOps and MSPs: A Primer MSPs, or managed service providers, are companies that provide […]
Value Stream Optimization: Putting Business in the Driver’s Seat
How value stream can be a major driver of DevOps success in today’s software-only world Even as DevOps reaches a pinnacle in acceptance (as of 2018, only three percent of firms had not adopted DevOps and had no plans to do so), many organizations are still struggling to get high-quality software out the door. DevOps […]
How to Create Bug-Free Blockchain Apps
While all developers strive for bug-free code, it’s particularly crucial in a blockchain deployment where sensitive data or other confidential info is being exchanged, such as in health care or finance. However, some businesses have learned that lesson the hard way. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance recently revealed a devastating security breach that resulted in a loss […]
Are Your Development Processes Truly Agile?
Many organizations are making a move to agile-powered environments, but agile development is more than a name. How do you determine if your organization is truly agile? The evaluation starts with the Agile Manifesto. If you’re following the principles laid out in the manifesto, that’s a good sign that you’re on an agile journey. For […]
How AI is Transforming Testing Today
Currently, there is much debate about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform our lives. One of the technology’s key benefits lies in its power to transform traditional approaches to app development and software testing. Gartner identified AI-driven development as one of its top three strategic technology trends for 2019. Digital transformation is dependent on better-quality […]
Textbook DevOps vs. Real-World DevOps
DevOps is one of those things—like Marxism or baking macarons—that is easy to understand in theory, but much messier to implement in practice. Real-world DevOps rarely aligns with textbook DevOps or the DevOps practices that organizations should follow in theory. That is true for a number of reasons. Let’s walk through some of the biggest […]
Citizen Developers Drive Productivity and Innovation
It was once written that “software is eating the world,” “APIs are eating the world” and “APIs are eating software.” In 2019, a more accurate statement might be, “APIs (or application programming interfaces) fuel the software that’s still eating the world.” In today’s world, there is an ever-constant demand for software, enterprise applications and mobile […]
5 DevOps Terms That We All Use, Yet No One Can Define
I’m all for DevOps. Sometimes, however, I have a hard time talking about DevOps. The reason is because many of the key terms related to DevOps lack clear and precise definitions. Let me explain … DevOps is such a big deal that it has bred its very own lexicon. Search Google for “DevOps terms,” and […]
Are Self-Service Machine Learning Models the Future of AI Integration?
DevOps teams seeking to step up their mojo in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) features are facing a big skills bottleneck when it comes to data analytics and machine learning modeling. As a result, the market is seeing an influx of self-service machine learning models and machine learning-as-a-service offerings designed to help development teams more […]
Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines
I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation,” by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation of the build, deploy, test and release processes kick in each time a team member commits a change to the source code repository. […]
Successful DevOps Initiatives Start With Company Culture
What initially drove the need for embarking on the DevOps journey in your team or at your company in the first place? Was it: Market shift? New leadership or an acquisition? New product or service idea? Cost savings or consolidation? All of the above? Whatever drove the need, my guess is there were pre-sales demos, […]
The Essential Toolbox for DevOps Analytics
With DevOps teams under constant pressure to improve software delivery cycles while maintaining—and improving—quality, many have turned to continuous testing (CT), implementing it as part of their overall development strategy. CT offers a number of benefits to DevOps teams, but it also introduces new challenges, specifically infinite amounts of data that require analysis. As more […]
DevOps Security Champion: Who, What and Why?
In general, DevOps is a process and culture of organizations to get applications out the door faster and with higher quality. To do so, security champions are essential. In DevOps, security champions work as a backup mechanism in various projects and take multiple leadership roles. Security champions make effective decisions and take projects forward while […]
Tech Pros: Plan for Failure to Breed Success
Veteran tech pros will tell you: Failure does not always mean failing at something; it often means failing to do something. Failure can be unpredictable and accidental, but usually, a lack of preparedness causes the most significant incidents. Data centers go down, huge bursts of bot activity generate too many requests for a network to […]
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud provider) to fix it. But often with problems in the cloud comes finger-pointing, as network and application teams look to determine liability and […]