How to Make Your Software HIPAA-Compliant
Creating software for the healthcare industry must always follow strict requirements and limits set by both state regulators and medical organizations. In this article, we will focus on becoming compliant with HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) by building a proper IT solution for corresponding institutions, while also considering the HIPAA […]
How to Succeed with DevOps by Outsourcing Software Development
The DevOps journey can be successful when you use offshore outsourcing software partners, but it requires careful attention from your IT leaders. The old saying, “The only constant is change,” has never been more true for software development, whether your company is a SaaS provider or a manufacturer of discrete products that rely heavily on […]
Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Reflects on a Year at Puppet
As Mike Vizard detailed, this year’s Puppet Conference featured an impressive lineup of new products and services brought to market. The company appears to be firing on all cylinders. The event also marked the first anniversary of Sanjay Mirchandani as Puppet CEO. I had a chance to sit down with him to review the past […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 3
Business needs and IoT demands are taking new dimensions in connecting millions of devices, people, process, tools and systems. With endless possibilities of creating new IoT solutions, DevOps teams are the key players who handle the challenges in successfully rolling out a IoT solution while handling the business, development, operations and infrastructure demands in the […]
Digital Transformation Survey: Help Us, Help You
The term digital transformation is probably one of the most overused, if not abused, terms in the tech/DevOps world today. Everyone is doing it, but what is it? Is it a synonym for adopting DevOps? What are its effects on you, your job and organization? What does it mean for software development and deployment? So […]
3 Practical Steps to Employing DevOps
Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. One of the hardest things about DevOps is knowing where to begin. This is because to “do DevOps” its seems you have to suddenly start using a lot of new processes and tools at […]
Tips for Creating Unit Tests for Mobile Apps
Mobile app testing ensures your application is working perfectly without any freezes, bugs or crashes. There are unit, auto, system and acceptance tests, and in this article we will talk about unit testing for mobile apps. First, let’s discuss what unit tests are in general. Unit testing checks whether certain parts of the code work […]
DOES17 Speakers Share Insights on Live Podcast
As DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco (DOES17), slated for Nov. 13-15, inches closer, event founding partner Electric Cloud hosted a special episode of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), featuring some of the conference speakers. During the discussion, the speakers shared some of their recent DevOps transformation stories and a bit about what to expect during their talks at […]
Akamai Gives DevOps Teams More Control
When most DevOps teams think about platforms, it’s usually a conversation about some form of software sitting on a server in a data center. But many web and mobile applications employ a content delivery network (CDN) as the platform on which they depend most to run. Akamai Technologies is moving to provide DevOps teams with […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 2
BCG’s latest IoT market research finds that predictive maintenance, automated inventory and self-optimizing production are some of the top use cases driving the need to build internet of things (IoT) platforms by 2020. As we think of building IoT solutions, it’s important to have a deep understanding of the business-level considerations and architectural design-level considerations […]
Testing’s Role in Delivering Digital Transformation
“We have a quality philosophy now…but it took the rise of the middle child to make it happen.” Ann Lewis, ExxonMobil Ann Lewis’ metaphor of testers being the “middle child” between software development and IT operations was present throughout Accelerate 2017, Tricentis’ annual user conference. Nearly every head in the room nodded as Lewis described […]
The Need for Speed Demands New-Era APM
Applications have become the primary conduit by which customers experience a brand, making the application experience critical to business success. As such, continuous delivery and highly available systems that deliver optimal end user experiences at lightning speed have become top priorities for organizations. Modern IT is all about speed, efficiency and customer experience. Simply put, […]
Keep Developers Happy and Velocity High
In today’s economy, the companies that prevail are those that can accelerate software delivery and increase developer productivity. Yet, as applications become more complex and codebases grow, companies are forced to implement more comprehensive quality safeguards, which slow the rate at which they can deliver new software. Delivering more incremental builds in shorter intervals can […]
Event Management: Let the Noise Wail Without Going Deaf
In part 1 of the blog series “Putting the Ops in DevOps,” by James Moore, we discussed the awareness and anticipation of operational management and the best practices that can improve the app at every stage of its life cycle. In this blog, I would like to cover one of the event management discipline maturity […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 1
With the growth of the internet of things (IoT), expected to connect more than 50 billion devices (things) in next three years, building intelligent systems in a more connected world is presenting many challenges. Especially in building software for IoT, beyond hardware and network connectivity challenges there are numerous challenges in development, test, release, managing […]
The Future of Continuous Testing: Fail Faster
In the early days of Agile and Lean development practices, a very noticeable gap appeared between dev teams and ops and QA. Development was accelerating at a lightning-fast pace, but testing processes could not keep up, slowing down the entire life cycle and preventing organizations from achieving continuous delivery. Traditional testing methods, which rely heavily […]
The 7C Holistic Approach to DevOps
The DevOps methodology was first adopted in 2007 with a bigger purpose of improving organizational efficiency by bridging the gap between software release and IT operations teams. This started as the core practice of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with a prime focus on better quality of releases and more frequent releases. Now, […]
Unnatural DevOps Delivers Supernatural Results
DevOps is not necessarily a “natural” process. Asking people to function outside of their comfort zones and prescribed roles is a challenging task for any organization, and requires a shift in organizational behavior. At Trace3, we believe that while DevOps is not natural, a supernatural result is achievable with the right cultural transformation supported by […]
SMEs Can Benefit from DevOps, Too
The DevOps approach has several clear-cut benefits with the value centered in several key business areas: improved market agility, increased quality and revised culture of cooperation and effectiveness in staff operations. By promoting and implementing a DevOps culture in your SME’s business, Dev and Ops teams align much closer together and can better share in-between […]
Sometimes It is More Than Culture, It’s About Gains
Almost since the beginning, there has been a tug-of-war between whether better toolchains or increased communications were “real” DevOps. The answer to that question is, Yes. Better tools undeniably speed the delivery process and streamline operations. Anyone who claims differently is not living in the real world. Jenkins alone can make your development world a […]
Google Launches Software Supply Chain Initiative
Maintaining the integrity of a software supply chain is an issue that has long bedeviled IT organizations. With the rise of microservices based on containers, however, this issue has become more acute. As a result, software supply chains are an issue that Google now plans to tackle. Google, along with JFrog, Red Hat, IBM, Black […]
Finishing the Pipeline: Monitoring, Tools, Automation and …
It is true that DevOps has grown to be the beast in the room. I’ll co-opt the “cloudwashing” term to call it “DevOps-washing” because it seems every tool you’ve ever used to develop and deploy applications now has a DevOps angle to it. For example, the Jenkins update center is kind of overwhelming. While I […]
Operations Management Puts the ‘Ops’ in DevOps
Awareness and anticipation of operational management, best practices can improve your app at every stage of its life cycle How important or interesting you find the “operations management” aspects of DevOps methodologies likely depends on your background, experience and how many operational horror stories you have lived through. If you have been on the hot […]