The Phoenicorn Project
The Unicorn Project is the sequel to the ground-breaking book The Phoenix Project. Most people know the story about Bill the IT manager at Parts Unlimited, who is tasked with fixing a derailed IT project or having his IT department outsourced. The Unicorn Project takes it a step further, with developer and architect Maxine in […]
5 Best Practices for Feature Flagging
Feature flags, also known as the feature toggles, are important concepts in the field of DevOps. They have been around for a long time and have been used continually by developers for their convenience. As software development services providers are striving for higher agility, practices such as feature flagging are becoming increasingly relevant. If you […]
Operational Excellence and the Success of Software Deployments
When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the infrastructure that hosts them. The driving idea is reliability must be baked into system architectures and infrastructure from the beginning. That’s certainly true. But by focusing too much on the design and implementation of […]
ServiceNow Makes the DevOps Connection
ServiceNow today announced it is extending the reach of its IT operations management platform to integrate with a variety of DevOps platforms. Richard Hawes, director of product marketing for ServiceNow, said ServiceNow DevOps will provide IT operations teams relying on an ITIL-based framework accessed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application visibility into DevOps processes and events […]
Investing in a Mobile Device Testing Lab
It will likely come as no surprise that app downloads are on the rise, with no signs of slowing down. Today’s consumers use apps for everything from ordering food, to shopping for clothes, to managing money and more. In fact, according to a recent report by App Annie, consumers downloaded a total of 194 billion […]
Five Tips for Solving the Technology Skills Gap
The insightful, and sometimes breathless, predictions regarding digital transformation are everywhere. We are right to be mindful of both the potential and the challenges posed by digital transformation. Digital transformation is increasing the rate of change in every business, in every line of business and even in every role. Digital transformation requires new development practices, […]
IT Enables Scale in Digital Transformation
Few corporate functions have seen their role disrupted as much as IT these last few years. The help desk days are long gone. As digital transformation accelerates, IT is becoming less about outright technology and more about creating capabilities that enable the overarching business strategy. As such, IT is the engine behind any company’s digital […]
How DevOps Is Driving the Demand for Cross-Platform Tools
The demands of modern business mean companies today want choice when it comes to the technology they deploy. Gone are the days when they rigidly used a single environment–instead they want to be able to use the best of technology from vendors and be sure it will work across environments seamlessly. Whether it’s on-premises or […]
The Battle for the Frontend: Rethinking APM
With the battle for the backend between data centers and cloud largely over, application development is the next frontier ripe for innovation. Studies project mobile app revenue at $935.2 billion by 2023 and Internet of Things (IoT) installations at $75.44 billion by 2025. It’s no surprise that software innovation is ramping up around application development […]
Achieving Organizational Change Through Scaled DevOps
The rapid pace of technological change has had a major impact on customer expectation, forcing IT decision-makers to adopt agile processes to ensure the continual delivery of innovation. This has led to the mass adoption of DevOps practices, with 77% of organizations indicating they rely on DevOps to deploy software, or plan to, in the near future. […]
Maintaining Strategic Focus During Agile Releases
In today’s hyper-competitive world, releasing early and often is a business necessity. When done right, this unrelenting commitment to speed enables product teams to quickly respond to shifting market conditions. But sometimes, agility can lead to a lack of strategic focus. Releases degenerate delivering shiny objects that temporarily fascinate the product or sales organizations without […]
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]
Load Balancing: Round Robin May Not Be the Right Choice
Based on our experience, we believe Round Robin may not be an effective load balancing algorithm, because it doesn’t equally distribute traffic among all nodes. You might wonder, how is this possible? How Does Round Robin Algorithm Work? Round Robin algorithm sends requests among nodes in the order that requests are received. Here is a […]
Serverless and GraphQL: Build and Launch at the Speed of Thought
Websites and apps are now, often, one and the same. Traditional development methods for an online or downloadable app can take months, given the backend development aspects that need to be managed—infrastructure provisioning and management, security, scalability, consistency and more, particularly for companies that have users around the globe and potentially very high usage demands. […]
The Power of Embedded Analytics and the Build Versus Buy Dilemma
Embedded analytics are a powerful tool for adding value and stickiness to your desktop and mobile apps. Many app developers are providing these features as standard in their tools. But should independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators (SIs) or companies building internal apps build analytics tools in-house, or should they buy them from specialist providers? […]
Three Ways Developers Can Worry Less About Security
Over the past 10 years, developers have risen in organizational importance. They’ve acquired more tools, power, responsibility and autonomy. As part of that evolution, many developers today want to touch all of the layers of code and have their hands in every tool that’s being built. Known as “mechanical sympathy,” developers are taking increased initiative […]
Crossing the Ecosystem Boundaries: How ServiceNow, Salesforce and Atlassian Work Together
Although these platforms were originally designed to serve different functional roles—Atlassian’s help desk, ServiceNow’s IT service management and Salesforces’ sales and CRM—from the outset, they all addressed the evolving mega-management and leadership issue: collaboration across teams and business units. Independent action, siloed organizations and disconnected thinking was increasingly giving way to more agile, interdependent, collaborative […]
Eficode Adds Analytics to Managed DevOps Service
Eficode has added an analytics module to a DevOps platform it makes available as a managed service. Tuomas Keränen, product manager for Eficode ROOT, said Eficode ROOT Insights provides different types of end users with access to an analytics module designed to make it easier to understand how changes to a software development project will […]
Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land
Tekton is an open source, cloud-native CI/CD pipelines engine. The project has its roots in the Knative project, where about a year ago it started under the name “Knative Pipeline,” with the aim of providing an extension to build Knative’s own “source to image” service. About eight months ago the project was reborn as Tekton […]
How Open Source Software Is Defining the Future of Mobile Connectivity
Mobile operators face intense pressure to deliver more data, faster connectivity, better coverage and more functionality to end users who are (unfortunately) more demanding than ever. Increasingly, these end users will not be people as we know them but rather Internet of Things (IoT) devices. IDC has projected that by 2025, 60% of the world’s […]
The NVMF Boogie: How Kubernetes and NVMF Will Rock
I recently wrote a blog about how Kubernetes creates a global computing grid that delivers unprecedented compute flexibility. Then I wrote a blog about the importance of going fully Kubernetes-native. In today’s blog I would like to drill down into the role that the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF or just NVMF) standard will play in […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
DevOps at a Distance
How do you successfully follow DevOps practices when the two parts of your team are 5,000 miles (8,000km) and two time zones apart? Airwallex is a global fintech founded in Melbourne, Australia just four years ago. It is Australia’s fastest-growth tech unicorn with a valuation of over $1 billion thanks in part to investments from […]