Herding Kittens: Developer Tools Trends From Our Survey
Back in late February we launched our latest survey in partnership with Automic. The survey sought to understand how developer tools are selected and used within organizations. We wanted to have some insight into how prevalent Shadow IT was. Well thanks to the hundreds of you who responded, we have been busy working with Automic […]
3 Skills Developers Should Master in 2016
The era of mobile and web is upon us, which has caused nearly every business decision-maker to ask the question, Is now the time to hire a developer to build our app or website? In 2016, businesses are going to be looking for the best developers to join their team and help scale their business. […]
Case Study: Pearson Weaves ThreadFix into AppSec, Part 2
In part one, we discussed how education content publisher Pearson applied ThreadFix to its AppSec request workflow needs. Here’s the rest of the story. The ThreadFix Implementation Senior software security engineer Matt Tesauro added ThreadFix to Pearson’s workflow in the following steps: Using FPM, Tesauro created a Debian Linux package internally to deploy the ThreadFix […]
Case Study: Pearson Weaves ThreadFix into AppSec, Part 1
Pearson is a publisher of education industry content to meet the needs of teachers and students from kindergarten/early learning through higher education and continuing education (for professionals). The company uses a mix of software, from legacy third-party software and “classic ASP apps that are on life support to auto-scaling systems on Amazon,” says Matt Tesauro, […]
Performance Testing: The Unexpected Missing Link in DevOps
It is no secret that DevOps and continuous delivery goes hand in hand in the enterprise, but how do processes such as performance testing fit in to the equation? Many enterprises still harbor the traditional way of thinking—that the QA and performance testing group is completely separate from the development group. A widely held myth […]
At the Intersection of Git and DevOps
Everyone knows Git. It’s a favorite developer tool and for good reason. Developers love its flexibility, speed and ability to branch locally and in place. It also appeals to the attraction to community development. But as developers adopt Git within enterprises, IT managers face the challenge of reconciling the needs of developers with the needs […]
How do you measure DevOps? What does that even mean?
What are some of the metrics you should be monitoring to track your DevOps efforts, and which metrics should you abandon? Last Tuesday I participated in an online panel on the subject of Measuring DevOps, as part of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), a series of community panels about Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Watch a recording […]
3 Ways Manual Processes are Risking Your Development Cycle
During my two decades in IT, I’ve seen the demand for Agile and its associated methodologies grow. At the same time, however, I’ve witnessed the database being left behind. DBmaestro, where I am co-founder and CTO, recently conducted a survey titled, “Database Deployment & Development Risks,” to gain insights into the risks associated with various […]
The Role of APM in Continuous Integration and Continuous Release
Today’s software-defined and -driven business requires fast changes in business models—a phenomenon permeating successful businesses. What this means is almost every company is learning how to make small, rapid changes and adjustments within their business, especially within software systems. As a result, IT is feeling immense pressure to evolve, and the net result is a […]
What it’s Like Working as Quality Assurance in Consultancy Companies
Quality Assurance (QA) engineers working at consultancy companies should embrace trying new technologies and solving problems. This role is best defined by two words: variety and challenges. QA engineers at consultancy companies must pay great attention to detail and check all of their actions meticulously to make sure everything is being done correctly. The position […]
From Laboratories to DevOps Factories for Continuous Testing
The prior blog Continuous Testing and Monitoring Essentials for SDN and NFV discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring complex systems such as software defined networks and network functions that are virtualized . Whether the product being tested is a complex network system or not, with DevOps the laboratory is no longer […]
Winning the game with devops at Gameforge
Gameforge is a leading game developer of free-to-play massive online multiplayer (MMO) style games. It provides over 20 games to 450 million registered users on more than 20,000 servers worldwide. As Gameforge continues to grow, the challenges with server maintenance and communication between developers and system administrators continues to increase. I recently spoke with Felix Oechsler, […]
An obituary to a Managed Test Service
1st October 2020, Enterpirseborough , F500 Inc street Managed Test Service, 66, died Friday, 3rd October, 2020 at the Delivery governance war room in the IT head quarters of F500 inc. following a terminal illness caused by a lifetime burden of 34 SLA’s, debt burden of 44 KPIs , 29 painful claw backs by procurement […]
How do you identify gaps in your testing?
Every piece of software ships with some defects in it, but major gaps in your testing coverage can be disastrous, and they can occur for a variety of different reasons. Part of the problem with a typical root cause analysis is that it comes after the fact. Perhaps the customer has complained, there’s been a […]
To Be Continuous: Continuous Delivery and Mobile Development
In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Kevin Henrikson about about succeeding with Continuous Delivery and mobile development. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Kevin is partner director of engineering at Microsoft where he manages the Outlook teams. Edith is CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, […]
Raising the Bar on DevOps for Enterprise Systems
What do you do when you are a leader in DevOps solutions for Enterprise Systems and you practice what you preach? You raise the bar to continually improve your offerings and share thought leadership about where the future lies for clients as they navigate the world of continuous delivery in a climate of digital disruption. […]
Continuous Operations: Implications on IT automation
With the increased adoption of cloud-based services, users are now accessing their applications through multiple channels and device ‘endpoints’. User experience expectations, which are constantly rising, now have to be met across multiple channels to avoid customers dropping of your website or app and never returning again. Minutes of service downtime or response slowdown may […]
Automic amps up DevOps with continuous everything
DevOps is all about automation and continuity. I’ve written in the past about continuous as a DevOps buzzword, and the continuous continuousness of DevOps because it seems like everything is continuous. There’s continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment, etc. Perhaps the executives at AUTOMIC read my work and it inspired them to skip […]
In-App Messaging: The Key to a Better User Experience
As the mobile device obsession grows, enterprise IT departments are learning the hard way that today’s Web applications, will in fact, not live forever. Enterprise developers are now forced to turn their focus to mobile app development – not just repurposing a Web API for mobile, but embracing what is inherently different about the mobile […]
Agile Infrastructure: Because your Infrastructure Deserves Tests, Too
Editor’s Note: This post was updated Aug. 4, 2018, to reflect an updated slide presentation at the end of the article. Infrastructure as Code is a truly powerful concept whose significance is best described with the words of Adam Jacob, CTO at Chef, in Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time: “Enable the reconstruction of […]
APM on-premises or SaaS: What’s the best fit?
Today’s DevOps teams need in-depth monitoring that offers insights into every aspect of the application-delivery chain. When you decide for an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, you can choose between an on-premises approach or SaaS-based solutions (“Monitoring as a Service”). Every deployment option brings its pros and cons or has advantages for special use cases. An […]
9 more open source DevOps tools we love
A while back we ran an article by Tomer Levy of Logz.io about 9 open source DevOps Tools that we loved. Of course how can you pick just 9 among so many worthy choices? So we wanted to revisit the open source DevOps tools space and add another 9 tools to the list. In a […]
Ancestry.com Brings BlazeMeter into the Fold
In order to gather and organize your lineage and the branches in your family tree, Ancestry has spent more than a generation (the company was born in 1983) wading through the 16B+ images and records buried in historical society data, government archives, and information caches of like organizations, groups, and communities the world over. Data […]