How ADLM Gobbles Up DevOps
The Next Evolution of Software Delivery Automation In the 1980’s and 90’s, the business software landscape was dominated by a diverse list of cutting-edge companies such as Best Software, i2, Brock Control Systems, Mapics, Ross Systems, Infinium, FBO Systems, Manugistics and MSA (of course I could go on and on). Now long gone, these and […]
Avoid the DevOps Tool Trap
Software development, at its most complex and dynamic is a full-court press of effort, knowledge, patience, and hard work. Anything that can reliably and cost-effectively reduce the huge number of tasks, redundancies, reports, and delays associated with the application release process is something to be embraced. In particular, many organizations today are turning to the […]
Why DevOps for the database must include three way analysis
Deployment automation is critical to practicing effective DevOps. Without deployment automation, releases still require a lot of manual steps and processes. Processes and steps that aren’t reliably repeatable, are prone to human errors, and can’t be handled consistently with high frequency. However, the software best practices can’t simply be grafted onto database deployments. Unlike software […]
When Good Code Goes Bad
Milk spoils. Iron rusts. And in software, good code goes bad. Yet the difference is, with the first two, you know the change has occurred. With software, those changes are not always obvious. Your 5,100 Binaries Went Bad There is no way to prevent software from “going bad”. As with all products, bugs and defects,are […]
Where Oh Where has my Hadoop gone?
Where is Hadoop? Just a few years ago, it was everywhere. Internet heavy hitters such as Facebook and Yahoo boasted about the size of their Hadoop clusters and applications. It was easy to imagine the day when Hadoop would be the one indispensable tool for anyone who dealt in large volumes of data. And now? […]
DevOps fast food: Chef on the AWS marketplace,
News from the AWS Summit in NYC today is that Chef is now available as a one click install on AWS via the AWS marketplace. While the ability to use Chef on AWS is not new (it is the leading configuration management tool on AWS), being on the marketplace makes both install and billing a […]
HashiCorp unites open source DevOps tools with Atlas
Open source and DevOps go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or like milk and cookies (these metaphors are making me hungry). Basically, they’re inseparable and—while each is good in and of itself—they’re better when united. HashiCorp announced today that Atlas, a platform for a variety of leading open source tools, is now available to […]
Managing many hosts is more than a Big Data problem
Back in my days at StillSecure a major problem we had with our vulnerability management platform was managing vulnerabilities over a large number of hosts. How can you effectively manage so many hosts, visualize them across the entire deployment? It gave our GUI designers and developers fits. In today’s world of virtual instances, containers and […]
Best Practices to Prevent Scrum Failure
In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes, a Scrum failure if you will—not because the agile framework is flawed, but because the company didn’t understand, or disregarded, how scrum is supposed to work. For example, I was once a scrum master for […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
ElasticBox enhances Container support with new release
ElasticBox announced a new version of their product today that enhances Container support. In yet another example of how important Containers are becoming to today’s software development scene, ElasticBox will now allow you to define microservices as Docker files in containers. Other enhancements include (from the press release) : UI Enhancement: Tags now make it […]
Visualizing and defining requirements comes to DevOps
We have all seen the nice circular diagrams of a DevOps methodology for application lifecycle management (ALM) like the one above. We interject some automation, make the two halves work closer together, get some feedback loops going and go as fast as we can. But lets look at those first two steps in the diagram, […]
Rancher Labs hopes to help DevOps teams rope in container management
DevOps teams have turned to containerization in a big way in order to help improve their efficiency. But many enterprises have run into problems scaling containers across their infrastructure to account for issues like networking and load balancing. Rancher Labs, a Cupertino-based cloud software startup, is hoping to help organizations address the scalability with a […]
How ITIL Can Co-Exist With DevOps
The original ITIL framework definition was published in the 1980s, but contrary to many opinions, it has evolved since then, provided one takes a more flexible view. Fast forward to ITILv3, and the framework has been shifted to the view that IT is a service that needs to support business initiatives and strategy. In parallel, […]
Choosing a Mobile Test Automation Solution: What You Need to Know
Organizations today rely more and more heavily on mobile apps to drive their business. In fact, many companies are already seeing more than half of their web traffic coming in via mobile devices. In some cases, their mobile app is the only way customers interact with their products. It’s no surprise, then, that developing, testing, […]
Software Development of the Future: Partnering with Outside Sources How One Company Found Success with Outsourcing a Major Project
Untangle develops and designs security software and appliances that protect computers and enterprise networks. By synthesizing enterprise-grade capabilities with consumer-oriented simplicity, our company creates products that are both powerful and intuitive to use. Designed for organizations ranging from small schools and businesses to large campus environments, our open source solutions offer a cost-effective alternative to […]
SQL lovers fear not – NoSQL just got friendlier
Today Couchbase, the creator of an Enterprise NoSQL database server, announces N1QL ( pronounced Nickle) at their user conference. N1QL is designed to ease the pain for SQL developers when considering NoSQL, by creating a new query language to sit on top. It is essentially SQL for JSON documents. But it does a lot more than […]
5 Ways To Speed Up Mobile App Testing
We’re all familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare, where a plodding tortoise wins a race against a speedy hare because the over-confident hare takes a nap midway through the race. It’s a valuable lesson about the power of smarts over sheer speed. But all due respect to the methodical approach, the […]
IT Asset Management: How to Find Out if Your Database is Causing Performance Problems
As your IT infrastructure grows, it becomes increasingly important to be able to identify where bottlenecks, performance problems, or outages are occurring so that you can quickly act to fix any issues. Identifying the source of a problem can be a bit tricky once you have grown into having multiple apps, servers, and databases—but there […]
Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops processes optimized to achieve business and development goals. A few years ago when Agile was all the rage, lightning-fast Dev sprints left the […]
Stackify APM+ brings real-time application performance management to .NET
It’s a fast-paced world. Recent research from Microsoft suggests that the attention span of the average human is about 8 seconds now. That means if your application doesn’t work as expected your users will quickly move on to find a suitable replacement. An application performance management tool can be crucial to identifying and resolving application […]
API Discovery and Search with APIs.JSON
If that sounds vaguely like UDDI (which dealt with discovery and search of WSDL then you’re on the right track. Glue is this week, and preceding the conference was the 2015 API Strategy and Practice Tech Un-Workshops. One of the lightning talks (and they were lightning fast, let me tell you) was all about APIs.JSON […]
Ansible Best Practices : Automation, Provisioning and Configuration Management
What is Ansible? Ansible is an IT automation engine, and a trouble-free model-driven configuration management and command execution framework. Made for multi-tier deployments, it designs your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems are interrelated instead of just managing one system at a time. Written in Python, Ansible does not use any agent. […]