CircleCI Automates Configurations Across CI/CD Platform

November 8, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

CircleCI has unveiled what it describes as the first package manager designed specifically to address configuration tasks involving software delivery automation. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the Orbs package manager condenses commands, executors and jobs into single, reusable lines of code that automate tasks on the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform […]

Life and Death in the Age of Automation

November 1, 2018 by Bob Reselman 1 Comments

Has automation changed the way we perceive interaction with others? A few weeks back I got an email from an old friend, Jim. Typically, that’s no big deal; I get emails from old friends all the time. Except, in this case, it was different. According to a posting on Facebook, Jim passed away about a […]

SAP Embeds Integration Services in PaaS Environment

October 24, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

SAP, at its SAP Tech-Ed Europe 2018 conference, expanded the scope of the integration services it provides within SAP Cloud Platform, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment it provides for building custom applications based on the open source Cloud Foundry project. Dan Lahl, global vice president of product marketing for SAP Cloud Platform, said SAP is now […]

Solving the ‘Automagical’ Apps Automation Problem

October 18, 2018 by Corey Scobie 2 Comments

The DevOps Revolution started with a handful of simple principles. A key one was that systems should be managed by code, not by humans, to eliminate complexity and ensure better security, compliance and scalability. To manage compute infrastructure at any scale, the process should be automated with logic captured in code. And, ideally, automation also […]

You’re Thinking Software Wrong

October 18, 2018 by Ori Pekelman 0 Comments

Like any industry, DevOps fosters its own unique culture. And like any culture it resists change, it has inertia. “This is how it has always been done” is an incredible force to reckon with. Even though the realities of DevOps have changed dramatically in recent years with the advent of new tools and services, many […]

Scripts in the Development Pipeline: Best Practices for Avoiding the ‘Scriptocalypse’

October 11, 2018 by Anders Wallgren 0 Comments

The use of scripts as a key tool in the average developer’s bag of tricks has altered the development pipeline in significant ways. It has even led some organizations to outsource their entire team to manage the glut of scripts that have been developed over the course of time. To help companies move beyond the […]