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Harnessing the Power of DevOps for Seamless Software Delivery
In today’s world of software development, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery/deployment (CD), automated testing and infrastructure as a code (IaaC) are cornerstones o…
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A survey of 185 software development professionals who have adopted the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform finds that 97% are now using it in production environments, with 60% running Argo for more than two years.
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In today’s world of software development, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery/deployment (CD), automated testing and infrastructure as a code (IaaC) are cornerstones o…
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Don MacVittie has one request for vendors: Don’t tell us how you can manage other vendors’ tools; tell us how you’re making it easier to manage yours.
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Harness has acquired the assets of Armory, a provider of CD platforms based on the open source Spinnaker platform and a cloud service based on a proprietary platform.
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Tool everything, because the software delivery toolchain is now the core of application development and deployment, Don MacVittie advises.
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In several projects of late, I have noted a trend in otherwise rockstar IT departments: They identify an area that they wish to implement or approve and then set out to address it.…
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In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that the continuous delivery pillar is an approach where code changes are auto…
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DevOps is about change. It was introduced to accelerate change, and it has opened up a whole new world of tools and possibilities that are all based on the premise of changing IT.…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can creat…
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I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to reconsider.” I say…
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The transition to a DevOps model has been welcomed by many organizations that are looking to implement more efficient development processes. However, there are multiple models to c…
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I had an interesting conversation today where I was told, “We do great with CI but terrible at the CD part.” My immediate reaction was to point at all the great CD activity going o…
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I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word “toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regula…
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When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those unfam…
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A survey of 820 application development professionals conducted by Applitools, a provider of an application testing platform, found well over a third of respondents (38%) working f…
CI/CD
NS1 has extended the capabilities of its DNS and network management platform with the release of NS1 Connect. The platform is designed to serve as a delivery platform that integrat…
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Simply put, data breaches are terrible news for companies. And, the costs associated with such attacks continue to escalate. A recent IBM-sponsored report found an average price of…
DevOps Culture
DevOps was built around the concept of continuous everything. We even use it in many of the names—continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous integration (CI)—and it i…
DevOps Toolbox
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continu…
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It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps i…
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. In software development, change has been a constant. I’ve been a software engineer for more than 25 years and have had to morph…
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If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But tha…
Features
Getting a solid grasp on the meaning of DevOps requires a clear understanding of the terms used to describe it. Over the last several years, we have seen a paradigm shift in the wa…