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The Tester: Saving Your Soul in a DevOps World
Software testers have seen their careers go through some ups and downs in recent years. In the days of Waterfall, the tester’s job was clearly defined. Like other functions of software development ...
All Day DevOps: Exploring the New Ordinary
There you were. You heard about Docker, become mesmerized, floated into its new, special world ... and then all chaos broke out. Things were not that easy and you scrambled for knowledge ...
One Team, 5,000 Jobs: Life in the DevOps Jungle
Damien has 5,000 jobs. While you might gasp at that workload, Damien is not stressing out. All 5,000 jobs are automated within his team’s Jenkins pipelines. How does he do it? Damien follows four key ...
DevOps: Making the Boring Things Stay Boring
“I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords,” is the title of Mykel Alvis’ (@mykelalvis) session at the 2016 All Day DevOps Conference. He wasn’t trying to curry favor with the new robot rulers, ...
How Open Source Can Help Your CD Chain
What can you do to make continuous delivery work better? Consider moving to open source software solutions. Here's why. Many DevOps teams already may be using open-source platforms for reasons not related ...
The Code Doesn’t Lie, and Other Operations Mantras
As engineers, we spend a lot of time talking about things such as release processes, QA environments and deployments. But at the end of the day, most software systems fail because the ...
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
"Continuous" is one of the most popular words in the DevOps lexicon. What does it really mean, and what is the difference between continuous delivery, continuous deployment and continuous integration? Keep reading ...
PyMongo Pointers: How to Make Robust and Highly Available Mongo Queries
In today’s clusters made of commodity servers, failures are the norm. Having your code fail because one data node happened to be down when you were querying it is frustrating and no ...
Infrastructure’s Impact on Shifting Left
If you lead big honkin’ software development projects at a big honkin’ enterprise, you’re probably doing everything you can to shift QA left. That’s because the earlier you discover defects and shortfalls, ...
An IT Practitioner’s Guide To DevOps
Two technology innovations of the past decade have fundamentally changed how IT works and given rise to the “DevOps” phenomenon. Before we dive into what DevOps is and how IT organizations should ...
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
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 that's a ...
Why your Company Should Load Test
The main reason your company should load test its websites and mobile applications is to learn how the site performs so you can improve the user experience and make smart web infrastructure ...