Why Your Manager Will Want to Send You to Jenkins World 2017
Jenkins World 2017 is right around the corner. The conference will be held in San Francisco Aug. 28-31 and will be the biggest event of the year for Jenkins users, with approximately 2,000 people expected to be in attendance! You will not want to miss out on this event, full of learning and networking opportunities. […]
NodeSource Gets to the Source of the Node.js Issue
There’s no shortage of variants of Node.js in the world, but NodeSource is making a DevOps-related case for why IT organizations should standardize on its runtime implementation. NodeSource released version 2.3 of N|Solid, which adds support for event loop delay notifications that pinpoint precisely where an issue that needs to be addressed has occurred with […]
The Role of QA in the DevOps World
The need for faster time to market and superior quality is getting intense in the software development process. Software trends for 2017 suggest that DevOps will grow as a trend and become more widely accepted across enterprises. Organizations are reaping the benefits of DevOps approach and are incorporating the rules within every aspect of software […]
Avoiding Application Integration Fails
Trying to integrate applications on your own can eat your project alive. A seemingly simple project may look harmless when you start, but in the end do-it-yourself software delivery tool integrations can devour your entire software process. The problem may be that building simple integrations appears easy. How hard can an integration be? But let’s […]
Study: Half of Enterprises Have Achieved DevSecOps
The inclusion of IT security into DevOps processes, also known as DevSecOps, appears to be occurring at an accelerated rate. A new survey of 300 enterprise IT organizations published this week by DigCert, a provider of identity management and encryption software, finds that almost half (49 percent) of the respondents says they have completed DevSecOps, […]
Overcoming the People, Culture Barriers to DevOps Adoption
The fact you’re reading this article on DevOps.com suggests you’re already a DevOps fan. Or maybe you’re visiting this site because you’re considering moving to DevOps in your organization, or you’ve been told you must move to DevOps and are figuring out how on earth to do it. Whatever your view on DevOps, let’s get […]
Microsoft Woos Development Partners
If Microsoft has its way, many more DevOps processes will revolve around the cadence at which the company upgrades its applications. At its Inspire 2017 conference, the tech behemoth announced an ISV Cloud Embed initiative designed to entice more developers to add value by extending application functionality it has already developed and deployed in the […]
How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up in a public- versus private-cloud computing debate that has mostly been species. The truth is that most organizations wind up employing both. But […]
13 Best Practices of Successful Software Testing Projects
Thorough testing is vital for quality assurance, and best practices in software testing can yield high-end software at the end. The current post is giving fine clues regarding the prevailing best practices in software testing projects. Recent cyberattacks have proved that security has paramount importance for any software life cycle. The best QA and testing […]
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery engines such as CloudBees or Blue Ocean are designed to trigger the execution of CI workflows across the dev, test and prod environments. […]
In DevOps, Figure Out Why Before Considering How
It has been fairly well-established that DevOps is primarily a function of the underlying culture—about breaking down barriers and shifting roles so that teams and individuals are empowered to come up with innovative ideas and execute them without the burden of traditional corporate bureaucracy. It is also understood that there are a variety of tools […]
BMC Pushes Automation to the DevOps Left
Much of the inherent conflict that exists between developers and IT operations teams often comes down to how IT automation processes are implemented. IT operations teams generally have their own preferred tools for automating operations while developers have another. To resolve that issue, BMC Software unveiled Control-M Workbench, a set of development tools that extends […]
Node.js Becoming More DevOps-Friendly
Over the last several years use of Node.js has exploded across the enterprise, as developers moved to embrace a variant of Javascript that made it easier to build both client and server-side applications. However, every time it is upgraded, all the dependencies between it and application modules written in C or C++ breaks. To solve […]
Tailoring Enterprise Collaboration: Strategies for Success
In the age of SCRUM, Agile and DevOps, developers collaborate with their peers and colleagues more than ever before. Many developers already use a variety of collaboration tools on a daily basis, such as a team messaging application, an online discussion forum, or an open code repository. But while developers love to collaborate, it can […]
Salesforce Moves Compliance to the DevOps Left
Compliance is one of those tasks that trips up developers multiple times over. More times than anyone cares to admit developers finish an application only to discover there are any number of compliance controls that were overlooked. Sometimes, bringing that application into compliance is trivial. Other times, it can delay the rollout of the application […]
5 Ways to Keep DBAs Happy, Alive and Efficient
As DevOps adoption continues to grow, organizations are competing to find the best and brightest application developers available. Meanwhile, database administrators (DBAs) are hard at work in the background to keep up with the burgeoning number of databases platforms developers deploy. DBAs have it rough. If developers are the James Bonds of the IT world, […]
DevOps Doesn’t Stop at the Database
DevOps has moved into the mainstream and practices such as continuous delivery now are being widely adopted. But what about the database? Applications often have a back-end database that needs to be developed and maintained at the same time. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be an issue. The recent “State of Database DevOps […]
IBM: DevOps, AI to Drive Digital Business Transformation
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the biggest challenges organizations face today is a chronic shortage of application developers. But as artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the process of writing code will become more automated. But rather than there being not enough developers to write all the code necessary, the shortage will be in software engineers […]
The Emergence of UI and UX in DevOps Tools
Most of the popular DevOps tools on the market such as Puppet, Chef and Jenkins, are open-source and require a high level of proficiency. With the complexity comes the challenge of learning new frameworks and paradigms, a benefit to those who want to challenge themselves and learn new skills. But while these tools have become widely […]
In Product Development, Transparency is the New Agility
The rise of DevOps has shown that agility and speed are key drivers for turning a business into a high-growth company. But as product managers, that’s not all we can take away from the DevOps culture. Those same methodologies that enable DevOps to function, such as having cross-functional teams and embracing a culture that embraces […]
Feature Branching vs. Feature Flags: What’s the Right Tool for the Job?
A dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of several different approaches for enabling multiple concurrent streams of dev work in the same codebase. We’ll see that two major factors—the cost of merge […]
The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution
There’s a level of frustration starting to build inside IT operations teams that’s about to boil over. Lucas Carlson, vice president of strategy for Automic, a unit of CA Technologies that provides an IT automation platform, says developers are bullying IT operations teams by programmatically invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by public cloud service […]
Signal Sciences Looks to DevSecOps to Improve App Security
The time has come to put control over IT security into the hands of the developers who increasingly are being held accountable for it. To make that possible, Signal Sciences has launched a Web Protection Platform (WPP) capable of inspecting traffic in real time across multiple deployment models. Intended as a replacement for more traditional […]