Tag: infrastructure as code

If you have been investing in test automation, but it’s not getting you where you think it should, it could be that you approached it superficially. One of the most common issues ...

The core concept of minimum viable product (MVP) is to get maximum learning and understanding regarding what customers want about a product. Learning and understanding is a continuous process requiring a development ...

Anytime there is a popular movement in technology (and I would argue any other field), people get carried away. We’ve seen it over and over, and DevOps attracts this kind of attention ...

Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. One of the hardest things about DevOps is knowing where to ...

Organizations that embrace DevOps often find themselves moving from having a paucity of IT automation tools to an embarrassment of riches in short order. As a result, many of the teams involved ...

It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and ...

Over the past 10 years, as more organizations have made the transition to DevOps, there has been a cultural shift in which security and development teams agree quality is a priority. Yet, ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) and DevOps are not mutually exclusive. Actually, DevOps wants SDN, whether it knows it yet or not. Why? If software is going to eat the world, then SDN is ...

Networking’s role in DevOps is not accurately defined. Up to this point, networking has been integrated into DevOps through infrastructure as code (IaC), which has been around since the beginning of the ...

Understanding the artifacts of a given technology component is critical to an enterprise-class DevOps service offering. Second-most critical is understanding the dependencies between given components. Testing helps illuminate those dependencies. For example, ...