Knowing What Your Microservices Are Doing

June 14, 2018 by Zach Jory 1 Comments

Microservicin’ ain’t easy, but it’s necessary. Breaking your monolith down into microservices is a must in a cloud-native world, but it doesn’t automatically make everything easier. Some things actually become more difficult. An obvious area where it adds complexity is communications between services; visibility into service to service communications can be hard to achieve, but […]

Continuous Delivery Pipelines: Metrics, Myths, and Milestones

January 4, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Join Gary Gruver as he discusses metrics and trending data needed to drive efficient release management at enterprise scale. Also, find out what over 40% of enterprise customers cite as a key barrier to achieving DevOps efficiencies. You will learn how to: Integrate with sources of record to reduce over processing. Foster dev and release […]

Continuous Deployment and Monitoring of Microservices

September 27, 2017 by Don Macvittie 2 Comments

Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a fair number of practitioners that are struggling with the merging of these concepts to create a holistic environment that allows for deep understanding […]

Quality Culture, DevOps Forge Better Connections Between IT, Lines of Business

September 15, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

The automation of software development does not obviate the need for a collaboration between IT and the lines of business, or the development of a culture of quality on the part of the development team. Achieving that quality culture requires more than a change in mindset as developers seek to align quality with the speed […]

Spurring the DevOps Adoption Journey

June 9, 2017 by contributor 2 Comments

Every few years, the IT canvas is splashed with a new initiative that sparks enthusiasm among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such philosophy gaining significant momentum in today’s digital transformation landscape. At the same time, the concept remains misunderstood and adoption is slow. DevOps embodies Development plus Operations within software development. Traditionally, these […]

Improving DevOps Success with Well-Defined Metrics

May 26, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

Collaboration within diverse project teams is often more difficult to achieve when there is no clearly visible aim, the planning is haphazard and the information shared is inadequate. However, these are crucial hurdles to overcome in any organization—and more so in product companies with globally distributed teams working on different parts of the product pipeline. […]

Measuring What Matters in Evaluating Software Performance

May 24, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

When developing and deploying a new feature or application, performance (speed, reliability) must be closely analyzed. After all, there’s no benefit to delivering a product if it doesn’t work well or users are forced to stare at a spinning wheel. To get a true view of performance, many organizations rely on metrics—a smart move since […]

Avoid Crashes: 5 Best Practices for Load Testing

May 16, 2017 by Noga Cohen 0 Comments

Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]