Tag: production
Harness Survey Surfaces Raft of DevOps Challenges
A survey of 500 software engineering leaders (38%) and practitioners finds nearly half reporting they can't release code to production without risking failures, with 39% noting their code fails to push to ...
Best of 2020: Dear Staging: We’re Done
As we close out 2020, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2020 ...
Automation: The Human-Free Zone Approach to Software
Humans hate repetitive manual tasks. We suck at them—we make mistakes, lose concentration, get bored. Throughout history, humans have instinctually developed automation to keep us away from the hazard-prone, tedious work of ...
The Relationship Between Feature Flags and DevOps
From 2017 I’ve started most DevOps conversations with, “DevOps is now boring, and I love it!” What I mean by boring is that we are arguing less and less about why you ...
When Shift Right is Shift Left
In some areas of IT, we utilize the idea of shift right quite a bit. Testing and security are two areas where it comes up often. The idea is that tracking late ...
DevOps: Time for Developers to Dig In
Speaking to developers and project managers at the Gartner Catalyst Show, Jenkins World and Atlassian Summit revealed some insights about how most IT specialist perceive DevOps. Yes, I had a busy end ...
Move the Needle in DevOps with Continuous Testing
contributor | | continuous testing, devops, full test coverage, integration testing, production, regression testing, test environment creation, testingShift-left testing, risk based testing, early testing and technical debt reduction are all predicted to be some of the most sought-after trends in product development life cycle. All of these can be ...
Spurring the DevOps Adoption Journey
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 ...
SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?
Asaf Yigal | | development, devops, google, operations, production, site reliability engineering, SRE, sysadminJust a few days before he died at the beginning of the 1990s, a wise man taught us that “the show must go on.” Freddie Mercury’s parting words have long provided the ...
Breaking the Cycle of Dependency
While technology is an important component of DevOps and accelerating delivery, there are other aspects of process and culture that are critical to keeping the cycle moving to realize the goals of ...
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
Chris Tozzi | | code, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, continuous integration, developers, devops, production"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 ...
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
contributor | | best practices, continuous delivery, production, software testing, test cycle, version controlContinuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are ...
