Tag: testing
Puppet Launches 2017 State of DevOps Survey
It’s that time of year again! We at Puppet have kicked off the 2017 annual State of DevOps. survey. Now in its sixth year, we have once again teamed up with DevOps ...
Welcome to the Continuous Delivery 101 Podcast
No matter what industry you’re in or how old your business is, your software often determines your success in today’s application economy. Applications are the face of your business—both the way it ...
Time, Training: How to Implement DevOps Effectively
Successful implementation of DevOps solutions requires two very important investments: time and training. New technologies have always transformed how the commercial world operates. The steam engine for example, fueled the industrial revolution ...
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 ...
A Holiday Tradition: 2017 Continuous Delivery Predictions
It’s that time of year. As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us are following time-honored traditions: making preparations for the holidays, planning some much-deserved time off and enjoying ...
How Continuous Can Integration Be?
My blog, "7 Pillars of DevOps," identified seven essential best practices areas that make up successful DevOps. One of the seven pillars is continuous integration (CI). The blog explained that the pillars ...
Assembling the Key Components of Continuous Delivery
As agile methodology was popularized at the start of last decade, engineering teams gained the opportunity to begin producing software in shorter cycles, while releasing it reliably at more frequent intervals. This concept ...
Keep Applications Running by Testing Early, Continuously
Almost every product we buy or use today goes through some form of extensive testing before it’s released on the market; typically, these tests are designed to replicate the worst-case scenarios that ...
What Every Front-End Developer Needs to Know
One of the hardest things about being a front-end developer is the fact that everybody has very different expectations of what it means to be one. This, along with a technology stack ...
Network Resilience and Security from A to Z
An observer watching a bunker shot by legendary pro golfer Gary Player was heard to say: “I’ve never seen anyone so lucky in my life.” The player retorted: “Yes, and the more ...
It’s All About the Tools: Lifecycle Security and Testing
In the past, whenever a new application or a new version of an application was bought to market, users often were abused as beta testers for security and usability. This was largely ...
Putting Ops Back in DevOps
What Agile means to your typical operations staff member is, "More junk coming faster that I will get blamed for when it breaks." There always is tension between development and operations when ...