Tag: toolchain
But Are You a Platform?
Don MacVittie asks, 'Do you really need all the functionality of a platform, or will a single tool suffice?' ...
Monitor Toolchain Health, Too
Tool everything, because the software delivery toolchain is now the core of application development and deployment, Don MacVittie advises ...
Managing Risk
We have built some beautiful toolchains that crank out a finished product on the fly without needing anything close to the level of intervention that was historically required. The most advanced organizations ...
It’s a Toolchain!
I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word "toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regularly and, ...
Atlassian Extends Jira’s Reach Into DevOps Workflows
Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page that simplifies tool discovery for any ...
Focus on What You Can Do
Here we are in the second half of 2022 and the writing is on the wall. No matter how much budget you have had in the last few years, be it large ...
Lock Down Your Toolchain
We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of even a decade ago ...
At Some Point, We’ve Shifted Too Far Left
Those of us involved in DevOps have a tendency to see the world with blinders on. It is rather easy to fall into the “If all you have is a hammer, everything ...
Update Those Ops Tools, Too
We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to ...
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we're very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new ...
Languages and DevOps: Embedded
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take stock of the environment and the market around us to determine if what we are doing is what we should ...
Continuous Delivery Without Exception
Continuous delivery (CD) and all the other continuous things—continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous deployment—have become the new mantra of DevOps. CI/CD adoption typically starts with agile development teams working on new ...