The advent of the application economy has made software arguably one the most critical and valuable assets of organizations across a broad spectrum of industries—financial, telecommunications, entertainment, and government, just to name a few. In the era of “app store ratings” and an unprecedented ability of the consumer to easily switch suppliers of whatever they’re consuming, […]
When Technology Doesn’t Matter
Over 10 years ago, Nick Carr wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review with the title, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” As you might expect, an article with a title like that generated a significant amount of controversy. CEOs from leading technology companies and other writers at the time panned Carr’s premise in a way that, […]
Webinar: Using APM to Turbocharge Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery have dramatically accelerated the rate of innovation within both large and small organizations – allowing teams to build and deploy software faster than ever before. Yet, as release automation accelerates the volume, variety and velocity of application changes, an entirely new set of challenges have appeared. Let’s state the obvious […]
Interview w/ Aruna Ravichandran, CA
Always a great interview, Aruna Ravichandran of CA is one of my own personal heroes. She is woman who has accomplished so much in her career. Having written literally a million lines of code in products before continuing her education with advanced degrees and moving to the business side of the house, Aruna is someone […]
Interview with Jeff Scheaffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies
At Jenkins World 2016, staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud caught up with Jeff Scheaffer, SVP and GM Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. Jeff spoke to us about the importance of CD and DevOps at CA. Jeff also I thought gave us the best explanation and reasoning for DevOps Express. With Jeff’s leadership, we should see […]
Welcome to the CD Neighborhood
Today we opened a new neighborhood or section here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. It is called the CD neighborhood and it will feature content on CD and related content. The neighborhood is sponsored by CA Technologies, who will also contribute content to the new neighborhood. CA authored content will be clearly marked. CA employees have contributed by […]
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
“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 for some perspective. Like many technological concepts, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment are terms that DevOps teams tend to use without […]
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
Continuous 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 discovered early on and have minimal impact. Plus, finding and fixing such errors is much easier with fewer changes per release—software is released […]
Why PR, Legal and HR Matter for Continuous Delivery
By most definitions, DevOps involves making developers and IT Ops teams work better together. But integrating other parts of an organization, such as legal and public relations, into DevOps is also important. Here’s why. DevOps has become popular because it helps to speed the delivery of software. The goal is to reach continuous delivery, which […]
7 Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Deployment Success
One of the key advantages of cloud-native applications is the ability to quickly push updates into production for specific microservices—giving developers the ability to respond rapidly to changing business requirements without having to upgrade the entire application. Successfully doing this requires far more than just leveraging a continuous delivery platform. Everything from the culture of […]