Speed versus quality. Can you really have one while the other exists? When Agile came on to the scene, it pushed to get development teams to create code as quickly as possible ...

Progress in achieving the maximum benefits to be gained from investing DevOps processes appears to be held in check by a failure to master the art of continuous testing. A new survey ...

When it comes to launching nuclear weapons, there are a variety of steps and a variety of fail-safe mechanisms, all designed to ensure that those pushing the button really want to do ...

Over the last few years, we have definitely gotten continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) down. We now can maintain a relatively constant flow of deployable code sitting and waiting for the ...

Nobody likes to be told how to get a specific task or job done. In fact, it’s arguably that very sentiment that holds backs adoption of DevOps processes inside many IT organizations ...

You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored ...

I am often asked, “if we are using a continuous integration (CI) server and adopting a continuous delivery pipeline, where does continuous deployment fit in?” Good question. In a nutshell, continuous delivery ...

It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication ...

Between continuous integration (CI) and release automation (RA), we’ve come a long way in making testing both integral and automated. This testing has allowed QA staff and developers to spend more time ...

One of the points of DevOps is to streamline development and focus on what is important. Things that don’t raise to a high enough level of importance end up in the category ...

In most human endeavors that take a stretch of time to complete, the idea is latched onto and people become excited about being involved. It doesn’t matter if it is building a ...

Any organization that has been around for more than a few years (and many who haven’t) have a massive system that would cost a fortune to replace. Most midsized enterprises have several ...