Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce […]
Codeless Automation: Shattering the Testing Bottleneck
In his article, “Moving from ‘Tester’ to ‘Quality Enabler’,” Scott Edwards clearly lays out the predicament in which QA testing is currently at: with one foot in the quicksand of […]
Using Application Deltas in Deployments
Developers have been versioning their source files since the early days of Unix. Anyone else remember SCCS? Back in those days, storage was at a premium: Disks were small and […]
4 Predictive Analytics Challenges Facing SRE Teams
“Predictive analytics” refers to the many techniques used to analyze data to make predictions about the future, such as data mining, statistics, modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Being able […]
Fast Pass: Your Ultimate Guide to the Best of Jenkins World
At the end of the month, Jenkins users and DevOps professionals from around the world will head to San Francisco for the annual Jenkins World conference, taking place Aug. 28-31. […]
DevOps Proves No Coaster Ride for Roller
Keeping amusement parks running and the fun flowing is Roller‘s main job. The company provides software for the leisure and entertainment industries, notably theme parks, amusement parks and trampoline parks. […]
Puppet Makes Development Kit Available to Advance DevOps
Organizations that embrace DevOps often find themselves moving from having a paucity of IT automation tools to an embarrassment of riches in short order. As a result, many of the […]
Creatures of Habit, Snowflakes and Integration Tax
Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps’ biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal “10 deploys per day” […]
Go Big or Go Home: Total DevOps Guarantees Results
As revealed by a recent survey, only enterprises that implement an “all-in” approach to DevOps achieve the results of best-in-class enterprises seen in the “2017 State of DevOps Report.” Total […]
In DevOps, Quality is a Team Effort
Technology is changing every industry; we can all agree on this foundational premise. If you disagree, I believe the rest of this post is going to do nothing for you, […]
