This is part two of a series of three articles on building and delivering amazing apps at the edge. To read part one, click here. There are millions of apps available today, and it’s incredibly easy for any user to download and install any of them with just a few taps on a screen or […]
Building Amazing Apps, Part 1: Optimizing the Front End
There are millions of apps available today, and it’s incredibly easy for any user to download and install any of them with just a few taps on a screen or click of a mouse. If you want to build and deliver an app that will amaze users, you need to be able to differentiate from […]
Speed Rules in Chef’s DevOps Survey
DevOps is all about streamlining and accelerating. Organizations that embrace DevOps are driven by a focus on maximizing the combination of efficiency and effectiveness—which explains why speed is the central theme of Chef’s “The State of Enterprise Applications” survey. Chef surveyed nearly 350 application and operations professionals in an effort to understand trends in DevOps, […]
DevOps’ Role in Developing a Robust and Secure IoT Framework
Creating a secure IoT infrastructure is a challenge for developers, requiring a holistic approach. It requires a dynamic framework that is capable of collecting data from a cloud back end as well as directly from the embedded hardware. Supporting this secure environment is another challenge, requiring the development of complex systems capable of deployment in […]
What Google’s ‘Digital Wellbeing’ Means for Every App Developer
One of the big themes to emerge from Google’s recent I/O conference was Digital Wellbeing—the notion that technology should be a positive force in our lives, and that we need ways to disconnect from apps when they suck up too much time or distract us in other ways. Google is taking the idea seriously, and […]
5 Reasons AWS Service Catalog is Sexy for DevOps and Cloud
Ok, so you’re probably more excited about topics such as microservices and containers right now, but bear with me. AWS Service Catalog is becoming increasingly necessary as cloud infrastructure evolves, allowing IT and developers to share pre-approved services, which helps tear down silos and encourage DevOps-related practices. If you’re not familiar with Service Catalog, it […]
Legacy On-Premises Apps Got You Down? Cloud DevOps to the Rescue!
With all the buzz around DevOps we tend to assume that everyone is doing it. But the reality is that most companies are not. That’s because organizations using legacy, on-premises applications think that it can’t work for them, and, according to IDC, the vast majority of enterprise apps still reside on-premises. Even in 2018, less […]
Feature Branching vs. Feature Flags: What’s the Right Tool for the Job?
A dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of several different approaches for enabling multiple concurrent streams of dev work in the same codebase. We’ll see that two major factors—the cost of merge […]
Understanding the App Development Life Cycle
More and more businesses nowadays are shifting to mobile. And that’s absolutely reasonable choice: More than 50 percent of digital media consumption accounts for mobile apps; Ninety percent of the time smartphone users spend on their mobiles goes to mobile apps; A typical user has about 30 apps installed on his mobile and spends more […]
From Architect to Operator: The Rise of Developers
Over the past five years, DevOps has transformed from a model for agile software development practices to the aspirational standard for functions across the IT spectrum. Previously, developers and IT Ops teams were distinct and siloed—developers built the application and IT Ops managed production environments—but now many in the industry have shifted to create a […]