Tag: automation
Self-Healing Service Management and the Future of DevOps
How can DevOps teams take continuous delivery to the next step? Part of the answer lies in self healing, which could optimize performance management and monitoring and underpin the software delivery pipelines ...
When DevOps Disrupts DevOps
As longtime readers of my blogs will know, one of my hobbies—when not writing about or playing with technology—is modeling. There is a similarity between quality tech work and quality modeling, but ...
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
The Tester: Saving Your Soul in a DevOps World
Software testers have seen their careers go through some ups and downs in recent years. In the days of Waterfall, the tester’s job was clearly defined. Like other functions of software development ...
Release Automation: Delivering the Big Quality Payoff
Have you ever gone down the path of testing the latest release of an application only to find out that you had the wrong version? Maybe you accidentally grabbed the wrong build ...
Why Financial Companies Love Continuous Delivery
The other day I was on the American Express website paying bills and browsing around the benefits and services afforded me when I ran across a "who we are" section. It read: ...
Boosting Time-to-Market by Improving Software Development
Today’s business environments require “agility” in terms of being able to quickly understand and adapt to information, trends and new developments. For example, a company might employ a business intelligence suite that ...
The Right Automation Tool for the Job
My father was an antique dealer, and we did a lot of furniture repair in the workshop. All of us kids took turns working for the business as we grew up, and ...
Dispelling the Myths Around Continuous Testing
You may have seen the term "continuous testing" and thought it was just the DevOps flavor of the month. Some might even think it isn’t part of DevOps or isn’t for cloud ...
Be Here Now – Agile and DevOps in the Current State of Synergy
If there’s one thing that our culture does not lack, it’s a litany of pithy catch-quotes meant to remind us to focus on the task at hand; yet, this often runs counter ...
CD 101 Podcast Episode 2: The Agile Enterprise
And we're back with another episode of the "Continuous Delivery 101 Podcast." In Episode 1, we covered the three waves of IT disruption—and how these disruptions, combined with the move toward digital ...
Reality Check: Bringing Continuous Delivery Dreams to Life
Every developer shares the same dream: to write a piece of code or app that changes everything. Whether it makes your company do things more efficiently, attracts hordes of new customers, simply ...

