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 very expensive and it was too inefficient to store a complete copy of each version of the source file. So version control tools would simply […]
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 DevOps approaches DevOps transformations holistically, integrating the full breadth of your DevOps value chain as well as the many stakeholders across your organization that must […]
All Day DevOps: Taking Lambda to the Max
Lambda is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, and it is also the name of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) service that lets you run code without actually configuring a server. Amazon chose the name Lambda because—well, okay, I have no idea. Comment here if you know. Thankfully, you don’t need to know that […]
Don’t Underestimate the Work
It is relatively common in human endeavor to attempt to figure out how much work will be involved in a project, and be wrong. The more complex the work being done and the organizational system doing it, the further off estimates can be. This was one of the drivers for both Agile and DevOps: to […]
Continuous Everyone: Engaging People Across the Deployment Pipeline
We have continuous integration and we have continuous deployment, but what’s continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll evangelizes about “continuous everyone.” Jayne is the CEO of the DevOps Institute and the author of “Agile Service Management Guide.” She talked about […]
Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
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 engines such as CloudBees or Blue Ocean are designed to trigger the execution of CI workflows across the dev, test and prod environments. […]
Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck
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. The findings that stood out most fascinating to me where around quality assurance and testing. In this survey, the question was asked, “Where […]
Moving That Big Project to CI/CD
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 of them. Those systems are one of the reasons that enterprises don’t adopt CI/CD at the same rate as startups. Sure, any new […]
Why Your Company Needs An Automated Infrastructure
IT teams and software have started to embrace automation across all levels of the development life cycle, from planning and testing to deployment and maintenance. With the advent of DevOps, and the cloud, it’s now entirely possible for technical teams to spin up new environments in a matter of minutes instead of days. The process […]
Top 6 Challenges of API Testing
Testing teams face several unique challenges when testing application programming interface (API) implementations. API testing is part of the integration testing process and concerns the communication between two systems—one of which your staff likely has no control over. Below you’ll find the following six common challenges when testing APIs and our recommended solutions. Initial Setup of API […]
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