Today we opened a new neighborhood or section here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. It is called the CD neighborhood and it will feature content on CD and related content. The neighborhood is sponsored by CA Technologies, who will also contribute content to the new neighborhood. CA authored content will be clearly marked. CA employees have contributed by […]
Adding Usability Testing to the CD Pipeline
Do you include usability tests in your continuous delivery pipeline? If not, you could be making a big mistake. Usability testing, which entails having actual users test an application for user-friendliness, intuitiveness and accessibility, gets easily lost within the DevOps conversation. If you want to do continuous delivery, waiting on manual usability tests may seem […]
Mainframe Apps and the Long View of DevOps Strategy
IT is constantly under intense short-term pressures. Line of business (LOB) executives demand a competitive advantage in digital customer engagement now. Marketing leaders demand better customer analytics now. Legal demands better audit reporting now. In fact, much of the investment that companies are making in Agile, DevOps and continuous delivery is due to the urgent, […]
Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?
“Continuous” is one of the most popular words in the DevOps lexicon. What does it really mean, and what is the difference between continuous delivery, continuous deployment and continuous integration? Keep reading for some perspective. Like many technological concepts, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment are terms that DevOps teams tend to use without […]
7 Best Practices for Continuous Delivery Success
Continuous delivery refers to the development of software in short and ongoing build-test-release cycles along the deployment pipeline. Repeated testing of processes and scripts before deployment to production means most errors are discovered early on and have minimal impact. Plus, finding and fixing such errors is much easier with fewer changes per release—software is released […]
Don’t Leave Software Testers Out of DevOps
The term DevOps implies that software delivery is all about integrating the development and IT operations teams. But the software testing team is an important, if oft-overlooked, part of the picture. Here’s why. Could you deliver software continuously without involving the QA team in the continuous delivery pipeline? You could try, but it would probably […]
Why PR, Legal and HR Matter for Continuous Delivery
By most definitions, DevOps involves making developers and IT Ops teams work better together. But integrating other parts of an organization, such as legal and public relations, into DevOps is also important. Here’s why. DevOps has become popular because it helps to speed the delivery of software. The goal is to reach continuous delivery, which […]
7 Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Deployment Success
One of the key advantages of cloud-native applications is the ability to quickly push updates into production for specific microservices—giving developers the ability to respond rapidly to changing business requirements without having to upgrade the entire application. Successfully doing this requires far more than just leveraging a continuous delivery platform. Everything from the culture of […]
All Day DevOps
Over the past year, I have traveled to and delivered presentations at 18 DevOps events. I’ve also heard that over the past several years, John Willis has participated in more than 200 DevOps events. But not all of us have the time or budget to get ourselves and our teams out to these events […]
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery: There’s an Important Difference
If you read DevOps blogs today, it can be easy to assume that Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are synonymous terms. People often use them that way. But that’s a mistake. As an example of conflation of the terms CI and CD, take this page, which purports to be a “history of CI/CD […]
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