What makes a group of individual contributors a team? You can look at today’s product development teams as an ensemble of craftspeople from different disciplines. Code builders, design artists, storytellers, and an orchestrator. Similar to an orchestra, their output is based on the ability of each and every one of them to work together in […]
7 (More) Security Considerations for CI/CD
CI/CD orchestration has become increasingly popular in DevOps practices. It facilitates faster deployment of software and product delivery. Through the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications, CI/CD bridges the gap between development, operation activities and teams. However, there are many security considerations to keep in mind with frequent deployment. From quality automation […]
Copado Acquires Qentinel to Gain AI Testing Tools
Copado has acquired Qentinel as part of an effort to incorporate AI-infused application testing within a DevOps platform and build applications using low-code tools across multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. The Copado continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was originally created to accelerate the development of low-code applications on top of the Salesforce platform. Now, however, Copado […]
Big Gains Are Made In The ‘Last Mile’ of DevOps
A new study by mabl found a correlation between complete, fully automated test coverage and a significant increase in customer happiness and DevOps maturity. In contrast, those with moderate DevOps maturity and nearly automated testing coverage tend to experience a sharp decline in end-user satisfaction. Mabl recently released its 2021 State of Testing in DevOps […]
Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. The survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin (82%). Only 11% […]
The State of Continuous Delivery in 2021
One of the hallmarks of DevOps is to improve the delivery of software. Therefore, mature DevOps systems employ continuous delivery (CD), the process of releasing bite-sized software changes on a regular basis. Amid high demand for digital innovation, streamlining this release pipeline is becoming more and more crucial for enabling overall software fluidity. So, what […]
Modernizing Continuous Integration
In the duality of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), CI focuses on build automation. Leveraging CI practices for software delivery is normal for most organizations and can be seen as a solved problem. However, the demand for increasingly distributed applications has risen with the expansion of microservices, and development teams have the expectation that every commit […]
How to Move Fast Without Breaking Security
“Move fast and break things,” is a familiar motto. The phrase, attributed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helps to explain the company’s stellar growth over the past decade, driven by its product innovations. However, while it’s a useful philosophy for software development, moving faster than you’d planned is a risky approach in other areas, as […]
The Surprising Secret to DevOps ROI
As a result of my many years of DevOps consulting, I have discovered a simple, but not well-understood, secret ingredient that drives ROI for all the Three Ways of DevOps. Measuring and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for DevOps is not well-understood. It is a proven fact that DevOps, when engineered well, delivers tremendous value […]
On-Premises Software Delivery Tool: Build or Buy?
The on-premises software market is four times larger than the SaaS market, but harder to reach. Every software vendor who wants to pursue it has to decide how they are going to package and deliver applications inside customers’ firewalls, automating away the complexity of keeping applications deployed and running. Should they build or buy a […]
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