DevOps has moved into the mainstream and practices such as continuous delivery now are being widely adopted. But what about the database? Applications often have a back-end database that needs to be developed and maintained at the same time. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be an issue. The recent “State of Database DevOps […]
IBM: DevOps, AI to Drive Digital Business Transformation
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the biggest challenges organizations face today is a chronic shortage of application developers. But as artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the process of writing code will become more automated. But rather than there being not enough developers to write all the code necessary, the shortage will be in software engineers […]
The Emergence of UI and UX in DevOps Tools
Most of the popular DevOps tools on the market such as Puppet, Chef and Jenkins, are open-source and require a high level of proficiency. With the complexity comes the challenge of learning new frameworks and paradigms, a benefit to those who want to challenge themselves and learn new skills. But while these tools have become widely […]
In Product Development, Transparency is the New Agility
The rise of DevOps has shown that agility and speed are key drivers for turning a business into a high-growth company. But as product managers, that’s not all we can take away from the DevOps culture. Those same methodologies that enable DevOps to function, such as having cross-functional teams and embracing a culture that embraces […]
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 […]
The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution
There’s a level of frustration starting to build inside IT operations teams that’s about to boil over. Lucas Carlson, vice president of strategy for Automic, a unit of CA Technologies that provides an IT automation platform, says developers are bullying IT operations teams by programmatically invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by public cloud service […]
Signal Sciences Looks to DevSecOps to Improve App Security
The time has come to put control over IT security into the hands of the developers who increasingly are being held accountable for it. To make that possible, Signal Sciences has launched a Web Protection Platform (WPP) capable of inspecting traffic in real time across multiple deployment models. Intended as a replacement for more traditional […]
Avoid Crashes: 5 Best Practices for Load Testing
Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]
VMware CEO Stakes Out DevOps Position
At the Dell EMC World 2017 conference this week, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger waded into an increasingly heated DevOps debate by suggesting that most developers are too “lazy” to be really interested in IT operations. At a time when factions within the DevOps community are making the case for developers to be responsible for DevOps […]
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 […]
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