Software testing and QA is sometimes given low priority during development. The idea of treating software testers as adversaries by the developers seems old-fashioned and is short-sighted. It’s hard to believe that such an attitude can still exist, and yet it still persists, even in a modern DevOps team. But a DevOps-focused software team benefits […]
Keys to Improving Enterprise DevOps Practices
As enterprises move to adopt DevOps practices, there is a desire to measure where teams are on their journey. This sometimes leads to the development of maturity models used to assess teams’ levels and progress. While I am not going to pass judgment on what might be useful for certain organizations, I believe that the […]
10 Rules for Writing Automated Tests
Over the recent months many of our customers asked for our guidance and building their test suites properly. Performance, ease of management and scalability were key priorities for them. We decided to share our suggestions with the broader audience. We came up with the list while building our own test suite. Since we strongly believe […]
Avoiding Application Integration Fails
Trying to integrate applications on your own can eat your project alive. A seemingly simple project may look harmless when you start, but in the end do-it-yourself software delivery tool integrations can devour your entire software process. The problem may be that building simple integrations appears easy. How hard can an integration be? But let’s […]
Overcoming the People, Culture Barriers to DevOps Adoption
The fact you’re reading this article on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud suggests you’re already a DevOps fan. Or maybe you’re visiting this site because you’re considering moving to DevOps in your organization, or you’ve been told you must move to DevOps and are figuring out how on earth to do it. Whatever your view on DevOps, let’s get […]
Career Lessons Learned from Top Tech Leaders
In the technology world, we are in a time of incredible disruption and innovation. Many years ago, my friend and “DevOps Handbook” co-author John Willis predicted that a decade from now, academics will call this period the “Cambrian explosion” — it was an incredibly vibrant 25-million year period that resulted in an incredible diversification of […]
Adding Accountability with ‘You Build It, You Run It’
Let’s see if this scenario resonates with anyone: Your department, organization, company, etc. is beginning to embrace DevOps practices, which is, of course, an amazing step in the right direction! One of those key practices is the “You Build It, You Run It” (YBI/YRI) mantra that helps facilitate a higher level of quality and accountability. […]
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 […]
DevOps Chat: Waterfall Will Not Disappear, with Flint Brenton, CEO Collabnet
One of the perks of being editor in chief of staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is I get a chance to meet with so many leaders of the DevOps and IT industry. You can really learn a lot by listening to what these folks say. This DevOps Chat is a perfect example. I sat down with Flint Brenton, CEO […]
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