Automated unit, integration and acceptance tests are essential quality controls in running a reliable continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline. Too often, security tests are left out of this process because of the erroneous belief that security testing is solely the domain of leather-jacket-wearing security experts. Security testing does not need special treatment We’ve made […]
What IT expects from SDN is DevOps
There was much excitement in the air when the announcement that Docker had acquired SocketPlane. Not the least of which was emanating from my corner of the world, where DevOps for network (the whole network) is something you’ve noticed I pretty much live and breathe. The announcement was couched as an SDN (Software-Defined Networking) play […]
Continuous Testing System Stability
The effort to speed up continuous testing will be wasted if the underlying system that continuous testing depends on is not stable. In my prior blog Continuous Test Results Analysis – at the Speed of DevOps, I discussed the importance and practices for speeding up continuous testing results analysis. However, unless the continuous test system […]
Continuous Documentation
Is documentation dead in DevOps? Yes and no. It is transformed, it is automatic, and it is actionable.
Making DevOps Work with External Contractors
On a recent ‘virtual panel’ session, many questions came in real-time from almost a thousand attendees around the globe. I’ll try to cover the most interesting questions in this column over coming weeks, but one that came through many times is very typical of the discussions I have with my customers and others, especially those […]
Service virtualization – The hows and the whys.
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. You are on an island, smelling the iodine coming from the sea, the sun is gently caressing your cheeks and you are sipping on a cocktail in the middle of the afternoon. Your phone is off, in a place you forgot and you do not have direct […]
Can your DevOps and APM Initiatives Increase Customer Loyalty?
I’ve reached a point where I can rate most services based on the quality of my digital interactions. So much so in fact, that any human interjection into my daily digital consciousness has become, well, almost quirky. It was with some surprise that after a prolonged period of digital engagement with my bank, I received […]
The right answer was “process”
The question is “why is there no one-size-fits-all automation and orchestration solution”? Automation, a component critical for continuous deployment particularly as it extends beyond app operations and into the broader environment to encompass network and security operations, too, continues to be a custom build kind of thing. There’s no single automation tool, framework or pattern […]
Continuous Testing – Accelerated !
Except for cases where test duration is the point of the test, as indicated in my prior blog “Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?”, faster continuous testing cycles are preferred because failing early and often is a DevOps goal. There are multiple reasons for this, but it should be evident that faster tests reduce […]
The ROI of Enterprise DevOps
Ever since the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, I can never think about any technology development without hearing Cuba Gooding Jr as professional footballer Rod Tidwell screaming out, “Show me the money!” So I was not surprised when the CIO of a large enterprise recently asked me the enterprise exec version of that famous line: Q. […]
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