SmartBear Releases Groundbreaking Technology that Reduces Script Creation Time by 50 Percent, Replaces Emulators with Real Browsers, and Arms Agile Teams with Metrics that Matter to Diagnose Problems at Ninja Speed SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Oct. 29, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, released LoadNinja, a cloud-based platform for engineers and […]
Jobs-as-Code: The Business Processing DevOps Forgot
Developing web and mobile apps is cool. But in the words of a longtime ballad: “Don’t forget who’s taking you home and in whose arms you’re gonna be …” It’s the back-end services that underpin a lot of those cool apps and make them possible. So yes, servers and relational databases and enterprise applications and […]
What If We Had Git for DevOps?
I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque and hard to learn. It was comfortable to create a set of files and folder, then snapshot them as a unit. It was simple to understand and improved my individual productivity. But that snapshot created […]
Don’t Be Afraid of the “R” Word
It seems that many people are afraid of the word refactor. I think in many cases, if someone admits they need to refactor, it means they either didn’t do their job right. They either missed requirements, wrote inefficient or buggy code, etc. Alternatively, there is something fundamentally wrong with the product or system. The fact […]
Let the Code do the Heavy Lifting
One of the first jobs I had when I started in IT was as the IT administrator for a dot.com startup. IT admin at a smaller company like that was typically an umbrella term used to describe a one-man IT department, which is essentially what I was. The company was growing exponentially—both in terms of […]