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Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency
The operations team receives a page at 2:00 a.m. Something isn’t working correctly. Do they know how to fix it? Perhaps more importantly, do they know whether it matters to customers or how it impacts the business? There are different techniques that companies implement to maximize the quality of their software. We talk about shifting […]
Embedded Connectivity Solves the Right (and Left) Problem
In Steven Bellovin’s book, “Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year’s Hackers,” (2015) he wrote: “Companies are spending a great deal on security, but we read of massive computer-related attacks. Clearly, something is wrong. The root of the problem is two-fold: We’re protecting (and spending money on protecting) the wrong things, and we’re hurting productivity in the […]
Shift-Right Testing: The Emergence of TestOps
The concept of shift-left has been a popular trend in continuous testing practices for a while. We are now beginning to see shift-right practices as an emergent trend in testing. Shift-right entails doing more testing in the immediate pre-release and post-release phases (i.e. testing in production) of the application lifecycle. These include practices such as: release […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
When Shift Right is Shift Left
In some areas of IT, we utilize the idea of shift right quite a bit. Testing and security are two areas where it comes up often. The idea is that tracking late in the process–usually while the application is in production–leads us to find more insidious issues that might have remained hidden, and gives us […]
What Happens to Test in a DevOps World?
I am always surprised by the urban legends around DevOps. One of my favorites is, If you implement a DevOps methodology, you can stop doing test. People famously quote that Netflix only tests in production as evidence of this. This is perhaps more like of game of Telephone, where much of the story gets lost […]