Don MacVittie makes one early prediction for 2024: AI will be the next big DevOps tool to break bottlenecks.
Unused Code: Proving a Negative
Don MacVittie says there’s a lot of unused code floating around out there – and that’s a big problem.
Shift That [bleep] Left
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Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right … But only while solving the problem with shifted-left work. A good example is blocking zero-day attacks proactively while the development process fixes the code to stop […]
This Has Been a Test
For nearly the entire history of application development—certainly since application development became available to a larger market with the adoption of the personal computer for expansive business use—testing has taken a back seat across most of the industry. This is not because we don’t care about code quality but because it takes resources away from […]
The Real Pipeline
I’ve made no secret of the fact that DevOps was a game-changing advance in how the business of IT was done. But people tend to get religious about the methodology and forget the point. That’s okay, DevOps has its roots in that mentality. After years of thinking bad things about the authors of The Phoenix […]
Where Has All the Testing Gone?
Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests actually occurring for your application(s). Interestingly, there are some that think we no longer need testing; the argument is that because new […]
All Day DevOps: Capital One Gives Credit Where It’s Due
Listening to his talk, it seems as though George Parris and his team at Capital One aren’t keeping “banker’s hours.” George is a Master Software Engineer, Retail Bank DevOps at Capital One. At the All Day DevOps conference, George gave a talk, titled “Meta Infrastructure as Code: How Capital One Automates our Automation Tools with […]
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 […]
Test-Driven Development (TDD) Drives Smart Developers at Smartling
Supporting Swift Cyber Business Ramp Ups Around the World with Translation and Localization Sped by CD Smartling technology enables the business to quickly translate content in websites, apps, and documents into any language in the world. “We streamline all the non-linguistic work associated with the translation,” says Andrey Akselrod, CTO / Co-Founder, Smartling, a translation […]
Choosing a Mobile Test Automation Solution: What You Need to Know
Organizations today rely more and more heavily on mobile apps to drive their business. In fact, many companies are already seeing more than half of their web traffic coming in via mobile devices. In some cases, their mobile app is the only way customers interact with their products. It’s no surprise, then, that developing, testing, […]