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The Coding Assistant Bottleneck: Applying the 3-Ways
AI coding assistants are the talk of the town, and for good reason. Tools that can turn a comment into a function or autocomplete entire classes are genuinely changing the developer experience. We’re writing more code, faster than ever before. It feels like a massive productivity win. But is it? While we’ve supercharged the early […]
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Showing 1–7Best of 2024: Policy-as-Code Will Rule Your CD Pipelines
If you are using tools with PaC, start building some policies, and if not, consider experimenting with those tools.
Policy-as-Code Will Rule Your CD Pipelines
If you are using tools with PaC, start building some policies, and if not, consider experimenting with those tools.
Revisiting My Bet on DevOps
On Dec. 29, 2015, I bought some stock. It was a bet on DevOps that my wife kindly tolerated. Since then, the S&P 500 has risen 31 percent and my DevOps portfolio is up 113 percent. This blog is a retrospective on a bet that worked out. I was inspired by Nicole Forsgren’s talks and […]
Machine Learning: Essential in Cloud Service Management
As businesses today compete more and more on digital experience, you need to ensure that what’s delivered performs optimally and provides an outstanding customer experience. With increasing complexities, growth and change in your IT infrastructure, you need complete visibility into the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, and also the applications that ride on it. […]
How I Bet on DevOps – and Won
One evening in late 2015, after the kids were in bed, I sat down next to my wife and said, “I’d like to do something irresponsible. I want to gamble some of our savings on DevOps. I’d like to buy some stock.” Nicole Forsgren’s 2014 presentation, “DevOps and the Bottom Line,” opened my eyes to […]
Does Automating Application Release Mean the Same that it Used to?
Over the last ten years, we have seen a shift towards automation in how applications have been released. Automation has been encouraged first by agile’s embrace of continuous integration and delivery, and now the broader move to DevOps. As deployment automation left the sphere of the individual development team, another trend has emerged. The understanding […]