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AI
When teams know which tools are acceptable and which data are off-limits, AI becomes a disciplined advantage rather than a quiet source of risk.
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Don MacVittie asks, ‘Do you really need all the functionality of a platform, or will a single tool suffice?’
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Tool everything, because the software delivery toolchain is now the core of application development and deployment, Don MacVittie advises.
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We have built some beautiful toolchains that crank out a finished product on the fly without needing anything close to the level of intervention that was historically required. The…
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I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word “toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regula…
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Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page tha…
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Here we are in the second half of 2022 and the writing is on the wall. No matter how much budget you have had in the last few years, be it large or small, it is going to shrink. Th…
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We have done amazing things with Agile and DevOps, increasing IT responsiveness to levels that most people would not have believed and our business counterparts only dreamed of eve…
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Those of us involved in DevOps have a tendency to see the world with blinders on. It is rather easy to fall into the “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” tra…
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We’re all pretty well settled on the idea that the rate of change in IT has been on the increase over time. From the advent of VMs to Agile to DevOps to containers, the movement ha…
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One thing that we’re very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperabili…
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Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take stock of the environment and the market around us to determine if what we are doing is what we should be doing. I’m a developer, no…
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Continuous delivery (CD) and all the other continuous things—continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous deployment—have become the new mantra of DevOps. CI/CD adop…
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A report published by Harness, a provider of continuous delivery (CD) platform accessed via the cloud, finds organizations are spending on average $109,0000 per year just to deploy…
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At its annual SIGNAL conference, Twilio today launched an initiative intended to make it easier to embed a variety of communication services within an application in the context of…
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As DevOps functionality continues to expand, we’re looking at a new vista for freedom of applications. Our apps can be moved around as we need them; we can build-test-deploy on the…
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The 2018-19 school year is in full swing, and just like the kids are going to the bus stop with their new backpacks and shoes, it’s time to refresh your DevOps tool chain and look…
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Ongoing industry disruptions are forcing businesses to change their operational model; that’s the only way to avoid and survive digital bankruptcies. In North America, Sears Canada…
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Automation and continuous delivery are shifting from being industry trends to becoming industry standards for fast and effective app deployment. To compete in today’s market, organ…
DevOps Toolbox
“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continu…
DevOps Toolbox
Think of DevOps tools as stepping stones to releasing new functionality into the hands of your customers faster and more frequently. Working together, tools automate processes and…
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Nine years after the term “DevOps” was coined, the following two questions seem still open: What does it stand exactly for? and How do we make all this technology work together? Fr…
Features
The ultimate goal of DevOps is to streamline development. DevOps doesn’t necessarily require tools and is not defined by its tools, but for most organizations, they play an integra…
