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Docker Tools that Developers will Find Useful

Source:- opensourceforu.com Docker allows IT departments to focus on applications, not virtual machines, as a standard unit of production. Looking at recent trends, there have been many projects created by the Docker community that have advanced the developer experience. This article takes a look at a few Docker tools that may be useful for developers. Docker was introduced to the world with no prior announcement, by Solomon Hykes, founder and CEO of dotCloud at the Python Developers Conference in Santa Clara,

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What will we do when everything is automated?

Source:- opensource.com Recently, I came across a study the caused me to think beyond the day-to-day world of code-slinging in which I live. According to the study Myth and the Reality of Manufacturing in America (PDF), conducted by Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana: “Almost 88% of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity growth, and the long-term changes to manufacturing employment are mostly linked to the productivity of American

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Technologies to consider for adapting to digital transformation

Source:- pcquest.com Organization leaders strive to position themselves for success over their competitors and ensure that there’s a clear path for the future. However, many businesses continue to rely on old systems and processes to serve their clients, and this can lead to big problems as technology advances. Teams may be left in the dust if they hesitate to make necessary transitions, impacting their products and their overall reputation. Here are some of the main technologies to consider as you head

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‘Coding is dead, automation the real deal’

Source:- thehindubusinessline.com MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 17: If you’ve been spending years learning a programming language such as Java or .Net, there’s a message for you from your potential employers: “Coding is dead”. Yes, coding as we know it, may not longer be relevant in the world taken over by machine learning and automation. “Coding is dead. I don’t need to do any native development anymore,” Nitin Rakesh, newly appointed CEO of IT services firm Mphasis, told BusinessLine. ‘Cloud first’ “Large public

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Control Your Continuous Integration and Deployment

Source:- 126kr.com If you’re thinking about moving to a DevOps environment you should know that you get to decide how integrated your “continuous integration” is and how continuous your “continuous deployment” is. Much will depend on how you want to manage your risks (and which risks you want to manage). When I talk to my clients about DevOps they often seem to assume that adopting DevOps means that whenever one of their developers checks in some piece of code, their

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7 Spices of ContinuousDelivery Pipeline

Source:- sys-con.com A Continuous Delivery pipeline as part of an Agile transformation is like spices in a meal. Without them, the food is bland and worthless. On the other hand, the right blend of spices will leave you craving more, stimulating your senses and energizing you. But as any good cook will tell you, it can be a bit difficult to find the exact right blend of spices for a specific dish. Salt and pepper are usually basic requirements, but

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Where, and How, to Become Agile

Source:- itbusinessedge.com The overriding theme of virtually all technological developments in the enterprise these days is agility. Without that, all the speed, scalability and efficiency built into modern infrastructure won’t amount to a hill of beans when it comes to competing in the digital economy. With agility in both infrastructure management and software developments, organizations have the means to pivot business processes on a dime so they can not only respond to changing market conditions quickly but capitalize on new

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Agile and DevOps: Better together?

Source:- zdnet.com Organisations across Europe believe that using an Agile methodology for software development can vastly improve the customer experience, while using DevOps can boost revenue from new sources. A new report commissioned by software company CA said that 67 percent of UK organisations using an Agile methodology saw an improvement in customer experience, while firms using DevOps practices report a 38 percent increase in business growth from new revenue sources. In addition, Agile reduces the time needed to act

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Why release orchestration is essential for Continuous Delivery success

Source:- jaxenter.com Automation provides consistency, repeatability, traceability and auditability. It allows enterprises to scale up quickly without an over-reliance on individuals. And it paves the way for a microservices approach, where different components can be integrated to create something new. But as automation has expanded into new areas, maintaining visibility and control as you speed up processes is a real challenge, especially where legacy applications are concerned. Achieving harmony Even in a largely automated pipeline, some manual steps probably still

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How to automate your app dev process—and improve code quality

Source:- networkworld.com As your business grows, it’s increasingly important to understand how to scale engineering processes and methodologies. The amount of time spent on setup, deployment and manually testing code is often ignored by technology teams and managers. Manual server configuration and code quality tests are not only error prone, but they ultimately result wasted time and money. 3 steps to automate software development Introducing automation into your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and infrastructure scaling projects is the most effective

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Agile Is King, But Continuous Integration Is An Elusive Goal

Source:- informationweek.com When it comes to enterprise software development, agile is in, and continuous integration is deemed a worthy goal. Many organizations report that they have adopted some form of agile development. Continuous integration, on the other hand, where frequent application updates are meshed with production systems, remains a goal that’s growing in popularity but implemented by only a few. Those were some of the key responses of of 732 software professionals who participated in a recent survey, Testing Trends In

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Best practices to scale agile across multiple IT teams and enterprise organizations

Best practices to scale agile across multiple IT teams and enterprise organizations Source:- itproportal.com The past few years have seen some very dramatic and eye-opening changes in software development. We have fully redefined what it means to be fast in product development and deployment, as well as the skills and tools required to be successful in the space. Take agile software development: Agile software development methods were introduced less than a decade ago, but their popularity has seen a steady

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Why security is the top issue for DevOps teams in 2017

Source:- itworldcanada.com Security, not speed, is shaping up to be the top issue for DevOps teams in 2017, a new survey suggests. According to the 2017 State of the Application Delivery Report by F5 Networks Inc., security is the number one priority among 2,000 IT, networking, application and security professionals surveyed worldwide. “Security teams are expanding beyond traditional firewalls and the legacy enterprise perimeter as a response to hackers increasingly targeting the application,” the report states. Those same security concerns

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Report: 111 billion lines of code will have to be secured this year

Source:- sdtimes.com As new pieces of software are being written every day, the threat of malicious hacking continues to grow. According to a new report, there will be about 111 billion lines of new software code created this year, and with them will come billions of software vulnerabilities. “Applications have become inviting targets for malicious actors, but securing those programs has proven to be challenging to both security teams and developers,” according to the report. “Too often, key vulnerabilities get

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Development problem solving, the LinkedIn way

Source:- techtarget.com For those wondering what it’s like to be on a 3×3 mobile release schedule, look no further than LinkedIn which has 3 releases a day and a plan to never let code be older than 3 hours before committing to it. Even if your company is the size of LinkedIn, that’s a big enchilada to get through daily and for it to happen everything — including testing — has to move along like clockwork. But even with these

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How DevOps went mainstream in 2016

Source:- itproportal.com 2016 was the year that DevOps became part of IT organisations’ everyday language. While forward thinking, agile businesses have embraced DevOps from the outset, what we’re seeing now is what, in the Technology Adoption Lifecycle are known as “the late majority” shifting towards new DevOps practices. Bringing development and operations together to deliver what a business needs, quickly, reliably, flexibly defines the DevOps approach. It can transform how an organisation works, breaking down traditional barriers between IT teams

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DevOps trends emerging for 2017 and beyond

  Source:- enterprisersproject.com As the year draws to a close, we look towards the future and the emerging trends that are set to shape the world of software delivery for 2017 and beyond. One of the most powerful, overarching trends we saw in the recent year is the growing adoption and maturity of DevOps practices. From its grassroots, small-teams beginnings, DevOps has mushroomed and is now at the point of becoming the standard way of working (or rather, the pursuit and

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Bain: Is Container Use Optional? Probably Not

Source:- informationweek.com Containers, frequently portrayed as an experimental or optional technology, are likely to be an essential ingredient in transitioning traditional companies to the emerging digital economy, concludes a study by Bain & Compan The Bain authors of For Traditional Enterprises, The Path To Digital And The Role Of Containers come to several surprising conclusions. It’s understood that containers are useful in building next-generation applications based on microservices. Bain says they’re also good for transitioning 20-year-old, monolithic applications. Traditional companies

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DevOps is More Than Just Automation

Source:- devops.com DevOps is a lot of things. What DevOps is, what DevOps does and how an organization adopts and implements DevOps tools and practices are largely subjective, but there are some foundational elements that are fairly ubiquitous. One of which is automation. As pervasive as it is, though, DevOps is not automation and automation is not DevOps. The Preface of “The DevOps Handbook” lists a number of prevailing myths about DevOps, including the idea that DevOps is just “infrastructure

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Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone

Source:- nytimes.com Over the course of the last year, the software development teams at The New York Times have been evaluating Google Cloud Platform for use in some of our future projects. To do this, we’ve surveyed a wide variety of software management techniques and tools, and we’ve explored how we might standardize building, testing and deploying our systems on GCP. Our newly formed Delivery and Site Reliability Engineering team came up with two methods of deployment with Google Container

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