5 reasons developers love containers

Source:- cio.com Linux containers have been around for almost a decade, but it was only with the release of Docker four years ago that large numbers of developers began to adopt the technology. Now it seems that containers are everywhere and their popularity continues to rise. Containers have become such an important part of the IT landscape that server virtualization giants like VMware and Microsoft have had to go out of their way to accommodate them. VMware now offers a

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Behavior-Driven Development

Source:- digility.com Another great knowledge share from the Digilty/Mastek team. The latest webinar focused on Behavior Driven Development in automated testing using the Cucumber framework. Here are the top five takeaways from the session, led by Tripti Mittal: What is BDD BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) is a fusion and improved enhancements of practices stemming from TDD (Test Driven Development) and ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development). Unlike TDD where testing & development are conducted in isolation, BDD is a collaborative exercise that

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Choose your cloud strategy carefully

Source:- betanews.com As shown by disruptive businesses such as Airbnb, cloud computing is changing the face of business as we know it. Organizations of all sizes anywhere can now harness the power of cloud-based tools to innovate and collaborate faster and more seamlessly than ever before. Cloud is becoming the foundation for digital transformation, enabling enterprises to manage the pressure of increasing the pace of their production cycles and boosting collaboration throughout the world. McKinsey estimates that by 2018, more than

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Eight best practices for hiring DevOps engineers

Source:- zdnet.com Technavio, a market research firm, predicts that the worldwide DevOps market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19 percent through 2020. Companies in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and services are all adopting DevOps methodologies to speed new applications to market, as is the public sector. What is attracting firms to DevOps? The word itself, which originated as a combined expression of ‘software DEVelopment’ and ‘information technology OPerationS’, describes a methodology and supporting tools that invite

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7 Reasons to Switch to a Cloud Payroll Software

Source:- pcquest.com Cloud is fast becoming the new normal. According to a Gartner report, the public cloud services market in India is projected to grow 38 percent in 2017 to touch $1.8 billion as nearly 60% IT organisations move their systems management to the cloud. The second highest growth will be driven by Software-as-a-Service (Saas) which indicates that the migration of application and workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud as well as cloud ready, cloud-native applications are fueling

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DevOps: Challenges and considerations

Source:- itproportal.com Every few years, a new buzzword appears on the IT canvas that sparks hype and excitement among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such term that has continued to gain momentum and is highly-relevant in today’s digital transformation landscape. It’s also a term that’s quite misunderstood. Here are some thoughts that define this term, while also explaining its benefits and challenges. What is DevOps? Very simply put, DevOps embodies Development plus Operations within software development. Traditionally, these

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The Importance of APM for Developers

Source:- ulitzer.com Software developers are the modern equivalent of medieval craftsman. In the old days, masters of the constructive arts – such as those who transformed trees into furniture – would take responsibility for the entire user experience. They did everything from design and configuration to implementation and delivery. If a chair leg broke or wobbled, the craftsman  would also be responsible for resolving the fix. Clearly, the ways of the old masters are not possible at scale. They’re more

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4 DevOps Metrics to Improve Delivery Performance

Source:- versionone.com How well do your DevOps metrics provide insight into the speed, risk, and quality of software delivery? Read this article to learn the four most critical measures of DevOps performance. Data-Driven DevOps We have a challenge in devops. The minute we convert backlog items into source code and then convert that source code into binary artifacts, we lose all visibility into flow. It’s very difficult to track a specific backlog item in the form of a binary artifact

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Enabling the future of connected devices

Source:- cio.com The Fog Rolls In There is an IT market segment, with roots dating back to the 1800s, that is growing at 60% CAGR and yet, almost no one has heard of it. There is even an industry consortium for this market, with big-name founding members like Dell Technologies, Cisco, Intel and Microsoft.  And when you hear the name for the first couple of times, you think it might be a prank.  It’s called Fog Computing. The first time I

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Top IT Trends MSPs Need to Know Today

Source:- mspmentor.net Staying on top of the managed IT services business requires knowing the latest, greatest trends and practices in computing. Here’s a recap of the innovations shaping the IT world today. Being familiar with these trends is important for two reasons. First, this knowledge helps you provide the best services to customers — and answer their questions authoritatively when they ask about tech buzzwords they’ve heard recently. Second, you may be able to benefit by adopting some of these

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Seven Essential Steps for Transitioning to Enterprise DevOps

Source:- informationweek.com DevOps is currently the train every enterprise wants to climb aboard. In fact, many of today’s market leaders already have some sort of DevOps plan in place. As companies incorporate IT further into their business, DevOps is becoming a basic necessity for the modern enterprise. However, when it comes to actually implementing DevOps in real life, things can get a little shaky. Having helped many organizations go through this process, I’ve pinpointed some common mistakes and misconceptions —

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Three Lessons From Test-Driven Development

Source:- securityintelligence.com In 1999, Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,” became an inspiration for rethinking the way software was developed. Three years later, his “Test-Driven Development: By Example” further elaborated on the need to reconsider the way software is planned, how teams operate and, most importantly, the way software is tested. To date, there are over 170 books on Amazon about test-driven development (TDD). For readers curious about the origins and evolution of the concept, the Agile Alliance posted

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7 Ways for Anyone to Invest in the Cloud

Source:- yahoo.com The cloud is growing. To cut costs and boost computing power and storage, companies are increasingly turning to cloud computing to run their businesses. That bodes well for firms that build hardware, data center infrastructure companies, telecoms and computer software designers. According to a survey released in December, growth equity and venture capital firm North Bridge and research firm Wikibon expect public cloud spending to soar from $75 billion in 2015 to $522 billion by 2026 at a

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How CIOs are transforming their organizations for the digital era

Source:- itworld.com Companies are facing a digital imperative to revamp business operations to better serve customers. To accommodate these shifts, CIOs are making sweeping organizational changes, adding new key roles, setting up innovation labs and tapping modern technologies to meet strategic mandates issued by their CEOs and boards. Social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) forms the primary digital fuel for most IT organizations. But most CIOs eager to stay atop trends are also testing new products in artificial intelligence, machine

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The 10 best tech jobs that pay the highest salaries

Source:- techrepublic.com Tech jobs dominate the top 10 jobs in America, in terms of salary, number of job postings, and opportunities for growth, according to a new report from job search engine Indeed. Most of the tech roles topping the list, including full stack developer, data scientist, DevOps engineer, Salesforce developer, and cloud engineer, make an average base salary of over $100,000, Indeed found. “As every business morphs into the digital version of itself, the demand for workers with highly

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Docker: The smart person’s guide

Source:- techrepublic.com The widespread adoption of containers has changed the orthodoxy of IT—administrators do not need to run multiple virtual machines to create a barrier between applications or users, nor are programmers beholden to languages such as Java, which have their own strategy for process isolation and lifecycle management. Leading the way in this change is Docker, an open-source utility that automates the deployment and management of programs inside software containers. Docker is also the center of the container ecosystem,

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5 tips for keeping up with IT change

Source:- gcn.com Hybrid IT — migrating some infrastructure to the cloud while continuing to maintain a significant number of applications and services onsite — is a shift in the technology landscape currently spreading across the federal government. Agencies are looking to realize the many benefits of the cloud (cost efficiency, agility) without the perceived drawbacks (security, compliance). Are agencies truly ready for this new type of environment? Or, a more targeted question: Are federal IT professionals ready for the shift?

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Three Tips To Ensure That DevOps Adds Real Value To Your Business

Source:- forbes.com If you work in tech, chances are you have an opinion on DevOps. Either you think it’s a worthless exercise that creates more problems than it solves, or that it’s a must-have in today’s workplace. At my company AppLovin, we stand solidly in the pro-DevOps camp: not only for what it does for our operations, but for what DevOps does for our business. If you do go with having DevOps, it’s crucial that you think of it as

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The 5 big DevOps changes you will see in 2017

Source:- geektime.com Following a Gartner Report from 2016 which revealed that most organizations will use and implement DevOps by the end of this year, 2017 started off with a DevOps bang. This year began when an enormous amount of capital was poured into DevOps technology companies by VCs, and larger-scale adoption of tools was approved in this year’s IT budgets with the recognition that DevOps was a “must-have” in businesses. A survey of 252 Gartner Research Circle members showed that

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Control Costs: Use Cloud Test Environments

Source:- sys-con.com There is no more effective way to reduce your overall test environment spend than to migrate to cloud test environments and embrace testing and infrastructure automation. The nature of test environments is inherently temporary—you set up an environment, run through an automated test suite, and then tear down the environment. If you can reduce the cycle time for this process down to hours or minutes, then you may be able to cut your test environment budgets considerably. This

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