May 22, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

The latest trends from the Agile Alliance Technical Conference

Source – techtarget.com The Agile movement took over software development; now most of the teams I work with use standups, stories, and sprints. Meanwhile the Agile Alliance conference, which has grown from 900 attendees to 1,500 attendees in the four years I have attended, has been consistently decreasing its technical content. There are exceptions — the DevOps track is growing — but the programming and testing tracks have less interest. The decreasing interest in technical subjects mean fewer technical people are

May 22, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Continuous Integration and Deployment for Xamarin Apps

Source – xamarinhelp.com Continuous integration and continuous deployment, or CI/CD for short, is a common word you might continuously see when businesses are setting up their DevOps or processes. Simply put, these two phrases, in the context of developing Xamarin apps, are defined as follows. Continuous integration (CI) is the process of merging all developers work into a single main repository, continuously throughout the day. Continuous delivery (CD) is a process of automatically deploying your Xamarin apps to testers, or end users. Merging files

May 22, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

3 Leading Enterprise Low-Code App Development Platforms

Source – adtmag.com It’s no secret that enterprise mobile and Web app development is being transformed by a new class of tools enabling non-programming “citizen developers” to meet the insatiable demand for apps amid a shortage of coding pros. These tools have many names — such as rapid-application development (RAD), low-code and even no-code — but they typically feature functionality such as model-driven development, point-and-click programming, drag-and-drop composability, wizard-based workflows and similar techniques. In comparing the top tools, we’ll go with

May 20, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Use Containers to Take Your DevOps Pipeline to the Next Level

Source – siriuscom.com Almost all of the businesses that we talk to have made significant strides toward DevOps maturity in recent years, but most of them still have the same obstruction that slows their DevOps pipeline to a trickle (at least compared to what it could be). That obstruction is the constraint of using shared environments. Some development teams are still sharing environments that are provisioned on bare metal, which means that you have to get in line and wait your

May 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, Test Driven Development Leave a comment

13 benefits you will get by using Test Driven Development

Source – techpatio.com The first thing I do when a tech company says they are Agile, is ask about test driven development and continuous integration. If they don’t do it, in my opinion, they are just not Agile. Today I would like to focus on the benefits of TDD. Over the years I have been listening to different opinions about TDD. People talking about it’s importance and about past experiences, working with a code that was not designed using Test Driven

May 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Trends in DevOps: Security

Source – news.sys-con.com we’re pretty focused on being involved in the DevOps community by providing perspectives on where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re headed as a community — and of course hearing from the community as well! And, if you follow this blog you probably saw an earlier post recapping our Predictions and Trends in DevOps webinar, which brought together four DevOps thought leaders to give us their perspective on what’s happening in 2017 and beyond. If you haven’t already

May 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

7 Machine Learning Tools for IIoT

Source – edgylabs.com Companies at the forefront of the machine learning field offer open source libraries of solutions for companies and the average person. Below is a list of seven open-source platforms that help businesses integrate machine learning into their production process. With these toolkits, businesses, regardless of their size, can get access to the same ML resources developed and used by prestigious companies. The 7 Machine Learning Tools for IIoT: 1. Amazon Machine Learning: In 2015, Amazon’s subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web

May 19, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

The Role of QA Testing in Continuous Delivery

Source – rainforestqa.com With more traditional develop-first-then-test models, the rate at which you can merge or ship codes depends on how fast you can test it. Every new or updated feature must go through the cycle. As a result, you can only move as fast as your QA process allows. That’s why in order to do continuous delivery, you need to adopt an equally continuous QA process. How QA Impacts Continuous Delivery It’s much cheaper and faster to fix bugs that

May 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How DevOps tools can be used to integrate cloud automation

Source – techtarget.com As cloud development and deployment practices move faster and become more agile, security teams have realized that the only effective ways to secure cloud application and system deployments are to develop security controls that integrate into the deployment pipeline, and to automate as much as possible. Many in the security community have dubbed this approach security as code, a take on the infrastructure as code mentality of defining all virtual and cloud-based stack components as configurable elements that are

May 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

The emergence of DevOps in the evolving digital enterprise

Source – networkworld.com Welcome to the rise of the digital enterprise, where vendors and customers engage via applications and data is the new currency. Digital enterprises operate with radically different datanomics than conventional physical businesses. Here, digital information is the business. A successful digital enterprise is constantly updating applications in response to user context, market and environment—all of which is quantified, measured and delivered with data. Everything and everyone is personified by a digital footprint. Learning that the user just bought

May 18, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, DevOps Leave a comment

Continuous delivery book asserts automation is key to effective DevOps

Source – theserverside.com The installation and use of a CI server is a standard in any IT department that is bold enough to throw around the term DevOps, but simply having a Jenkins or Concourse server running jobs every hour or two doesn’t mean you’re doing continuous integration right. “I’d say that continuous integration is nowadays a commodity, up to the point where people actually have forgotten what it actually means. People are using integration servers just to do a regular

May 17, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

How Softer Skills Help You Succeed with DevOps

Source – infostretch.com How do you build a DevOps team from scratch? Or even, how do you improve the efficiency of an existing team? Hiring a DevOps specialist seems an obvious place to start. Budget and circumstances permitting, this should boost the initiative, but still doesn’t address how you implement the DevOps transformation across the entire team or indeed across departments. Let’s consider how enterprises engaged in DevOps transformation can get the best results from their teams. How to Prepare for

May 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps and cloud infrastructure permutations

Source – csoonline.com One of my DevOps concerns with data center applications is the testing of infrastructure and the applications that ride on top of it. It is overly complicated. Each application has thousands of parameter combinations that can be used. How does one know which parameters are critical and the range of options a given parameter can have? Testing parameter combinations is a nightmare. So, it is often neglected. One of the key benefits of cloud computing are the limited

May 17, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Continuous integration in agile software development

Source – 126kr.com Nowadays there are a lot of complications and obstacles on the way to the production. Now if you are not agile, it becomes literally a hell adding new functionalities. Therefore a lot of corporations and startups switch to agile methodologies and start using CI to achieve agility in software development. There is a big buzz about agile transformation in the companies, for example Mango, HSBC, Edreams and many others are going through agile transformation. It seems that it

May 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Open source for hybrid cloud success: Is it an open and shut case?

Source – computerweekly.com The FOSS acronym – standing for free, open source software – has been a clarion call for many since the open source movement started, despite being nominally based on a misinterpretation of what open source is all about. A group of people got together in 1998 to examine the “free software” market, out of concern that the concept was being hijacked and perverted in political and moral terms, prompting a push to create a more commercially oriented definition

May 16, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Tips to Achieve Agility in DevOps

Source – dqindia.com DevOps is one of the key factors in a growing number of large companies and organizations to bring agility, reduce time to market, high quality products. Successful adoption of DevOps model needs dedicated investment, resources, cultural shift and is continuous journey. DevOps has become key to enable Continuous delivery and Agility in organizations. It helps scale organizations to deploy solutions rapidly and consistently. Some of the salient elements to achieve these as part of DevOps model implementation within

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

4 cool Kubernetes tools for mastering clusters

Source – infoworld.com Kubernetes, the cluster manager for containerized workloads, is a hit. With the Big K doing the heavy lifting in load balancing and job management, you can turn your attention to other matters. But like nearly every open source project, it’s a work in progress, and almost everyone who works with Kubernetes will find shortcomings, rough spots, and annoyances. Here are four projects that lighten the load that comes with administering a Kubernetes cluster. Kube-applier A key part of

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

12 ways to improve run-time container security

Source – computerworld.com.au There still really aren’t many enterprise run-time security tools for containers available, which has skewed the conversation toward establishing defensive barriers prior to run-time – during the build, integration, and deployment stage. Of course, with rapidly evolving technology like containers, it can be all too easy to overlook the most basic security concerns, so, really, any focus at all is welcome. Efforts pointing out the security advantages of digitally signing container images at build time, and scanning them

May 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Puppet IT automation wades into enterprise containers

Source – techtarget.com Puppet and its enterprise customers are in the same boat, afloat through the early phases of support for Docker containers. Puppet introduced products and updates this week, which include new support for containers to help enterprise customers advance to the new technology. For sophisticated IT shops where containers are already in use, configuration management can be seen as passé. In such bleeding-edge environments, container infrastructures are immutable — destroyed and recreated continually — rather than updated with tools

May 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Microsoft’s new tools help devs manage cloud deployments on the go

Source – heraldkeeper.com The Basic tier will be broadly available and the Standard tier will be available in a limited number of Azure regions. While new tools and updates were demonstrated and discussed, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set the tone for the conference by noting a fundamental shift in the world view of computing. Described by Microsoft as a database built from scratch to “power planet-scale cloud services” with both strong power and fault tolerance capabilities and the ability to handle

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