April 2, 2021 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Languages and DevOps: Can’t be Contained

Source:-https://devops.com/ The evolution of platform is an interesting study. From physical to virtual to cloud to containers, the progression has been steady, and each successive platform has benefits for both Dev and Ops that make them appealing. In the case of containers, portability is the word. As easy to fold into your DevOps toolchain as cloud, yet able to be deployed wherever you need, containers have absolutely taken the industry by storm. While all cloud vendors offer container options these

March 19, 2021 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Languages and DevOps: API-First

Source:-https://devops.com/ One of the places development has made significant changes is in the land of APIs. These days, a program almost isn’t considered a proper application unless it offers APIs to do most of what can be done via UI (and even command line). This is a big deal for several reasons; first and foremost, the ability to subdivide the work and then test each subdivision. A proper API does one thing and does it well. Testing can validate that

March 5, 2021 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

RedMonk Ranks Programming Languages Using GitHub and StackOverflow

Source:-https://adtmag.com/ Programming language rankings get regular headlines, and they should, at least from trend trackers like us. Among my favorite is the RedMonk quarterly, published this week. I like the methodology of their system, which extracts data from GitHub and Stack Overflow and combines them for “a ranking that attempts to reflect both code (GitHub) and discussion (Stack Overflow) traction.” In other words, it correlates what the cool kids are talking about with actual language usage “in an effort to