Rather thank trying to find a 'rock star' to come and be your savior, try moving from small groups to collaborative teams and processes, rather than people, that are 'rock star'.
3 replies - 3222 views - 02/06/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles
Key members of the Etsy engineering team, along with special surprise
guests, offer a series of small rapid talks providing a fast-paced
and intensive...
0 replies - 2849 views - 01/23/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos
Back 10 years or so when Extreme Programming came out, it began to
change the way that programmers thought about testing. XP made software
developers accountable for testing their own code. XPers gave
programmers practices like Test-First Development and...
1 replies - 2705 views - 12/09/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
Israel Gat of Cutter Consortium speaks with DZone on his two sessions at Agile 2011, one of which is about his new methodology for taking DevOps and Continuous...
0 replies - 3502 views - 10/25/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos
There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people
that are worth listening to and learning from. There’s more and more
marketing from vendors and consultants jumping on the...
1 replies - 3051 views - 10/25/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
There's a common antipattern in build automation that Eric Minick of UrbanCode described quite well in his blog today:A common pattern I see is deployment (or build) automation that
routinely fails due to a set of common issues. When the deployment
fails,...
0 replies - 4641 views - 10/20/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
If you're using Atlassian's Bamboo CI server, you might want to check out the XebiaLabs Deployit plugin. It can help you achieve this continuous deployment/delivery that everyone's been talking about.
1 replies - 2706 views - 10/20/11 by Vincent Partington in News
Are you still doing deployments at 3:00am? If you are, you should have taken a look at Brian Crescimanno's post: "Why are you still deploying overnight?"
2 replies - 5390 views - 10/17/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Webinar Overview:
In this webinar, we'll learn about ways to get the maximum benefit from the cloud through fast deployments and scalability, as well as some common cloud computing misconceptions. We will also discuss Application Performance Management, one...
0 replies - 1787 views - 09/06/11 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized
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1 replies - 4949 views - 05/16/11 by Dennis Doomen in News
A few weeks ago, CloudBees, a cloud infrastructure that lets developers write code, test it, and put it into production on a PaaS, acquired InfraDNA—the infant startup of Hudson creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who left Oracle this year. I spoke with CloudBees...
0 replies - 20998 views - 12/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Caching is at the core for data management in applications, says Amit Pandey, CEO of Terracotta. Too much time is spent tuning the size of the heap to keep application performance fast and predictable. Garbage collection is to blame for making an...
9 replies - 7936 views - 08/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Acre (stands for "A Crash of Rhinos Evaluating") is Google's server-based JavaScript platform that is used to provide a foundation for Freebase Apps. Freebase Apps is the hosted application environment that lets Freebase users create applications...
0 replies - 4417 views - 08/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
The data center automation tool vendor, rPath, recently added support for open source configuration management tools including Reductive Labs' Puppet, Cfengine, and Opscode's Chef. rPath is also working on native support for configuration management, which...
0 replies - 6903 views - 03/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
IBM is taking another step forward in its goal to make OSGi easier for developers with existing Java EE applications and infrastructure. The company recently released an Open Beta feature pack with new OSGi application support and JPA 2.0 support. A few...
0 replies - 5537 views - 03/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
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