In an ideal continuous integration pipeline different levels of testing are involved. Individual software modules are typically validated through unit tests,...
0 replies - 2982 views - 12/03/12 by Marcus Martina in Articles
Today we started day 1 of our first ever ITOps sprint. This all came about because we needed a way of working out our productivity on “project tasks”, as...
0 replies - 2372 views - 12/01/12 by James Betteley in Articles
On my current project we’re developing an essentially green field application, albeit one that integrates a fair bit of data managed in existing systems,...
0 replies - 3031 views - 11/30/12 by Kief Morris in Articles
Imagine you want to introduce automated configuration management to your organization. You’ve read all the books and even visited a great conference...
1 replies - 3100 views - 11/29/12 by Matthias Marschall in Articles
One important issue that comes up when undertaking a configuration management effort is how to design “the schema” for configuration management data....
0 replies - 4198 views - 11/28/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles
One of the 12 steps to better code, according to Joel Spolsky’s blog is one-click deployment. I’ve worked in places where the deployment process contained...
0 replies - 5339 views - 11/26/12 by Kasia Gogolek in Articles
This assumes you’ve already installed Virtualbox and configured a base VM.mkdir cookbooks
cd cookbooks
git clone...
0 replies - 3194 views - 11/20/12 by Gary Sieling in Articles
On most of the projects I’ve worked on over the last couple of years we’ve made use of feature toggles that we used to turn pending features on and off...
0 replies - 3943 views - 11/16/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
Most of the time, when organizations pursue a continuous delivery capability, they’re doing that in pursuit of increased agility. They want to be able to...
4 replies - 7755 views - 11/15/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles
This post is based on a talk by Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein at QConSF 2012 (slides). Bhaven and Yuri work on the Platform Services team at...
1 replies - 7134 views - 11/14/12 by Matt O'Keefe in Articles
This post is based on a talk by Chuck Rossi at QConSF 2012. Chuck is the first Release Engineer to work at Facebook.
by @mattokeefe
Chuck tries to avoid...
0 replies - 10946 views - 11/13/12 by Matt O'Keefe in Articles
This week, DZone published its 165th Refcard. The Deployment Automation Patterns Refcard covers 7 patterns for software deployment, and was authored by...
0 replies - 10065 views - 11/12/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
The lifecycle of software involves many groups as well as the software development team and it's often part of the role of the software architects to own...
0 replies - 3485 views - 11/12/12 by Robert Annett in Articles
Continuous Integration is now very much a central process of most agile development efforts, but it hasn’t been around all that long. It may be widely...
0 replies - 6817 views - 11/10/12 by James Betteley in Articles
Those who attended the DevOps: IT’s Automation Revolution webcast last week (recording here),
won’t be surprised by my favorite slide from Glenn...
0 replies - 3084 views - 11/09/12 by Eric Minick in Articles
