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Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the Key to Success?

“Until your pretty code is in production, making money, or doing whatever it does, you've just wasted your time” - Chris Read whilst at London CI.In my...

1 replies - 4521 views - 11/14/11 by Paul Stack in Articles

7 Reasons why Continuous Delivery needs to be a BUSINESS initiative

One of the key practices of agile and lean teams is the idea of Continuous Delivery.  If not continuous, then at least very frequent! ThoughtWorks has an...

2 replies - 5571 views - 11/14/11 by Kelly Waters in Articles

Case Study Video: Puppet at Constant Contact

Constant Contact's use of Puppet has evolved from being an operations tool for system configuration management to playing a central role in our software...

0 replies - 5909 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Automation Trumps Tools

It's true that tools can make a difficult task faster, easier, and more accurate, but the point of automation is to make your life even easier by eliminating...

0 replies - 3467 views - 11/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps Adoption and Case Studies - Free PDF

A new issue of Cutter IT's Journal just arrived, and this one's on DevOps… and it's free.  To get "Devops: A Software Revolution in the Making?,"...

0 replies - 6087 views - 11/10/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Exporting MAVEN_OPTS not working for Freestyle Jenkins Projects

I’m running Jenkins version 1.428 and I have a “Freestyle” project. The aim of this project is to upload a large tar.gz file to an artifactory...

1 replies - 4048 views - 11/10/11 by James Betteley in Articles

The rise of the in-house team?

I was just thinking about the Design it Build it conference that I spoke at. Specifically the people who spoke on the developer track. Between myself, ...

1 replies - 4952 views - 11/10/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration?

As I’m sure I’ve ranted about mentioned in the past, Continuous Integration is far more than just a collection of tools and scripts. It’s “a...

1 replies - 9306 views - 11/09/11 by James Betteley in Articles

A Peek at Google’s Production Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure

It seems to be the case that if we learn something from the stories about technology and processes that major tech companies use, we might be able to bring...

0 replies - 4208 views - 11/08/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Coping with Big CI

I recently went to another C.I. meetup to listen to Tom Duckering, a DevOps consultant at Thoughtworks, deliver a talk about managing a scaled-up...

1 replies - 4992 views - 11/08/11 by James Betteley in Articles

Infrastructure Debt Harder to "Pay Off" Than Technical Debt

Most of you have probably heard the term "Technical Debt".  It's basically those bugs in a code base that add up after messy quickfixes that don't...

8 replies - 5465 views - 11/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Contextual Validation: Martin Fowler Retread

This is a Retread by Martin Fowler of an earlier version of this post which was first published in 2005.  Definitely worth a read.In my writing endeavors,...

4 replies - 5128 views - 11/04/11 by Martin Fowler in Articles

QA&TEST 2011 Conference

Cirilo Wortel recently attended the QA&TEST Conference which featured a strong list of speakers and a wide variety of talks on test automation, user...

1 replies - 3853 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

There's more to Managing Software Debt

If you work with a big system over time, you have to learn how to recognize and deal with technical debt, and how to keep debt under control. Like a...

0 replies - 4059 views - 11/04/11 by Jim Bird in Articles

Distributed Application Architecture is the New Big Challenge - DevOps Orchestration Won't Solve it

DevOps doesn't alleviate the fundamental problems arising from inproperly built distributed applications says Rob Hirschfeld in his response to the 451 Group's...

0 replies - 5901 views - 11/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles