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Where Development Meets QA

In the software world, development and QA are often organised into two separate teams. Developers are responsible for writing the code, which...

0 replies - 4665 views - 06/30/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

The DevOps Reading List: 10 Books & Blogs You Should Be Reading

When you’re doing research and planning application development, it’s always useful to learn from the stories and experience of your peers. Your...

2 replies - 9971 views - 06/25/12 by Brian Whalley in Articles

Continuous Delivery, Warts and All

Tom Duckering was back at Skills Matter this week, and this time he bought a friend (and fellow thoughtworker), Marc Hofer. They were there to talk to us...

0 replies - 5252 views - 06/24/12 by James Betteley in Articles

3 Crazy Ideas to Make your DevOps Proposal Seem Reasonable

I work with “The Enterprise” everyday. Sadly, this has nothing to do with Star Trek – just big companies with lots of internal politics. As our...

2 replies - 4960 views - 06/23/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

DevOps Prisoner’s Dilemma

We often talk about tension caused competing bonus / success structures for development and operations teams in the build and release process. At Gartner...

0 replies - 3680 views - 06/20/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

7 Tips On Continuous Delivery

A few months ago I attended a talk by Rob Harrop at SkillsMatter on the topic of Continuous Delivery.  [Video Here] Continuous Delivery is all about setting...

0 replies - 10406 views - 06/16/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

Continuous Integration Tip #1 – FTP Deployment

Having a good Continuous Integration setup can be one of the highlights of any developers daily grind. Regardless, it can be seen as almost pointless if...

1 replies - 5272 views - 06/06/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Describing Continuous Delivery (Without Using the Term)

From Tom DeMarco’s article Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? [PDF]: You say to your team leads, “I have a finish date in...

1 replies - 4771 views - 06/04/12 by Kief Morris in Articles

Another Look at Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment

Last year I had the awesome honour of being at a tech talk on Continuous Delivery by “the great” Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Evan Bottcher, put on by...

1 replies - 8607 views - 06/03/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Comparing the Flavors of Config Managment: Chef, Puppet, etc.

Over the past few years I have had opportunities to learn, adopt and extend different configuration management...

1 replies - 11826 views - 05/27/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Upcoming Events on Gradle, Jenkins, CD, DevOps, and more

Here’s a bunch of upcoming talks, courses, conferences, things and stuff, which I reckon might be worth checking out.Goto Conference – Amsterdam May...

1 replies - 4427 views - 05/24/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Codifying DevOps

While working on the Devops Cookbook with my fellow authors Gene Kim,John Willis,Mike Orzen we are gathering a lot of "devops"...

1 replies - 7312 views - 05/15/12 by Patrick Debois in Articles

Devops: What it is and Why you Should be Doing it

  This could be brogramming. It's not devops.Devops is a big deal nowadays, and there’s a variety of ways people describe it and its...

1 replies - 6170 views - 05/13/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

Continuous Delivery vs. Traditional Agile

In working with development teams at organizations which are adopting Continuous Delivery, I have found there can be friction over practices that many...

1 replies - 11692 views - 05/09/12 by Kief Morris in Articles

Redunancy Planning - A Guide to What's Right for You

Since I started my career, redundancy has been featured in almost every deployment discussion. The general best practice is to add an additional element...

0 replies - 6912 views - 05/03/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles