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Diminishing Returns in software development and maintenance

Everyone knows from reading The Mythical Man Month that as you add more people to a software development project you will see diminishing marginal...

1 replies - 5788 views - 12/14/11 by Jim Bird in Articles

TDD vs. BDD: or why can’t we all just get along?

I was listening to another good Hanselminuets podcast - Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan. As always it was a good and...

1 replies - 7878 views - 12/12/11 by Dror Helper in Articles

From Sysadmin Hell To Operational Bliss

This presentation is for those who are about to start deploying Puppet, in the early stages of deployment or those who have a large number of existing...

0 replies - 2424 views - 12/10/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

10 Goals Related to DevOps

Looking for a "DevOps Manifesto" to help guide your own organizational transiton?  Well, there's no 'manifesto' out there like we have for Agile and...

1 replies - 3496 views - 12/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Devops has made Release and Deployment Cool

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...

1 replies - 5100 views - 12/09/11 by Jim Bird in Articles

DevOps is NOT a Job Description

The DevOps hype produces some strange effects. Not only do tool vendors try to jump on the DevOps band wagon by declaring their products “DevOps...

1 replies - 5820 views - 12/08/11 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

Doing DevOps "Before it was Cool"

We caught up to Eric Minick of UrbanCode at the Agile 2011 conference and asked him how he has been involved with the DevOps movement before it really had a...

0 replies - 4049 views - 12/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

It’s time to clean up your mess: refactoring Cucumber step definitions

This week I decided to look through my features/step_definitions folder after reading Aslak Hellesøy’s post from Wednesday about removing web_steps.rb. I...

1 replies - 2533 views - 12/06/11 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

The Agile and DevOps Band-Aids

I just read a great InfoWorld blog post by Neil Mcallister, “DevOps – IT’s latest paper tiger” http://t.co/l3VMXEfU. Neil contends, “no...

1 replies - 2487 views - 12/06/11 by Steven Romero in Articles

Deploy ALL the Things - Deployment Myths Part 2

This is part 2 in a post on deployment strategies. The previous post is located here This post was authored by John E. Vincent (aka. lusis).  Creator of...

0 replies - 7695 views - 12/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Rollbacks and Other Deployment Myths

I came across an interesting post today via HN. I’m surprised (only moderately) that I missed it the first time around since this is right up my...

1 replies - 7572 views - 12/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Design-Build-Run

Or everything you should know about building software! While in London last year I met up with Dave Ingram, author of...

1 replies - 4787 views - 12/02/11 by Simon Brown in News

Deploying Latest to Heroku with Jenkins CI

You can use Jenkins Batch Task Plugin if you want to deploy the latest revision to Heroku. Our deployment has two steps: a rake task that pushes assets to...

0 replies - 3255 views - 12/02/11 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Why the "DevOps" Buzzword Can be a Force for Good

I felt compelled to respond to a well-reasoned article written today by Infoworld veteran Neil McAllister.  The article does a nice job of pointing out a lot...

0 replies - 3294 views - 12/01/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DevOps – Break Down The Wall

Instead of escalating wars between departments by driving them to ever more ambitious, local goals, we need to break down the wall between development and...

0 replies - 2175 views - 12/01/11 by Matthias Marschall in Articles