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Dev and Ops Cooperation

John Allspaw and Paul Hammond did a great presentation at Velocity 2009 about the tools and culture at Flickr, which enable them to do 10+ deploys per day. My...

1 replies - 4768 views - 10/11/11 by Matthias Marschall in News

Installing Go (cruise) Build Agents on Linux

This is just an easy at-a-glance reference for installing the Go cruise agent on Linux because I’ve done it a few times and just want to have the...

0 replies - 4567 views - 10/07/11 by James Betteley in News

Developers Must Feel the Pain of Operations

I firmly believe that software developers not being responsible for their software in production is as damaging, bad and stupid as bankers not being...

10 replies - 11086 views - 10/01/11 by Wille Faler in News

Continuous Integration: Why You Don't Really "Get It"

A vast majority of daily practitioners of Continuous Integration don't really understand it. This is a bold statement, I know. But it is not made to...

0 replies - 9804 views - 09/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Sad State of Secure Software Maintenance

This is sad. No, it's not sad, it's sick. I'm looking for ideas and clear thinking about secure software maintenance. But I can't find anything beyond a...

0 replies - 4955 views - 09/27/11 by Jim Bird in News

In Retrospect: About Requirements Management

This is the first of several posts in which I’d like to share some of the things we decided throughout 14 sprint retrospective. Some of them might appear...

2 replies - 2599 views - 09/26/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

"Strict" Unit Testing -- Everything In Isolation Is Too Much Work

Folks like to claim that unit testing absolutely requires each class be tested in isolation using mocks for all dependencies.  This is a noble aspiration,...

4 replies - 8997 views - 09/24/11 by Steven Lott in News

How Non-negotiable Features Kill Software Products

You’ve most probably been there: To win that one ueber-important client, your friendly sales rep sells the farm and his grandmother (well actually he...

2 replies - 4020 views - 09/22/11 by Matthias Marschall in News

Continuous Delivery and Agility

Continuous delivery is one of the exciting new trends in software development...

1 replies - 3202 views - 09/21/11 by Jim Highsmith in News

Should You Ship This Code Before Reducing Technical Debt?!

Technical debt is usually perceived as a measure of expediency. Source: JulesH, Wikipedia, A control flow graph of a simple function You borrow a little...

1 replies - 7120 views - 09/19/11 by Israel Gat in News

Devopsdays Downunder 2011 - Keynote

At the first devopsdays in Ghent 2009 we were extremely lucky to have Lindsay Holmwood present. I had to skip the first devopsdays downunder. So I was...

0 replies - 5855 views - 09/16/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Books For People Interested In Devops

Before starting with FreeAgent I decided I should spend a bit more time with Ruby and set about building something I’d been thinking about...

0 replies - 6574 views - 09/12/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Continuous Deployment = Continuous Business Improvement

One of the benefits of working on a startup project of which I am the owner is that I can do things the way I want to. One of the things I was keen to try out...

1 replies - 5863 views - 09/11/11 by Wille Faler in News

Acceptance Criteria for Release Management Maturity Model

I was asked a good question by a colleague a couple of days ago. On p419 of my book Jez and I show and I describe a “Configuration and Release Management...

0 replies - 6121 views - 09/09/11 by Dave Farley in News

Build Versioning Strategy

Over the last few years I’ve followed a build versioning strategy of the following format: <Major Version>.<Release Version>.<Patch...

2 replies - 7894 views - 09/07/11 by James Betteley in News