Continuous Integration as a software engineer might not invoke the best emotions. Getting your builds out of your local environment and be modeled into an external system can be burdensome. From managing plug-ins, configurations, language dependencies, and everything in-between the toil to automate the build can seem daunting ... Read More

Leveraging a Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a great way to quickly build, innovate, and deploy a new product or service. By leveraging a PaaS vendor’s servers, load balancing, application scaling, and 3rd-party integrations, your engineering team can focus on building customer-facing features that add value to your business ... Read More

Building high volume software factories is all about combining workflow and automation functionality to ensure that each application development team is able to repeatedly deliver secure, high quality, feature rich iterations and operate them on scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure ... Read More

Understanding feedback loops is an essential part of value stream management to achieve the goal of delivering value to your customers faster. The presence of feedback loops exists throughout software development and delivery value streams. Understanding and acting on effective feedback and the impact of the action on all parts of ... Read More

Many engineering organizations are adopting microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability ... Read More

We won’t bore you with all the reasons DevOps requires alignment across business, development, testing, security, and of course operations. That’s established. But the real question is how to coordinate all these elements at the enterprise level—beyond the high-performing DevOps native teams and across the ones with vastly different cultures, ... Read More

Connecting operations and security teams have not always been a smooth process: developers and operations staff are charged with site reliability, availability, and uptime while security staff is held responsible for securing an organization’s always-moving perimeter and valuable web layer assets. But the lines have started to blur between DevOps ... Read More

DevOps and CI/CD make for faster code releases, but they also create new challenges for security practices. Think about TLS and code-signing certificates. Almost every component in CI/CD – binaries, builds, web servers and containers – needs certificates to authenticate and verify trust, but traditional PKI processes just can't scale ... Read More

Today development is fast and cloud-based, with microservices architectures and Git-based repositories. However, application security workflows haven’t evolved in meaningful ways. Git is the center of modern software development and re-thinking security workflows for Developers should naturally be Git-based ... Read More

If you're beginning to learn more about DevOps, you may be confused about where to start or where to focus. The term “DevOps” refers to this idea that we no longer have pure and separated development streams and operations streams – and to a set of DevOps practices that optimizes and improves ... Read More