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The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report was recently released. This annual research compilation is a great resource to see what’s going on in the world of agile and DevOps. The report evaluates organizations against five key metrics, collectively called software delivery and operational performance metrics: Lead time for changes: How long does it take for a […]
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The saying “Garbage in, garbage out” has long been used in software engineering to express the idea that poor quality input will always produce faulty output. Yet many applications still fail to apply the axiom. This can result in anything from stored cross-site scripting attacks, to SQL injections, to buffer overflows, or more benign malformed […]
Load and performance issues can be difficult to resolve when found late in the software development lifecycle, yet teams still often wait until the last minute to performance test their applications. This can be costly, especially if the problem ends up being an issue with the overall architecture of the application. Load and performance testing […]
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
Modern technology continues to accelerate the speed of delivering software, which directly increases the importance of quality awareness as early as possible within your delivery pipeline. If you don’t know of a problem, you can’t act on it. The Email-ext plugin in Jenkins (https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Email-ext+plugin) is a great way to notify relevant parties as soon as […]
Background A client recently wanted to move several DevOps and scanning tools into the cloud, to which they were in the process of proving out and transitioning. We had a number of security scanning and static analysis tools, along with corresponding dashboards and a continuous integration server to orchestrate them. All of these tools were […]
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
On a recent government project, the DevOps team I was leading was tasked with spearheading the migration of our applications from a datacenter to the cloud. It did not go well. It almost fell into many traps that I imagine plague many cloud migrations, ranging from configuration management downfalls, to communications failures and delayed security […]
