IT Executive
Should IT Execs Lead the Business? Or Should Business Execs Lead IT?
With IT predominantly becoming the future of every company, it makes sense the C-suite will get more involved but who should take the lead? IT Execs or Business Execs? This article looks at both sides of the fence.
A Tech Lead Paradox: Technical Needs vs Business Needs
A leader will find themselves choosing between two solutions or two situations that compete against each other. A leader successfully “rides the paradox” when they adopt an “AND” mindset, instead of an “OR” mindset. Instead of choosing one solution over another, they find a way to satisfy both situations, even though they contradict one another. Read this article to learn more about the conflict between a business and the development team.
Where DevOps Starts: Developers, Implementers, and Leaders
There’s no right place to start with DevOps, but there are reasons that different people choose to start. There are also ways of communicating that make it more likely to take succeed in your organization. Being aware of the people you are talking to and the processes they work within can make your DevOps experiments more likely to grow into a business-wide culture.
The Benefits of Integrating Automated Testing with DevOps
DevOps is becoming a major asset for turning out products that not only have limited bugs, but will also be effective for user needs. However, it’s becoming more challenging to deliver successful software in a timely manner using legacy development approaches. For this reason, automated testing should be integrated with DevOps processes. DevOps teams will be able to realize significant benefits without having to worry about compromising the quality of the program. Read here why and when to automate.
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Did you know that 40% of companies practicing Continuous Delivery increased frequency of code delivery by 10% or more in past 12 months? Download this free research report conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
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Change Control Tools Keep Change Control Regulated
Development teams need a change management system that all developers can and will follow. For enterprise teams, that generally means using a specialized change control tool -- sometimes more than one. This is an interview with John Beeston who managed one of the largest travel data warehouses.
THE DEVOPS REVOLUTION
“We transformed from a team of employees to a team of owners”– John Stoneham, Opsmatic. In a fascinating interview with Opsmatic’s Jim Stoneham Gene Kim revisits Flickr’s innovative 2009 ’10 deploys per day’ presentation.
8 Steps to Take Before You Start Coding Your next iOS App
There has never been a greater need to take a step back and answer important questions, perform necessary research and lay a solid foundation for your app before you type one line of code. In this article, Jordan Morgan outlines some steps you should consider before embarking on your next iOS app.
How to Centralize Logs from Docker Containers
Thousands of companies are now using Docker to shorten their release cycles and implement continuous delivery because its containers isolate dependencies and make applications easier to maintain. This article goes overseveral ways to log from Docker and give an example of how to send syslog from an application like Nginx.
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Beware the Siren's -Target Call
By and large, Java has been a great place for backwards compatibility. You can use a dependency compiled against an old version of Java and run it in the latest shiny new version of Java and have a very reasonable expectation that it will “just work™”. Of course there are always gotchas, but those have tended to be the exception but not the rule. So how does Java 8 change things?