Posts Tagged ‘DevOps’

Microservices are gaining popularity for their potential to deliver scalability, resilience, and agility that wasn’t possible with service-oriented architecture. Over 70% of organizations are investigating microservices adoption, but many are encountering challenges to success in achieving these goals with the additional strain on IT to be more agile, adopt new technology, and embrace DevOps. The […]

DevOps is more of a philosophy or way of working than it is a formal framework or standard. Nevertheless, the approach deserves merit, as it goes to the core of tension in most IT organizations—the need to be responsive to business change while maintaining a stable, highly available IT infrastructure, and delivering quality services that […]

In Devops, change is imminent but when poorly managed it can lead to these five common mistakes and further performance issues. Because DevOps centers around change, and consistent change at that, it’s easy to encounter instability during a project. No one wants that, but avoiding it entirely is not possible. You see, in Ops we […]

By definition, DevOps is a cross-team, collaborative approach to the software development process focused on continuous deployment and automation. It allows for faster development through the use of tools, processes, and the removal of siloed teams. It is one of the best answers to modern software development, especially when companies and consumers expect a constantly […]

This article first appeared in Entrepreneur.com written by Perficient Latin America’s Laura Navarro.  With our ever-increasing technological dependence, modern society has placed a major premium on STEM careers and other technical backgrounds. This has rung especially true amidst the current talent shortage of programmers, data scientists and engineers. However, in focusing on developing software — […]

Digital innovation continues to disrupt industries at lightning speed. Today’s organizations are transforming their entire business – from strategy to operations, technology to culture – to better deliver value to their customers. We’ve compiled the top 10 trends leaders needed to know when it comes to their digital transformation journey. In this 10-week blog series, […]

Sebastian Velez, Head of Technology at Perficient Latin America, recently sat down with Oracle’s Javed Mohammed at Oracle Code’s Bogota to talk about DevOps. Velez touches on the importance of creating a Devops culture at an organization and avoiding the temptation to create a siloed DevOps team. Want to know more about DevOps? Check out the […]

In my role over the past number of years, I’ve had many great ideological DevOps conversations with many people from various organizations.  I often explain that to me, DevOps is an approach and a mindset.  Whether it’s implementing a deployment automation tool for the first time, strengthening a continuous integration (CI) implementation, or writing infrastructure as code, my approach […]

DevOps is now considered by many to be mainstream, which explains why DevOps Engineer is ranked #2 on Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America list. But popular doesn’t necessarily mean easy to adopt and implement. As more companies and organizations deploy common DevOps practices, there are just as many considering the prospect of doing so. […]

My focus at Perficient lately is a fast-moving project with 15+ individuals, complex requirements, and a tight deadline. The experience is extremely valuable. The project is an ETL platform on AWS that uses Lambda for event-driven processing, Elastic MapReduce (EMR) for managed Hadoop clusters, RDS and S3 for persistence, and a handful of other services. […]

Continuous Testing and Continuous Deployment Drive a Left-Aligned Process In software development, the term “shift left” refers to the practice of placing quality at the top of the priority list, from day one. The idea is to eliminate potential surprises or problems that can arise without the appropriate testing at the end of the development […]

Implementing Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform is an arduous task for most developers, taking hours and numbering in nearly 100 steps. However, recent developments by industry leaders have simplified the process, allowing the setup to take just a few steps, saving time and accelerating innovation. The installation instructions and necessary files are on […]