Posts Tagged ‘DevOps’

Shipping address is a very important data point in online shopping, which is why improving the shopping cart experience with an address autocomplete feature is becoming more common on ecommerce websites. Adding the Google Places Autocomplete API to your online store’s checkout workflow can increase conversion rates, decrease abandoned shopping carts, and result in 20% […]

DevOps teams routinely deal with the most sensitive needs of an organization: security, governance, and compliance. However, not every organization is on the same page when it comes to DevOps, which can leave developers feeling overwhelmed and overworked. Sonatype recently released findings from its seventh annual DevOps Community Survey that examines the differences between mature […]

Blue/Green Deployment Pattern The goal of any software development program is to release system changes into production.  There are many ways to safely and securely deploy software into a production environment.  In most cases these patterns follow a similar strategy of limiting exposure of the released software changes to the overall user audience.  This is […]

The following is the first in a series of blogs about how deploying Red Hat OpenShift on Amazon Web Services cloud platform can transform your business. In this first blog, we’re going to break down the benefits OpenShift on AWS has to offer. To optimize performance, enterprises need robust cloud solutions that cater to their […]

Security is a top priority for IT outsourcing companies and their clients, but maintaining high levels of security across multiple projects is often challenging and expensive. Thankfully, the key to mitigating that challenge exists in the power of automation. Automated security testing tools allow software developers and engineers to detect system vulnerabilities throughout the entire […]

The following is the second in a series of blogs about how innovation is necessary for businesses – and how Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a managed offering from Microsoft and Red Hat, enables that innovation. In this second blog, we’re going to go further in-depth about how applications have changed and why containers – and […]

Global demand for excellence has always driven the software development industry’s evolution. Over time, the emergence of Waterfall, Agile, and DevOps methodologies is evidence of this, as development companies constantly adapt their delivery methods to satiate the market. Right now, the industry is predominantly Agile, but DevOps is catching up fast and becoming the methodology […]

Today marks VMware’s next step in the integration of Pivotal technology with the release of VMware Tanzu. VMware Tanzu is a portfolio of products and services for modernizing applications and infrastructure that includes Pivotal technology. It is built to simplify multi-cloud operations, freeing up developers to build applications. DevOps teams will be able to work […]

The Operations Coordinator plays a key role in DevSecOps.  In my previous post, DevSecOps and Release Coordination, I introduced the idea of four key responsibilities in the DevSecOps mediated release management process. The idea is to consolidate the validation and approval steps from a “gated” process involving many approvers, and shift the actual work of […]

This is the last blog in a series exploring some common DevOps misconceptions. Break past the myths to get the most from your DevOps strategy. Read myths #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5. Myth #6: Automation deployment clears your bottlenecks By adopting technical tools like Cloudbees Jenkins, the IT organization will be able to automate […]

This is the fifth blog in a series exploring some common DevOps misconceptions. Break past the myths to get the most from your strategy. Read myths #1, #2, #3, and #4. Myth #5: The virtues of DevOps will sell itself to your IT organization The value of DevOps is clear, and new tools and processes […]

This is the fourth blog in a series exploring some common DevOps misconceptions. Break past the myths to get the most from your DevOps strategy. Read myths #1, #2, and #3. Myth #4: Skilled developers will make the operations team obsolete If some of your teams are more innovative, it’s reasonable to start your own […]