Dev, Test, Optimisation
Time and Investment needed for Magic DevOps
According to word salads and theory, everything is easy. In reality the opposite is usually true, which is why Agile has a ‘fast fail’ mentality. Fail often, f…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Monitoring Tools
Some Key Cloud Platform Monitoring tools. Nagios: Industry standard for Linux OS monitoring. The OS is the key in IT. It determines your deployments, ops and p…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationAnsible and Jenkins – Orchestration and Configuration
Ansible and Jenkins – Configuration and Orchestration A common approach to create an automated pipeline is to combine 2 platforms to orchestrate and then deplo…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Containerisation and Automation: a pattern and approach
With Cloud computing, and inside VLEs and the IT media industry, there is a groupthink that all technological innovation is now ‘Digital Transformation’. This …
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What is DevOps?
What is DevOps? Development-Operations of IT systems and software, or ‘DevOps’, has as many definitions as practitioners. Many firms say they are employing ‘De…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationAutomating the Infrastructure is a Long Term project for most if not all, Very Large Enterprises (VLEs)
The vast majority of enterprises still employ manual processes, silos, and have a lack of documentation and resources who understand automation. Many IT person…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Development and Testing – Best practices
The Benefits of using the Cloud for Development and Testing Customers benefit from a Dev/Test by being able to quickly launch new VMs within minutes, perform t…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationClient Example CI/CD automation in AWS
When building software, the process should be as automated as possible, with build-commit-testing-deployment, based on automated interactions. This improves ti…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationFounder of Scrum Jeff Sutherland and his views on Software development
Sutherland co-founded the Scrum methodology as an implementation of ‘Agile’, in the mid-1990s. The premise is straight forward enough: end the corporate inerti…
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