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Infrastructure as a Code—Why Drift Management Is Not Enough

The reality is that configuration drift will remain unavoidable for the foreseeable future. An EaaS solution, coupled with an IaC platform and good change management policies will help you prevent drift and shorten your development cycles.

Roxana Ciobanu
on Aug 09, 2022
Culture & Methods

How Difficult Can It Be to Integrate Software Development Tools? The Hard Truth

Integrating tools used in software development and delivery is very hard. Getting endpoints to inter-operate is not a purely technical challenge, it’s more of a business problem. While there are a few choices in selecting the technical integration infrastructure (integration via APIs or at the database layer), the real challenges have more to do with friction caused by the dissimilarities.

Betty Zakheim
on Jan 02, 2017
Architecture & Design

Continuous Delivery Coding Patterns: Latent-to-Live Code & Forward Compatible Interim Versions

This article describes two novel practices for continuous delivery: Latent-to-live code pattern and Forward compatible interim versions. You can use these practices to simultaneously increase speed and reliability of software development and reduce risks. These practices are built on top of two other essential continuous delivery practices: trunk-based-development and feature toggles.

Luca Minudel
on Sep 02, 2016
DevOps

How to Deal with COTS Products in a DevOps World

Mirco Hering explains why we shouldn't leave COTS products (and the people working on them) left behind in a DevOps world. With creative solutions we can apply good practices from custom software. This leads to a significant effort reduction in the long term.

Mirco Hering
on Jul 24, 2016
Cloud

Containers Live Migration: Behind the Scenes

This article addresses a topic that is not fully covered in current IT world: live migration of containers, how it works behind the scenes, and what problems it solves. The demand for this technology is growing as it unlocks new possibilities by giving more freedom in application lifecycle management.

Ruslan Synytsky
on Jul 22, 2016
Culture & Methods

Why ALM Is Becoming Indispensable in Safety-Critical Product Development

Integrated Application Lifecycle Management platforms are advancing product development in life and safety critical environments. The story of how Medtronic Neuromodulation were able to modernize their processes using ALM helps us understand current and future trends in the development of complex software-heavy products.

Kristof Horvath
on Jul 15, 2016
Development

Writing Maintainable Configuration Code

The article discusses a catalog of configuration smells containing 13 implementation configuration smells and 11 design configuration smells. It provides a few examples of configuration smells along with corresponding refactorings, explains their impact on the quality of the project, and lists a few tools that could be used to reveal such smells.

Marios Fragkoulis Tushar Sharma Diomidis Spinellis
on Jul 08, 2016
Java

Configure Once, Run Everywhere: Decoupling Configuration and Runtime

Configuration is one of the most widely used cross-cutting concerns in application development. Apache Tamaya is a new incubator project that brings standardized property management to Java.

Anatole Tresch
on Jun 17, 2016
Culture & Methods

An Evaluation Guide to Application Lifecycle Management Software Solutions

Application Lifecycle Management tools provide many benefits, and are increasingly used by companies in all kinds of industry. However, identifying the one solution that best suits your requirements and internal processes is a difficult task. Kristof Horvath presents a guide to help you make an informed purchase decision by outlining a Request for Proposals that covers your ALM requirements.

Kristof Horvath
on Dec 30, 2015
Culture & Methods

Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Application Lifecycle Management

Mik Kersten, creator of Mylyn, discusses the evolution of the software lifecycle and developer productivity. He explains how to leverage Agile & DevOps when scaling to large teams needed to build today’s complex software and how to create a first-class software delivery tool chain.

Mik Kersten
on Dec 24, 2015
DevOps

Q&A with Matthias Marschall on Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Update

InfoQ asked Matthias Marshall what's new in the 2nd edition of his book and his view on the evolution of the configuration management tool space.

Manuel Pais
on Nov 13, 2015
Version Control, Git, and your Enterprise

This article is about understanding Git – both its benefits and limits – and deciding if it’s right for your enterprise. It is intended to highlight some of the key advantages and disadvantages typically experienced by enterprises and presents the key questions to be contemplated by your enterprise in determining whether Git is right for you and what you need to consider in moving to Git.

Bob Jenkins
on Aug 18, 2015