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Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps

Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development, simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.

Gopinath Rebala
on Mar 27, 2023
DevOps

Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability

CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow, but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.

Craig Risi
on Mar 23, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings

Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself and your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.

Gemma Honour
on Mar 22, 2023
Cloud

Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) as a Technique to Raise Productivity in Teams

In essence, EaaS addresses developer productivity issues by providing settings that make it simple for developers to test and mimic real-world uses of their system. This article discusses the benefits of EaaS.

Oghenevwede Emeni
on Feb 17, 2023
Java

Article Series: Developing Apache Kafka applications on Kubernetes

Apache Kafka has integrations with most of the languages used these days, but in this article series, we cover its integration with Java. In this series, we also discuss how to provision, configure and secure an Apache Kafka cluster on a Kubernetes cluster.

Alex Soto
on Feb 06, 2023
DevOps

If Twitter Doesn’t Have a Staging Environment, Should Anyone?

With Twitter revealing they do not have a staging environment, how important is staging to delivering quality? When so many tasks are shifting to the developer these days and no one best developer approach fits all, how do dev teams determine the best developer methodology for them and their company?

Dan Faulkner
on Feb 01, 2023
Culture & Methods

Why Team-Level Metrics Matter in Software Engineering

In a world where everything can have perspective, context and data, it doesn’t make sense to limit that to just part of your software development process. The DORA metrics can provide insight into the health of your development environment, where value is being delivered and opportunities for improvement. Metrics must be used with careful insight to separate the signal from the noise.

Ian Phillipchuk
on Jan 17, 2023
DevOps

Lessons Learned from Enterprise Usage of GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is an effective CI tool. However, integrating it into enterprise organizations can be challenging. This article looks at best practices for GitHub Actions in the enterprise.

Greg Jacobs
on Jan 10, 2023
DevOps

Blue-Green Deployment from the Trenches

Introducing blue-green deployments is often a beneficial improvement. However, with some architectures, it can be challenging to make the changes without impeding deployments. This article covers the challenges and lessons learned in implementing blue-green deployments in the real-world.

Sarah Saunders
on Jan 03, 2023
DevOps

The Importance of Pipeline Quality Gates and How to Implement Them

A quality gate is an enforced measure built into your pipeline that the software needs to meet before it can proceed. This article covers how to get the maximum benefit from quality gates. Making good use of quality gates not only can improve the quality of your software, but it can also improve your delivery speed.

Craig Risi
on Dec 27, 2022
Culture & Methods

Great Leaders Manage Complexity with Self-Awareness and Context Awareness

People's perception and expectations on leadership requires a leader to understand their own contextual significance which makes it difficult to become an appreciated leader. Also trivialisation many times unknowingly stands in the way of progress in complex situations. This article explores specific traits that distinguish people who repeatedly provide appreciated and appropriate leadership.

Martin Wasielewski
on Dec 06, 2022
Culture & Methods

Bringing a Product Mindset into DevOps

To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable, and the ability to deliver these products and services well. This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset".

Marcel Britsch
on Nov 15, 2022