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Culture & Methods

Accessing Agile Games as a Tool in Transformation and Change

This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change. It provides an example that was taken from this area.

Anne Hoffmann
on Oct 03, 2022
Culture & Methods

DevOps at Schneider: a Meaningful Journey of Engaging People into Change

Adopting DevOps at Schneider started with building a case for change. Tech people were engaged into change by organizing learning and collaboration sessions and getting feedback from the front lines. Change is hard and without leadership support, dedicated time for developers to really digest it and continual reinforcement and conversation, it will be challenging to be successful.

Amanda Heintz
on Sep 23, 2022
Cloud

Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure for Your SaaS Start-up

As a solutions architect, I have been designing SaaS applications for years and I have seen start-ups struggle to find the right cloud infrastructure and improve their product offering. These experiences prompted me to write this article as a tool to help companies make a pragmatic fact and data-driven decision.

Ratnesh Singh Parihar
on Sep 06, 2022
Cloud

Building Workflows with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed. Each task is defined by a state of the state machine. In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment.

Pratik Das
on Sep 01, 2022
Culture & Methods

The Implication of Feedback Loops for Value Streams

Lead time and throughput are dynamic variables which impact flow in a value stream. Capacity, processing time and feedback loops (such as error conditions) have a significant impact on WIP and flow and need to be mapped and measured when building value stream maps.

Pavel Azaletskiy Jack Maher
on Aug 31, 2022
Architecture & Design

Business Systems Integration is about to Get a Whole Lot Easier

A new breed of integration software is arising that syncs business data into a simplified data hub and then syncs that data to the destination system. The benefit of this integration pattern is that it reduces the number of manual transformations required (often to zero) and makes it easier to write manual transformations when you have to.

Doug Hudgeon
on Aug 24, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time Machine Learning

This article covers the benefits of streaming-first infrastructure for two scenarios of real-time ML: online prediction, where a model can receive a request and make predictions as soon as the request arrives, and continual learning, when machine learning models are capable of continually adapting to change in data distributions in production.

Chip Huyen
on Aug 22, 2022
DevOps

Why DevOps Governance is Crucial to Enable Developer Velocity

The application environment should be managed centrally by the DevOps team. This allows them to better track modifications and changes which would then be swift and transparent to developer teams.

Amir Rozenberg
on Jul 27, 2022
DevOps

How Development Teams Can Orchestrate Their Workflow with Pipelines as Code

Infrastructure as Code was just the beginning. Configuration as Code followed shortly after – again becoming extremely commonplace and enabling organisations to scale their engineering capacity by a number of times. And in order to continuously increase the value development teams generate, Pipelines as Code is the natural consequence.

Matteo Emili
on Jul 08, 2022
DevOps

Analyzing Incident Data across Organizations: Courtney Nash on the VOID

The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash on their recent findings including how MTT* metrics may not be beneficial, the average time to incident resolution, and the importance of studying near-miss reports.

Courtney Nash Matt Campbell
on Jun 28, 2022
Culture & Methods

Establishing a Scalable SRE Infrastructure Using Standardization and Short Feedback Loops

This article explores an SRE implementation where the operations team builds and runs the SRE infrastructure and the development teams build and run the services leveraging the SRE infrastructure. This SRE solution enables the software delivery organization to scale the number of services in operation without linearly scaling the number of people required to operate the services.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Jun 27, 2022
Culture & Methods

What We Now Know: Digital Transformation Reaches a Point of Clarity

As much as it has been discussed and praised, digital transformation has suffered from a lack of clear definition. While the promise of becoming “customer-centric” and “disruptive” has been widely publicized, there has still been little in actual guidance as to how to achieve those and many of the other benefits commonly associated with digital transformation. This article offers concrete advice

Thomas Erl
on Jun 21, 2022

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