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News & Analysis of Tools for DevOps Professionals
DevOps automation simplifies software implementation, which is a priority for IT teams. To reduce developer input and create an efficient development process, organizations are turning to automation tools to reduce manual operations. To be effective, DevOps automation tools require coding skills. Since the first hammer was forged during the dawn of the Bronze Age nearly 5,000 years ago, the creation of simple tools has always driven technology.
4 Tips to Avoid Downtime Risks and Start the New Year Strong
The end-of-year holiday season is particularly challenging for software companies — demand is often at its peak, while at the same time your staff members want to be home with their families. But what if you could give your team some time off to relax with their loved ones over the holidays while still maintaining productivity and avoiding downtime?
Cloud Cost-Optimization Strategies to Rein in Cloud Spending
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. The cloud offers several appealing advantages, including efficient scalability and the flexibility to pay for only what you use.
Is a Multicloud Strategy Right for Your Organization?
Cloud adoption has been accelerating for the past several years, with many organizations replacing traditional data centers with cloud-hosted infrastructure and updating applications to leverage cloud-based services. According to industry analyst Gartner, global public cloud spending is expected to grow from $396 billion in 2021 to $482 billion in 2022, an increase of more than 21 percent.
Cloud Misconfiguration: Vulnerability Hiding in Plain Sight
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. In today’s technology-driven landscape, most companies have at least some, if not all, workloads on the cloud.
Well-Tested Code: In Search of Meaningful Coverage
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. If you work anywhere near the field of software development, you’ve likely already heard that you should always write code that is well-tested.
7 Benefits of Testing in Isolation
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. Testing in isolation is known to be expensive. It’s time-consuming to execute thoroughly, and it typically requires a testing environment — sometimes multiple testing environments.
Securing Pipelines Through Secrets Management
Secrets management plays a critical role in keeping your pipelines and applications secure. While secrets management tools help, you need to implement best practices and processes to successfully manage secrets in a DevOps environment. Standardizing, automating and integrating these processes also helps secure secrets by reducing the chance of human error.
How to reduce flaky test failures
Testing helps you discover bugs before you release software, enabling you to deliver a high-quality product to your customers. Sometimes, though, tests are flaky and unreliable. What is a flaky test? Flaky tests, also known as flappers, fail to produce accurate and consistent results. These tests may be unreliable because of newly-written code or as a result of external factors. If your tests are flaky, they cannot help you find (and fix) all your bugs, which negatively impacts user experience.
Engineering Solutions to Security Issues
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. Software engineering teams have always looked for ways to increase code creation efficiency, reduce code vulnerabilities and improve security processes.
How to secure your CI pipeline
Many enterprises still struggle to get security right. To protect their business, it is critical they focus on security during the entire infrastructure and application lifecycle, including continuous integration (CI). Developers are becoming more autonomous as they transition to a DevOps way of working, with more people requiring access to production systems.
GitOps Use Cases You May Not Have Considered
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco, Calif. as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. GitOps is growing in popularity. You’ve probably seen it mentioned on Reddit or dev.to. But what the heck is GitOps?
How to Deploy an Application on Friday
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco, Calif. as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster. No one likes giving their weekends up to fix release issues.
The Developer's Guide to Scaling an Application - The New Stack
Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco, Calif. as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster.
You don’t need to migrate from Jenkins. Start building beside it.
Ten years ago, tools like Jenkins were first-class automation platforms for your CI pipelines. The jump from lower-level tools and custom scripts to tools like Jenkins created dramatic improvements. Now, a new generation of web-based tools are available. They provide a platform for the next leap forward for product build automation. This long history means that many mature organizations use Jenkins for CI.
Do I Really Need Kubernetes?
CircleCI sponsored this post. Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco, Calif. as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster.
How to Integrate RESTful APIs into CI/CD Pipelines
CircleCI sponsored this post. Ron Powell Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco, Calif. as a developer advocate producing content that enables developers to build, test and deploy their projects faster.
Getting Your Manager to Say ‘Yes’ to DevOps Tools
CircleCI sponsored this post. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have discovered a new tool that may be able to solve a problem for your team? Did you bring it excitedly to your manager only to be shut down by a conversation about cost/benefit analysis and return on investment? It can be difficult to introduce these tools when you are not the person that makes those decisions. What I want to offer is a method for applying a DevOps mindset to tool adoption.
An Integrated, Closed-Loop Decision Cycle
Barry Devlin: You know, Ron, I’m a consultant so the answer is “it depends.” But the longer answer is that business really does need agility. It needs the ability to ask any question to do any analysis, and in that sense self-service You know, Ron, I’m a consultant so the answer is “it depends.” But the longer answer is that business really does need agility.
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