Continuous integration/continuous delivery, more commonly known as CI/CD, promises to help software companies become more agile by delivering software faster and more reliably. The goal of CI/CD is to reduce software development and delivery timelines from months or weeks down to days or even hours. It does this by pushing frequent updates and fixes regardless […]
DevOps is not only about software development and operations. To make complete utilization of the flexibility in DevOps approach, it is desirable for software developers to integrate IT security at every step during a software’s life cycle. It is, in essence, what DevSecOps is. Exploring Further – What is DevSecOps? DevSecOps works on the premise […]
DevSecOps has become one of the hottest buzzwords in the DevOps ecosystem over the past couple of years. In the abstract, it’s easy to understand what DevSecOps means and why people care about it: It’s a strategy that extends DevOps efficiencies to software security. But when you sit down and actually start implementing DevSecOps, things can get trickier. […]
Testing is integral to modern software development. Technically, software testing is an indispensable part of the software development life cycle i.e., SDLC. Although there are very many SDLC approaches, such as Agile, DevOps, and RAD, testing is omnipresent. Interestingly, testing has its very own lifecycle, appropriately dubbed software testing life cycle. What does that suggest? It’s […]
Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2020 conference, has launched a bevy of updates that collectively further adoption of best DevOps practices on the Microsoft cloud platform, including for the first time a preview of an ability to store artifacts created using low-code Power Apps tools on GitHub. In addition, Microsoft announced a preview of an update to Visual Studio […]
GitLab this week delivered an update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform that promises to make pipelines more efficient and easier to manage, in addition to making it easier to set up pipelines in Windows environments. Version 12.7 of the core GitLab platform adds support for Parent-Child Pipelines and Pipeline Resource Groups. Parent-Child Pipelines make […]
If a company needs continuous access to classy DevOps skills, it can either keep an in-house team or outsource the project to a trustworthy partner. We will explain when and why DevOps outsourcing is better and how your business can make a good thing out of it. What do companies like WhatsApp, Slack, Github, Groove, […]
Editor – This seven‑part series of articles is now complete: Introduction to Microservices Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway Building Microservices: Inter‑Process Communication in a Microservices Architecture Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture Event‑Driven Data Management for Microservices Choosing a Microservices Deployment Strategy (this article) Refactoring a Monolith into Microservices (this article) You can also download […]
Microservices is a hot topic in software development circles these days. And for some very good reasons. Put simply, the traditional way of building enterprise applications—using a monolithic approach—has become problematic as applications get larger and more complex. So developers are turning to a microservices software development architecture, in which applications are structured as collections of […]
CI CD Pipeline implementation or the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment software is the backbone of the modern DevOps environment. You can find the requirement of Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment skills in various job roles such as Data Engineer, Cloud Architect, Data Scientist, etc. CI/CD bridges the gap between development and operations teams by automating build, test and […]