Everything these days is a blah-blah-as-a-service, and your development lifecycle should be no different. When you provide a well working and documented services that your team can use to provision resources and introduce change in a controlled way; you will enable your teams to innovate and focus on building value for your customers. How do Read more…
Automation is one of the key principles of a strong DevOps culture because it has such a high return on investment. How can you be confident in your software unless you’ve had a real person validate it? We continue the DevOps Culture series with discussing how automation takes your team’s confidence beyond the commit and Read more…
In this episode, Paul Duvall covers recent DevOps on AWS news and interviews Adam Jordens, an engineer on the Delivery Platform Team at Netflix. Here are the show notes: DevOps on AWS News AWS Limit monitor – AWS Answers Keeping your Secrets Secret – AWS Secrets Manager and AWS CloudFormation to Automate Secrets Management Socket.io chat app Read more…
DevOps is a software development practice that specializes in the frequent delivery of software features and improvements. Through rapid integration of changes and receipt of feedback we build a culture of confidence and reliability in the software lifecycle. Additionally, teams that follow these practices are highly productive for their organizations and themselves. Successfully employing “DevOps” Read more…
We speak with Patrick Cullen – a Principal Architect at the Washington Post – about DevOps and AWS on the Arc publishing platform Read more…
Infrastructure and operations as code is an essential practice for realizing the advantages of modern clouds. For enterprises looking to migrate to Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, scripted infrastructure and automation are the key first steps through which other devops practices become accessible. This post will enumerate some key benefits that become Read more…
Many moons ago, Jonny coined the term “Stelligentsia” to refer to our small, merry band of technologists at the time. Times have changed and the team has grown by a factor of 10 but we strive to live up to the name as all things DevOps and AWS continues to evolve. We find the best way to do this is Read more…
I recently had the opportunity to attend an AWS bootcamp Herndon, VA office and a short presentation given by their team on Designing for Failure. It opened my eyes to the reality of application design when dealing with failure or even basic exception handling. One of the defining characteristics between a good developer and a Read more…
If you’re a member of the tech industry then you’ve probably had to work with legacy code — those ancient systems that just hold everything together. Not every project is greenfield, thus “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” by Michael Feathers is a book that has a reputation that would provide a good insight into how Read more…
If you read our earlier post , Infrastructure as Code – A Hit at re:Invent 2015, you know how excited we were about presenting at October’s AWS re:Invent conference. For me, the best takeaways of that awesome session came from Soofi Safavi’s inspired delivery regarding his experience as CTO of a large enterprise (Radian Guaranty) Read more…