Category: Continuous Delivery
28 Aug, 2019
Recession Proof Your Business
Economists are currently predicting that the U.S. and global economy are headed for a recession. We know based on history that companies that take preparative steps before the recession hits can not only survive the economic slowdown, but actually thrive and grow during this otherwise challenging time. We also...
17 Jul, 2019
Part 1: An Intro to Industrial IoT
This is the first of a series of articles about how IoT infrastructure provides solutions to very difficult business situations, and how to take advantage of them.
08 Apr, 2016
AWS Long Polling && Connection Reaping – You aren’t going crazy
Ever wake up in the middle of the night wondering if your server is still working because the pings are OK, but you are getting connection timeouts and JAVA IdleConnectionReaper exceptions? This blog post will talk about resource pooling in AWS with respect to Long Polling && Connection Reaping....
03 Mar, 2016
Ansible State of Mind, Part 2: The Yellow Brick Road to Continuous Delivery
In Ansible State of Mind – Part 1, we discussed how automation is the first step of the development process. In this post, we want to go into what to consider before we implement automation or Continuous Delivery (CD). If achieving Continuous Delivery means reaching the Emerald City, where...
06 Oct, 2015
Utilizing Maven Enforcer plugin to ensure dependency and version usage
Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. Using Maven for managing builds, reporting, and documentation has become a standard practice in...
23 Sep, 2015
Ansible State of Mind, Part 1: Automate First
If it’s not automated, it’s not done. Changing your approach from “implement now and automate later” to “implement means automate” will take you a long way down the road to Continuous Delivery. The benefits of IT automation are fairly well understood – lower costs, higher reliability, and better performance....
30 Mar, 2015
Continuous Delivery Continuum
Continuous Delivery exists on a continuum as a constellation of capabilities rather than as a destination
25 Mar, 2015
Better, Not More
There is currently a lot of interest in automated software practices such as continuous delivery, devops, and other evolving automation capabilities. While much of this interest is driven in the context of agile practices stemming from Lean development, the value proposition for pursuing such practices is centered more on...
25 Mar, 2015
Create a Competitive Advantage with Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery drives the ability to be flexible and agile, creating competitive advantage.