Tag: ci
Is it Time to Reconsider CI?
If you have issues with Jenkins, look around. There are options. Find the best CI tool for you, not just the most convenient ...
How Much Testing is Too Much?
Advances in automated testing have great potential, but there are also downsides to consider as the technology matures ...
We Will Control the World!
Don MacVittie has one request for vendors: Don’t tell us how you can manage other vendors' tools; tell us how you’re making it easier to manage yours ...
Monitor Toolchain Health, Too
Don Macvittie | | CD, ci, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, continuous integration, DevOps Monitoring, DevOps toolchains, Enterprise Continuous Testing, toolchainTool everything, because the software delivery toolchain is now the core of application development and deployment, Don MacVittie advises ...
Identify Needs First
In several projects of late, I have noted a trend in otherwise rockstar IT departments: They identify an area that they wish to implement or approve and then set out to address ...
Forget Change, Embrace Stability
DevOps is about change. It was introduced to accelerate change, and it has opened up a whole new world of tools and possibilities that are all based on the premise of changing ...
The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring ...
Raise Those (Feature) Flags
I’ve written about feature flags before, but I think it’s time for a solid bit of advice: “If you are not yet using feature flags for DevOps, it is past time to ...
It’s a Toolchain!
I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word "toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regularly and, ...
Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those ...
DevOps for Salesforce: CI/CD Challenges
DevOps encompasses a wide variety of technical and social practices for improving the development, delivery and operation of IT systems. Salesforce has become more than a CRM system; it evolved into a ...
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we're very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When a new ...
