David Brooks

David Brooks is the VP of products at Copado. He is a serial entrepreneur who has worked at 6 startups with 3 successful exits over the past 34 years in the valley. He joined Salesforce.com just after their IPO in 2005 to build AppExchange for the next 8 and a half years. He ran a third of the Force.com teams during his tenure.

software, crowdstrike, bug, bugs, outage, Fiberplane

Five Lessons Learned the Hard Way From the Global Blue Screen of Death

July 25, 2024 | bugs, downtime, shift right, system outage

Don’t wait until the pain is unbearable. Invest in people, processes and tools to ensure that you will never be put in the position of explaining why a bug in one small ...

code, Zencoder, adopting codeops, organizations, IBM, generative, GenAI, testing agents, test, tests, AI, binary code,

Testing Agents: More than a Copilot

June 26, 2024 | ai, CI/CD, co-pilot, devops, testing, testing agents

Copilots boost productivity for both use cases but are generally passive tools that must be fed precise requirements to get the desired results ...

Agile Planning With Generative AI

August 3, 2023 | agile, Agile planning, devops, DevOps workflows, generative AI

Generative AI will eventually impact the entire DevOps life cycle from plan to operate. I started as a developer but have been a product manager for most of my career; for me, ...

Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud

May 2, 2019 | continuous delivery, continuous integration, DevOps in the Cloud, DevOps practices, functional testing, software development, source code

DevOps is commonly defined as a methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten a system's development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in ...