Why Is It Scary to “Just let” Your Developers Into the Cloud?
Let’s face it, we’re living in a time of great anxiety, and this makes us reluctant to take on new risks. If you haven’t already migrated your development environment and deployment infrastructure to the cloud, then you might want to wait for calmer times. After all, there’s nothing scarier than moving into the unknown, and […]
7 Common QA Automation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Software development faces increased demands in speed and quality of delivery. To meet these needs, companies must rely on automation in the QA testing process or risk being unable to keep up. Yet only 5% of companies truly embrace progressive delivery and automation in their development operations. The other 95% are stuck in traditional pipelines […]
Do Developers Need to Know Devops Tools?
Not so long ago, the job of a developer was to write code, without having to worry about testing, deployment, or infrastructure. If code ran locally on the developer’s machine, the assumption was that it should be able to run anywhere. In recent years, however, the previously separate worlds of development and operations have collided […]
How to Hire a DevOps Engineer
If you’re reading this article, perhaps you or your company have pondered this question: Why is it so hard to hire a DevOps engineer? This may be due to a gap between what the engineer knows and is capable of and what the organization is looking for. Other times, this could be due to a […]
Adopting DevOps Culture: The Enemy is Complexity
Software complexity. It’s one of the greatest impediments to DevOps culture adoption, according to a 2018 survey by Quali. Other significant obstacles include “stagnant organizational cultures,” the “jumble of legacy processes, IT infrastructure and newly created cloud environments,” and “lack of standardized mechanisms for continuous testing.” But forewarned is forearmed; and if you’re aware of […]
Test Automation with Kaholo
In 2018 on Amazon Prime Day, one of the company’s biggest sale days, the Amazon website went down several times, and at a certain point had to be taken down for maintenance. This was due to a massive amount of site traffic, which Amazon lacked the resources and capacity to support. Amazon confiscated all spot […]
