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• shift left testing

  Shift left testing is an approach used to speed software testing and facilitate development by moving the testing process to an earlier point in the development cycle. Continue Reading

• incremental shift left testing

  Incremental shift left testing is a widely adopted method that starts testing earlier in the development cycle – shifting it to the left on the timeline -- and breaks complex development down into smaller pieces that build upon each other. Continue Reading

• Git

  Git is a free and open source distributed code management and version control system that is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. Continue Reading

• branching

  Branching is the practice of creating copies of programs or objects in development to work in parallel versions, retaining the original and working on the branch or making different changes to each. Continue Reading

• DevOps certification

  DevOps certification is a formalized testing program intended to ensure that applicants have achieved an appropriate level of skills and knowledge for working in the converged areas of software development and IT operations. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • serverless computing
  • container management software
  • DevOps
  • IT monitoring

  • COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
  • AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations)
  • native cloud application (NCA)
  • Containers as a Service (CaaS)

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• Can switching to all event-driven applications cut IT infrastructure?

  Event-driven computing means no IaaS provisioning and no data center to run. Can I migrate all enterprise apps to be event-driven?Continue Reading

• ChatOps

  ChatOps is the use of chat clients, chatbots and real-time communication tools to facilitate how software development and operation tasks are communicated and executed.Continue Reading

• Service Management conferences offer more

  No one single focused approach will work for every organization or even across an entire organization. We must be open to different styles, approaches, frameworks and models.Continue Reading

• How application scalability works in event-driven vs. IaaS computing

  Event-driven computing saves IT admins' time and helps application scalability, compared to managing traditional cloud infrastructure. But IaaS and event-driven computing aren't exclusive.Continue Reading

• dependency hell

  Dependency hell is a negative situation that occurs when a software application is not able to access the additional programming it requires in order to work.Continue Reading

• blue/green deployment

  A blue/green deployment is a software deployment strategy that relies on two identical production configurations that alternate between active and inactive. One environment is referred to as blue, and the duplicate environment is dubbed green.Continue Reading

• rolling deployment

  A rolling deployment is the installation of software updates on one server or server subset at a time, rather than updating all servers or server subsets at the same time.Continue Reading

• How is runtime as a service different from PaaS or IaaS?

  What is runtime as a service and how does it differ from platform as a service and infrastructure as a service?Continue Reading

• unikernel

  A unikernel is a library-based operating system that only includes functionalities required by the specific application that runs on it.Continue Reading

• Docker Swarm

  Docker Swarm is a clustering and scheduling tool for Docker containers. Orchestration frees containers from a single host for failover, load balancing and other benefits.Continue Reading