In software development, the waterfall model is now considered to be frowned upon and antiquated. But waterfall has connections to the agile methodologies. Agility is a catchphrase that has affected almost all companies. At the decision-maker level, the topic of business agility, i.e. the agile way a company works, is becoming increasingly important. As a result, companies are trying to … [Read more...]
What are the Pros and Cons of DevOps
DevOps is not any specific technology. DevOps is a shift of methodologies, an approach to software development which has been discussed in the series of article Basics of DevOps. Traditionally, development team and the operations team were separate. The development team design the system, build, test, and then deliver it to the operations team. The operations team uses it for work and reports … [Read more...]
DevOps and Agile: What Are the Differences?
In our previous series of articles on DevOps, we stated that the aim of the collaboration should be to use the agile principles of software engineering across departments and thus to derive added value from the cooperation. While DevOps and Agile are two different things, they are often mistaken for one another. In reality, the two represent different approaches or practices in developing … [Read more...]
What Are the Benefits of DevOps to Business & CIOs
It is important to understand that DevOps is not hype. In our earlier articles, we discussed about Basics of DevOps, Analysis of Docker in DevOps, Analysis of Jenkins for DevOps and finally the article before this one - DevOps and Containerization Tools. The linked articles are enough descriptive to provide an idea about DevOps to a beginner. There are different advantages which can be gained … [Read more...]
DevOps and Containerization Tools
Modern professional developer's life no way restricted within the coding. We continuously talk about Docker, Kubernetes, serverless, unikernels, CI/CD software (like Jenkins, Travis), tools automating the infrastructure (such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack), monitoring application performance (such as ELK, Prometheus) in this website because blogs of our IT sponsors talk about the … [Read more...]
Analysis of Jenkins for DevOps : Part III
Jenkins, as a continuous integration tool, allows project teams to focus on their work by automating the build process, artifact management and deployment process. This is so well implemented that the Jenkins are no longer indispensable to DevOps today. In part II of analysis of Jenkins for DevOps, we discussed about integration into the project cycle. This is the part III of the series. In This … [Read more...]
Analysis of Jenkins for DevOps : Part II
In first part of this series, we have discussed the bare minimum theoretical basis. This is Part II of Analysis of Jenkins for DevOps. In this part, we have discussed the practical procedure of integration into the project cycle. The goal of this series of work is to evaluate how the use of Jenkins facilitates the distribution and set-up of software, thus improving collaboration between … [Read more...]
Staging Environment vs Production Environment
We often say "test in your dev server". DEV, TEST, STAGING, PROD Are Common 4 Environments in Software Development. What Are The Differences Between Staging Environment vs Production Environment? We need to know about all four environments in brief - DEV, TEST, STAGING, PROD. PROD or production environment is exactly what this site is - the live site, it is the fully functioning real site. Except … [Read more...]