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Preamble Software is buggy. It’s a bold claim, I know. Sarcasm aside, the battle to keep your applications up and running is ongoing. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a way to eliminate an entire class of bugs from your application?  Enterprise configuration management...

Preamble These days, deploying our services to the cloud just makes sense. Deploying to the cloud means you’re letting someone else handle low-level infrastructure costs, which gives us incredible flexibility.  And with such flexibility comes a potentially...

It's the normal case with software buzzwords that people focus so much on what something is that they forget what it is not. DevOps is no exception. To truly embrace DevOps and cherish what it is, it's important to comprehend what it isn't. A plethora...

Development and testing teams need current, reliable data. But over time, non-production databases can fall out of sync with production. A database refresh brings them up to date with a newer copy of production data. But it’s not as simple as copying a database. Teams...

Teams need realistic data for development and testing, but production data can create security and compliance risks in non-production environments. Masking replaces sensitive information with safer, usable alternatives. Perforce Delphix Continuous Compliance supports...

Preamble A key part of Enterprise IT Intelligence is understanding your cloud resources. And where better to start than using the “elegant” concept of Tagging? A concept used across the various cloud and infrastructure management platforms. The following is an article...

Spinning up an instance in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud takes minutes. Running the end-to-end platform that instance belongs to is another matter. Application tiers, data tiers, integrations and the relationships between them don't get simpler just because they now run...

Containers are nothing new. Depending on how you look at it, you can make a case for them being around at least since 1982. But since the introduction of Docker in 2013, they’ve enjoyed a surge of popularity. Why?  In just a few years, containers have had a big...

Securing enterprise data is hard. Securing it at enterprise scale is harder still. Most organizations don't fall short on data masking because they lack tools. They fall short because the way they use those tools can't keep up with the number of systems that need...

New technologies and new ways of doing things are continually impacting the way our IT Environments evolve and how we do things. One area of growing popularity is Microservices.   Why Use Microservices? Why should you start using microservices? Why all the...

Preamble You’ve probably seen some recent articles asserting that the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil—it’s data. New internet titans like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft look unstoppable. In fact, these internet titans are listed as the...

In the dynamic world of software development, where speed, precision, and quality are non-negotiable, the effective management of IT and test environments is the linchpin that determines the success of projects. Environments serve as the critical stages...

Ever since the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, software development has never been the same. In a pre-agile world, software was released in monolithic packages every year or every two years.  The agile approach to development prioritized faster, more...

Before starting this topic on the importance of Release Gates, let's first understand – what is a Release Gate? A Release Gate can be defined as a milestone or health indicator of a release at that very point in time. Milestones are like stones placed beside a road to...

Enterprise architecture rarely fails because of bad technology. It fails because of too many good decisions made in isolation. Modern enterprises operate across cloud platforms, SaaS tools, legacy systems, APIs, and data environments that evolve independently. This...

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the success of a project hinges not just on the effective execution but also on thorough post-completion analysis. This is where Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) come into play. They are a critical component of project...

Whether your organization is starting an agile transformation now or is well on its way, there are always pitfalls. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a big leap for most organizations. After all, even if some of your development teams were already using agile...