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In the realm of software development, ensuring the reliability and functionality of applications is of paramount importance. Central to this process is software testing, which helps identify bugs, glitches, and other issues that could mar the user experience. A...

Deploying an instance in AWS, Azure or Google is typically a straightforward process. However, architecting, managing and optimizing your end-to-end platforms that consist of application tiers, data tiers, integration points and inherent relationships is less so. The...

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a methodology for building and maintaining large-scale, highly available software systems. It involves applying software engineering practices to operations in order to increase reliability, reduce downtime, and improve the...

I had an “interesting” chat with a potential client this week. The conversation started normally with myself and my colleague going through the benefits of our Test Environment & Release Management solution, and then continuing to a “show and tell”.  However,...

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...

As IT & Test environments become increasingly complex and dynamic, IT professionals need tools that can help them manage the complexity and ensure consistency across systems. Ansible is designed to address these challenges. In this post, we'll provide an...

Data security, The problem is scale & a lack of bees One of the biggest challenges of securing one’s enterprise data is the sheer volume. Think about it. Hundred (perhaps Thousands) of Applications, Thousands (perhaps Tens of Thousands) of Instances across...

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...

Organizations evaluating database virtualization tools are usually trying to solve a very practical problem: how to give teams fast, safe access to realistic data without copying production databases over and over again. Whether the driver is test automation,...

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...

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...

Even 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...

This year’s world quality report (2018) has once again identified Test Environment Management as a major challenge for Agile Development & Testing.   WQR Recap This year’s world quality report (2018) has once again identified Test Environment Management...