DevOps is overall a healthy practice for most development teams, but it doesn’t come for free. Enterprises are eager to adopt the practice but their tools often lag behind DevOps practices. This is a bit like walking out into the winter cold with bare hands and being overwhelmed by Mother Nature’s bitter force. Like hands […]
Creating and executing an effective cutover plan is essential for a smooth transition from the current system to the new one. There are several steps to take when formulating a successful cutover plan: It is important to document all steps of the process, as well as successes or failures that occur during the cutover. This […]
In alignment with Enov8’s own philosophy of “moving IT Resilience left” (and avoiding that crisis moment), a group of leading technology companies have announced they will work together on the establishment of a new “Zero Outage” industry standard. A standard to safeguard quality and reliability of IT infrastructure. The common objective of the consortium is […]
An interesting article I spotted on LinkedIn this week: Interesting for a few reasons, one – the post was quickly removed after receiving a battering in the comments section and across general social media and secondly because these “agile at scale” comments are a pet “bug-bear” of mine. Saying that however, I probably must also […]
Martin Fowler AntiPattern “An antipattern is a solution that initially looks like an attractive road lined with flowers… but further on leads you into a maze filled with monsters.” Since the dawn of computers, we’ve always had to test software. Over the course of several decades, the discipline of software testing has seen many best practices […]