Nov
21,
2024
Continuous Delivery Pipelines for Agile Teams: Best Practices for CI/CD Automation
In today’s fast-paced software industry, Agile teams are constantly racing to meet delivery goals with tight timelines and frequent iterations. But what happens after the sprint? Moving code from a developer's branch to production swiftly and reliably is a challenge many teams face. This is where the Continuous Delivery (CD)...
Oct
17,
2024
Maximizing Cloud Efficiency with Terraform and AWS Automation
Cloud automation is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their infrastructure by reducing manual workloads, boosting scalability, and driving efficiency. This guide explores how automation, using tools like AWS, Terraform, and serverless computing, enhances workflows, helping organizations streamline operations and optimize resource usage. Whether you are adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC),...
Sep
16,
2024
Infrastructure as Code and AI – A Good Fit?
In today’s fast-evolving cloud landscape, managing infrastructure efficiently is more critical than ever. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is revolutionizing how we automate and scale cloud environments, with tools like Terraform and platforms such as Azure DevOps offering a powerful way to define and deploy cloud resources programmatically. However, recent advancements...
Embracing the Future: Navigating DevOps Challenges Amid the AI Revolution
As DevOps professionals gathered at the recent DevOpsCon 2024 in Berlin, Germany John Willis opened the conference with a keynote addressing the pivotal intersection of DevOps and artificial intelligence (AI). Read on to discover Willis' insights and learn why sustainable AI innovation can only be fulfilled with a DevOps mindset.
May
21,
2024
Demystifying Kubernetes: Pods, Deployments, and Services
In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, the need for efficient and scalable application deployment and management has become a paramount concern. As applications grew more complex, spanning multiple services and components, the traditional monolithic approach became increasingly cumbersome and inflexible. The rise of microservices brought about numerous benefits,...
Apr
23,
2024
Is Infrastructure As Code The Key To Moving DevOps Beyond ClickOps?
Even in the cloud-native world, we can’t avoid dealing with infrastructure. What's worse, approaches such as microservices mean that some amount of responsibility for infrastructure is shifting to the project team. In this article, we’ll show that we as developers shouldn’t be afraid of infrastructure. Quite the opposite, with infrastructure...
Feb
12,
2024
Debunking the Observability Myth in DevOps Monitoring
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, observability has emerged as a critical aspect of monitoring and maintaining system performance. Yet, misconceptions about its role persist, leading teams to overlook essential metrics and insights necessary for effective DevOps practices. This article explores the observability myth, clarifying what true observability entails and...
Oct
11,
2023
Kubernetes, Cloud, & Security
Kubernetes is a cloud-native technology and can be comfortably combined with other cloud services. Besides the classic self-managed variant, managed Kubernetes services like AWS EKS, Google GKE, or Azure AKS also shine due to their simple deployment and management and are enjoying increasing acceptance. However, this symbiosis also comes with...
Sep
27,
2023
Are You Getting All You Can Out of Kubernetes?
If you feel underwhelmed by your Kubernetes implementation, it might be because you're not finished yet. Organizational limitations can stifle your K8s deployment.
Aug
23,
2023
Let Microservices Communicate Cleanly With CQRS and Event Sourcing
Distributed systems are complicated. Any software architecture who has ever built a distributed system rarely denies this. But the question arises: how complicated are these systems? Many programmers and those responsible in companies have an exaggerated fear of them. After all, all computer programs are complicated, or they become so...