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Making CI/CD Work for DevOps Teams
Many DevOps teams are advancing to CI/CD some more gracefully than others. Recognizing common pitfalls and following best practices helps.
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Agile, DevOps and CI/CD have all been driven by the competitive need to deliver value faster to customers. Each advancement requires some changes to processes, tools, technology and culture, although not all teams approach the shift holistically. Some focus on tools hoping to drive process changes when process changes and goals should drive tool selection. More fundamentally, teams need to adopt an increasingly inclusive mindset that overcomes traditional organizational barriers and tech-related silos so the DevOps team can achieve an automated end-to-end CI/CD pipeline.
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10 Tech News Stories You May Have Missed This Year
Tech news never sleeps, but you may have missed (or forgotten about!) a major story or two this year because working at home can be really distracting.
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Hey you. Yeah, you. Guess what happened in 2020? Yeah, I know. The COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and a few extra pounds , but news never sleeps.
While you were video conferencing half dressed, taking a nap, streaming Netflix or learning how to work from home amid cacophony and constant distractions, you may have missed one or more tech stories that will probably impact us all in 2021 and beyond. Or maybe with the constant cycle of screaming headlines, you forgot about a major development.
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Neither DevOps nor PaaS are new. However, aligning them is efficient and cost-effective.
Many organizations are practicing some form of DevOps. Increasingly, they ve been adopting platform as a service to capitalize on a market or to realize greater cost and process efficiencies. Some even have multi-PaaS strategies.
For example, entrepreneurs have built applications on platforms such as Salesforce.com to get instant access to an installed base of users. Conversely, the platform provider benefits from the added value third parties provide.
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Meanwhile, organizations are under competitive pressure to deliver value to customers faster. And the big cloud vendors including Oracle are encouraging customers to build cloud native applications using their PaaS service offerings. Many companies are building their new applications in the cloud and some are also transitioning their legacy applications.