If you write software, chances are you’ve come across Continuous Integration, or CI. You might never have heard of it – but you wonder what all the ticks, badges and mysterious status icons are on ...

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One key devops best practice is instrumenting a continuous integration/continuousdelivery (CI/CD) pipeline that automates the process of building software, packaging ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

Looking back at how software was built and deployed even 15 years ago, it seems surprising that our applications actually worked. In those days, a software development lifecycle consisted of running ...

Let me flip the question, if we don’t, what happens? Consider for example a team of developers working together. A developer takes a copy of the current code base and changes it. As other developers ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Not so long ago, embedded software developers huddled side by side in chilly bring-up labs, integrating and testing their code on physical prototypes of the final systems. Beyond the inconvenience, ...

DevOps (“development” + “operations”) is a lean and agile process by which an enterprise’s Development team, IT Operations, and Quality Assurance departments collaborate to deliver software in a ...

In the early 1990s, my first job out of college was as a software engineer at a startup company. We were building a commercial product using a well-known open-source network security project. In those ...