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Dealing with Cognitive Load Using Observability
We can make good decisions with speed when we limit the cognitive load on any one person or team. Observability can help to increase delivery speed, by providing information to developers that helps them to make decisions quickly.
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GitLab 15 Improves Editing, Metrics, Container Scanning, Security and More
With the recent release of GitLab version 15.2, open-core company GitLab Inc. has announced a series of improvements, including an enhanced Wiki editor, adding SAML integration for enterprises, improving dashboards, and adding internal notes.
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Trust-Driven Development: Accelerate Delivery and Increase Creativity
By building trust you can break silos, foster collaboration, increase focus, and enable people to come up with creative solutions for products and for improving their processes. The DevOps movement was created to break the silos in the organisations; trust can be built by organising pair programming across various functions and various teams.
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Applying Observability to Increase Delivery Speed and Flow in Teams
When we design team and departmental processes, we want to know what’s happening in the software teams. Asking team members to provide information or fill in fields in tools adds a burden and distorts reality. Setting up observability in the software can provide alternative insights in a less intrusive way. Observability in the software can be an asset to organizing teams.
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How Removing Staging Environments Can Improve Your Deployments
Squeaky - a company which helps businesses to understand how visitors are using their website or web app without invading their privacy - have outlined why they don’t use a staging environment. They believe that this helps them to ship faster, and lower the number of issues found in production.
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CircleCI Report Finds Successful Software Teams are Larger and Test Extensively
CircleCI - a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform - has released the findings from their 2022 State of Software Delivery Report. The report reveals that the most successful software delivery teams are larger, use extensive testing, and prioritise being ready to deploy.
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Google's Managed Continuous Delivery Service for Kubernetes Moves to GA
Google has announced the GA release of Google Cloud Deploy, their managed continuous delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine. The service provides declarative builds that persist with a given release, support for connecting external workflows, and detailed security and auditing controls
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ClusterFuzzLite Brings ClusterFuzz to GitHub Actions and Other CI/CD Pipelines
ClusterFuzzLite, as implied by its name, is a light version of Google ClusterFuzz, a tool aimed to find security and stability issues in software systems through fuzz testing. ClusterFuzzLite is meant to be integrated in a CI pipeline with a few lines of code, says Google.
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GitHub Introduces Projects, Updates Codespaces, Copilot, Code Scanning, and More
At its Universe 2021 conference, GitHub promoted its new Issues experience to public beta, providing projects and dynamic tables, expanded Copilot support for Jetbrains and Java, added Ruby support for code scanning, and announced many more features.
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Travis CI Vulnerability Potentially Leaked Customer Secrets
Popular continuous integration and delivery service Travis CI disclosed a vulnerability that potentially leaked secure environment variables, including signing keys, access credentials, and API tokens. The flaw was quickly fixed on September 10, but the developer community found Travis CI handling of this issue insufficient.
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MLOps: Continuous Delivery of Machine Learning Systems
Developing, deploying, and keeping machine learning models productive is a complex and iterative process with many challenges. MLOps means combining the development of ML models and especially ML systems with the operation of those systems. To make MLOps work, we need to balance iterative and exploratory components from data science with more linear software engineering components.
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How External IT Providers Can Adopt DevOps Practices
IT suppliers can follow the “you build it, you run it” mantra by working in small batches, using an experimental approach to product development, and validating small product increments in production. The supplier has to find out what his client’s goal is, and it has to become the supplier’s goal as well to work in a collaborative way.
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Experiences from Measuring the DevOps Four Key Metrics: Identifying Areas for Improvement
Measuring the four key metrics of IT helped a company to assess the performance of their software delivery process. Continuous observation of these metrics supports decisions on where to invest and guides performance improvements.
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InfoQ Live August 17th: Deep-Dive in Cloud Native, CI/CD, Service Mesh, and More
Practically every development team would benefit from building and running applications that use the advantages of the cloud computing delivery model. This August 17th at InfoQ Live, software leaders dive into topics such as service mesh, CI/CD, cloud native best practices and pitfalls, and more. Join them and book your spot now for just $19.95.
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Distributed DevOps Teams: Enabling Non-Stop Delivery
Keeping in touch and being cohesive as a distributed team is a challenge many face. Assigning stories from a shared backlog helped a distributed team in doing non-stop delivery, as did giving all members of the team the authority to promote to production and back-out code at need. You need to give attention to the architecture to prevent creating similar or duplicate micro-services.