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Q&A and Book Review on Liftoff, Second Edition

The book Liftoff, Second Edition by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies, provides practices and insights for chartering teams by understanding their needs, building trust, and defining how they will interact in the team and align with other parts of the organization. It's a book for Agile coaches, Scrum masters or agile product and project managers to help teams to understand the why behind the work.

Ben Linders
on Sep 10, 2016
Cloud

Introduction to SQL Server Containers

Containers are just around the corner for the Windows community, and this article takes a closer look at using SQL Server containers. The author discusses the value, use cases, and means for taking advantage of SQL Server containers today.

Paul Stanton
on Sep 08, 2016
DevOps

Virtual Panel on Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT has been supported by many and criticized by many. InfoQ reached out to enterprise experts to dig deeper into the pros and cons of this strategy and how/when/if is it applicable.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 31, 2016
.NET

Getting Started with ASP.Net Performance Monitoring and Optimization

“This web page is slow” is a common and regular complaint about web sites, especially since web applications started replacing desktop applications. While the web brings some desirable characteristics such as global delivery, it also brings its share of challenges at the performance level.

Pierre-Luc Maheu
on Aug 29, 2016
DevOps

Respect Your Organisational Monoliths

There is a lot of information about DevOps, the technology, the culture, the behaviour. There is not a lot of information about tackling DevOps in large enterprises and there is certainly very little about tackling DevOps in large financial organisations. This article presents lessons learnt rolling out DevOps in a large insurance organisation.

Margo Cronin
on Aug 18, 2016
DevOps

Book Review and Excerpt: Infrastructure as Code

In this article we review the book Infrastructure as Code - Managing Servers in the Cloud written by Kief Morris, who is leading Continuous Delivery and DevOps at ThoughtWorks Europe. In over 300 pages, Morris lays down the foundation for Infrastructure as Code and outlines the main patterns and practices recommended for building it.

Abel Avram
on Jul 25, 2016
DevOps

How to Deal with COTS Products in a DevOps World

Mirco Hering explains why we shouldn't leave COTS products (and the people working on them) left behind in a DevOps world. With creative solutions we can apply good practices from custom software. This leads to a significant effort reduction in the long term.

Mirco Hering
on Jul 24, 2016
Cloud

Containers Live Migration: Behind the Scenes

This article addresses a topic that is not fully covered in current IT world: live migration of containers, how it works behind the scenes, and what problems it solves. The demand for this technology is growing as it unlocks new possibilities by giving more freedom in application lifecycle management.

Ruslan Synytsky
on Jul 22, 2016
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2016

The fifth annual QCon New York was the biggest yet, bringing together over 800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors. In total, over 140 practitioner-speakers presented 79 full-length technical sessions and 16 in-depth tutorials, providing deep insights into real-world architectures and state of the art software development practices from a practitioner’s perspective.

Abel Avram
on Jul 12, 2016
Development

Writing Maintainable Configuration Code

The article discusses a catalog of configuration smells containing 13 implementation configuration smells and 11 design configuration smells. It provides a few examples of configuration smells along with corresponding refactorings, explains their impact on the quality of the project, and lists a few tools that could be used to reveal such smells.

Diomidis Spinellis Marios Fragkoulis Tushar Sharma
on Jul 08, 2016
DevOps

The Things I Learnt about DevOps When My Car Was Engulfed by Flames

Framed in the story of the author's car catching fire, this article describes five ways of thinking to help understand DevOps culture, and behaviours necessary to create an effective DevOps team. A central theme is that DevOps challenges us to think differently about our approach to collaboration and learning, in ways often contrary to our instincts and how we’ve been encouraged to behave before.

John Clapham
on Jul 07, 2016
Cloud

Article Series: Cloud and "Lock-in"

With the fast-pace of cloud changes (new services, providers entering and exiting), cloud lock-in remains a popular refrain. But what does it mean, and how can you ensure you're maximizing your cloud investment while keeping portability in mind?

Richard Seroter
on Jul 01, 2016

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