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Automate Deployment & Management of Docker Cloud/Virtual Java Microservices with DCHQ
This article demonstrates a solution for automating the build, deployment and management of a Docker Java microservices application on any cloud or virtualization platform. We extend an existing money transfer application consisting of event sourcing, CQRS and Docker, to run and manage this app on 13 different clouds and virtualization platforms.
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What Developers Want From Their Technology (But Mostly Cloud)
In this article, the author looks at why developers adopt software. Instead of bombarding people with new features, successful software providers recognize that choice + speed + simplicity = adoption. The author proposes that software/cloud providers that offer simple interfaces in rapidly delivered software win out against more thoughtfully-integrated, feature-rich alternatives.
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How the Bing Development Team Used Agile to Sprint Ahead
A look at how Microsoft's Bing development team has implemented agile and continuous delivery methods to vastly improve their development workflow. InfoQ interviews Craig Miller, Technical Adviser at Bing for an-depth look at how they did it and what was gained.
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Microservices in the Real World
An interview with Alexander Heusingfeld and Tammo van Lessen about getting operations involved in architecture and dealing with "us vs. them" behavior when applying DevOps, how to use the Self-Contained Systems approach to modernize software systems, similarities and differences between Self-Contained Systems and microservices, improving deployment pipelines and using measurements in deployment.
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Immutable Layers, Not (Just) Infrastructure
How splitting applications and infrastructure into separate immutable layers speeds up deployment times and increases resource density, while keeping the benefits of immutable infrastructure.
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Towards an Agile Software Architecture
Boyan Mihaylov covers his experience when working with both traditional waterfall software architectures and agile ones. He depicts the similarities and differences between these with a focus on three areas: the specifics of the software architect role, the timespan of the software architecture, and the output of the software architecture.
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“DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective” Book Review and Interview
Len Bass on the motivation for "DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective", what does looking at DevOps from an architectural perspective mean, DevOps education, microservices and more.
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Lessons Learned About Cloud Migration
At the recent Dynatrace Perform conference, a panel of technology companies discussed the topic of cloud migration and uncovered some key findings.
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Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption
InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.
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DevOps at Seamless: The Why, How, and What
The key thing about DevOps is understanding under which circumstances it should be introduced to your organization. Organizations that adopt DevOps go through a change that affects both processes and culture. This article focuses on why DevOps is needed, what concepts and values should support it, as well as how we implemented it at Seamless, what results we obtained and the challenges we faced.
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Q&A with Matthias Marschall on Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Update
InfoQ asked Matthias Marshall what's new in the 2nd edition of his book and his view on the evolution of the configuration management tool space.
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Real-time Data Processing in AWS Cloud
In this article, author Oleksii Tymchenko discusses a bio-informatic software as a service (SaaS) product called Chorus, which was built as a public data warehousing and analytical platform for mass spectrometry data. Other features of the product include real-time visualization of raw mass-spec data.