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The Implication of Feedback Loops for Value Streams
Lead time and throughput are dynamic variables which impact flow in a value stream. Capacity, processing time and feedback loops (such as error conditions) have a significant impact on WIP and flow and need to be mapped and measured when building value stream maps.
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Business Systems Integration is about to Get a Whole Lot Easier
A new breed of integration software is arising that syncs business data into a simplified data hub and then syncs that data to the destination system. The benefit of this integration pattern is that it reduces the number of manual transformations required (often to zero) and makes it easier to write manual transformations when you have to.
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Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time Machine Learning
This article covers the benefits of streaming-first infrastructure for two scenarios of real-time ML: online prediction, where a model can receive a request and make predictions as soon as the request arrives, and continual learning, when machine learning models are capable of continually adapting to change in data distributions in production.
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Why DevOps Governance is Crucial to Enable Developer Velocity
The application environment should be managed centrally by the DevOps team. This allows them to better track modifications and changes which would then be swift and transparent to developer teams.
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How Development Teams Can Orchestrate Their Workflow with Pipelines as Code
Infrastructure as Code was just the beginning. Configuration as Code followed shortly after – again becoming extremely commonplace and enabling organisations to scale their engineering capacity by a number of times. And in order to continuously increase the value development teams generate, Pipelines as Code is the natural consequence.
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Analyzing Incident Data across Organizations: Courtney Nash on the VOID
The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash on their recent findings including how MTT* metrics may not be beneficial, the average time to incident resolution, and the importance of studying near-miss reports.
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Establishing a Scalable SRE Infrastructure Using Standardization and Short Feedback Loops
This article explores an SRE implementation where the operations team builds and runs the SRE infrastructure and the development teams build and run the services leveraging the SRE infrastructure. This SRE solution enables the software delivery organization to scale the number of services in operation without linearly scaling the number of people required to operate the services.
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What We Now Know: Digital Transformation Reaches a Point of Clarity
As much as it has been discussed and praised, digital transformation has suffered from a lack of clear definition. While the promise of becoming “customer-centric” and “disruptive” has been widely publicized, there has still been little in actual guidance as to how to achieve those and many of the other benefits commonly associated with digital transformation. This article offers concrete advice
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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2022, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.
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Using Patterns to Drive a Transformation towards Agility - Practical Insights from Large Companies
In the DACH region, a community of transformation leaders from about 30 companies started “DACH30” sessions where they share experiences and insights from their efforts to help their companies become more agile. This article highlights successful patterns to foster change, how to apply flow-oriented design to optimise your delivery capabilities, and the danger of the illusion of control.
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How to Best Use MTT* Metrics to Optimize Your Incident Response
Selecting the correct MTT* metric to improve your incident response is important. If the wrong metric is chosen, the improvements may get lost in the noise of a multivariable equation. This article reviews the various MTT* metrics available and discusses the best scenarios for selecting each one.
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Continuous Portfolio Management as a Contributor for Achieving Highly-Aligned, Loosely-Coupled Teams
There is a business need for fast software delivery in order to frequently test business hypotheses and drive development based on the resulting feedback. Organizations need to rapidly decide on what to build next, using a short feedback loop that greatly reduces the risk of running on untested assumptions for too long. This article explores a journey towards continuous portfolio management.