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AoAD2 Practice: Continuous Integration

James Shore

Continuous Integration. Continuous integration is a better approach. Teams using continuous integration keep everyone’s code working together and ready to release. The ultimate goal of continuous integration is to make releasing a business decision, not a technical decision. Refactoring.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

The book Accelerate details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations’ profitability and market share. It is quite clear that DevOps practices bring lots of benefits to organizations adopting them. Methodology.

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Scaling DevOps: key strategies and best practices

Agile Engine

Introduction Over the past decade, DevOps has had a transformative impact on how companies manage their software engineering efforts. Yet, eight out of 10 companies practicing DevOps are barely in the middle of this transformation. It seems that scaling DevOps is a challenge in itself, so let’s look at how companies can solve it.

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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

The movement came to be known as DevOps. As with so many things in the Agile ecosystem, the term “DevOps” has been distorted by well-meaning people making incorrect assumptions. Continuous Deployment” on p.XX DevOps Sources. That said, continuous deployment is a natural expansion of continuous integration.

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DevOps Practices: How to Make Valuable Changes to Your Teams

DevOps.com

DevOps has become a buzzword within the software development industry, promising rapid turnaround times for requested changes. As for developers, DevOps promises to increase productivity while reducing the risk of production failures. The book “The Unicorn Project” by Gene Kim describes this process for developers as The Five Ideals.

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Foote Partners: bonus disparities reveal tech skills most in demand in Q3

CIO

These included metadata design and development, quantitative analysis, regression analysis, continuous integration, data analytics, data strategy, identity and access management, machine learning, natural language processing, and more.

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Why You Should Reduce Wait Time and Speed Up Your Deployment Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

Agile methodologies and DevOps culture have enabled organizations to deliver as fast as multiple times per day. But to achieve this level of speed, teams need to rely on automation when taking a piece of software from development to production. The steps to do this are known as the “delivery pipeline.”. What, exactly, is a pipeline?

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