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Need Business Agility? Boost Your IT Capabilities!

Xebia

Manual user-acceptance tests in the final stages of development are a thing of the past Capability 2: Continuous Delivery and Release on Demand What is it? Launching product features is best done without obstacles in the delivery pipeline. Security controls are built into the system architecture.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

Eoin is a widely published author in both the research and industrial communities and coauthor of the books Software Systems Architecture (Addison-Wesley, 2011) and Continuous Architecture in Practice (Addison-Wesley, 2021). Dave Farley – Co-author of the Jolt-award winning book Continuous Delivery.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns.

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What is Continuous Verification?

OpenCredo

The delivery of software has been transformed in recent years by increased adoption of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery & Deployment (CD) processes, and the introduction of the DevOps approach to infrastructure management.

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Research Results: Key software architecture metrics

Apiumhub

Without people, we don’t have complete systems architecture. Dave Farley – Director @ Continuous Delivery. On the other hand, if you are on forecast business, data accuracy is important. So metrics that can be proxied to the business state. Last but not least, team metrics. Stability: how stable is our code.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

This pillar combined with automated testing of small batches of code and rollback of bad ones underlies the concepts of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). All members of an SRE team share responsibility for code deployment, system maintenance, automation, and change management. Metrics are crucial.

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The Scaling Dilemma

LeanEssays

One of the earliest agile approaches, Extreme Programming (XP), includes technical practices such as Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration that help make frequent releases practical. In Continuous Delivery we find actionable advice on how to tackle the integration problem with techniques that scale across large networks of teams.