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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership

CircleCI

When I do mess with it, I get paged and bad things happen,” said a team leader. A whole team of folks works with me all the time. And how did legacy become a bad word? So why do we not have teams dedicated to working with us?”. Well, humans like to re-organize their engineering teams. Oh,” said the code.

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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer: How this one principle changed my career

CircleCI

Most software development and operations (SRE or System Administration) teams developed, tested, and released applications and managed infrastructures manually and, more importantly, in isolation. My software development experience went a little something like this: Write code in isolation. Manually compile.

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

Altexsoft

For over a decade, two similar concepts — DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) — have been coexisting in the world of software development. In essence, two methodologies do the same thing: They try to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. At first glimpse, they look like competing approaches.

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DevOps for enterprises

CircleCI

Development operations (DevOps) combines best practices , cultural transformation, and tools to improve your organization’s software development and delivery velocity. Resistance to change is another common challenge when moving to DevOps, including potential pushback from all levels of development and operations teams.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring a Freelance Web Developer

Mobilunity

Web development is a process of designing, creating, and maintaining web apps or pages. A freelance web developer completes various tasks from coding particular front-end or back-end elements to database management. How Popular is Web Development? Benefits of Professional Web Development. Currently, there are more than 1.14

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Almost one-third (29%) of respondents say their employers are migrating or implementing a majority of their systems (over 50%) using microservices. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Teams that own the lifecycle succeed at a rate 18% higher than those that don’t.

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IT Staffing Models

Mobilunity

A good IT recruitment agency can provide you with highly skilled experts in software development and a strong understanding of the software life cycle, from software development, DevOps assistance, project management, software architecture planning, and cloud infrastructure setup, to user support, QA, system administration, and many more.