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A Brief History of DevOps and the Link to Cloud Development Environments

Dzone - DevOps

The history of DevOps is definitely worth reading in a few good books about it. On that topic, “ The Phoenix Project ,” self-characterized as “a novel of IT and DevOps,” is often mentioned as a must-read. This book actually describes how to replicate the transformation explained in the Phoenix Project and provides case studies.

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5 Can’t-Miss Virtual Events for the DevOps Community

OverOps

Network and collaborate with your fellow software development and delivery peers at one of these virtual events. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing a lot about how the software engineering community operates – including how we exchange ideas and best practices. Agile + DevOps West – June 8-11. Cost: FREE. BONUS EVENT*.

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO

In retail, for example, software has been the fastest-growing job category ; about half of the world’s software engineers work outside the tech industry. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that the number of software developers will grow 25% from 2021-31. And this doesn’t matter only for tech companies.

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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. Source: Puppet Getting the basics right: what is DevOps?

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DevOps — A Booster or A Brake for Your Business?

Dzone - DevOps

Here's what to consider in your DevOps adoption. Whether you sell physical merchandise, provide some online services, or deliver values through a web-based application, your business definitely has to build some code, run it in production and manage some IT infrastructure at an ever-growing rate. What is DevOps And What Is It Based On?

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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

DevOps or SRE? DevOps and SRE seem like two sides of the same coin. Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You? So why did Google need to create its own definition? The Differences Between DevOps and SREs.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. However, it definitely is not. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised.