Very recently Electric Cloud celebrated its 10th birthday as a company and I thought it’d be interesting to share some notes that I found in a office-cupboard summarizing 18 prospect interviews that were being conducted by our 2 founders John Ousterhout and John Graham-Cumming prior to actually founding the company, right in the aftermaths of [Read More →]
ElectricCommander provides integrations to over 100 products. This provides immense value to many of our customers and makes the process of controlling other systems from within ElectricCommander easy. But what if you need another system to send information to ElectricCommander? Imagine a situation that we refer to as Jenkins sprawl. Hudson/Jenkins sprawl is when there [Read More →]
This is part five of the five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation. Driven by a confluence of business and technological trends, the move to DevOps will continue to gain traction. To keep pace with this momentum, it’s incumbent upon the development and operations [Read More →]
This is part four of a five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation. For all of the reasons we’ve been describing so far, it’s a good idea to start treating Dev and Ops as equally important participants in a single process. This means embracing [Read More →]
This is part three of a five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation. Since the realities (mentioned in the two previous blog entries) have been in place for years, why is there such newfound momentum towards integrated DevOps procedures? The answer can be found [Read More →]
I attended an interesting DevOps meet-up event in Silicon valley two weeks ago – http://www.meetup.com/SVDevOps/events/53690892/ And a very exciting debate broke out at this event: Who drives DevOps – Dev or Ops? (sidebar note – only in Silicon Valley can you get 100+ passionate Ops/Dev people to show up to a DevOps meet-up) The Ops [Read More →]
This is part two of a five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation. For decades, Development and Operations organizations have been divided. This gulf exists for one key reason: Development’s mission and focus is creating value by producing change in response to customer and [Read More →]
This is part one of a five part series where we will look at DevOps and the solutions that can be gained by its implementation. Introduction DevOps has become an increasingly popular technique for shepherding software from the design phase through development and testing, and then all the way into production. The business value of DevOps [Read More →]
How do you quickly transition from traditional software delivery to Agile? How do you expose the issues in the system that prevents an organization from delivering software fast–what parts of the system don’t work well, where would tools help, what collaboration needs to be improved, what kind of training needs to be promoted, etc. And what if [Read More →]
Andrew Binstock from Dr. Dobbs wrote a great article recently on the growing importance of Agile methodologies like continuous integration(CI), continuous delivery(CD) and how the careful choosing tools must support the changing needs of today and tomorrow. You can read more about his article here - http://drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/232601132 We couldn’t have said it any better. “Continuous delivery [Read More →]
