This last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Capital Markets Cloud Symposium in Manhattan, New York. In attendance there were hundreds of CIO’s, CTO’s and executives from some of the world’s largest financial services firms like JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Bank of America and Credit Suisse. The presentations and [Read More →]
This week we are hosting the Agile In Action seminar series in Seattle, Santa Clara and San Diego together with Perforce, Klocwork and VersionOne. As the keynote speaker, we’ve invited the 2009 Gordon Pask Award recipient David Hussman – a visionary yet pragmatic software anthropologist who introduces himself as ‘the dude’, talks about dude’s law [Read More →]
Today, I heard about a discussion we’re currently having with a larger R&D organization who’s driven a significant internal initiative on deploying open source solutions to manage their continuous integration and software development backend process. To support their 1500+ developers worldwide, this has resulted in a sprawl of hundreds of independent running instances spread across [Read More →]
Late last week our Engineering team cranked out two new public major releases – ElectricCommander 3.9 and ElectricAccelerator 5.4. Some very interesting and exciting updates in both products that our customers and users have asked for and that will allow us to expand our footprint even further – I encourage you to click on the [Read More →]
Why do some men use a razor every morning?
The last mile of the software development process, deployment, is especially prone to being slow, brittle, and manual. Without automation, it is nearly impossible to take advantage of virtualized and cloud compute infrastructure. CM Crossroads asked me to write a piece on what we are seeing in our customer base and what to look for [Read More →]
Ran across another article about DevOps. Phil Odence talks about how Development and Operations teams are cozying up and how open source plays in the DevOps world. What I found more interesting was the discussion in comments about who really coined the term DevOps. It reminded me of a similar discussion on who coined the [Read More →]
Two Three recent blogs/articles about DevOps and private/hybrid clouds:
GNU make 3.82 hit the streets last week, the first new release of the workhouse build tool in over four years. Why so long between releases? To me the answer is obvious: the tool Just Works ™, so there’s no need to churn out new releases chasing the latest development fad. But as this release [Read More →]
[A version of this article appeared on eWeek http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/How-to-Make-Your-Automated-Software-Tests-Truly-Automatic/] A recent poll of software development professionals showed that the majority would rather be doing their taxes than dealing with their company’s test infrastructure. The reason: automated software tests require tremendous amounts of manual time and energy to configure, run, and monitor. This can be a [Read More →]
