This year, we are thrilled to welcome partners to the main stage at Electric Cloud’s annual customer event, Summit 2011. Partners presenting this year at the Summit include IBM, HP, VMware, Cisco, Perforce, Eucalyptus, Symphony Technology Services, VaraLogix and RightScale. Stay tuned for presentations and highlights of the partner panels and sessions.

With Agile development methodologies becoming more and more established within the larger global enterprise R&D organizations across the world, (such as many if not all of those that we are working with on a day-to-day basis), these days I would say it’s more surprising learning about development teams NOT thinking about and using concepts such [Read More →]

In the last year I have increasingly run into a new character in application development shops – IT. IT is not taking over coding tasks, but they are certainly taking a much more active role regarding where application development tasks get run.   This is no surprise, as software development has an insatiable appetite for compute [Read More →]

I’ve heard it said that the best programmer is a lazy programmer. I’ve always taken that to mean that the best programmers avoid unnecessary work, by working smarter and not harder; and that they focus on building only those features that are really required now, not allowing speculative work to distract them. I wouldn’t presume [Read More →]

Today we announced integrations and compatibility with public cloud computing – specifically Amazon EC2. Cloud computing is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. It provides an easy to deploy, cost-effective, scalable, on-demand computing infrastructure –very timely, given shrinking or frozen IT budgets. I can’t count the number of customers who tell me that [Read More →]

Agile is great.  It seems that everyone is either adopting or talking about it (of course many of those will probably be perpetually adopting and talking).  However not everyone is succeeding with Agile.  One reason is that in order for Agile to work well you need highly experienced developers that are familiar with a broad [Read More →]

If you’ve ever worked on a significant software development project you’ve probably looked at some part of your process and said ‘we have to change this!’ More often than not the topic is the software production process: that problematic build-test-release cycle. We can all identify places where our process is slow or broken; so why [Read More →]