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This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.
Skelton Thatcher runs its ‘Getting Started with Continuous Delivery’ tutorial on September 15th, at the Apex Hotel Haymarket in Edinburgh.
We’re excited to be bringing together an afternoon tutorial based on the sold out “Practical and Sustainable Continuous Delivery” workshop from QCON 2015.
What we learned from PuppetLabs State of DevOps Report 2015
This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.
The 2015 State of DevOps report from PuppetLabs highlights some important points for
organisations setting out to create a high-performing DevOps-driven approach to building and
operating software systems: deploy faster and more frequently; apply DevOps to legacy and
brownfield systems as well as greenfield; recruit and retain more women for tech teams; and
deployment pain is a good yardstick for IT performance.Continue reading “How DevOps enables IT performance and organizational performance”
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.
Continuous Delivery of software systems can be a struggle if a central database is accessed by multiple applications directly, due to the (perceived) increased risk and the need for coordination across different teams. In this post, we demonstrate some techniques for discovering the applications connecting to a database, so you can start to untangle the applications and truly enable Continuous Delivery.
Continue reading “Database connection auditing for Continuous Delivery”
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.
We recently contributed to the ‘DevOps Perspectives 3’ report from CA: Microservices and data consistency. Here is an extract (you can download the full report from CA).
Continue reading “Implications for data strategy with microservices”
This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.
Some organisations are attempting to adopt DevOps without really understanding or
adopting agile practices for software product development, and so are missing out on significant opportunities for improved innovation, delivery, and operation of their software systems. This gap between DevOps and ‘product’ or ‘the business’ is best bridged with agile practices.Continue reading “Bridge the Business-DevOps gap with agile practices”
This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability.
Data and databases are often the most tricky part of automated software delivery. At Skelton Thatcher Consulting, we have helped many organisations with data-driven software systems to move towards Continuous Delivery, so we are very pleased to be part of the new partner program at Redgate Software.
At QCon London 2015, InfoQ interviewed Matthew Skelton, Co-founder of Skelton Thatcher Consulting, about Continuous Delivery, DevOps, microservices, tools, and teams. Here is an excerpt from the part of the interview on InfoQ covering microservices and data strategy:
Continue reading “Microservices, data strategy, and data fragmentation – interview on InfoQ”
We were asked to speak in the DevOps & Continuous Delivery track at QCon London this year, and on 5th March our co-founder Matthew Skelton gave a talk on ‘Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law‘. Here are the slides and some photos from the talk:
At Skelton Thatcher Consulting we care about DevOps. We were recently asked by CA to contribute to their DevOps Perspectives 2 report, which covers topics ranging from DevOps acceptance in the enterprise, through to how to develop your own in-house capabilities.
Continue reading “Featured in CA ‘DevOps Perspectives 2’ eBook”
DZone recently published their free report “The DZone 2015 Guide To Continuous Delivery”, a compendium of articles, reports and surveys gathered from hundreds of IT professionals and developers.Continue reading “DZone 2015 Guide to Continuous Delivery – How to choose tools”
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