DevOps
A Complete Guide to Enterprise DevOps
It’s easy to assume that DevOps only works for start-ups that build their culture from scratch, or for tech giants with cloud-native roots. But in...
CI/CD
What is a Deployment Pipeline?
In software development, a deployment pipeline is a system of automated processes designed to quickly and accurately move new code additions and updates from version...
CI/CD
What is a CI/CD Environment?
In the world of application development, being able to quickly respond and adapt to customer feedback and rapidly deploy new features and updates is key....
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CI/CD
What is Deployment Tracking?
IT organizations around the world are jumping on the DevOps bandwagon—and rightfully so. Combining workflows and opening up collaboration between development and operations teams (DevOps)...
CI/CD, DevOps, ITOps & Modern Ops
How to Build a DevOps Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide
In today’s hyper-competitive tech environment, launching a new app or SaaS product is the first step in a never ending journey of writing and deploying...
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Product
What is a Product Backlog?
In a scrum environment, teams must prioritize all individual work items that must be completed overtime in order to maintain and improve a product. It...
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CI/CD
What Is Software Deployment?
Typically, many define software deployment as the process for deploying, configuring, and updating software applications to help ensure maximum optimization, security, and compatibility within an...
5 min read
DevOps
What is Continuous Integration?
What Is Continuous Integration? Continuous integration is the developer practice of frequently (at worst, daily) integrating all code changes into a single, authoritative code branch,...
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DevOps, Incident Management & Response, Incident Management Best Practices
Bringing Deeper Monitoring to DevOps
The point of continuous integration is to automate builds and tests, and bring efficiency and quality to the pipeline. However, things do sometimes go wrong...
Ideas, Innovation
Incident Management and Continuous Integration, a Partnership for Success
As a developer, I’m a huge fan of continuous integration. For the uninitiated, continuous integration is a software engineering practice in which code changes are...
Operations Performance, Reliability
Increasing Quality and Reliability with Continuous Integration
Continuous integration (CI) is a software development practice where members frequently merge their work to decrease problems and conflicts. Each push is supported by an...
Reliability
Chef Testing at PagerDuty
At PagerDuty, all of our computing infrastructure is automated using Chef. We push out features and changes to our Chef codebase very frequently – often...