The Best of the Week (May 23): DevOps Zone

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the DevOps Zone  (May 23 to May 29). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. DevOps Equals Principles Plus Practices

Successful movements have a clear manifesto outlining goals and principles. Many DevOps adopters may not be aware of the DevOps Manifesto (created by Jez Humble @jezhumble) nor how successful DevOps requires keeping a clear focus on principles, practices, and value (instead of infrastructure tooling.

2. Steps to Enable OpenID Authentication in Spring-Security Application

In this article, you will find the steps to enable OpenID authentication in Spring-Security applications. Sections covered include the changes in spring-Security.xml, a sample implementation of beans defined in the config file, JSP changes, and how to test the application.

3. Evil: Getters and Setters Where They're Not Required

We programmers keep our instance variables private and automatically add public setters and getters to them. This is the same as making the instance variables public. Why are we exposing our variables in this way?

4. Developer Delayed Development

Developers, when they are staffed on a project, quickly become the largest and therefore most expensive group. At that moment, everything has to be optimized for their greatest throughput. If we could delay that moment, then we could delay the coupled increasing of costs.

5. DevOps PaaS delivers at the speed of business demand

Unfortunately, most IT teams do not have an environment fostering the rapid iteration, streamlined workflow, and effective collaboration required to operate at the speed of now and capture business opportunity.