Test automation is the most efficient and effective means of test execution. Best practices coupled with automated testing creates an essential component for successful deployment.
Running a truly elastic Elasticsearch cluster on Docker Swarm is hard. Here's how to get past Elasticsearch and Docker's pitfalls with IP addresses, networking, and more.
There are tons of benefits to running a personal CI server, including that it can prioritize your own branches and builds and that you can build and deploy while failing tests.
The true technical spike is a last resort and happens as infrequently as possible. It is a refinement activity that allows the backlog to be understood for future planning.
Couchbase's cbq shell lets you write and run N1QL queries interactively. The shell also lets you securely interact with mixed nodes, among other handy tricks.
The best DevOps teams exhibit a high level of cross-skilling, and cherry-picking often occurs in teams in which the members are not cross-trained. Read on to learn more.
Knowing where your software is failing is essential to identifying the bottleneck. These five performance-impacting factors give you a good place to start.
Want to avoid a glassy-eyed stare you get when trying to explain your code to stakeholders? Check out how JBehave and behavior-driven development can help.
Software-defined everything seems to be everywhere these days. In this article, Olga Annenko discusses software-defined integration and what it should mean to you.
Learn how to set up a workstation to run Chef locally and use the existing Chef community cookbook to deploy the application on the local workstation environment.
Learn how to take advantage of the Docker image layering model to run unit or component tests in a Docker container without polluting the production software.
In this article, James Higginbotham explains what an SDK is, the differences between SDKs and helper libraries, and four different SDK patterns for API providers.