These seven books will help software developers better understand microservices concepts and techniques to stay on the cutting edge.

No doubt, DevOps is going places, and every company wants to embrace this, but 'how to' and 'from where to' are the two most important questions that many companies find it difficult to answer. DevOps, as we all know, is a cultural shift in the organization that encourages change in the way the firms used to work and deliver software/products to the market. You have understood the importance of DevOps, and that is a good start; you are all set and determined to apply this process in the organization. DevOps encourages zero-touch automation with little human interaction. Before going further on doing DevOps, it is important to analyze your stages of software delivery. It all starts with packaging, continuous integration, continuous delivery and finally continuous deployment. ** Now, your DevOps team starts finding tools to automate different activities and they encounter the tools out there are fragmented. While one does only CI, the other does only infrastructure provisioning and some help with testing and some with deployment. It is too difficult to evaluate which one is the best and fits well into your organization. Also, even if you find the best ones, to connect each one to talk to each other is a complicated process. Recently, the CEO of Shippable Avi Cavale figured out this pain the organizations are facing with DevOps and has come up with the term 'DevOps island of automation.' He explains, all the tools mentioned above do a particularly excellent job but when it comes to a unified workflow that calls for automation is missing, just they are not connected to each other. These tools/platforms cannot talk to each other themselves, and if you want to make it happen, your developers have to put in a lot of effort and time. It not only increases the cost but also severely affects the productivity. Hence, it is time for organizations to realize DevOps similar to assembly lines. In a recent article, Shippable shared its views on how it is going to solve the DevOps fragmentation problem by giving organizations the ability to easily interconnect many pipelines into a streamlined workflow for Continuous Delivery or Deployment and ultimately do DevOps the right way.

On February 6, 2017, Snap CI announced that its last day will be August 1. As you flock to find a replacement, it's helpful to see a comparison of different platforms.

Whether it's because of a lack of trust in the automation process or some major skills gaps, not all organizations are ready to adopt automation.

You can push your versioned package to Artifactory after CI with Shippable's recently added native integration with JFrog's Artifactory.

Docker is the reason why many software-powered organizations are moving from monolithic code bases to microservices architectures.

Using a CD pipeline is an important part of adopting agile and DevOps, which will improve your organization's overall productivity.

Learn about the advantages of using microservices, and enhance your knowledge about mono repo and multiple repositories.

Pavan Belagatti explains what Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are, along with some of the benefits of using Continuous Deployment.

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It's pretty easy to get up and running with creating an instance of Jenkins and creating a freestyle project.

Take a look at how and why Docker became such a popular containerization software.

Everything you need to know about consumer delivery semantics.

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Let's talk about the differences between APIs and microservices, and the benefits that microservice architecture provides.

In this post, I'm planning to cover the key architectural concepts of the Microservices Architecture (MSA) and how you can use those architectural principles in practice.

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