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Continuous Testing: “you broke it, you own it”
In my last post on the “you build it, you run it” principles behind DevOps I explained how “packing your own parachute” can give more of an incentive for developers to care about what happens when their handiwork reach production if they have to deal with the fallout. But this is not enough to guarantee sufficient quality in […]
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What is DevOps? “You build it, you run it”
DevOps, as an industry term, is relatively fresh, having only entered onto most developers’ radars in the last few years. But exactly what it means is sometimes rather vague or twisted to fit the corporate mould of one product or another. As the below Google Trends shows, DevOps has seen a steady increase in popularity in recent years, […]
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2015 Year of the Unicorns – Bubble or Beginnings?
One of the dominant themes of 2015 so far has been the rise of start-up unicorns; those with a valuation over USD $1 billion, all 103 of them as of June 2015. (Update: now 141 unicorns, four short months later!) But is this a temporary bubble due to over-hyped capital markets or is it the beginning of a fundamental […]