When evaluating DevOps solutions, you look for certain functions and features knowing they will result in a variety of benefits. These benefits may include fewer mundane and repetitive tasks, less frequent outages, lower labor costs, and increased competitiveness from a faster time to market. However, there are numerous other benefits that you’ll discover and lessons …
FlexDeploy is an enterprise DevOps platform with fully integrated support for Salesforce apps, metadata customizations, integrations and more. This is the first article in a blog series that will help you understand what makes FlexDeploy a perfect choice to implement DevOps and release automation with Salesforce. Stay tuned for other articles coming soon: FlexDeploy Loves …
Ready to automate your pesky manual tasks? Looking to release more frequently and decrease your time to market? Interested in saving money in your IT department? If you answered yes to any (or all) of these, a Continuous Delivery and Release Automation (CDRA) platform might be the next step for you! The next challenge is …
The following is a summary of the information covered in the webinar: Gain a Competitive Advantage with DevOps, which can be accessed here. What is DevOps? DevOps is a set of practices that marries software development, operations, and quality assurance (QA) to achieve a shorter software delivery life cycle (SDLC) and higher quality releases with …
Forrester, a leading research and advisory firm, recently recognized Flexagon as a Leader in their Wave for Continuous Delivery and Release Automation (CDRA). Forrester said “Flexagon continues to pioneer continuous delivery for enterprise software platforms.” If you are a leader in technology or technology driven business solutions, we encourage you to read the CDRA Wave in …
The software delivery lifecycle consists of the build, deploy, test and release processes. Automating each step supports the eventual goal of successful, mature, functioning DevOps: with continuous integration of software, and continuous delivery of releases. Continuous delivery means that all changes to code are built, tested, and pushed to the next stage or environment, whether …
There are copious resources and information on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), including definitions, best practices, and how-to guides. Additionally, there are a plethora of CI/CD tools marketed every day. But why do we really need CI and CD? Let’s start with some basic information… What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery? There …
DevOps is a transformational way of thinking about software development, converting a slow, cumbersome, long-term process to an agile, nimble, responsive one. As DevOps is adopted and accepted worldwide, language and terms specific to DevOps are being used more as well. However, for people new to DevOps – and even those that are familiar with …
DevOps has generated an entirely new language of terms used to describe specific ideas, processes and situations. These terms can be confusing, particularly when they are as similar as ‘continuous integration’ and ‘continuous delivery.’ So, what’s the difference between the two, and how do you leverage each to achieve your overall business goals? What is …
What a week! Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco is the largest Oracle conference in the world! It was a whirlwind of events, excitement, and education. As always, there were many new insights and takeaways on the current state of technology. Here are our top takeaways from the week: Digital Assistants Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Alexa. …