Living in an Interrupt Driven Culture
I don’t know how the term “shaving the yak” caught on, but I’m willing to embrace it for all of its weirdness and meaning. We all spend ..
How Bulkhead and Sidecar Patterns Support Incident Response
How you build your application absolutely impacts the lives of those in charge of supporting it. This isn’t a correlation we generally ..
‘Tis the Season for Technical Debt
Holidays always strike me with an equal amount of panic, leisure and fun. We casually talk about the ways that holidays impact our work ..
IT Alerting From One-to-Many to One-to-Right
Remember the WUPHF app from “The Office” Season 7 Ep 9? With the advent of notifications, for a long time, it seemed like the best path ..
What’s Next in Test Automation
There is a tendency for techies to always be looking to the next new shiny object. I’m no different. But this time when looking into the future ..
How to Shift Testing “Left” and “Right” at the Same Time
In a certain sense, there is a paradox inherent in software testing within a DevOps organization. On the one hand, DevOps emphasizes the importance ..
Get Your C-Suite to Care About Quality
The technical details of building automation and implementing better application quality practices are not always the most difficult aspects ..
Why Workload Security Is Not Just for IT Anymore
Once upon a time, workload security (which means making sure an application and its environment are configured and deployed securely) was something ..
How IT Engineers Can Learn DataOps
To seasoned IT engineers, DataOps may not sound very difficult. After all, if you work in IT, you know all about managing databases, provisioning ..
Yes, Containers Can Improve Software Testing Too
Docker containers have become massively popular in recent years, due in large part to their promise to make it possible to “build ..