Posted by Vincent Partington mid-afternoon: October 12th, 2010
Since make was introduced in 1977 to automatically build software, more areas of the software construction and release process have been automated. In fact, anybody building serious software without automating their builds, their tests and without using continuous integration is not considered to be a professional. A hot topic within the application lifecycle management (ALM) space is deployment automation. This is driven by middleware environments getting bigger and more complex, by the increasing number of application releases demanded by modern businesses, and by the fact that application deployment needs to happen reliably to not disrupt online services and businesses. Add to that the fact that cloud infrastructure is becoming more mainstream by the day, you can bet there is a lot happening in this space.
At XebiaLabs we have developed Deployit and that has given us a lot of insight into the deployment automation domain. This is the first blog in a series that will explore that domain by comparing deployment automation with a number of related topics.
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Posted by Jan Vermeir in the early evening: October 7th, 2010
Most IT careers start with a programming job: you write code in one of the popular programming languages as part of a team. As your experience grows you start to get bored with software: you’ve been working with more or less the same technology and tool set for a couple of years and you need something new to keep yourself going. That’s the point where you have several options like becoming a project manager, coach, analyst or middleware expert. This story is about another option: becoming an architect.
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Posted by Wilfred Springer around lunchtime: October 1st, 2010
Contrary to what you might have expected because of the title, this is not an introduction to the marvelous UNIX hexdump tool. If that’s what you were searching for, then you better pull up the man page first, because I’m not going to spend a word it. This article is about something better…
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