Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on HackerOne. So you want to move to the cloud. It’s okay. You’re not alone. 96 percent of decision makers in one survey have cloud initiatives underway. Enterprise IT teams will soon reach the tipping point, spending over 50 percent on cloud apps and services instead of on-premises deployments for the first… Read More
Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment Differentiated
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Rollout.io. It seems that in the world of DevOps, development teams are continuously doing something. They use continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment in order to deliver software more quickly than ever. But what do these terms really mean? They’re obviously different, or else we wouldn’t need different… Read More
How to Secure Your Feature-Flag-Based Application
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Rollout.io. You can’t wait for next week. You’ve sold your management on the importance and usefulness of feature flags for your application. Your development team is ready to deliver its first experiments with feature flags and next week is when you’ll turn them on. Then you get a phone call.… Read More
AWS Lambda: Your Quick Start Guide to Going Serverless
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on Stackify. Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, servers had to be built. A development team requested an environment for their code to run in, and a system administrator or infrastructure engineer plugged in a server and spent hours or days getting it ready to run… Read More
C# Enum: Definition, Examples, Best Practices, and Pitfalls
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Submain. We’ve discussed arrays and lists in C#. This time, we’ll take the same journey with a funky little type called the enum. C# enums are very useful constructs, but they have some quirky behavior that can bite you if you’re not careful. Let’s now see what makes enums tick, how to… Read More
How to Market DevOps to Your Executives
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on ASPE’s blog. It’s late Saturday night. You rub your eyes and look away from the computer screen for a blissful few seconds, the first time in hours. The weekend elevation of your company’s latest application that will “save the company” started a day ago. It hasn’t gone smoothly.… Read More
A Look at .NET Core 2.1
Editor’s Note: This post was originally posted on NDepend’s blog. The .NET Framework has certainly been through many changes since it was introduced by Microsoft in 2002. Arguably, .NET Core is the biggest change. First, .NET Core is open source. Also, you can now build .NET applications that run on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Developers… Read More
The Build vs. Buy Decision Tree
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Scalyr’s blog. Chocolate or vanilla? Pancakes or waffles? Coke or Pepsi? We decide between similar choices every day. Some of us have preferences, and other times it’s just a feeling in the moment. A common decision in the IT world is the “build vs buy” decision. Sometimes this… Read More
C# Array: Definition, Examples, Best Practices, and Pitfalls
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on SubMain’s blog. They give you tools that help you write better C# code. So you’ve started your journey into C# development. Learning any new language or framework can be a challenging road. However, you need not despair. Allow those who have gone before you to lead the way… Read More
DevOps Security Means Moving Fast, Securely
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Scalyr’s blog. Check them out if you need operational monitoring to help your DevOps go. In this world of lightning-fast development cycles, MVPs, and DevOps, it may intuitively feel like security gets left behind. You might be thinking, “Aren’t the security guys the ones who want to stop everything… Read More