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How to Create a Reliable Baseline for Measuring Your App’s Performance A baseline test measures an application’s performance and tells you whether it meets requirements before it goes live to customers. One of the most challenging exercises in creating a baseline is making the test dependable. What can you do to make sure you develop a reliable performance baseline? |
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DevOps in the News Much like configuration management, you won’t hear Brian Williams talking about DevOps on the evening news or see Matt Lauer interviewing a DevOps expert on the couch of The Today Show. However, recently in IT-related news on the wire, DevOps is a huge story. |
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The Four Cs of Extending DevOps with Cloud Automation Combining DevOps with a hybrid cloud architecture breaks down the traditional barriers between development, QA, and IT operations organizations and removes the silos that constrain enterprise development. Sumit Mehrotra explains how this combination makes DevOps and the cloud even more powerful. |
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Combining DevOps with a Hybrid Cloud Architecture Organizations that have adopted DevOps can take the collaborative practice even further by using a hybrid cloud architecture. Sumit Mehrotra explains how a hybrid cloud's benefits of automation, self-service, and visibility all contribute to DevOps' ability to rapidly accelerate development. |
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How DevOps Helps Move Your Automated Testing to the Cloud Because of its ability to advance the time-to-release and the overall quality of software, automated testing has been steadily growing in popularity. Sumit Mehrotra explains how virtualization and a hybrid cloud-based model provide for dynamic capacity management and a well-resourced IT department. |
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The Challenges and Rewards of DevOps and Agile Integration Agile and DevOps may be a perfect union, but you'll have to work hard to bring them together. Sumit Mehrotra looks at some of the ways that integrating these two can truly benefit any organization, while also looking at the challenges that lie ahead for anyone looking to make the change. |
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Service Providers Need to Step Up When Handling Web Outages Internet usage varies from casual browsing to multibillion-dollar online businesses. Such a wide range in usage brings in a wide range of impact when there are web outages—from a mild inconvenience to millions of dollars in lost business. Service providers need to step up when handling web outages. |
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Computer Error Shuts Down NASDAQ Stock Exchange The NASDAQ stock exchange experienced a halt in trading Thursday, and a computer glitch is to blame. The outage was only the most recent of several very public technical failures in the US stock market system, prompting calls for testing requirements, safeguards, and trading software updates. |
