Category Archives: DevOps
5 Ways to Supercharge Your WebSphere Deployments
1) Deploy Applications and Their Configurations Together The simple part of WebSphere deployments is the installation of the application itself. The complexity is in the provision of the application dependencies – container configuration, data-sources, web services connections, JMS resources, etc. … Continue reading
The Role of the Infrastructure Developer in DevOps
I was at IBM Impact in Las Vegas last week and at the many sessions on DevOps there was some discussion about the concept of an infrastructure developer. I believe the role of the infrastructure developer is an interface between … Continue reading
Big Bang or Incremental Migration Towards Automation – People, Process, Tools
You’ve Made Your Choice – Automation No more ad-hoc management of your middleware and database technologies – you’re getting automation Reduced number of technologies doing the same thing in different ways – you’re consolidating Reduced number of Single Points of … Continue reading
Market Adoption for Application Release Automation
As a developer you have a wealth of commercial and open source tools available to assist in build automation: tools like Hudson, Jenkins or Rational Team Concert for build, Maven or Ivy for dependency management, CheckStyle, Cobertura, Agitar, etc. for … Continue reading
DevOps in a Box
DevOps is the word on technologists’ lips right now – everyone is trying to define it, demystify it and solve the challenges that the traditional demarcation of the territories between the development and operations teams create. These challenges are becoming … Continue reading
