Good Migrations: Five Steps to Successful Cloud Migration
By Laura Winkenbach
Unless you've been living in a cave for the last decade, you've seen cloud
computing spread like fire across every industry. You also probably know that
the cloud plays a pivotal role when it comes to digital transformation.
Whether "the app is the business" is a well-worn subject or not, it doesn't
change the fact that companies are spinning up their apps faster because they
can scale, test, and optimize them in real production environments in the
cloud. But, like any technology, the cloud isn't perfect. If it isn't
configured specifically to your application and business needs, you can find
yourself dealing with performance issues, unhappy users, and one splitting
headache.
On the flip side, developing a successful cloud migration strategy can be a
rewarding experience that reverberates ... (more)
IDG research* suggests nearly a third of employees who resolve disruptions
reside in application development teams. These developers are regularly
challenged to deliver business critical applications that provide the best
possible user experience with high reliability. While there are a wide
variety of tools available to assist application developers and operations
team, attempting to use them together often leads to a disjointed workflow
and uncorrelated data, creating inefficiencies and reducing effectiveness in
identifying and diagnosing issues prior to release.
To help addre... (more)
How Continuous Integration Works, and the Big Benefit No One Talks About
By Sarah Albeb
In a digital world that moves as fast as ours, programmers are applying new,
creative ways of thinking to the software development process in a non-stop
push for ever-faster turnaround times. In DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI)
is increasingly the integration method of choice, in large part because of
the speed at which it enables the release of new features, bug fixes, and
product updates.
CI dictates that every time a developer pushes code to an application, an
automated process grabs the... (more)
Improve Your UX and You're Bound to See eCommerce Success
By Scott Davis
Commerce has become both digital and global: Online sales are expected to
exceed $1.6 trillion dollars by 2020. As a customer preferred way of doing
business, ecommerce offers increased selection, value, and convenience.
Online shopping also offers merchants increased access to customer data and
opportunities to capitalize on that information.
If your business isn’t keeping pace with best practices in ecommerce
UX—not to mention leveraging mobile to capture even more
opportunities—you’ll miss out on the cont... (more)
The Importance of APM for Developers
By Omed Habib
Software developers are the modern equivalent of medieval craftsman. In the
old days, masters of the constructive arts - such as those who transformed
trees into furniture - would take responsibility for the entire user
experience. They did everything from design and configuration to
implementation and delivery. If a chair leg broke or wobbled, the craftsman
would also be responsible for resolving the fix.
Clearly, the ways of the old masters are not possible at scale. They're more
equivalent to a waterfall approach than what's ... (more)
In high-production environments where release cycles are measured in hours or minutes — not days or weeks — there's little room for mistakes and no room for confusion. Everyone has to understand what's happening, in real time, and have the means to do whatever is necessary to keep applications up and running optimally.
Alise Cashman Spence
Mark Figley
Greg Tevis
Gregory Ness
Blake Davies
Scott Moore
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