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Continuous Integration (CI) Explained

Continuous integration enables iterative software development, reduces risks from defects and makes developers highly productive. Summary Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice where developers regularly merge their code into a central repository. Each merge automatically triggers a build and tests, helping detect and fix issues early. In other words, CI involves committing changes frequently […]

Marko Anastasov

27 Jun 2019

A first look at Google Cloud Run

Google has launched Cloud Run, a new solution for running serverless applications based on Docker containers, this month at its Cloud Next ’19 conference. What we can say now is this is an important step for serverless computing — deploying to Cloud Run is much easier than running containers on Kubernetes. It also has no architectural […]

Marko Anastasov

24 Apr 2019

Why a Well-Oiled CI/CD Pipeline Makes for a Happy DevOps Team

JJ Asghar’s role as a developer advocate for IBM has immersed him in helping organizations make the transition to cloud native ecosystems and to IBM Cloud’s Kubernetes Service. Previously, Asghar was the OpenStack go-to-guy at Chef Software. In this interview, Asghar has drawn from his deep well of hands-on and high-level experience to describe the trials and tribulations […]

Wojtek Cichoń

23 Apr 2019

When SREs and Kubernetes Are Worth It And When They Aren’t

Seth Vargo is a developer relations engineer at Google. He previously held software-development roles at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. Passionate about reducing inequality in technology, Vargo is also the author of “Learning Chef.”

Wojtek Cichoń

18 Apr 2019

Two Key Docker Benefits and How to Attain Them

In 2013, Solomon Hykes showed a demo of the first version of Docker during the PyCon conference in Santa Clara. Since then, the benefits of Docker containers have spread to seemingly every corner of the software industry. While Docker (the project and the company) made containers so popular, they were not the first project to […]

Jérôme Petazzoni

16 Apr 2019

Introducing a Next-generation Parallel Config Management tool

James Shubin is a DevOps/config-management hacker and physiologist from Canada. He writes “The Technical Blog of James.” He also works on a next-generation config-management project he started called “mgmt.” In this interview, we discuss Shubin’s open source project and how it can contribute to the cloud-native landscape. You’re the lead developer behind mgmt, which is a “next-generation distributed, […]

Wojtek Cichoń

11 Apr 2019

Docker’s Gareth Rushgrove on the Importance of CI/CD Pipelines and the Future of Containers

Gareth Rushgrove is an experienced software and operations engineer, working as a product manager at Docker. Additionally, he’s the editor of one of the most widely read newsletters in the DevOps community, “DevOps Weekly.” In this interview, we talk with Rushgrove about his current work at Docker, what is the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), the importance […]

Wojtek Cichoń

2 Apr 2019

On the Importance of Observability-Driven Software Development

Charity Majors is the CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, a tool for software engineers to explore their code on production systems. Prior to co-founding Honeycomb, Majors worked as production engineering manager at Facebook, was the first infrastructure engineer on Parse also spent several years at Linden Lab as operations and database engineer working on the infrastructure that powers “Second […]

Wojtek Cichoń

25 Mar 2019

Red Hat’s Michael Hausenblas on the Ailments of Cloud-Native

Red Hat developer advocate Michael Hausenblas is on the road 70 percent of his time — yet he managed to carve out some time to speak to us about what ills cloud-native and what to do about it. Hint: aligning the Dev with the Ops inside organizations can go a long way in solving many deployment […]

Wojtek Cichoń

4 Mar 2019

On How DevOps Destroys Walls, Builds Bridges, and Influences Company Culture for the Better

John Arundel is a consultant and author of Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes. We spoke with John on how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better.

Wojtek Cichoń

14 Feb 2019

Travis CI Alternative for Private Projects

Travis CI is one of the most popular hosted Continuous Integration solutions. Most notably, it has made a huge contribution to the developer community by serving the biggest share of open source projects. However in 2019 most new software projects are looking for a solution that can drive the entire Continuous Delivery lifecycle. There’s also […]

Marko Anastasov

29 Jan 2019

Kubernetes Pioneer Tim Hockin on the State of Kubernetes 2018

Tim Hockin, one of the originators of Kubernetes, is an artist turned engineer. We spoke with Hockin about the state of Kubernetes in 2018, the past and the future of the project and the buzz around it.

Wojtek Cichoń

20 Dec 2018

Why Cloud Native Success Depends on High-Velocity CI/CD

Article originally published on The New Stack. The goal of every tech leader is to deliver bug-free products to customers at high velocity. Today’s cloud-native technology can empower engineering teams to iterate, at scale, faster than ever. But teams that don’t also change how they deliver software will struggle to benefit from the agility and […]

Marko Anastasov

22 Nov 2018

On Transitioning from a Developer Role to Strategic Business Role

In the Developer Interview series, we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This month, we had a chat with Jeffrey Chupp, the Director of Engineering at Dribbble.

Wojtek Cichoń

15 Nov 2018

On Prioritizing Performance and Usability with Slim.js Creator

In the Developer Interview series, we talk to engineers who use Semaphore and pick their brains about how they work, what wisdom they would like to pass on, and the most challenging problems they’ve faced during developing. This month we had a chat with Avichay Eyal, the man behind Slim.js – the fastest open source […]

Wojtek Cichoń

25 Sep 2018