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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There’s huge variety between those two extremes, and there’s also a point where too much focus on design and not enough on delivery is hugely counter-productive as well. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another. Cross-Functional Product Oriented Teams (aka Feature Teams) – rather than building teams according to their functional layer (e.g.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly.

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Is the Paved Road right for you?

Xebia

For instance, it is in the CISO’s best interests to help set up the compliance and security tests to ensure the software being rolled out is as secure as possible, especially if you want continuous delivery. Conclusion. The Paved Road is a great solution for standardising and managing compliance, but it is not suitable for everyone.

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Build a pl atform b ased on an actual need. For example, to improve developer experience, reduce cognitive load, or bring desired capabilities to the teams that were not available before.

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Improve your Functional Monitoring with the Functional Monitoring Quadrants

Xebia

Functional monitoring is a crucial part of any successful Continuous Delivery implementation. We often see development teams having difficulty striking the right balance between different kinds of monitoring, focusing on observability primarily in terms of technical metrics like error rate.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

Netflix Tech

Delivery?—?A A fully-managed continuous-delivery system of pipelines, continuous integration jobs, and end to end tests. Each subsystem addresses a different concern of a service and can be deployed independently through a purpose-built managed Continuous Delivery process. Productivity?—?Local