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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

The maintenance and development of software involve many different areas. It is common for people to confuse these two prominent career options – DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer. Role of Software Engineer. Software engineers are responsible for developing software based on the needs of clients.

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Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps

Agile Alliance

The post Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps first appeared on Agile Alliance. In this paper, we collect new and study existing evidence on the impact of agile transformations on organisational performance across teams, programs, and portfolios.

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Opsera raises $15M for its continuous DevOps orchestration platform

TechCrunch

Opsera, a startup that’s building an orchestration platform for DevOps teams, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Felicis Ventures. With this, Opsera essentially aims to help teams set up and operate their various DevOps tools. Image Credits: Opsera.

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How Platform Engineering Tackles a New Software Crisis

Xebia

Are We Facing a New Software Crisis? Yes, we are facing a new software crisis! The growing complexity of software systems, combined with rising development costs and missed deadlines, resembles the original software crisis of the late 1960s. One reason for this crisis was inexperience in software projects.

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How AI and ML Can Accelerate and Optimize Software Development and Testing

Speaker: Eran Kinsbruner, Best-Selling Author, TechBeacon Top 30 Test Automation Leader & the Chief Evangelist and Senior Director at Perforce Software

Though DevOps is a relatively new role, it’s one that allows visibility across the whole operation, making it important to senior tech positions. While advancements in software development and testing have come a long way, there is still room for improvement. Realize the value of each of these technologies across DevOps categories.

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The future of Cloud-native software development with Radius

Xebia

The rise of platform engineering Over the years, the process of software development has changed a lot. On top of that, a single bug in the software could take down an entire system. DevOps The introduction of DevOps marked a cultural and operational shift in software development.

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6 enterprise DevOps mistakes to avoid

CIO

It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades. Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps.

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A DevOps Guide for Product Managers

Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian

Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace. Join Suzie Prince, Head of Product for DevOps at Atlassian, and make sure your software team never misses a beat during the pandemic.

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9 Developer Enablement Practices to Achieve DevOps at Enterprise Scale

In this eBook, Christian Oestreich, a senior software engineering leader with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies, shares how a metrics-driven mindset can dramatically improve software quality and enable DevOps at enterprise scale.

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Achieving Elite and High Performance DevOps Using DORA Metrics

Speaker: Nico Krüger, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Rollbar

How is your organization’s DevOps doing? DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has identified four key metrics to help organizations understand where their DevOps stands and how it can reach an elite level of performance. Improve the stability of your software. Build in security from the start.

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics

As DevOps Value Stream Management (VSM) goes mainstream, large and small organizations increasingly recognize the need to apply data analytics to manage the end-to-end software delivery process more effectively – to deliver quality software faster and more predictably.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture. The "two pizza" team culture.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.