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Five Microservices Resources You Need in Your Life by Necco Ceresani If you are within a stones throw of the DevOps marketplace you have undoubtedly noticed the growing trend in Microservices. Whether you have been staying up to date with the latest articles and blogs or you just read the definition for the first time, these Five Microservices Resources You Need In Your Life will guide you through the ins and outs of Microservices in today’s world. 8 Questions You Need to Ask About Microservices, Containers & Docker in 2015: In this comprehensive blog, Andrew Phillips explores the 8 questions every organization needs to be investigating in relation to containers before making any kind of decision. These include, Storage, Failover, Delivery model, Release strategy, Ownership, Patching, Support and Licensing. If you are looking for a multi-angle look at Microservices,... (more)

Choosing a #Serverless Architecture | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #AI #Docker

What to Look for When Choosing a Serverless Architecture By Sunil Mavadia Information Technology has advanced in different areas at different speeds. This has always been true, as people found workable solutions to the problems that faced them today, most often before there was a market for those solutions. While things like virtualization and eventually cloud computing grew slowly, programming languages sat at the same point for around a decade before the current round of new languages and approaches—Python, Ruby, Node, Swift—came about. These things seem unrelated, but there is ... (more)

Understanding #Serverless at @CloudExpo | #DevOps #NoCode #LowCode #AI

Understanding Serverless Cloud and Clear By Martijn van Dongen Serverless is considered the successor to containers. And while it’s heavily promoted as the next great thing, it’s not the best fit for every use case. Understanding the pitfalls and disadvantages of serverless will make it much easier to identify use cases that are a good fit. This post offers some technology perspectives on the maturity of serverless today. First, note how we use the word serverless here. Serverless is a combination of “Function as a Service” (FaaS) and “Platform as a Service” (PaaS). Namely, thos... (more)

XL Deploy and Puppet By @BMoussaud | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

XL Deploy and Puppet By Benoit Moussaud Puppet and XL Deploy can work together if we put each of them in their domain: Puppet manages the provisioning by ensuring the OS and the middleware is correctly configured : This node should have a Tomcat 7.0.42 instance running using a tomcat user and listening en the 8080 port XLD manages the application deployment that takes 2 inputs: a deployment package built by CI tools (Jenkins / TFS) and a environment built by a provisioning tools, e.g. Puppet ! The integration between the two solutions is handled by a module provided by XebiaLab... (more)

Making Agile Real: The Zen of Continuous Delivery By @XebiaLabs | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Making Agile Real: The Zen of Continuous Delivery By Andrew Phillips Much of what is written about Continuous Delivery at present seems to revolve around technical challenges and technical choices: “Which is better: Puppet, Chef or Salt?”, “Should I use Jenkins, Go or XL Release?”, “How do I build a CD pipeline with containers?” etc. etc. If we’re looking at CD properly, though, this is the sideshow – an implementation detail at best. The real CD story is much bigger. Don’t get me wrong: as a technical kind of person, I can get very enthusiastic about the tech: there are a lot o... (more)