Monthly Archives: December 2010

 

Why application deployment scripts fall short in supporting today’s enterprise.

Posted on December 21, 2010 by John Burgos

Application deployment scripts have been around for some time now and today they still play a major role in the enterprise when it comes to deploying applications in Development, Test, Acceptance and Production (DTAP) environments.  This common IT practice made … read more >>

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Deployment automation vs. server provisioning

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Vincent Partington

In my two previous blogs I compared deployment automation to build automation and release management automation respectively. Build automation tools automate the building of software while deployment automation focuses on deploying the software after it has been built. In the … read more >>

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Embracing Downtime: Why 99.999…% Availability is Not Always Better

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Andrew Phillips

A couple of weeks ago, my ever-active colleagues Marco Mulder and Serge Beaumont organised an nlscrum meetup about “Combining Scrum and Operations”, with presentations by Jeroen Bekaert and devopsdays organiser Patrick Debois. Unfortunately, I was late and only managed to … read more >>

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