Author Archives: Andrew Phillips

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Continuous Delivery with Deployit, Puppet, JBoss and VMware

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

It all started with a simple customer question: “How can we cut down our deployment time so we can deploy a bigger volume of applications, more often”?  Charl Vermeer, Project Manager. In this guest post, Mark van Holsteijn, Principal Consultant … read more >>

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Why Application Release Automation needs a Release and an Operations view

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

As the interface between Development and Operations, Application Release Management1 handles information that is highly relevant to your Release and Operations teams. Selecting an Application Release Automation solution that provides insight and analytics from both perspectives is thus a key … read more >>

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Taking Application Release Automation to the Next Level

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

Whether the driver is Agile, Cloud or DevOps1, or a “plain old” efficiency drive or process improvement initiative, forward-thinking organisations are currently looking for ways to improve their application release processes through automation. In an area where manual activities are … read more >>

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Release Automation: The Missing Step in Release Management

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

Across all industries, the services delivered by business applications have become an essential part of an enterprise’s customer offering. Bringing new features to market quickly is thus a critical factor in determining a company’s success. In this post (an extended … read more >>

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Deployment is the new build (part 3)

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized, on-demand application landscape and what … read more >>

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Deployment is the new build (part 2)

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized, on-demand application landscape and what … read more >>

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Deployment is the new build (part 1)

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized, on-demand application landscape and what … 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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Customize This: Tailoring deployment packages to your target environments

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Andrew Phillips

Sometime in the bright future, you will be able to deploy the same virtual appliance containing your application to all your target environments without adjustments. For the time being, however, deployments to traditional DTAP1 landscapes almost always mean “tweaking” the … read more >>

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Developing and deploying Java on middleware and in the cloud: rise of the Virtual Appliance?

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Andrew Phillips

From Java EE to Google App Engine to GigaSpaces, the idea of developing against a middleware or “infrastructure” API is well established in the Java world. But these are fixed environments. With the (re-)advent of virtualization, it is now becoming … read more >>

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