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How (Not) to Develop a Modern Product Management Practice at Speed

Tesco Bank has embarked on a digital transformation journey, and at the heart of it lies a shift of culture and the adoption of modern product development practices. What could go wrong? Everything! Culture, leadership, bureaucracy, route to production, you name it. Yet, with the help of VMware Pivotal Labs, we delivered an amazing product during a time of great need for our customers.

DevOps KPIs as a Service: Daimler's Solution

Daimler supports its developers with a centrally curated DevOps toolchain, including a cloud native platform based on Cloud Foundry. The idea is to free hundreds of dev teams from operations scaffolding and allow them to instead focus on delivering their products. “Platform-as-a-product” is the strategy to keep up with the demand and the continuous feature evolution. KPIs are part of the platform. Some are consumed by the platform team to measure the success of the platform itself. Others are provided as “KPIs-as-a-service” to the platform customers.

Microsoft Azure & JFrog: Accelerating Deployment With Virtual Kubelet And Artifactory

Virtual Kubelet simplifies the management of your Kubernetes cluster by rapidly spinning up pods behind an abstraction that takes care of scaling up and down your cluster. JFrog Artifactory is a universal binary repository that serves as a highly scalable container registry with advanced security scanning of container images. By combining Virtual Kubelet on Azure Container Instances (ACI) for fast orchestration and Artifactory to reliably serve container images, you get a highly scalable and secure platform for application deployment.

Cloud Native, You Keep Using Those Words

Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as many different definitions. In part it’s because public cloud providers (PCPs) seek to provide all things to all IT teams, but it’s also because each organization has different goals for cloud. If I could get away with it, I’d enclose cloud native in quotes whenever it’s unclear what business expectations are for PCPs.

Here's your Complete Definition of Software Reliability

We live in the era of software convenience, where we take for granted that hundreds of services are always at our fingertips. These applications become part of our daily routines because they are so reliable. However, this consistency makes reliability work invisible to the end user. It can be difficult to appreciate the effort behind maintaining a high availability service. Because of that, people may misunderstand exactly what makes a service reliable.

Creating Azure VM images with Packer and Puppet Bolt

HashiCorp Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer makes it easy to codify VM images for Microsoft Azure. In this blog post we’ll look at how to use HashiCorp Packer and Puppet Bolt to define our VM templates in code.

Add file attachments to pull requests in Bitbucket Cloud

During code review, static image files might not be adequate when a developer wants to demo their changes. Starting now, teams can attach any type of file to a pull request. No need to worry about the file size either. For example, “before and after” screen recordings can be uploaded and viewed directly in a pull request. With this change, Bitbucket Cloud has become more integrated with the Atlassian ecosystem. Does your team also collaborate on Jira or Confluence?