Three factors affecting your agility
Let’s talk about cakes and baking. It’s similar to making software. No really! How quickly you can bake a fantastic cake depends on three main factors. Turns out, it’s the same three for software.
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A write-up on learning away from work
Do you work on any hobby coding projects in your free time? Practice code katas? We all wish we could, but making time for learning away from work isn’t possible for everyone. So, who should pay for learning time?
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Day of Jenkins [as code] - A summary
Jenkins is one of the best adverts for open source and at Praqma we have been using it since the very beginning. We enjoy giving something back to the community by hosting Day of Jenkins, and this year’s event was packed with exciting developments. Read on!
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps - Not Just For Unicorns
Continuous Delivery and DevOps are here to stay and not because they’re being practiced by trendsetting unicorn companies. The fact is science tells us that these approaches work and this year’s conference gave us lots of examples.
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How to spin it up from scratch or migrate an existing instance
Jenkins Configuration as Code is finally here. In this blog I’ll cover how to convert an existing Jenkins instance to JCasC and also how to start from scratch. Let’s get it up and running!
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Taking Kubernetes services to the next level - another first for Scandinavia
Building on our long history with Kubernetes, Praqma has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and qualified as Scandinavia’s only Kubernetes Certified Service Provider.
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A comparison of binary repository management systems
Choosing the right tools for your critical infrastructure is a daunting task. To help you make an informed choice on binary repository management systems we took it upon ourselves to explore three leading solutions. So, how do Artifactory, Nexus and ProGet stack up?
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The human case for acknowledging and measuring wasted time
Acme Corporation is a famous software company employing around 2.000 developers. Like many other companies out there it has ensnared its faithful employees in a devious plot. It is murdering them, legally and out of sight, by wasting their time.
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Anticipating the future of the Cloud Native world
Kubernetes and Cloud Native tools have awesome potential and an exciting future. But what exactly can we expect from this technology? Praqma’s cloud experts, including Sami Alajrami, went to KubeCon 2018 to report back all the latest.
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Experiences Pairing with Llewellyn Falco
How does a Technical Agile Coach improve work in a development team? When Llewellyn Falco asked me to pair with him at a client I jumped at the chance to see how effective mob programming is for introducing technical agile practices.
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A whole new (DevOps) world
DevOpsDays Copenhagen 2018 was a great success. Inspiring talks and a pleasant community. I had the pleasure of being the host of this event. I decided to kick off the event with a song about DevOps. See the video and lyrics here.
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