Praqma Blog

Praqma has a long history of accelerating and enabling team productivity using the Atlassian stack. Thanks to the hard work and commitment of our consultants Praqma has now achieved Atlassian Platinum Partner Status.

What testing steps should you include in your Continuous Delivery pipeline? Don’t just string together existing manual processes - use simple, collaborative tools to design something better!

Praqma is proud to announce that we will be part of an exciting EU research project to unlock the benefits of serverless FaaS for the European software industry. RADON (Rational decomposition and orchestration for serverless computing) is funded by the European Union within Horizon 2020.

In the Accelerate book, researchers explain several metrics which they have shown will measure the performance of a DevOps organization, and crucially, drive performance of the organization as a whole. I will explain why this is important, using an analogy with your risk of a heart attack.

Your repositories are cluttered, you’re storing irrelevant builds, and your disks are full. Luckily, you’ve come to the right place for advice. Here’s how to set up automatic cleanup.

In many security and safety critical environments there can be requirements for long-term reproducibility of artifacts that are created. In this talk from NDC Tech Town, Mike Long shows how to use Docker to create binary reproducible applications from a C++ application.

Mike Long, CTO at Praqma, ran a Continuous Delivery Assessment at Bankwest in Australia in the summer 2018. Here is the testimonial from the CTO of Bankwest, Sean Langton.

In distributed architectures networking is usually taken as a given. However, when it does not function as we expect it is often hard to understand the reason. This blog post outlines some general insights into networking with more specific techniques for understanding the networking infrastructure of a Kubernetes cluster.

Choosing the perfect CI/CD tool for your project can be tricky. In this post we compare two managed CI/CD services - CircleCI and Google Cloud Build. Sami Alajrami is on hand to score our exciting CI/CD matchup.

Simply aligning your IT capability with your business goals isn’t enough to grow your company. To achieve real IT-enabled growth you’ll need to build on a foundation of technical excellence and thanks to DORA that’s something you can now actually measure.

Setting up an on-premise highly available Kubernetes cluster comes with many challenges. Rancher can help build a production grade cluster. Watch our Certified Kubernetes Administrator Henrik Hoegh set up a cluster and test the deployment.

When you inherit difficult code it can take weeks to become productive. I’d like to show you the difference it can make when you have the right tools for the job and know how to use them.

When you inherit difficult code it can take weeks to become productive. I’d like to show you the difference it can make when you have the right tools for the job and know how to use them.

To achieve its Continuous Delivery goals, Kamstrup’s team hired Praqma for a Continuous Delivery Assessment, on-site consulting and Git training courses.

The Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) partnered with Praqma to take their software development cloud native.

When you inherit difficult code it can take weeks to become productive. Having the right tools for the job and knowing how to use them makes a huge difference. In this post I explain how.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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!