Category: DevOps
Part 2. What Software Development Can Learn From The Restaurant Business
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Before jumping into the particulars on how ARIA Pipeline, Assembler, and Config tackle automation, let’s recap what is meant by “automation.” Automation in the DevOps lifecycle exists in 3 stages: Dev stage, DevOps stage, and the Ops stage. For the Dev stage, we’re attempting to perform Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CICD) wherein code can be imported by a software developer, merged into an existing code base, unit tested for [Read More…]
What Software Development Can Learn From The Restaurant Business
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The software development process is complex with many non-developer stakeholders who need to understand the process, measure the progress, and anticipate timeline delays. The standard DevOps framework (below) imagines this process as a continuous integration lifecycle that organizes a handful of key stages. I’ve numbered the stages and overlayed some VMware products into each stage to make the concepts more concrete in nature. Here’s the same DevOps lifecycle with [Read More…]