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Improving Software Failure: Measure, Change, Learn

How do you treat software development failure? Do you take time to measure and learn from software failure? Or do you try to fix it quickly only after your customers complain about it? Failure can be an opportunity to learn and get better. So how can you measure and learn from software failure, and turn failure into at least a partially positive experience? Failure happens all the time, but if you're not measuring it, how do you know what you’re missing?

What role does ingenuity play in software development? ft. Bryan Finster of Defense Unicorns

Is it possible that the new tech and clever ideas can get in the way of adding value to our business? Bryan Finster, Distinguished Engineer at Defense Unicorn, sits down with Rob and shares how his perspective on solving business problems with code. Learn valuable insights on how we can keep the end user in mind while using technology to make their lives better.

Top 20 CI/CD Pipeline Interview Questions & Answers

The key to acing a CI/CD interview is preparation. The first step in preparation is to learn as much as you can about the possible company, including its background, offerings, and hiring practices. In order to help you master your next interview and land your dream job, this blog post includes CICD interview questions, all neatly organized into themes.. Refreshing your technical knowledge is the next item on the list because it will help you stand apart.

Automate deployment of a Vue.js application to Firebase

A quick search of the internet will reveal many services available for freely hosting single page applications or static sites. Firebase is one of these services. Firebase is a development platform developed by Google that provides file storage, hosting, database, authentication, and analytics. It is free, provides an SSL certificate by default, and offers impressive speed across multiple regions. I have chosen Firebase for hosting our demo application in this tutorial.

How to get complete CI/CD pipeline observability

It's not like it used to be back in the day! Before CI/CD, we were building on-premises, service-oriented products following system style architecture and we were able to map out the build system and end-to-end process in a PowerPoint or Visio document. Although time-consuming and inefficient, it was relatively straightforward and the build pipeline was unlikely to change drastically. But that's no longer the case.

DORA metrics: Where are you on the journey? @Sleuth TV

We're wrapping up Season 1 of Sleuth TV Live! We've covered a lot of ground, so we'll pull it all together with a talk about the DORA metrics journey and where you can go from here. In episode 6 of Sleuth TV Live, Sleuth's CTO Don Brown and Head of Customer Success Leigh Ann Whitmarsh discussed four levels along the DORA metrics journey, with tips and real-life examples of the opportunities available to maximize your investment in DORA metrics.

Polyglot persistence vs multi-model databases for microservices

Microservice architecture is an application system design pattern in which an entire business application is composed of individual functional scoped services, which can scale on demand. Each team focuses on an individual service and builds it according to their skillset or language of choice. In addition to flexibility, this pattern provides: These features have made microservices architecture a popular choice for enterprises.