A Deeper Look at Cargo
A deeper look at Cargo – the package manager and build automation tool for Rust
Microservice Development Toolkits part 1 – Otto
Otomato is happy to announce we’re collaborating with Codefresh on their great continuous delivery for docker containers solution. (If you’re using docker in your development/production or only thinking of doing it – go check out http://codefresh.io. ) Our collaboration is mostly focused on industry analysis and docker development ecosystem research with the goal of identifying pain points and providing effective solutions. With quite a bit of evangelism on top. The linked post is the first fruit of that. https://codefresh.io/microservice-development-workflow-otto/
Have you heard of Wajig?
We love productivity tools of all kind and believe that software should be making our lives easier. For some reason many software products we have to work with don’t really feel like their creators agree. They may have great architecture, reliability and functionality but it looks like usability is snapped on as an afterthought. One example of this is apt – the Advanced Packaging Tool used on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. While a great tool in itself, for some reason it provides a number of different user interfaces for different purposes. To install/remove/upgrade/download a package there’s the apt-get tool: apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update and install. Commands: update – Retrieve new lists of packages upgrade – Perform an upgrade install – Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb) remove – Remove packages …
User-friendly monitoring for your Jenkins server
We all love Jenkins. It’s flexible, scalable, has unbelievable community support (more than 1010 plugins available) and is very easy to get started with. No wonder Jenkins is the CI/CD server used in at least 70% of IT and R&D organisations around the globe. Once you start using Jenkins you quickly get hooked. It’s so easy to automate any development or system task, add a button and let your users push it whenever needed. And your Jenkins instance begins to grow. Very soon you have views, nested views, pipeline views, dozens of plugins for every little thing, jobs for dev, jobs for QA, jobs for project managers, an ever growing bunch of slave nodes, you name it.Everyone in the organisation is using Jenkins, everyone falls in love with it as much as you originally did. But then the day comes and your Jenkins that was so lively and fast when you installed it and ran…
What’s with the DevOps hype?
Someone asked at one of the forums if the DevOps hype is justified – after all “it’s something we’ve been doing for the last 20 years”… It’s a good question and here’s what I have to say: DevOps isn’t new, but the hype around it is all about the ever-growing amount and speed of change in the development process. We’ve seen large shifts in development methodologies and release strategies over the last 5-10 years – towards shorter cycles, continuous delivery, automated testing, etc. New tools and practices have been established to deal with these new requirements and organizations now clearly see the competitive advantage they provide. So yes, the discipline itself isn’t new, but it’s role in the software manufacturing process is becoming more visible and acknowledged than ever. That’s what the hype is about. //