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6 entries filed under Architecture in the Zkybase devops blog.
One important issue that comes up when undertaking a configuration management effort is how to design “the schema” for configuration management data. Obviously there’s no one size fits all answer here. But there are a…
Read entryMost of the time, when organizations pursue a continuous delivery capability, they’re doing that in pursuit of increased agility. They want to be able to release software at will, with as little delay between the…
Read entryWhere large development teams and codebases are involved, code modularity is a key enabler for continuous delivery. At a high level this shouldn’t be too terribly surprising—it’s easier to move a larger number of…
Read entryThis is the first in what will be a series of posts on how to establish a continuous delivery pipeline. The eventual goal is to have an app that we can push out into production anytime we like, safely and with little…
Read entryOne lesson I’ve learned in building CMDBs is to cleanly separate the UI from the web service API. In the Java world, for example, this means that the API should be its own package (e.g., WAR file). The UI should be…
Read entry“…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” —Melvin Conway Conway’s law is a well known fact of life in technology…
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