Using Anomaly Detection to Kill a CloudBees Rollout Experiment
One of the cleanest and nicest features of the CloudBees Rollout app is that you get a big powerful kill switch that you can use when you are running an “experiment” or rolling out a new feature: Should things go...
Don’t Branch that Code! Feature Flags vs. Feature Branches
Git came on the scene with a great story about the power of branches. Those of us who worked with other source code management throughout the years mostly acquired a fear of branching in source code. With git...
5 Best Practices for Feature Flagging
As software teams seek higher agility, the tools and techniques for software development and delivery continue to evolve every year. DevOps and CI/CD practices provide a solid framework that allows teams to...
The 8 Best GitHub Integrations to Look at in 2019
It’s been an eventful year for GitHub. In November, they created their one-hundred-millionth repository. In October, they announced GitHub Actions. And of course, there was that thing with Microsoft. GitHub...
What Is a Branching Strategy?
If you’ve been in the software development field for a while, you’re likely to have come across several people—both online and in the real world—advocating for this or that branching strategy....
Configuration as Code: Everything You Need to Know
Configuration as code (CAC) is managing configuration resources in your source repository. You treat your application config resources as versioned artifacts. By managing your application environment in tandem with...
YAML Tutorial: Everything You Need to Get Started in Minutes
YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML) is a serialization language that has steadily increased in popularity over the last few years. It’s often used as a format for configuration files, but its object...
Liquibase Tutorial: Learn to Manage Your Database Schema
Liquibase is one of the most versatile tools for database migration. It works on nearly all SQL database platforms. So whether you use MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird or a combination of these or any other...
10 Mistakes You’re Probably Baking Into Your Source Code
Perspective is everything. We developers tend to make a lot of assumptions that lead to mistakes in our code. These assumptions are rooted in our limited perspectives. We’re only human, after all. Talking...
Infrastructure as Code: Everything You Need to Know
Simply put, infrastructure as code (IaC) is the managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code instead of using a manual process to configure devices or systems. It’s a practical way to manage your...
Realm Database Tutorial: Get Started Quickly With Swift
We compared the three most popular databases for iOS applications a while back. One of them was Realm, an alternative to Apple’s Core Data. Realm Database is faster than both Core Data and SQLite, and easier...
Beta Release: 8 Things That Make It Successful
As developers, we know that a beta release creates a safe and valuable place to test our application in production. It provides metrics on what works and what doesn’t. But we also know that beta releases...