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Big data centers, ubiquity, a promise of endless expansions and lack of fronteers… but what is really about the cloud? Cloud computing is a style of computing in which, scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities, are delivered as a service using Internet Technologies. Gartner Glossary More or less, we all have an idea of what Cloud…
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You are trying to implement DevOps but results are far below expectations? In this article we will see why, and how to improve the situation. CAMS stands for Culture, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing. It is a model, a set of values used by many DevOps engineers. There are many definitions of DevOps, and, what is…
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Are you questioning yourself if you should use one or the other? Here we are going to reply to the questions you may no have asked yourself! Cron is a time-based job scheduler. It is typically used to schedule repetitive tasks. Systemd is a software suite for system and service management on Linux, built to…
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You may have heard of the infamous Chaos Monkey. What is about? Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. To understand why we are here, we can introduce the reliance concept. It can be described as the…
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We don’t want waste. Not at all! But we need to understand there is waste and waste. The Toyota Production System, originating the concept of Lean, has identified several types of wastes, three types of deviations that shows inefficient allocation of resources. These three types are Muda (waste), Mura (unevenness), and Muri (overburden). Muda Muda…
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Scalability means the ability to handle a growing amount of work. But which time of scalability are you needing? Autoscaling, or automatic scaling, is a method used in cloud computing to dynamically adjust the amount of computational resources. Autoscaling can be done by adding more capacity, to existing systems, or distributing workloads across additional machines,…
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Wondering if you are going to deal with a problem with the right solution? Redundancy: the ability to maintain multiple identical copies of a service component, and to use those copies in a way that prevents any one component from becoming a single point of failure. Replication: The ability to maintain multiple copies of data,…
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How can we leverage Lean insights to improve the way we work in DevOps? Lean Software Development is the adaptation to Software Development of lean manufacturing principles and practices. Lean Software Development has been adapted from the Toyota Production System, offering a framework, including values and principles, supporting agile organizations. Principle Short description Eliminate waste…
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Cloud adoption is the process of integrating cloud services into an organization’s IT infrastructure. Do you want to adopt the cloud? How? And, adopting or migrating? Are you starting to have some doubts? Perfect, this page has been written for you! You should start thinking that, according to Gartner, a good percentage of organizations planning…
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How many times have you read DevOps as job title? Or a job advertisement searching for a DevOps? Or the desperate search for a DevOps to automate everything? Well, let’s put some order. Here some examples of what DevOps is not: DevOps is a set of software-development practices that combines a software development mentality with…