Some interesting case studies of how we helped our clients adopt DevOps. The cases cover various fields within DevOps space: CI/CD, Monitoring, Cloud Migration
That DevOps and Agile bring benefit is self-evident; these slides explore how the key benefits can be quantified such that a business case can be built.
DevOps - Why 50 deploys per day is essentialMartin Croker
Organizations such as Flickr, Etsy and Amazon are deploying application updates multiple times per day, some even every hour. But why? In this session we will discuss lessons learned by the CD and DevOps leaders, what it takes to accomplish this, how to get started and why enterprises do need to consider a multi-release/day strategy.
DevOps Deep Dive Webinar: Building a business case for agile and devopsBasis Technologies
You may have heard about DevOps buzz. But what do you need to know to convince your boss to build a business case ? Why should your organization invest in the changes required to adopt DevOps and Agile methods?
For many companies, DevOps and Agile is a part of this digital transformation puzzle, giving them the agility and operational benefits needed to change IT systems fast.
Download this webinar recording where we’ll explain the technical and business advantage of implementing DevOps and Agile practices in your organization, and how to go about doing it.
Just go to: http://www.basistechnologies.com/Building-a-business-case-for-DevOps-and-Agile-for-SAP-webinar
DevOps is a methodology capturing the practices adopted from the very start by the web giants who had a unique opportunity as well as a strong requirement to invent new ways of working due to the very nature of their business: the need to evolve their systems at an unprecedented pace as well as extend them and their business sometimes on a daily basis.
While DevOps makes obviously a critical sense for startups, I believe that the big corporations with large and old-fashioned IT departments are actually the ones that can benefit the most from adopting these principles and practices.
Developing a Testing Strategy for DevOps SuccessDevOps.com
To achieve rapid time-to-market, businesses have embraced DevOps, which places a premium on speed and efficiency. But speed is not the only measure of DevOps success. To release better software faster, enterprises must optimize testing strategy and embed a culture of quality within their DevOps processes.
In this webinar, you will learn:
How to transform QA from a bottleneck to a speed enabler
How to integrate quality and increase visibility throughout the SDLC
How to help your VPs and Directors gauge the success of their current quality initiatives
In many organizations, agile development processes are driving the pursuit of faster software releases, which has spawned a set of new practices called DevOps. DevOps stresses communications and integration between development and operations, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and rapid deployments. Because DevOps practices require confidence that changes made to the code base will function as expected. automated testing is an essential ingredient Join Jeff Payne as he discusses the unique challenges associated with integrating automated testing into continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Learn the internals of how CI/CD works, appropriate tooling, and test integration points. Find out howpto integrate your existing test automation frameworks into a DevOps environment and leave with roadmap for integrating test automation with continuous integration and delivery.
That DevOps and Agile bring benefit is self-evident; these slides explore how the key benefits can be quantified such that a business case can be built.
DevOps - Why 50 deploys per day is essentialMartin Croker
Organizations such as Flickr, Etsy and Amazon are deploying application updates multiple times per day, some even every hour. But why? In this session we will discuss lessons learned by the CD and DevOps leaders, what it takes to accomplish this, how to get started and why enterprises do need to consider a multi-release/day strategy.
DevOps Deep Dive Webinar: Building a business case for agile and devopsBasis Technologies
You may have heard about DevOps buzz. But what do you need to know to convince your boss to build a business case ? Why should your organization invest in the changes required to adopt DevOps and Agile methods?
For many companies, DevOps and Agile is a part of this digital transformation puzzle, giving them the agility and operational benefits needed to change IT systems fast.
Download this webinar recording where we’ll explain the technical and business advantage of implementing DevOps and Agile practices in your organization, and how to go about doing it.
Just go to: http://www.basistechnologies.com/Building-a-business-case-for-DevOps-and-Agile-for-SAP-webinar
DevOps is a methodology capturing the practices adopted from the very start by the web giants who had a unique opportunity as well as a strong requirement to invent new ways of working due to the very nature of their business: the need to evolve their systems at an unprecedented pace as well as extend them and their business sometimes on a daily basis.
While DevOps makes obviously a critical sense for startups, I believe that the big corporations with large and old-fashioned IT departments are actually the ones that can benefit the most from adopting these principles and practices.
Developing a Testing Strategy for DevOps SuccessDevOps.com
To achieve rapid time-to-market, businesses have embraced DevOps, which places a premium on speed and efficiency. But speed is not the only measure of DevOps success. To release better software faster, enterprises must optimize testing strategy and embed a culture of quality within their DevOps processes.
In this webinar, you will learn:
How to transform QA from a bottleneck to a speed enabler
How to integrate quality and increase visibility throughout the SDLC
How to help your VPs and Directors gauge the success of their current quality initiatives
In many organizations, agile development processes are driving the pursuit of faster software releases, which has spawned a set of new practices called DevOps. DevOps stresses communications and integration between development and operations, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and rapid deployments. Because DevOps practices require confidence that changes made to the code base will function as expected. automated testing is an essential ingredient Join Jeff Payne as he discusses the unique challenges associated with integrating automated testing into continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Learn the internals of how CI/CD works, appropriate tooling, and test integration points. Find out howpto integrate your existing test automation frameworks into a DevOps environment and leave with roadmap for integrating test automation with continuous integration and delivery.
More and more companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge many of them are having, however, is figuring out where to begin and how to scale DevOps practices over time. These challenges can be especially daunting in large enterprises. In this webinar we will discuss a maturity model for framing your transformation, then focus on analyzing your deployment pipeline and identify existing inefficiencies in software development and deployment.
It’s the same everywhere you turn. Companies are trying to transform their digital experiences and increase customer engagement all while improving customer experience. This is giving rise to a whole new generation of modern applications that are built fast, scale out, are mobile-first and go global on public cloud infrastructure.
Developers building modern applications depend on:
- An evolving set of DevOps needs
- Modern architectural principles
- Pervasive use of open source frameworks and tools
Forrester Analyst, Jeffrey Hammond, and CloudBees DevOps Evangelist, Brian Dawson, discussed how developers are meeting the demand for speed without blowing budgets. They shared the best practices they have seen companies use to take full advantage of open source tools and frameworks.
Introduction to DevOps covering:
- Why DevOps
- How to build DevOps Teams in your organization
- Cloud Tools you can use for DevOps (Azure and AWS)
- Legacy Software and DevOps
- What is the Future of DevOps
- People to Follow
Tech Mahindra and CollabNet have worked together on a number of mission-critical projects, and over the course of their partnership have developed unique expertise in lifecycle, development-to-production metrics. Gain an understanding not only of what metrics are important, but also practical approaches to building reports and dashboards that deliver a single-pane view of all your delivery pipelines across the enterprise.
Participants will learn:
KPI’s of end-to-end dashboard driven development and delivery
Best practices for metrics in Agile / DevOps environments
Role of technology frameworks for integrated planning and reporting
DevOps, the fusing of software development (Dev) with IT operations (Ops) is growing in popularity. A maturing of the agile software development methodology, DevOps unites developers and IT operations to release high quality code into solidly performing environments more rapidly than is possible with traditional developer-to-ops handoffs. It solves a basic problem that arises with agile methodology, namely that quickly producing new code is of little use if it cannot be deployed on reliable infrastructure.
We nvestigate the ways that DevOps can generate a return on investment (ROI) for an organization that makes DevOps part of its IT strategy. DevOps certainly has great potential for business impact, with beneficial effects reaching far beyond the IT department. The ability to release high quality code efficiently confers benefits on both the income and expense sides of a business, measurable in hard dollars as well as intangible advantages such as increased brand equity.
Getting DevOps to pay off is far from a push-button process, however. CloudMunch offers a number of suggested practices based on its experience in DevOps with large enterprises. Business success with DevOps involves choreographing between people, organizational culture and the DevOps platform and tools. The paper explores practices related to setting up DevOps so that everyone on both Dev and Ops teams can get early, instant feedback on project work. In addition, it looks at practices to ensure that DevOps tools and processes can access the entire application lifecycle, which is critical to DevOps work.
DOES15 - Rosalind Radcliffe - Test Automation For Mainframe Applications Gene Kim
Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps and CLM, IBM
Many organizations have very limited automated testing for their mainframe applications. This lack of test automation has many historical causes, now is the time to start improving the situation. With the concepts of shift left testing, and the new tooling specifically targeted to improving test capability on z/OS, there are opportunities to quickly improve the lack of testing. This session will discuss the state of the current environment and some options teams are doing to build up their test automation even for the Mainframe applications. This will include a discussion of zUnit as well as integration testing and using virtual services to improve early testing.
Continuous Testing: A Key to DevOps SuccessTechWell
As IT organizations adopt a DevOps strategy, continuous testing (CT) becomes a key ingredient of the DevOps ecosystem. CT enables faster release cycles, more changes per release, upfront isolation of risks, and reduced operations costs. The approach to scale the traditional automation testing infrastructure, test environments, and test data management requires a culture shift using new tools and techniques. Sujay Honnamane discusses a CT strategy for aspiring and already implemented DevOps organizations. Sujay shares examples of tools, techniques, and practical solutions that include continuous integration using the Jenkins CI server, service virtualization through CA Lisa tools, automated code coverage analysis to create impact-based tests, automated test script load balancing for effective use of test environments, and faster test cycles, providing a holistic approach/workflow for CT. Sujay and his teams have successfully implemented CT for several clients in their DevOps journey to achieve a repeatable and highly predictable software delivery process.
DevOps is the act of managing two distinct but complementary areas of expertise: development and operations. Devops emphasizes collaboration and integration between app developers and IT operations professionals.These 10 business advantages of DevOps can help you see why it's important for organizations to adopt this methodology if they want to stay competitive in the digital economy.
How does DevOps impact our tools? This presentation looks at how tools from development to release to monitoring fit together to deliver better for the whole team.
Next Generation IT Delivery - What it means to deliver atthe speed of the Dig...Mirco Hering
We live in the Digital Age and IT delivery needs to get faster and faster...I presented this point of view at the Accenture Test Symposium in Australia in 2015.
How a Mortgage Company is Transforming Their Business with Continuous DeliveryXebiaLabs
Like most major financial services companies, Stater is highly focused on evolving their business to be as customer-facing and as digital as possible. To get there, Stater has a bold vision: to deliver what takes their competitors weeks, in less than an hour. Attend and discover how Stater came to the realization that Continuous Delivery was the only way to get there.
Devops Management is a topic discussed in the halls of conferences and few managers. This talk will focus on the topic of management in a highly collaborative and cooperative environment, specifically one that is rapidly growing with a focus on continuous development/deployment
More and more companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge many of them are having, however, is figuring out where to begin and how to scale DevOps practices over time. These challenges can be especially daunting in large enterprises. In this webinar we will discuss a maturity model for framing your transformation, then focus on analyzing your deployment pipeline and identify existing inefficiencies in software development and deployment.
It’s the same everywhere you turn. Companies are trying to transform their digital experiences and increase customer engagement all while improving customer experience. This is giving rise to a whole new generation of modern applications that are built fast, scale out, are mobile-first and go global on public cloud infrastructure.
Developers building modern applications depend on:
- An evolving set of DevOps needs
- Modern architectural principles
- Pervasive use of open source frameworks and tools
Forrester Analyst, Jeffrey Hammond, and CloudBees DevOps Evangelist, Brian Dawson, discussed how developers are meeting the demand for speed without blowing budgets. They shared the best practices they have seen companies use to take full advantage of open source tools and frameworks.
Introduction to DevOps covering:
- Why DevOps
- How to build DevOps Teams in your organization
- Cloud Tools you can use for DevOps (Azure and AWS)
- Legacy Software and DevOps
- What is the Future of DevOps
- People to Follow
Tech Mahindra and CollabNet have worked together on a number of mission-critical projects, and over the course of their partnership have developed unique expertise in lifecycle, development-to-production metrics. Gain an understanding not only of what metrics are important, but also practical approaches to building reports and dashboards that deliver a single-pane view of all your delivery pipelines across the enterprise.
Participants will learn:
KPI’s of end-to-end dashboard driven development and delivery
Best practices for metrics in Agile / DevOps environments
Role of technology frameworks for integrated planning and reporting
DevOps, the fusing of software development (Dev) with IT operations (Ops) is growing in popularity. A maturing of the agile software development methodology, DevOps unites developers and IT operations to release high quality code into solidly performing environments more rapidly than is possible with traditional developer-to-ops handoffs. It solves a basic problem that arises with agile methodology, namely that quickly producing new code is of little use if it cannot be deployed on reliable infrastructure.
We nvestigate the ways that DevOps can generate a return on investment (ROI) for an organization that makes DevOps part of its IT strategy. DevOps certainly has great potential for business impact, with beneficial effects reaching far beyond the IT department. The ability to release high quality code efficiently confers benefits on both the income and expense sides of a business, measurable in hard dollars as well as intangible advantages such as increased brand equity.
Getting DevOps to pay off is far from a push-button process, however. CloudMunch offers a number of suggested practices based on its experience in DevOps with large enterprises. Business success with DevOps involves choreographing between people, organizational culture and the DevOps platform and tools. The paper explores practices related to setting up DevOps so that everyone on both Dev and Ops teams can get early, instant feedback on project work. In addition, it looks at practices to ensure that DevOps tools and processes can access the entire application lifecycle, which is critical to DevOps work.
DOES15 - Rosalind Radcliffe - Test Automation For Mainframe Applications Gene Kim
Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps and CLM, IBM
Many organizations have very limited automated testing for their mainframe applications. This lack of test automation has many historical causes, now is the time to start improving the situation. With the concepts of shift left testing, and the new tooling specifically targeted to improving test capability on z/OS, there are opportunities to quickly improve the lack of testing. This session will discuss the state of the current environment and some options teams are doing to build up their test automation even for the Mainframe applications. This will include a discussion of zUnit as well as integration testing and using virtual services to improve early testing.
Continuous Testing: A Key to DevOps SuccessTechWell
As IT organizations adopt a DevOps strategy, continuous testing (CT) becomes a key ingredient of the DevOps ecosystem. CT enables faster release cycles, more changes per release, upfront isolation of risks, and reduced operations costs. The approach to scale the traditional automation testing infrastructure, test environments, and test data management requires a culture shift using new tools and techniques. Sujay Honnamane discusses a CT strategy for aspiring and already implemented DevOps organizations. Sujay shares examples of tools, techniques, and practical solutions that include continuous integration using the Jenkins CI server, service virtualization through CA Lisa tools, automated code coverage analysis to create impact-based tests, automated test script load balancing for effective use of test environments, and faster test cycles, providing a holistic approach/workflow for CT. Sujay and his teams have successfully implemented CT for several clients in their DevOps journey to achieve a repeatable and highly predictable software delivery process.
DevOps is the act of managing two distinct but complementary areas of expertise: development and operations. Devops emphasizes collaboration and integration between app developers and IT operations professionals.These 10 business advantages of DevOps can help you see why it's important for organizations to adopt this methodology if they want to stay competitive in the digital economy.
How does DevOps impact our tools? This presentation looks at how tools from development to release to monitoring fit together to deliver better for the whole team.
Next Generation IT Delivery - What it means to deliver atthe speed of the Dig...Mirco Hering
We live in the Digital Age and IT delivery needs to get faster and faster...I presented this point of view at the Accenture Test Symposium in Australia in 2015.
How a Mortgage Company is Transforming Their Business with Continuous DeliveryXebiaLabs
Like most major financial services companies, Stater is highly focused on evolving their business to be as customer-facing and as digital as possible. To get there, Stater has a bold vision: to deliver what takes their competitors weeks, in less than an hour. Attend and discover how Stater came to the realization that Continuous Delivery was the only way to get there.
Devops Management is a topic discussed in the halls of conferences and few managers. This talk will focus on the topic of management in a highly collaborative and cooperative environment, specifically one that is rapidly growing with a focus on continuous development/deployment
Continuously Deploying Culture: Scaling Culture at Etsy - Velocity Europe 2012Patrick McDonnell
There was a time not long ago when Etsy was laden with barriers, silos, broken communication, and noncooperation. This talk will focus on the various stages of Etsy's cultural development from the early days to present. We will tell of how Etsy overcame numerous challenges and built a strong company culture while continuing to scale.
Accenture DevOps: Delivering applications at the pace of businessAccenture Technology
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
WhiteHedge provides DevOps as a service. We offer devops consultation, implementation and training services. You can contact us at devops@whitehedge.com
RightScale Webinar: Successfully Deploy Your Windows WorkloadsRightScale
Moving Windows applications and workloads to the cloud requires careful consideration and planning. What are the technical and business requirements your organization requires of the cloud? RightScale wants to make sure you’re considering all variables at play to avoid costly mistakes and ensure great success.
In this webinar we focus on methodologies to determine when and how to leverage the cloud for Windows environments. This session includes:
1. Reviewing how the Infrastructure as a Service space has matured in the past year
2. Why our customers move from on-premises to the cloud
3. Migration challenges and best practices when considering types of workloads
4. Detailed methodologies we use every day to successfully migrate customer projects
5. Customer successes moving windows workloads
Continuous Delivery for cloud - scenarios and scopeSanjeev Sharma
Cloud is both a catalyst and an enabler for DevOps. Having the flexibility and the services and capabilities provided by the Cloud lowers the barrier to adoption for organization looking to adopt DevOps. Hence, allowing them to achieve the business goals of Speed, Business Agility and Innovation.
This webinar will explore the impact of DevOps on using the Cloud as a Platform as a Service and vice versa. It will explore the different use cases of DevOps that are enabled or enhanced by the Cloud platform, and the different 'scopes' of adoption by organizations adopting Cloud and DevOps in an iterative manner.
Lightweight PaaS as a vitally-needed solution for efficient applications hosting, that helps to overcome such road blockers as:
- complexity of managing infrastructure
- lock-in and overpaying
- wasting time on server configuration
- lacking compatibility with legacy applications
- GDPR compliance
Join ClearScale and AWS to learn how the San Jose Water Company worked with ClearScale to leverage Docker and the latest AWS DevOps tools including Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) and AWS CodePipeline, to deliver new app features faster, with lower overhead. Gaining a competitive edge in the modern business landscape often depends on delivering apps with small, quick changes that create faster time-to-market, with focused value for the end customer. Successful companies adopt a DevOps model that automates continuous app delivery and may use a software containerization platform, both to accelerate releases and reduce risk. ClearScale is an AWS DevOps Premier Consulting Partner that helps decrease your time to market, governance and compliance risks, and lower your operational costs.
Join us to learn:
• The advantages of DevOps on AWS, using the latest AWS tools and Docker
• Best practices to design and deploy containers on AWS, based on experiences of the San Jose Water Company
• Learn from ClearScale experts about proven automation techniques for DevOps on AWS
Who should attend: CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, VPs of Engineering, VPs of Development, Business Development Directors, Senior Development Managers, Senior Architects, Business Development Managers
Docker Containers in the Enterprise DevOps JourneyTechWell
As technology moves from being a cost-center to a revenue generator in nearly every business, technologists are expected to deliver more with fewer resources. DevOps enables this efficiency through improved collaboration between product management, development, release management, quality assurance, information security, and operations. However, Aater Suleman says that the challenge of incorporating DevOps into a business is no small task. Improving this collaboration requires cross-functional technologies that benefit all departments. By this definition, Docker may well be the most important tool in the DevOps toolbox as it allows empowering and permeable interfaces to be built between different departments throughout the DevOps loop. Aater explores both the Dev and Ops tracks of three companies and examines advantages that were achieved using Docker containers. He shows how Docker containers can work in environments from development to production and shares how this effort can be empirically tracked using five key performance indicators.
Amazon Web Services and PaaS - Enterprise Java for the Cloud Era? - Mark Pric...jaxconf
The extraordinary growth of Java during the last decade owed everything to the set of infrastructure services that application servers provided as part of the platform. However, TCO eventually drove the move to the cloud and PaaS (Platform as a Service) is set to deliver a standard run-time for the next generation of applications, replacing the proprietary infrastructure provided by the application server vendors. Now the question is: where do developers of real-world business applications look for a common set of standard infrastructure services? Is there a common framework that can provide essential application services, such as message queueing, push notifications, email integration, in-memory caching and processing? Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their highly-scaleable IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model are an obvious answer, but how best to combine Java's rich ecosystem of tools, frameworks and knowledge with the scale and cost-effectiveness of cloud-based web services? This session will help you to understand how you can deliver applications that make effective use of those services by using a Java PaaS, without being forced to support the underlying infrastructure. In this code-rich session, aimed at architects and developers, Mark Prichard of CloudBees will show how you can: Pass Amazon security credentials and configuration parameters to PaaS applications at run-time to provide customized environments; use JDBC and Amazon RDS (Relational Data Service) to provide resilient and performant relational data servicesReplace JMS queues and topics with Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) and SNS (Simple Notification Service) to develop cloud-based messaging applications; use Amazon's SES (Simple Email Service) from Java applications. We'll also look at other cloud e-mail services that offer easy integration with the PaaS modelRun distributed caching solutions in the cloud using Amazon ElastiCache's in-memory distributed caching with Java PaaS deployments.
AWS Partner: Grindr: Aggregate, Analyze, and Act on 900M Daily API CallsAmazon Web Services
Monitoring and making sense of infrastructure data can be an arduous process. Managing a volume of API calls from more than one million active users every minute presents an even more complex and demanding challenge. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Datadog, Grindr overcame a series of infrastructure challenges by both implementing and managing highly scalable, high availability, and top performing infrastructure, as well as aggregating, analyzing, and acting on key infrastructure data KPIs.
Size as an Advantage: How Big Enterprises Can Move FastChetan Desai
https://youtu.be/2B6QAU5o78w
It's hard to turn a large ship, but big companies can move nimbly by dividing and conquering problems. Intuit has built a node service platform; the core idea is that the Platform team figures out the solutions to the infrastructure problems (hosting, monitoring, managing, upstart, clustering, updating, etc) in designs to support many services.
Cloud hosting brings lots of preferences, but at the same time reveals several painful problems for customers. Here are some of them:
- Problem #1: Complexity of Managing Infrastructure
- Problem #2: Lock-In and Overpaying Killing Business
- Problem #3: Wasting Developers for Server Configuration
- Problem #4: Compatibility of Legacy Applications
- Problem#5: Data Location - Latency and GDPR
Find out details on each challenge with useful hints how service providers can solve these problems and convert them into a new source of profit.
Learn more about new revenue channels https://jelastic.com/cloud-business-for-hosting-providers/
Contact us and get instructions how to level up your business https://jelastic.com/contact/
Webinar about Docker and Container Technology using DevOps principles: https://vshn.ch/en/free-webinar-moving-applications-to-the-cloud-with-docker-container-technology-using-devops-principles/
DevOps and Application Delivery for Hybrid Cloud - DevOpsSummit sessionSanjeev Sharma
The world is Hybrid. Organizations adopting DevOps are building Delivery Pipelines leveraging environments that are complex - spread across hybrid cloud and physical environments. Adopting DevOps hence required Application Delivery Automation that can deploy applications across these Hybrid Environments.
WhiteHedge is New Jersey, US based company that is Docker certified consulting and training partner. WhiteHedge also has partnered with Chef and contributes to Chef OS.
Docker containers and Chef are very popular tools. Learn how to use Chef and Docker together for effective DevOps.
Presentation on Amazon EC2 Container Service(ECS). Demonstrates a use case where to show how the docker containers were deployed and managed without ECS(or any orchestration tool) and the challenges which were in form of managing large number of docker containers. Also covers an overview of built pipeline with Jenkins and ECS.
Whitehedge has deep experience in one of the most sought-after technology domains in the industry today: Mobile Development.
Sharing some of the interesting case studies to showcase our work in the mobile development field.
Introduction to Amazon EC2 Container Service and setting up build pipeline with ECS and Jenkins. Presented by our DevOps engineer at a meetup conducted in our WhiteHedge office premises.
What is DevOps, why do we need it and how do I get started with it? Certainly it is the new buzz world in the world of Agile is "DevOps".
This presentation will help you get started with DevOps.
We at Whitehedge help you build better systems. Systems which help you accelerate and scale your business. DevOps adoption is very specific to each business case. It is important to align your business vision with DevOps vision.
DevOps Offerings:
We offer DevOps as a service. We offer DevOps consultation, implementation, training (formal and on job) and maintenance. We also offer development services for tools or ideas that are being developed in the DevOps field.
How we define DevOps:
DevOps is not just CI, CT, CD, Monitoring or Autoscaling. These are few of the tangible components that you need to put in place to design a better Ops process. DevOps at WH goes beyond this. DevOps is what you do so that you are able to grow your business, by overcoming the limitations of systems, infrastructure and also by providing the insights in the code to help in better development.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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DevOps@WhiteHedge.com
CLIENTINTHEMEDIADOMAIN
Designing and implementing the DevOps strategy to align with the business
vision of introducing a new device in the mobile devices market.
WhiteHedge Solution
Ø Created VPCs in two different
AWS region with multi-AZ
configuration
Ø Configured Highly Available NAT
servers for inbound and
outbound traffic
Ø Created auto-scaling policies
based on CPU Utilization and
inbound traffic through ELBs
Ø Defined policies for periodic
patching & updates to base AMIs
Situation
Ø Worldwide leader in consumer electronics
Ø Leader in manufacturing mobile devices
Ø Introduction of a new tablet in the market
Challenge
Ø Building AWS infrastructure to support a product
launch in 40 countries
Ø Creating a CI, CD Pipeline for a node.js server
Ø Setting up auto-scaling infrastructure to support
heavy traffic during the shopping season
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Technology
Value
Addition
WhiteHedge
Ø AWS, EC2, CodeDeploy
Ø Jenkins, Docker
Ø NodeJS, Python, Bash
Ø Created CloudFormation Templates
for quick future deployments for new
regions
Ø User AWS CodeDeploy to deploy
server on AWS
Ø Monitoring using DataDog &
Operational support integration with
PagerDuty
Ø WhiteHedge offered DevOps
consultation, implementation,
though leadership and helped in
taking strategic decisions related to
infrastructure design.
Ø Infrastructure was an important
aspect to support the new device in
the market, in order to autoscale and
support the variable and unknown
load in production.
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AMAZON ELASTICCONTAINERSERVICE
Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that
makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
WhiteHedge Solution
Ø We explored a number of Docker
orchestration tools: Kubernetes, Docker
Swarm and Amazon ECS.
Ø ECS lets you launch and stop container-
enabled applications with simple API calls
Ø Allows you to get the state of your cluster
from a centralized service
Ø Gives you access to many familiar
Amazon EC2 features.
Ø No need to maintain any software to
manage cluster on our side as ECS is a
free service.(If you are using EC2
instances)
Problem
Ø How to orchestrate and autoscale Docker
containers on Amazon EC2?
Challenge
Ø We run application inside docker containers on
EC2.
Ø We automated docker image creation using
Jenkins and scripts.
Ø We automated deployment using Amazon
CodeDeploy.
Ø However autoscaling docker images on EC2 is an
open problem today.
Ø How could we orchestrate and autoscale docker
containers in production?
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APPLICATIONPERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Application Performance Management (APM) is the monitoringand management of performance
and availability of software applications.
WhiteHedge Solution
Ø We setup and configured the monitoring
solution for the client using Datadog
Ø System monitoring and Application
monitoring
Ø We setup automated alerts in the form of
phone calls, emails and chat notifications
Ø Alerts were triggered when the
application went down or was
unresponsive, when the system
parameters looked unhealthy (CPU,
Memory, etc.) or when the application
produced too many errors.
Ø The application health was shown
graphically on the Datadog dashboard
Problem
Ø Getting an insight into how the application
performed was needed to take key business
decisions
Challenge
Ø While the client developed and continuously
deployed the software, there was no feedback
mechanism in place
Ø It was important to know if the application was up
and responding
Ø We had to design a mechanism which would help
in debuggingissues in the system
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APPLICATIONMONITORING
Application monitoring is a process that ensures that a software application processes and
performs in an expected manner and scope.
WhiteHedge Solution
Ø We realized the need to do code
augmentation to gather the HTTP request
processing time metric.
Ø We had to ensure that this code
augmentation does not affect the overall
performance of the system.
Ø We chose to do this using Datadog.
Ø Our application was in NodeJS. We used
module.
Ø The metrics were sent from code using
the node-dogstatsd module to local
Datadog agent using UDP.
Ø Local Datadog agent sent the metrics to
Datadog server using Python.
Ø The Datadog UI and scripts were used to
display the metrics in the desired format
Problem
Ø Our client wanted an insight into how the
application was performing in terms of the time
needed to process an HTTP request.
Challenge
Ø Many monitoring solutions offer out of the box
support to track HTTP response times by sending
dummy HTTP requests to the system.
Ø Our challenge was to come up with stats which
give the response times for each real (production)
request into the system.
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DevOps@WhiteHedge.com
MONITORING USINGZABBIX
Open source and enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoringof millions of
metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices.
WhiteHedge Solution
Ø System monitoring plays a great role in
offering clients a complete, robust
solution to their needs.
Ø After research and testing, WhiteHedge
decided to utilize Zabbix as the backbone
of their monitoring services.
Ø Using Zabbix the WhiteHedge team is
able to detect issues quicker and reduce
the response times for failed services and
applications.
Ø Fully customized alerts, specific to each
server/ service monitored have been
implemented by the WhiteHedge team to
maximize uptime for their clients’
environments.
Situation
Ø Our client was looking for an easy-to- set-up
and user-friendly monitoring software,
preferably on Linux platform with back-up
support available 24/7.
Ø And the software still had to have the
capabilities to implement custom checks.
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CLOUDMIGRATION
Moving data, applications or other business elements from on premise to cloud
or from one cloud environment to another.
WhiteHedge Solution
Ø After studying the existing architecture and the business
requirements WhiteHedge proposed a cloud-based
architecture which leverages the Amazon’s Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2) and other associated services.
Ø WhiteHedge applied Phase Driven Approach to Cloud
Migration
Business Challenge
Ø Physical hardware components rapidly
approaching end of life.
Ø Increasing downtime due to network failure in
data center.
Ø Increasing operational expenses year over
year.
Ø Cloud experts helped our client to migrate to the
AWS cloud without downtime.
Ø WhiteHedge helped our client to keep the cost
structure at low level.
Ø WhiteHedge put focused efforts that resulted in
efficient turnaround with qualitative delivery.
Ø Integration of third party tools such as Puppet to
get work done.
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CloudAssessment
Financial Assessment
(TCO calculation)
Security and
Compliance
Assessment
Technical Assessment
(Classify application
types)
Identify the tools that
can be reused and the
tools that need to be
built
Create a plan and
measure success
ProofofConcept
Build a pilot and
validate the
technology
Test existing software
in the cloud
MovingData
Understand different
storage options in the
AWS cloud
Migrate file servers to
Amazon S3
Migrate MySQL to
Amazon RDS
MovingApps
Create AMIs for each
component
Leveraging the Cloud
and other AWS
services
Harden security
Leverage multiple
availability zones
Optimization
Implement advanced
monitoring.
Optimize usage based
on demand
PHASE DRIVEN APPROACH TO CLOUD MIGRATION
WhiteHedge was successful in aligning with our client business and technical requirements, which resulted in
extending the relationship to deliver the solution roadmap and implementation responsibility.
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WE UNDERSTAND YOUR BUSINESS GOALS
EXPERTISE IN
DEVOPS IS A MUST
YOU BUSINESS
VISION NEEDS TO BE
MAPPED TO YOUR
DEVOPS VISION
DEVOPS SPACE IS
CONTINUOUSLY
EVOLVING
We can help you align your business goals with DevOps
goals to ensure that long term success
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WE HELP YOU ACCELERATE
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§ Derive and define key IT metrics
§ Number of defects (overall and by application/severity)
§ Frequency of changes (development velocity)
§ Defects due to change
§ Mean time to repair (MTTR)
§ Mean time between failures (MTBF)
§ Availability
§ Performance
We understand your business goals
And align them with your DevOps goals
We build a system that can measure the metrics
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WE HELP YOU MEASURE BUSINESS VALUE OF A CHANGE
Focus what the business
actually needs
Measure the business value
WhiteHedge strength
To do DevOps successfully:
Measure and estimate the business value
of a new story, and the business risk to
each deployment.
If more business value than risk:
Deploy more often
Configuration management
Remove the ops team!
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WE HAVE TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS
Updated
Approach
Collaboration
Provide the right
solution
At WhiteHedge we keep ourselves updated with latest
technology trends to ensure we can provide you with
the best consultation in the DevOps space
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WE FOCUS ON…
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Technology ProcessPeople
§ Cultural Change –
Collaboration,
Cooperation and
Transformation to a
Learning Organization
§ Increased
responsiveness to
business
§ Improved quality of code
§ More agile development
§ More agile change
process
§ Improved quality of
software deployments
§ More frequent software
releases
§ Improved visibilityinto IT
process and
requirements
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WhiteHedgeCONTACT US
GET IN TOUCH WITH US
We would like to hear from you!
How you have adopted DevOps in your company?
Would you like to have a quick chat about our DevOps offerings?!
Write to us!
Mukta Aphale - MAphale@WhiteHedge.com
Abhijit Joshi - AJoshi@WhiteHedge.com
http://www.whitehedge.com/devops.html
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