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September 27, 2016
John Williston
Do You Do DevOps?
DevOps is not one size fits all. I’ve seen organizations apply what seem like universal DevOps axioms only to be deeply disappointed and walk away from the entire project as a result.
Plenty of organizations still depend, sometimes crucially, on complicated legacy applications. You cannot purchase an all-in-one DevOps toolkit and drop a monolithic monster into it for magical results. A multi-million-line, legacy C++ application is different than a web application and requires altering your approach and expectations.
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September 19, 2016
John Williston
The forces of history can act a bit like a pendulum, and this is certainly apparent when it comes to the relationship between development and operations.
The DevOps Disconnect
It isn’t difficult to see where the initial disconnect between developers and operations began. As I explained in a recent webinar, the very nature of the earliest computers mandated it.
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September 16, 2016
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Helix in a Hurry
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The new trial with Helix Quick Start acknowledges the hurdles IT departments face when evaluating enterprise-grade technologies and expedites the installation experience to facilitate the decision-making process for anyone looking to purchase an SCM solution for their organization.
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September 11, 2016
John Williston
What is DevOps?
Let’s begin with the obvious question: what exactly is DevOps? Asking this often results in as many answers as there are DevOps experts in the room. The classic tale from Eastern culture of blind men and an elephant seems relevant in explaining why: each one individually touches a different part of the beast and subsequently disagrees sharply over the true nature of the complete reality of the thing as a whole. In the same way, experts focused on different industries and types of projects tend to see DevOps differently, each through the lens of his own particular set of concerns and experiences.
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August 26, 2016
Sven Erik Knop
I haven’t done a post on P4Python for a while, so I thought it was time for an update.
Today I want to talk about triggers, particularly form triggers. Perforce Helix can be customised in many ways, one of which is triggers: programs or scripts executed by the Helix server on certain conditions and controlled by the triggers table.
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August 22, 2016
Perforce
I saw an interesting article recently on how to Accelerate your ClearCase performance, describing how to overcome ClearCase slowness when running continuous integration builds.
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