Continuous Delivery Data-Driven Delivery Orchestration with Containers Automating development and delivery just got a lot easier!With the recent release of SDM 1.6, we made getting started with your own SDM easier than ever. Two features in particular make
release Announcing SDM 1.6 with Container Goals Version 1.6 of the Software Delivery Machine framework is out now! This release is focused on ease of use and scalability.New featuresSome of the noteworthy features added in the 1.6
autofix Keep Documentation Code Examples Current Automatically Keeping documentation maintained is hard enough. Keeping code samples in the documentation current and working makes it even harder. Until... We recently added an autofix to our documentation's delivery machine, and some extra
collaboration From puzzles to products Note: this is a keynote from Velocity Conf 2019, San Jose. A text version of the material follows. I got into programming as a career because it was easy. I could solve puzzles
meetup Community Happy Hours with Atomist Engineering at Mikkeller London We're hosting happy hours at Mikkeller Bar in Shoreditch this evening. Come by for a drink and high five an Atomist engineer. 🙌
collaboration Principles of Collaborative Automation I have four prerequisites for you here, and then four precautions. These principles come out of the Resilience Engineering community, and studies of collaboration in humans working together.
collaboration "Rely on" vs "Work with" We work with our teammates, so the world can rely on our team.
This Will Surprise You How many different Docker base images is your organization running? Which ports do your Docker containers expose? How many versions of core technologies like TypeScript or Spring Boot are you running? How many
Continuous Delivery Control vs Flexibility: what do we centralize? Centralization/decentralization is a pernicious tradeoff in development. Do we value consistency or flexibility? To defeat this tradeoff, draw the lines in the right place.
Secure Many Projects with One Piece of Code Leakage of secrets such as API keys in GitHub repositories is dangerous. How dangerous? It once caused Uber to leak the contact details of 75m users. Bots are crawling all over GitHub seeking
release Announcing SDM 1.4 SDM 1.4 released To support the release of Project Uhura, we are happy to announce the release of SDM 1.4. Read more about Uhura in Ryan's introduction post. In addition to
Introducing Project Uhura In my last post, I wrote about Self-Service Delivery, which is an approach that makes the tools necessary to develop and deliver applications available via self-service. It makes the actions we need to
Self-Service Delivery Self-Service Delivery I remember the first time I experienced Heroku. The simplicity of deployment via Heroku was so elegant. What if we could achieve and expand upon that delightful developer experience for a more robust universe of applications?
When YAML Breeds: Distributed Denial of Productivity My last post discussed the danger of programming in YAML, with examples from the CI domain, where YAML is the norm for defining delivery pipelines. Worse still is YAML programming at scale. As
featured In Defense of YAML If you follow me on Twitter, you may think I hate YAML. I'm not against YAML, just against abuse of YAML. I want to help prevent people abusing YAML and being cruel to themselves and their coworkers in the process. YAML's strength is as a structured data format. Yes, it has issues.
Evolving Understanding of Delivery Two new terms have recently emerged around software delivery: Software Defined Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Why? How do they relate to Continuous Delivery?Several forces today make delivery increasingly complex. Notably, proliferation of
podcast Event-Driven Software Delivery Atomist co-founder and Chief Architect, Jim Clark, recently sat in with Rob Hirschfeld for an episode of the L8ist Sh9y Podcast. It's a wide-ranging conversation about delivery as workflow, event-driven delivery, code analysis, GraphQL and ChatOps.
DeliverInCode Remove What You Hate 😡 from Software Development Atomist co-founder and CEO, Rod Johnson recently talked with Gene Kim, co-author of the über-influential books, “The Phoenix Project” and “The DevOps Handbook”, and "Accelerate", and Alex Williams of The New Stack on The New Stack Makers podcast.
Continuous Integration Problems we shouldn't have The other day I heard a sad story about a build that was broken for weeks due to a bug introduced in an open-source library. It took the maintainer a long timeto fix
events 48 hours in Old Oakland Chewing the fat about rethinking software delivery at DeveloperWeek 2019. Old Oakland is 🆒
how-we-work Streaming, coding, sharing It's hard to explain in a few minutes why Atomist is important, to the software industry and to me. The other day my friend Avdi sat down to find out, and to code
Atomist at DeveloperWeek SF This week Atomist will be at DeveloperWeek in the San Francisco Bay Area.Atomist Co-Founder and Chief Architect Jim '@slimslenders' Clark will be giving a talk on Behavioral Economics and ChatBots on
Jess speaks at Women Who Code STL Demos are hard sometimes. Every time it's hard, it's a different way. This time, I couldn't get my editor (VS Code) to save a file! I wrote stuff in my new .ts file,
autofix Progress, Not Perfection The notion of continuous improvement is not a new one, and yet there are so many aspects of software production that go unchanged, even as they cause us pain.Sometimes there are significant
autofix New Year, New Copyright 'Tis the season to update the copyright date in all the files you edit. Unfortunately, updating the copyright date in a file is a detail that is easy to forget, especially as the
