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
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
Atomist Year in Review: 2018 It has been an incredible year helping improve the state of software delivery in our world. A little over a year ago, Atomist was in early access, and a lot has happened since
release Software Delivery Machine 1.2.0 released Just in time for the year end festivities, we are pleased to announce the release of Software Delivery Machine 1.2.0. This release was primarily focused on bug fixes but we also
Advent of Atomist Automations While children count down the days until Christmas with small chocolates and pictures of snowmen, geeks prefer to mark each day by writing code.
DevOps DevOps as Matrix Management: software doesn’t mind Multidisciplinary teams in businessWe want teams to share a common purpose. They need a wide set of skills. If we lead by purpose, then we can’t lead by skill, so how are
sdm Software Delivery Machine 1.1.0 released We are happy to announce the release of SDM 1.1.0. In this release we focused on performance enhancements and making the SDM more robust in high load situations, like e.g.
Atomist at KubeCon | CloudNative Con 2018 in Seattle Atomist is heading to KubeCon | CloudNative Con 2018 in Seattle
security Addressing the Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw How we responded to the Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw
DeliverInCode Software Delivery: Shaking Loose of a Local Optimum This is an article about software delivery, that magical or onerous field between pushing code to version control and using it in production. Why does software delivery matter? Because software matters, and because
