Tag: development

  • 🗂 Link: Silicon Valley software techniques modernize 75-year-old plant

    Raytheon Systems Engineer Sam Sauers and her team spearheaded one of the latest DevOps transformations on the program, introducing Silicon Valley-like processes like paired programming and pipeline development to help the Air Soldier team rapidly develop the technology. “We’re using commercial software best practices, including Agile and DevOps, to get new capabilities in days instead…

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  • 🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover

    “By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development initiatives,” the report said. “By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65 percent of application development activity.” Source: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover

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  • Link: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

    You can’t not make things dirty when you cook, but if you don’t clean things quickly, muck dries up, is harder to remove, and all the dirty stuff gets in the way of cooking the next dish. Source: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

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  • Link: A Brief History of Agile, Part 1: The Rise of Waterfall

    Ultimately, Waterfall’s biggest failing is that it puts its trust in a system, not the people working on a product. Source: A Brief History of Agile, Part 1: The Rise of Waterfall

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  • Link: Airmen given direct access to AOC development process

    “Air Force acquisition leaders recognized the current acquisition strategy, in progress since 2009, will not deliver capability to the warfighter fast enough. Today, we terminated the current AOC 10.2 contract with Northrop Grumman in order to take a different approach.” And: “Once we field this platform and establish the software pipeline, we will begin the…

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  • Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

    “Briefly, microservices is a service-oriented software architecture in which server-side applications are constructed by combining many single-purpose, low-footprint network services. The touted benefits are improved modularity, reduced testing burden, better functional composition, environmental isolation, and development team autonomy. The opposite is a Monolithic architecture, where a large amount of functionality lives in a single service…

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  • Link: The Kubernetes Lesson

    “In modern software development organizations, however, what gets used in development and testing environments has a habit of showing up in production. This was the opportunity that Kubernetes was built to take advantage of. It provided developers with a means – an open source means, naturally – of taking the containers they were so enamored…

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