"What if we scaled agile to the entire company..." This is a phrase heard more often than not in companies that becoming more mature at Agile. But what does this sentence mean exactly? What does the idea of "scaling up" imply? Are there solutions that can be applied quickly? Quick overview: Did you say Scaled Agile Framework? What triggers an Agile transformation "at scale"? SWARMing, what is it? A strategy for using scaled agile frameworks ==> Read the entire article (free) <==
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The First Law of Technology Transfer: Long-range good tends to be sacrificed to short-range good. The Second Law of Technology Transfer: Short-range feasibility tends to be sacrificed to long-range perfection. Jerry Weinberg - Quality Software Management In this discussion, the term: heuristic refers to a method used in a given context, with no guaranteed outcome, that possibly contradicts other heuristics, and which helps reduce the time required to find a solution. The acceptance of such heuristic depends on the context of use, and not on…
Read moreLire l'article en français Hello ! It is great to have a functional website - but it's even better if people have access to it ! And in order to contact a server, we use IP addresses.
Read moreWith the emergence of Infrastructure As Code, (Ansible, Puppet, Heat or Terraform), we’d like to take advantage of all the good practices brought by the Software Craftsmanship movement in order to guarantee our infrastructure’s code quality. Every professional developer knows that to ensure code quality you need tests. One of the resulting practice is TDD aka Test Driven Development. As a reminder, TDD consists in: begin by creating a test; verifying it’s failing; writing the code necessary to make the test succeed; relaunching the test…
Read moreNowadays many companies or teams use Slack to communicate and share content. Slack is very flexible and opens up possibilities to developers, as it provides webhooks (incoming, outgoing), bots, and event subscriptions. Your Slack reflects the way that you work. In our company (Octo Australia), we play a lot with Slack webhooks to facilitate our office management (for example to check if someone is at the office, open the building door ...) or to create fun tools and notifications (please water the plants, a connected…
Read moreThis year, the Service Meshs are of all conferences: istio, linkerd, kubeflix, even zuul?... In a first article, we positioned the Service Mesh and its stakes in the ecosystem of microservices. We will now propose a radiography of these. Our definition of Service Mesh is as follows: The Service Mesh refers to a platform responsible for ensuring the security, routing and traceability of communications between microservice applications deployed dynamically in containers. Different solutions have emerged to meet these needs: At the infrastructure level, container orchestration…
Read moreLet’s talk about communication for a bit. One of the most interesting roles I’ve had to fulfil the last couple of years has been the “Operations guy working as a part of a Development team”. This is a fascinating situation to find yourself in. Allow me to elaborate. Historically, Operations teams have been isolated from Development teams. Two separate organizational entities. The reasons for this were manyfold: Operations people were a scarce resource, they needed to accommodate vast amounts of work for numerous Development teams…
Read moreMaking your app accessible is making sure that people with disabilities can use your app without any extra help from another person : you wouldn’t want to be forced to ask for help every time you use an app, do you ? Despite being an obscure topic, most articles I read about accessibility tend to follow a common pattern : they enumerate technical solutions focusing on “how” to use them. For each solution, a brief description of “what” problems people with disabilities may encounter is…
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Knowledge is a goldmine for companies. It comes in different shapes and forms: mainly documents (presentation slides and documentation) that allow businesses to share information with their customers and staff. The way companies harness this knowledge is central to their ability to develop their business successfully. One of the common ways to ease the access to this document base is to use search engines based on textual data. At OCTO, we have decided to use optical character recognition (OCR) solutions to extract this data, since…
Read moreWe have already presented Hashicorp Vault on this blog, how it is working in PKI mode (FR), its integration with AWS (FR) and with Kubernetes (FR). This time we will focus on another Vault goodness: how to use Vault to manage your SSH accesses in your infrastructure.To do that, we are going to use in the article the SSH Secret Engine provided by Vault..
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