Over the past decade, software development has been shaped by two closely related transformations. One is the rise of devops and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), which brought ...

This article explores how modern DevOps teams are redefining stability and reproducibility in production environments by embracing truly unchangeable operating systems. It delves into how NixOS’s ...

The biggest challenge with implementing DevOps is the assumption that somebody is available with programming skills to automate the management of IT infrastructure. If an IT organization has anybody ...

Chef and Puppet are, for many, synonymous with the concept of automating the development and operational deployment (DevOps) of applications. The two products are the most popular in the space, have ...

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As IT moves towards greater automation in operations and developers build systems on Kubernetes-based platforms, declarative systems are getting more attention. Over the past several years, a lot of ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of ...

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do, using imperative programming, to describing what they should be, using declarative programming.

SDN and NFV are hot. In fact, SDN is so hot that Gartner recently declared that it had in 2015 officially reached the “trough of disillusionment” on its way to the “slope of enlightenment” and the ...