Posted by Darryl Bowler on April 30, 2012
On April 18th, I co-presented the webinar, “Continuous Delivery: The Last Mile,” with my colleague Brian Dawson, Sr. Solutions Consultant. It was the last webinar in our Closing the Agile Loop: CI&CD for the Enterprise Series. In the session, we talked about how automating integration and load tests in production-like environments can help dev teams achieve [...]
Categories: Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), CollabNet TeamForge, Community Management, DevOps
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on December 8, 2011
An artifact repository is akin to what Subversion is to source code, i.e. it is a way of versioning code binary artifacts. In the Java world these artifacts could be jars, wars, ears, fully fledged applications, libraries or a collections of libraries that are packaged.
Categories: Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Community Management, Subversion
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on August 17, 2011
Closing the Agile Loop – Continuous Integration, Continuous Information Early and continuous delivery of valuable software is the number one principle behind the Agile Manifesto. That’s why agile practices demand looking beyond code, to build and test. Continuous integration (CI) and test-driven development are accepted as critical elements to accelerate the software delivery process. However, [...]
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on May 11, 2011
Since the release of Lab Management 2.3 it is now possible to install CollabNet Lab Management on a virtual machine. You may wonder why this is a big deal? Combine virtual Lab Management (manager) with a VMware vSphere cluster and a resource pool. And you have the following benefits: 1. Project teams or geographies can [...]
Categories: Cloud Services, CollabNet TeamForge
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on May 11, 2011
In my spare time I like to study subjects other that information technology or the latest computing trends for example economics – yes I lead an exciting life In this blog I going to apply some of the principles of Economic theory to the current trend of cloud computing and why organizations should be planning [...]
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on April 26, 2011
One of my current projects is to architect an enterprise wide build management environment that is built upon CollabNet’s technologies that include TeamForge and Lab Management. A good deal of the architecture is centered on automation and how to scale a build environment to potentially hundreds and thousands of users. “So the question is: How [...]
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on November 19, 2010
As promised here is the presentation I delivered for ADP East in Orlando. Download BuildandTest_ADP-East-Final Darryl BowlerWith more than fifteen years of IT experience, Darryl Bowler leads the consulting services business for CollabNet Lab Management, delivering high-value virtualization and test lab automation consulting services to major enterprises. Darryl is an accomplished senior systems architect, specializing [...]
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on November 19, 2010
So what does the world of IT as Service and software development look like when they collide? So there are some obvious synergies. Software development over the many years has been moving to a model to deliver business value quicker in an ever expedited world of business where requirements change at a fast pace and [...]
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Posted by Darryl Bowler on October 25, 2010
How to prevent disruption when hardware failure occurs As a consultant for CollabNet I have been asked on many occasions to recommend a high availability solution for TeamForge. There is nothing unique in terms of the architecture of TeamForge that would not allow us to take a typical approach to redundancy. The fronted is Apache [...]
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