Specialty Insurance Group revamps DevOps to achieve more predictable, continuous pipelines with Orasi and JFrog
Inconsistent deployment and slow processes, accompanied by rapid growth and a need to plan for future scalability, led this specialty insurance provider to evaluate its approach to DevOps. It needed to undertake an enterprise agile transformation initiative to increase efficiency and deliver better customer experiences. In comes JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray, coupled with Orasi’s […]
Pipeline Integration – Bringing It All Together
By: Terry Brennan, Managing Director In the previous article, we discussed the drivers of speed, cost, flexibility, and consistency increasing the importance of creating ephemeral environments by leveraging IAC, automation, and integration. In this article, we are going to focus on the pipeline integration element. We will discuss how integrating processes, automation, and environments into […]
Ephemeral Environments: Opening the Possibilities for Continuous Testing
By: Terry Brennan, Managing Director In the previous article, we discussed Continuous Testing – Shift Left including refactoring the value stream, moving testing earlier, increasing collaboration, and engraining QA into the entire lifecycle. In this article, we are going to focus on the ephemeral environment element. Embracing test automation and the idea of shift left […]
Shift Left: Is it ever too early to test?
By: Terry Brennan, Managing Director In the previous article, we discussed Continuous Testing Test Automation including automation first mindset, the “right” automation, tooling, and architecture. In this article, we are going to focus on the “Shift Left” element of Continuous Testing. Too often, QA organizations find themselves stuck right. Testing has traditionally been at the […]
Test Automation – Faster and Better
By: Terry Brennan, Managing Director In the previous article, we introduced Continuous Testing including drivers, QA challenges, and the nine key elements that make up Continuous Testing. In this article, we are going to focus on the Test Automation element. Increasing business pressure, more frequent agile cycles, and disruptive DevOps changes are significantly impacting the […]
Continuous Testing: Helping QA Succeed in a DevOps World
By: Terry Brennan, Managing Director The world that IT and QA live in is changing rapidly. Business pressures are accelerating expectations for how fast new features are released into production. Agile cycles are increasing our release frequency for delivering those features. DevOps is disrupting the entire pipeline and enabling organizations to truly differentiate themselves from […]
Top Container Monitoring Challenges and How to Overcome Them
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO Containers are the new pieces of modern IT estate. They are the building blocks of cloud-native applications. Containers are both cost-effective and easier to construct than virtual machines. They represent a new, better, and leaner world of micro-engineered IT. The container market is growing at a brisk pace. […]
Performance Testing and Functional Testing – Simultaneously?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO Can functional and non-functional testing co-exist? Why not, if the goal is to get excellent software at the end of the funnel. Any software development journey is incomplete without the vital phase of testing. In testing, many aspects of the software are checked against a set of criteria […]
The State of DevOps and Security
Terry Brennan, Orasi Managing Director, joined Chuck Harold of Security Guy Radio to discuss security from the DevOps perspective, the challenges faced by organizations beginning their DevSecOps journey, the DevSecOps transformation and the impact of shifting left.
How to Better Navigate the World of DevSecOps with Sonatype and Saltworks Security
“It was a pleasure to sit down and talk about Security, OpenSouce and DevOps with Sonatype’s VP of Solutions Architecture, Maury Cupitt. We are happy to share a guest blog post about our discussion – Dennis Hurst, Founder and President of Saltworks Security – Orasi’s joint-venture.” Recently we partnered with Orasi Software and Saltworks Security […]
Optimizing Cloud Cost
Many companies are trying to make or have made the shift to the cloud. It sounds so promising and simple. They are shifting existing footprints to a cloud provider or even multiple providers. No more waiting on servers to arrive that must be racked and stacked.
The DevOps Roadmap: Orasi’s Guide to DevOps Success
Richard White, Orasi DevOps Managing Director, introduces Orasi’s DevOps service offerings, offering a roadmap to success.