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How to Solve Costly Monotony and Redundancy with Automation

How to Solve Costly Monotony and Redundancy with Automation

Redundant and repetitive tasks present a number of challenges for your business. Your engineering team feels bored, like they’re wasting their time. Pretty soon, they’re done being bored and looking for more challenging and rewarding work. With skilled engineers in...

Puppet Quick Setup Guide (Part 2) – How to Configure Puppet Master

Puppet Quick Setup Guide (Part 2) – How to Configure Puppet Master

Recently I explained how to easily set up communication between a Puppet client and master. In this follow up post I’ll outline the steps involved in configuring the Puppet master to control the client machine. Starting out with Puppet does not have to be a...

Puppet Quickstart Guide (Part 1)

Puppet Quickstart Guide (Part 1)

Puppet is the most well-known configuration management tool in the DevOps world and used by systems administrators to centrally manage large numbers of servers and computer systems. There are several Puppet quickstart guides online. However, these guides are...

Creating and Deploying a Docker Image

Creating and Deploying a Docker Image

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PTC Integrity – Risk Management Demo (out of the box)

PTC Integrity – Risk Management Demo (out of the box)

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PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager – Subversion Integration

PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager – Subversion Integration

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PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager – Branch Extended Demo

PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager – Branch Extended Demo

SPK's Vice President of Engineering, Carlos Almeida presents a very short demo of the Branch Extended Plugin in PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager. Transcript: Carlos: Hi, this is Carlos Almeida of SPK and Associates. Today, I'm going to do a very short demo of the PTC...

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 4

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 4

As I noted in other articles in this "Continuous Integration Best Practices" Series (click here for Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3", there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration and in this previous articles, we covered the first eight. In...

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 3

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 3

As I noted in "Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1" and "Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 2" there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration and in this previous articles, we covered the first six. In this article, we...

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 2

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 2

As I noted in "Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1" there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration and in this previous article, we looked at the first three. For part 2, we pick up where we left off and talk about principles...

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1

Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1

Continuous Integration is a leading software development methodology whereby new development is constantly being submitted and tested against the main body of work. The goal being rapid feedback on incremental changes, resulting in lower maintenance costs and higher...

The Difference Between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment

The Difference Between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment

In my previous article, I define and compare the two software development practices of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. The two practices are complementary and potentially overlapping, but at least their names give us the hint that they are distinct. If...