DevOps Metrics: Key Elements of Continuous Monitoring
Written By: Daniel Kulvicki, Solutions Director at Calavista Our previous blogs have defined DevOps as a collaborative culture with its own defined practices, ideas, tools, technology, processes, and metrics. Integrating some of these elements into your workflow can help streamline and improve your development process. Today, I want to focus on metrics that we […]
Continuous Monitoring: What Is It, And How Does It Impact DevOps Today?
Written By: Daniel Kulvicki, Solutions Director at Calavista DevOps has made it possible for organizations to develop and release stable applications faster than ever. However, an organization with a proper DevOps pipeline should always include Continuous Monitoring through the development lifecycle. Continuous Monitoring (CM) is a fully automated process that provides real-time data in […]
Big Data, Fast Data, and Machine Learning
Written By: Steve Zagieboylo, Senior Architect at Calavista While it may seem I’m just trying to work in as many buzzwords as I can, in fact, there really is an important intersection of these three elements. I’ve been interested in both big data and fast data for several years, and my newest tech interest is […]
Breaking an Application into Microservices
Written By: Steve Zagieboylo, Senior Architect at Calavista I recently started a new greenfield project, where the decision was to use a microservices-based architecture. The application was pretty well defined, including most of the data model, since there was a working prototype, so my biggest first concern was how to break it up appropriately […]
Test Driven Development
Written By: Jeremy Miller Test Driven Development (TDD) is a development practice where developers author code by first describing the intended functionality in small, automated tests, then writing the necessary code to make that test pass. TDD came out of the Extreme Programming (XP) process and movement in the late 90’s and early 00’s that sought […]
I Have a “Killer Idea” And Now I Need Software…
Written By: Andrew Fruhling, Chief Operating Officer at Calavista Every day, a million and one thoughts fly around in our heads. Sometimes, they’re killer ideas — the ones we think will make us never have to work again for the rest of our lives. Other times, they are just products of a very overactive imagination. However, […]
DevOps Methodology Explained: Why is DevOps Right For Your Organization?
Written By: Daniel Kulvicki, Solutions Director at Calavista In the last decade, we have seen significant shifts in software development operations. One of these shifts is the evolution of DevOps, which came to play in 2008/9. Even as organizations continue to adopt the practice, DevOps is still considered an extra when it needs to […]
Approaches for Generating Realistic Test Data
Written By: Steve Zagieboylo, Senior Architect at Calavista In this post, I’m going to discuss some approaches to obtain realistic Test Data without compromising the security of any customer’s sensitive data. In the world of health care software, this is referred to as Personal Health Information (PHI), but the concept exists in financial software, document management, […]
Challenges of Data Migration
Written By: Steve Zagieboylo, Senior Architect at Calavista In my last blog, I talked about how we estimate new projects, and I included the offhand comment that Data Migration is always harder than you think it will be. The purpose of this blog is to provide a few examples of why I find this to be […]
Estimating Software Projects in an Agile World
Written By: Steve Zagieboylo, Senior Architect at Calavista Calavista boasts an impressive 90+% on-time, in-budget track record. As I pointed out in an earlier blog, I consider this SEVEN times better than the industry average of 30%. And yet, Calavista is very firmly an agile shop — we know the folly of waterfall methodology, especially for greenfield […]
