Problems For a New Development Team

Software team meeting at a table

Signs You Should Hire an External Team The benefits of an external team are clear, but how do you know if it is time to hire one? Typically, bringing in an external development team is the solution to a problem that crops up in your development process. Whether you have your own development team in-house, […]

Advantages of Flutter

In one of our recent blogs, we discussed native and cross-platform mobile app development. As we said, it’s not that one approach is inherently better than the other, it just depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The same can be said about different development platforms. Taking a closer look at development frameworks, we […]

How to Hire an Effective External Development Team

So, you’ve decided that hiring an external development team is the best option for your business: You could benefit from the scalability, value, and peace of mind that an external team can offer, but now you face the headache of hiring one. In order to get the value you’re searching for in a development partner, […]

Native or Cross-Platform Development?

When it comes to mobile app development, everyone faces the same question: native or cross-platform? The choice was not always difficult, since, in the early days of mobile app development, native was the only way to go. Developers typically had to write their app for both iOS and Android separately (if they wanted it available […]

Why Your Organization Should Include an External Development Team

In a market where technical expertise has never been more important, yet never harder to find, spinning up an internal development team is a daunting task. You may consider it a “necessary evil” if you recognize the value that new technology and programming can bring to your company, though. After all, cutting-edge software development is […]

The Latest and Greatest in DevSecOps

At Calavista, we were interested in DevSecOps before there was an overall term for these best practices in software development. We were founded on concepts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, pioneering Agile development. Since the early 2000s, the software development and DevSecOps scene has changed dramatically, exploding with new technology to help streamline […]

Embracing DevSecOps

Written By: Jeremy Polansky, CISSP, Director of DevSecOps at Calavista   Putting Security at the Heart of DevOps At Calavista, we were doing DevOps before it had a buzz-word title. Likewise, we’ve been doing DevSecOps for quite some time, and it’s about time we start calling it what it is. If you want to learn […]

Lessons Learned From Austin Energy

Reflections on Our Latest Blackout This one goes out to our Austin-Area colleagues. Around the office (and over the phone) we have been discussing the events of the past week or two – finally power is restored across town after a classic February cold-snap. It’s true that the ice storm we saw recently was unique, […]

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 […]