From time to time, it is good to review the solutions that make up your infrastructure.

Caesar ciphers map out characters to other characters based on a number key chosen by the designer of the Caesar cipher.

Technological advancement and DevOps are getting adopted so fast that all developers will need to have all hands on deck to satisfy everyone. The introduction of the NoCode concept has alleviated much of the obstruction in DevOps adoption by many enterprises.

NoCode has made organizations become DevOps elite and build automated application delivery pipelines to handle users’ needs.

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Contemplating moving from a Jenkins pipeline or the Jenkins Blue Ocean pipeline to something completely different? Is your colleague encouraging you to ditch Jenkins? 80% of most development teams have multiple Jenkins and are struggling to find a path forward to an improved model/tool/architecture. Why is that? This blog explains the reason why and how to move forward WITH your Jenkins and how to get to an end-to-end DevOps Pipeline.

Since its adoption in the software production community, DevOps has helped organizations roll out products faster by ensuring better collaboration among the various teams in the organization. Over the years, we have witnessed new trends adopted by organizations practicing DevOps in their bid to accelerate further the adoption of the concept and speed up the delivery of products.

DevOps practices are employed in organizations to break down existing silos and create a better environment for collaborations between teams to happen. DevOps isn’t a technology but rather a cultural practice that relies on technology to optimize operations. As opposed to the waterfall or agile method of production with DevOps, engineers can run multiple processes together hence, its capability to speed up production processes.

An efficient DevOps team has members who prioritize learning and innovation. DevOps engineers are expected to be knowledgeable in infrastructure provisioning and have in-depth knowledge of how the systems function. Ensuring the team has members with different expertise is essential to breaking down silos.

Getting familiar with a deployment checklist would help a release engineer ensure that deployment is done correctly. This list contains practices and processes that the DevOps engineer needs to check before, during, and after deploying the software. The checklist would help new teams set up operations and improve the efficiency of older teams.

Jenkins supports this use-case by means of parameters that you can declare and use as Groovy variables in your Jenkins job.

In the last post we created a simple authenticated website using Auth0 and RedwoodJS. Before we add more features to this project, it’s important to talk about version control.

It has been more than 10 years since Cloud Computing was first introduced to the world.