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The BSD vs MIT license contest has a lively history. Learn about the high-stakes gambles and exasperating missteps behind the leading FOSS licenses.
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Bower was once the most popular front-end package manager to use for web development projects. It took the legwork out of finding, installing, and saving appropriate versions of external software packages. Bower was built at and released by Twitter in 2012. The creators’ goal was to automate some necessary tasks related to dependency management to…
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What is Bower, and what are the alternatives to this popular but deprecated package manager? Learn the past and future of client-side dependency management.
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Managing dependencies isn’t easy for developers, especially in large projects with dependencies from many different sources. Staying organized when using dependencies is crucial both for productivity and security reasons, but can be a daunting task. Tips for managing dependencies often emphasize two primary messages: Establish Policies and Encourage Automation.
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As DevOps has become more mainstream and the benefits become well known, practitioners have looked at new ways to apply and extend the concepts to expand the benefits of DevOps philosophy to other areas of the business. One such natural extension is DevSecOps. DevSecOps takes the core tenets of DevOps and expands them to include…
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Intro to DevSecOps As DevOps has become more mainstream and the benefits become well known. Practitioners have looked at new ways to apply and extend the concepts to expand the benefits of DevOps philosophy to other areas of the business. One such natural extension is DevSecOps. DevSecOps takes the core tenets of DevOps and expands…
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There are many takes on what DevOps is. There are many different angles from many people. In this series, we will explore a few of the different opinions of key companies and influencers on what DevOps is and what it means to key influencers in the space.
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The Agile Admin says DevOps is “a new term emerging from the collision of two major related trends. The first was also called “agile infrastructure” or “agile operations”; it sprang from applying Agile and Lean approaches to operations work. The second is a much expanded understanding of the value of collaboration between development and operations…
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Atlassian says DevOps is “a set of practices that works to automate and integrate the processes between software development and IT teams, so they can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. The term DevOps was formed by combining the words “development” and “operations” and signifies a cultural shift that bridges the gap…
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