UrbanCode Blogs

Software Supply Chains and DevOps

Eric Minick — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:02:56 +0000

During our induction into the IBM family, one of our new colleagues told an anecdote about a firm that outsourced its mobile application development. Managing the relationship of outsourced work with what is being developed in house is a challenge similar to … Continue reading →

In Agile, Put Retrospective First

Eric Minick — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:52:12 +0000

This morning I was speaking with some of our friends at VersionOne at the Mile High Agile Conference. We were discussing Agile practices and the phrase “Kanban-ish” came up. Being able to point at a common process or approach and say, … Continue reading →

2 DevOps Approaches to Configuration Changes

Eric Minick — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:23:38 +0000

We’ve all seen it. The application breaks on a developer’s laptop. It’s fixed by a configuration change such as adding a data source or changing a threshold or toggling something. A day later, the issue is breaking across the earlier … Continue reading →

Extending uDeploy and uBuild with Plugins

Eric Minick — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:27:07 +0000

Last week, Matt Wagner and I presented a tutorial (now recorded) on Building Air Framework Plugins. The slides are below: Extending uBuild and uDeploy with Plugins from UrbanCode, Inc. Our Development team has been busy with plugins as well. In … Continue reading →

uChat 3 : Continuous Integration

Claudia — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:15:25 +0000

UrbanCode CEO and co-founder, Maciej Zawadzki, explains that Continuous Integration is more than just merging code. Join him as he explains some of the fundamentals of Continuous Integration in the third installment of the uChat video series. For more information … Continue reading →

The DevOps Toolchain Explained

Claudia — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:48:24 +0000

Urbancode’s DevOps toolchain begins with a developer committing code to a source repository. Commit comments can be added so that uBuild will associate the code change to a bug report (Bugzilla, JIRA, Rally, TFS, TeamForge) or a feature story (Rally, … Continue reading →

For deployments, moving the files is the easy part

Eric Minick — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:08:50 +0000

Deploying software can be a complex endeavor. We often think of it as “getting the software to the right boxes”. But, actually grabbing the bits and moving them out to the right place on the target servers is one of … Continue reading →

Lean Software Delivery (Slides)

Eric Minick — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:45:20 +0000

The slides from our latest webcast (full recording here) are up on Slideshare. We took a look at applying some of the principals from Lean to building and delivering software. Lean Software Delivery from UrbanCode, Inc.

uChat 2: Continuous Delivery & DevOps

Eric Minick — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:23:19 +0000

UrbanCode CEO and Co-Founder Maciej Zawadzki on the interplay between DevOps and Continuous Delivery.

Apply Release-Reuse Equivalency to Infrastructure

Eric Minick — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:50:02 +0000

A common development pattern is to adopt the Release-Reuse Equivalency model: if two applications depend on some common code, they should reuse only versioned, “released” packages of that code. They should avoid having their own copies, or using source control … Continue reading →