Author: RnD Solutions

The inspiration for this blog post came from the fact that I wanted to shade some light on how we at R&D Solutions help our clients implement Continuous Delivery practices in their software projects.  I’ll be talking a little bit about the process we’re following and what are the key steps we go through with our clients …

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Introduction Monitoring proves to be a very important part of maintaining systems, services and applications on premise and in the cloud. It allows you to be aware of the current state of the monitored resources – whether it is reliable and its performance is good enough for your needs. The monitoring is more or less …

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This is the first post from a blog series dedicated to how we at R&D Solutions use the Docker tools for our core product – HawkЕngine. HawkЕngine is a software built with the goal to provide end to end Continuous Delivery process automation. Containers are fundamentally changing the way we develop, distribute, and run software, …

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The most recent reports about Continuous Delivery (CD) show a higher adoption rate year over year among enterprises. The authors of the Continuous Delivery methodology defined three key traits to determine when an organization has fully implemented its practices. The following questions represent them: 1. Is your software confirmed to be in a shippable state every time a new feature …

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Planning an effective testing process involves a variety of different testing approaches, each with their own goals, advantages and disadvantages. In this post I will cover the most common stages a software system testing usually undergo:   Unit Tests Written by the developer concurrently with writing the code, these tests are focused on the smallest element of …

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This is a brief introduction to OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect protocol. Before we dive into OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, lets talk about two terms that are tightly related to OAuth and they worth being mentioned.   Authentication & Authorization Authentication and Authorization are two terms that are widely used. Very often they are used together and sometimes it is possible …

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AWS RDS service is about to allow hosting your own databases in the cloud (Amazon). You can tweak almost any aspect of the deployed database instance. In my particular case I had to change the default value of the MySQL instance lower_case_table_names option. It was necessary because the application I was deploying had been built on windows thus used …

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  It is said that DevOps is about to finish what the Agile has started. So much has been written about DevOps but still there are plenty of interpretations. The common understanding is that DevOps is about collaboration between Development and Operations teams.   But why the collaboration is so necessary? A possible answer lies in the Agile movement for shipping software which imposes fast pace development …

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