by Stephen Kuenzli | Dec 30, 2016 | containers, intermediate, lean
Introduction Organizations adopting containerized application delivery platforms commonly wonder if containerization is right for their legacy applications, asking: “Can we containerize our legacy applications? What issues should we expect?” In short…...
by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 26, 2016 | containers, failure testing, introductory, testing
Overview This article will introduce the basics of the practice of Failure Testing and show you how to add failure testing to any software system that can be run with Docker. What is Failure Testing? Failure testing is the process of exploring how a system behaves...
by Stephen Kuenzli | Feb 21, 2016 | agile, intermediate, lean
Lean product development processes are great for developing internal products and services such as those created by Information Technology departments for use within the organization. Lean approaches for internal products work well because the team continuously...
by Stephen Kuenzli | Feb 6, 2016 | agile, introductory, lean
Defining ‘Success’ for a product is both essential and challenging. Many teams slog through projects and deliver poorly-targeted products that leave everyone involved wondering: Did we succeed? At what? For whom? Product development can run amuck in...
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jan 19, 2016 | akka, grails, jvm, spring
Grakka is a simple demonstration application showing how to integrate Grails 3.x and Akka 2.4. Grakka integrates Grails and Akka following the same Spring context integration approach demonstrated in Typesafe’s activator-akka-java-spring demo. The key of the...
