….actually there is no need to choose, ITIL and DevOps play nicely together! Availability of frameworks and best practices are here to help businesses and not confuse them over what to choose. Some of the common myths include “ITIL is too much of processes”, “DevOps is a separate team in the company”. But the reality is that we get overwhelmed with these methodologies and start implementing without getting the basics right. Does DevOps mean the end of traditional IT service management schema? Or is it merely another corporate trend that will burn out in time? While technology experts debate which of these two will be the sole survivor, a third opinion has crept to the foreground: Are these really mutually exclusive concepts? Could these two elements merge into a single holistic paradigm and offer modern businesses more value than if they'd chosen one or the other? ITIL-DevOps takeaways summary from Gartner Datacenter Conference 2017: IT Ops teams still experience uncertainty Continue Reading
Moving forward: Agile Testing
Agile methodology is rapidly adopted by many project teams. Traditional methods of software development such as Waterfall, Spiral model, V-Model are becoming more and more outdated. First introduced by Dr. Winston W. Royce in a paper published in 1970, the waterfall model is a software development process. This model emphasizes that a logical progression of steps be taken throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC), much like the cascading steps down an incremental waterfall. Software developers and software testers are positioned as separate entities at different points along a production cycle. Waterfall is a respected methodology, but it's faced criticism: efficient production is severely hampered if developers are striving to refine their code to a state of perfection before passing it on to a separate testing team, who then strive to break it in as many ways as they can before sending their damage report back to the development team. This two-step process requires time, Continue Reading
King’s Day 2017 – Dutchies to celebrate, even in Zurich!
What are you up to on April 27th? Not sure? Well, you’re obviously not Dutch, because everyone in The Netherlands knows exactly what they’re up to on April 27th (quite a bit of the 26th and the 28th too). It’s King’s Day and the entire country pitches up to party in the street, on bridges, down canals, across beaches, around parks and basically in every available space. Under the consent of the King, empty your sheds, fill up the streets and, despite the rain, make as much tax-free money as you possibly can. In other words, if anyone wants to sell anything they possess, they simply set up a carpet or table on the street on King’s Day and sell, sell, sell. The Dutch have a history of trading and selling and buying is one of the big King’s Day traditions. Live gigs, dance parties, and street music kick off all over from the evening of the 26th. Orange is almost compulsory and it’s rude not to at least sport a splash of the colour somewhere about your person on King’s Day. Water plays Continue Reading
Sabah – Malaysian Borneo Rocks!
“Hey I need to talk to you!” I don’t see him that often, my colleague working at the prestigious Hosting Team. I am more into End User Communication / End User Computing. He is - like me - a petrol head. That being said - he owns a 400+ break horsepower shiny Yellow Lotus Evora, a supercar by definition. And I…well I am allowed sometime to drive one. Anyway - he is heading to Malaysia soon which reminded me to write some about the two weeks I spend in that magnificent country. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world .... And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. (Pico Iyer) Kuala Lumpur, capital city of Malaysia is amazing.....! There is a lot to love about Kuala Lumpur, the modern and exotic capital city of Malaysia. Many people visit this magnificent city because they are Continue Reading
Maurice de Hond, Sonja Barend, Francisco van Jole: Internet
Goed, ik kan kiezen voor een andere titel, en deze vind ik het meest passend. Deze week kijk ik met een half oog naar Youtube: ik zoek iets over Sonja Barend en stuit op een fragment uit 1995: Maurice de Hond legt (het) internet uit aan Sonja Barend. Mijn mond valt open van verbazing. Eén jaar eerder heb ik het ook: internet. Helemaal niet zo vanzelfsprekend en nog best ingewikkeld. Op een druilerige donderdagavond in het najaar schuif ik aan bij Donner - in 1994 een van de grootste boekentempels van Nederland, en misschien wel van Europa. Die avond spreekt Francisco van Jole over internet. Op een van de bovenste etages staat een batterij van computers met kenners van Knoware om na de lezing uitleg te geven. Ik luister ademloos naar zijn betoog. "Ik moet ook" denk ik daarna. Een paar dagen daarna pruttelt mijn modem vrolijk: via een inbelverbinding in Utrecht ben ik verbonden met Internet, en ik heb geen idee wat ik doe. Ik speel met de enige internetbrowser (Mosaic) die beschikbaar Continue Reading
My Supercar (for one day)
The gentleman patiently walking me through the controls of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage stopped mid-sentence and eyed me, as if he’d picked up on something in my body language. “Have you driven a supercar before?” My mind raced; I hadn’t. Seen supercars? Sure, I’d even had the pleasure of sitting in a few. But for perfectly good reasons: cost, liability, rarity, inexperience, my comprehensive lack of wealth or social status. No one had entrusted me with the keys before. “I’ve driven a number of clutchless manuals,” was about as far as I could get without lying to the guy who was about to grant me custody of an expensive vehicle for one day. Since I was very young, I have loved cars. I drive a SAAB 9-3 Convertible in the summer and a four wheel drive BMW 530XI Touring in the slick of Switzerland winters. I love these two cars, the make my commuting fun. But this is the Aston Martin V8 Vantage. I love the short, brutal look, the noise it makes and especially the sportier, more engaged Continue Reading
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