What Developers are Thankful For This Holiday Season

SOURCE: CloudBees

Technologies are making it much easier for developers to do their jobs better, faster and more accurately. And, seeing as the holidays are upon us, now is the perfect time to take a minute to reflect on why developers are thankful for technologies such as containers, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Developers from CloudBees, the Jenkins Enterprise Company, share their thoughts on what technologies they are thankful for. These range from the benefits of Continuous Delivery and DevOps, to the importance of container technology. As you are reading through, ask yourself: what technologies are you most thankful for?

Container Technology

The influx of container technologies have solved a lot of developers woos, but according to Michael Neale, elite architect and developer at CloudBees, container technologies have finally almost completely solved the problem of “it works on my machine but not in production.”

The Combination of Container Technology and Microservices

Kohsuke Kowaguchi, CTO of CloudBees, is thankful for how containers and CD are coming together to accelerate the innovation that can happen in microservices-based applications. This will allow enterprise IT to see the same exponential growth in innovation we have seen in consumer and mobile applications.

Modern Browsers

Michael Neale, elite architect and developer at CloudBees, is thankful for “modern browsers that ease the pain of working with legacy Javascript code.”

Continuous Delivery Drives Agility

CD is now the backbone to the workflow process in every enterprise. Developers are thankful for the automation CD provides, allowing them to focus less on how work is done and more the innovation it allows.

The Mainstreaming of DevOps

DevOps is becoming more widely accepted in the enterprise, meaning that developers and IT operations are working more closely together than ever before – much to the benefit of the enterprise. DevOps cultures are blameless cultures, teamwork is the norm and software delivery is accelerated via high levels of automation and collaboration. CloudBees is thankful that more engineers are becoming so highly versed in DevOps, and able to use their DevOps knowledge to effect cultural change in the enterprise.

Load Testing

Michael Sage of load testing and website performance experts BlazeMeter is thankful that enterprises are understanding the importance of running load tests to make sure their website is functioning properly.

Uncovering the Hidden Talents of Teams

Andy Pemberton, Senior Director, Solution Architecture at CloudBees, is thankful for “organizations realizing the hidden, massive talents within their development teams and taking active steps to enable and empower them.”