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10 best practices for DevOps
1: Break the silos in IT
Breaking down functional silos between disciplines in IT must come from upper management, since IT has been organized into disciplinary silos for decades. In this environment, application development work has historically taken an assembly line approach, with one department building the app, after which the app is shipped to an operations group to integrate the app, after which the app is tested by a QA group, after which the app goes back to the applications and operations group so it can be deployed. This separation of functions limits active collaboration, contributing to applications problems that delay deployment. Pressured to deliver today's apps faster, IT managers have begun to restructure IT into DevOps teams that are a mix of all of the IT disciplines, with each team getting accountability for a specific category of apps.
2: Adjust performance reviews
When the IT culture needs to be "de-siloized," putting some teeth into the process by evaluating team performance and individual participation on the team in performance reviews can go a long way. Base a larger portion of performance reviews for developers and operations personnel on their teams' ability to meeting app development and deployment goals.
3: Create real-time project visibility
Contemporary project management software now has built-in automation that eases the tedium of doing project updates. Project management tools can provide real-time visibility into an application and exactly where it is in the development to deployment process. It can also display who and what are the mission-critical resources for the current tasks at hand. The project management software can serve as a "single version of the truth" for a cross-functional IT team, making the job of project coordination easier.
4: Use software automation wherever you can
You can cut time, errors, and costs by selecting an application automation toolset that is compatible with your IT environment. This automation can be extended to app source code development, system and middleware configuration, and even database and networking changes. Important pre-production tests like regression testing and load testing prior to deployment can also be automated. This saves developers and operations personnel time and effort.
5: Choose tools that are compatible with each other
The other caveat for using tools and automation with DevOps is that the information the tools produce on application and system status does not conflict. It is generally more effective to choose tools from a single vendor because the tools are already tightly integrated with each other. This improves the chances that the status an app developer receives on an application's health will correspond closely to what an operations person sees on the app in his or her world.
6: Start with projects that are small and ensured for success
CIOs who endeavor to move IT culture away from silos need to make sure that the newly integrated DevOps work teams rack up some quick successes. This builds their belief and cooperation in the new methodology.
7: Don't forget the users!
The applications you're developing are for the end business. Without the critical support of business stakeholders, your DevOps works will be in jeopardy. Actively include end users throughout the DevOps process, from the time you sit down with them to define app requirements, through prototype development, unit testing integration/regression testing, training, and deployment.
8: Collaboratively manage change
When multiple parties collaborate in a rapid-paced development effort that engages prototyping and other tools, change to an app is going to happen. This is why an effective change management process is vital to every DevOps project. The moment an app change is asked for, the request should go out to everyone on the team, no matter which IT discipline they work in. This communication should be routed to end-user stakeholders as well.
9: Continuously deploy applications
DevOps is best leveraged in a continuous app deployment model where sites don't wait to bundle numerous enhancements into separate software releases but instead opt to continuously embellish and deliver revised applications. A continuous app delivery model with a strong change management system enables new app capabilities to be delivered to the business faster.
10: Create a service environment within the company
The days of the IT "glass house" are over. To stay relevant, IT must keep its finger on the pulse of the business users' needs and deliver apps that meet or exceed functionality and time-to-market expectations. It can do this if it changes its culture to stress the values of team effort, open communications, and commitment to customer satisfaction—even if the customer resides in an adjacent office.
1: Break the silos in IT
Breaking down functional silos between disciplines in IT must come from upper management, since IT has been organized into disciplinary silos for decades. In this environment, application development work has historically taken an assembly line approach, with one department building the app, after which the app is shipped to an operations group to integrate the app, after which the app is tested by a QA group, after which the app goes back to the applications and operations group so it can be deployed. This separation of functions limits active collaboration, contributing to applications problems that delay deployment. Pressured to deliver today's apps faster, IT managers have begun to restructure IT into DevOps teams that are a mix of all of the IT disciplines, with each team getting accountability for a specific category of apps.
2: Adjust performance reviews
When the IT culture needs to be "de-siloized," putting some teeth into the process by evaluating team performance and individual participation on the team in performance reviews can go a long way. Base a larger portion of performance reviews for developers and operations personnel on their teams' ability to meeting app development and deployment goals.
3: Create real-time project visibility
Contemporary project management software now has built-in automation that eases the tedium of doing project updates. Project management tools can provide real-time visibility into an application and exactly where it is in the development to deployment process. It can also display who and what are the mission-critical resources for the current tasks at hand. The project management software can serve as a "single version of the truth" for a cross-functional IT team, making the job of project coordination easier.
4: Use software automation wherever you can
You can cut time, errors, and costs by selecting an application automation toolset that is compatible with your IT environment. This automation can be extended to app source code development, system and middleware configuration, and even database and networking changes. Important pre-production tests like regression testing and load testing prior to deployment can also be automated. This saves developers and operations personnel time and effort.
5: Choose tools that are compatible with each other
The other caveat for using tools and automation with DevOps is that the information the tools produce on application and system status does not conflict. It is generally more effective to choose tools from a single vendor because the tools are already tightly integrated with each other. This improves the chances that the status an app developer receives on an application's health will correspond closely to what an operations person sees on the app in his or her world.
6: Start with projects that are small and ensured for success
CIOs who endeavor to move IT culture away from silos need to make sure that the newly integrated DevOps work teams rack up some quick successes. This builds their belief and cooperation in the new methodology.
7: Don't forget the users!
The applications you're developing are for the end business. Without the critical support of business stakeholders, your DevOps works will be in jeopardy. Actively include end users throughout the DevOps process, from the time you sit down with them to define app requirements, through prototype development, unit testing integration/regression testing, training, and deployment.
8: Collaboratively manage change
When multiple parties collaborate in a rapid-paced development effort that engages prototyping and other tools, change to an app is going to happen. This is why an effective change management process is vital to every DevOps project. The moment an app change is asked for, the request should go out to everyone on the team, no matter which IT discipline they work in. This communication should be routed to end-user stakeholders as well.
9: Continuously deploy applications
DevOps is best leveraged in a continuous app deployment model where sites don't wait to bundle numerous enhancements into separate software releases but instead opt to continuously embellish and deliver revised applications. A continuous app delivery model with a strong change management system enables new app capabilities to be delivered to the business faster.
10: Create a service environment within the company
The days of the IT "glass house" are over. To stay relevant, IT must keep its finger on the pulse of the business users' needs and deliver apps that meet or exceed functionality and time-to-market expectations. It can do this if it changes its culture to stress the values of team effort, open communications, and commitment to customer satisfaction—even if the customer resides in an adjacent office.
Five free plugins to turn WordPress into an e-commerce solution
Five free plugins to turn WordPress into an e-commerce solution
1: Easy Digital DownloadsEasy Digital Downloads, as the name implies, is the easiest way to offer digital downloads on your site. This can range from music to books to texts to videos—anything you need. What's best about this particular take on digital downloads is that it strips away all the useless features, so setting up purchase-able downloads is incredibly easy.
2: WP eCommerce
WP eCommerce is a great plug-in if you need to sell just about anything from anywhere. You can convert visitors into customers with the help of this beautiful (and fully customizable) online store. It allows you to edit both the HTML and the CSS, so you can create your store to perfectly fit your needs.
3: WooCommerce
WooCommerce is one of the most widely used e-commerce plugins for WordPress, and with good reason. Not only does it turn WordPress into a powerful online store, it also offers tons of additional free plug-ins and themes.
4: iThemes Exchange
iThemes Exchange says it can help you sell your stuff in under five minutes. And it's right. This solution makes setting up your online store incredibly easy. With iThemes Exchange, you can sell digital downloads, physical products, and more. (Some of the "and more"—such as selling memberships—requires a fee.)
5: Cart66 Lite
Cart66 Lite is a stripped-down version of Cart66 Professional. What has been stripped away? Mostly just the ability to accept credit cards and use SSL. So if you're okay with a PayPal-only e-commerce solution, Cart66 might be just right for you.
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Best 2015 SEO Tool FREE!!
We are approaching the year end and this is the best time to know/realise where you and your competitors stand. This helps in updating and analysing the SEO strategies and tricks. Many of the tools we find online boast great but only after usage and wasting time we realize that we’ve wasted so much of time for no incredible change.
Let me show you the tool to know my rankings which I use on a regular basis.
Rank Tracker
Rank Tracker has been around for sometime and has set the standard of a good rank tracking tool. They keep on adding features and is definitely a tool worth using even in the coming years.
Lets have a look on the features -
Accurately Track Ranking
Rank Tracker pulls in fresh data from the web by scraping the search results. But if you don’t have a working proxy, chances are, some of the search engines (such as Google) will block you off after a number of automated queries. So you’ll need is a good set of private proxies. I recommend Squidproxies. Private proxies comes with a billm but still you can use those proxies for something else also.
The best bit of this tool is that, unlike other SEO tools which check rankings using their own IP address – from some country you don’t know and cannot change – Rank Tracker uses your own IP address by default. And in the case you need to check rankings from a certain location, you can still do so by setting a proxy from your target locations. Its non dependency on history logs or social media activity records gives you non-personalized and unbiased results by default, unlike Google’s personalized search by location, browsing history or even your social media activities, affects the accuracy of the results you’re expecting.
Track ranking from most Search Engines
Rank tracker lets you track rankings specifically from Google.com or from Bing or Yahoo and even Youtube. We can also set to track rankings based on a specific search engine or location. Keyword tool of Rank tracker enables to manually scrape rankings for tracking localized keywords.
Rank Tracker helps you understand your website traffic ups and downs with the line chart created with the historic data. It helps you in comparing your rankings up and down against your competitors. It’s also quite helpful when a client wants to check a certain keyword or two and you could take a snapshot of your work in a line graph and show him/her. It also lets you choose any date you want the current results to be compared with giving you quick view of your current rankings, as well as those from the past days or weeks – a must have, especially if you want to analyze your progress.
Filter and arrange data
You can arrange, sort and filter data according to the rankings, keywords or the number of visitors in the spreadsheet. Select and show only the data columns to you need on the spreadsheet and hide whichever not needed.
Specific Keyword rank tracking
Get data specifically according to the keywords, it shows you which page in the website ranks for which keyword. Rank Tracker also lets you to connect with your Google Analytics which gives you an idea as to which page in your website you could focus your efforts on. Another benefit is that unlinke other SEO tools which increases price whenever you exceed a certain number of keywords you want to track Rank Tracker has set no limit to this. But when given large number of keywords the time taken to pull the data will also be longer.
With the new Keyword Difficulty score in Rank Tracker we will also get the most efficient keywords and evaluate how difficult it would be to rank them which helps in choosing the right keywords, so no time nor money would be wasted on less efficient keywords.
Although these are the high points of Rank tracker, I think I should not hide some tad downfalls of the tool
- You need to constantly run it (doesn’t automatically track rankings for you).
- You’ll need your own proxies.
- A little more difficult to see the increase and decrease of your keywords’ rankings.
- It takes a while to pull data – depending on your internet connection and number of keywords.
- You can only pull data for one client at a time.
- Bogs down a computer when left running for a while.
Like I mentioned earlier, the fact that they are persistently developing this tool is enough proof that they care and want nothing but the best for their users. Now, that’s the kind of tool we’re proudly bringing in the years to come.
I urge you to try this most accurate rankings tracker tool for now for free!!
You can check out RankTracker for free or buy it for $124.75.
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