Continuous integration as we know it is a relic of the past and special interests will keep it alive as long as it serves them. As I wrote in a previous blog that a smaller version of continuous integration can be attached as a pre-hook to continuous deployment. …

When I bought my home a decade ago, I was asked whether I wanted to convert all pipelines from galvanized to copper. The previous owner already did part of the conversion. There were vital parts that were still galvanized, precisely the parts which were harder to access. DevOps pipelines are…

Sprints are a core tenet of the Scrum framework. Scrum alliance was formed in 2001, and Scrum officially became a religion. Twenty years later, is this religion still delivering its core promise of providing agility? The waterfall that did not dry up The best way to see the transformative effect of Scrum is to look at the…

In the previous blog, we discussed two types of repositories, i.e., Git-based repositories and binary package registries. This blog will analyze how these two repositories affect the DevOps pipeline as source streams. Git as the primary source stream I could say source code management system rather than Git, but I believe the SCM war is already…

There are two types of repositories for modern applications in general and containerized applications in particular-one for source code and another for binary artifacts. We use them every day. Have we thought why these two types and only these two exist? The tug of war between human-readablity and machine-readablity While storing binary artifacts in the source code control…

What captivated me about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle when I first learned about it was not just the principle itself but its fundamental nature. It was not the lack of advancements in equipment that prevented the simultaneous measurement of position and velocity. …

It is the second year or sophomore year for the class of 2025. Generally, years 2 and 3 are most challenging as the crypto market goes into the winter season. These two years also make you a resilient anti-fragile investor. I thought it would be a good idea to introduce…

One of the most path-breaking innovations as part of the Git effect is the creation of pull requests. In this blog we are going to cover: What is a pull request? The juggernaut of the pull request. The innovation gap. What is a Pull Request? In its simplest form, a pull request is a…

Databases and Data Management Systems have existed even before computers learned how to count time (epoch time: 1st January 1970). It’s another matter that computers had to relearn how to count time at the dawn of the new millennium. Databases became mainstream with the introduction of the relational database management…