I needed to make a rpm from various bits and pieces, some of them java, some of them native. I thought this was a job for Gradle, rather than Maven, because there was a lot of fiddling with files back and forth. nothing complicated, but still, maven isn't really good at that sort of thing. After some hacking, I got …

The principles of Tao can be applied to almost anything, as evidenced by for instance Fritiof Capras "Tao Of Physics" and Benjamin Hoffs "The Tao of Pooh". Tao applies well to DevOps because who knows what DevOps is? It is an idiom as hard to define as quality, and indeed DevOps is closely tied to …

Many developers complain about Maven, how it is slow, and how it complicates life instead of making it easier. These developers might not remember how life was in the ancient days before Maven. That said, Maven still has practical shortcomings, and one is the snapshot versioning scheme, when used in Continous Delivery …

There is a tendency among engineers to disparage the tools of other engineers. So, developers don't like to develop tests with gui based tools for example. Sometimes a tool is indeed not worthy an engineers attention, for example a 'Golf-Ware' tool. These are tools that management learned about during a round of golf …

Having worked in the field today called DevOps since around 2003, I've noticed that we more or less do the same thing regardless of what its currently called. When it works well anyway. This is how I see it; Continuous Delivery emphasizes the payoff in the end, the increased business value of having good value adding …

In the Java enterprise world we have application servers that we deploy our applications into. An ear file is just a zip file with some metadata. its not a bad thing as such. The problematic situation occurs when we deploy our ears to our appservers. Teams start thinking that this is an unheard of problem, and invent …

So you are coding away at your product, and its done entirely by the book. You have builders, immutable data transfer objects, a layered architecture and whatnot. Suddenly the deadline makes a whooshing sound as it flys by, to paraphrase Douglas Adams. But you are safe, because you have a by the book aproach, and you …

A couple of years ago I bought a server rack cabinet to have at home in my apartment. The idea was that the rack would help me get rid of the mess of cables and unsound open server chassis I had at the time. I bought the rack and learned a lot about how to build server racks. It didn't solve any of my problems though. …

(This article was originally published by Datormagazin. Republished with permission) Fusk med FPM Om du någon gång pakekterat ett program i enlighet med ett operativsystems pakethanterare, vet du att det kan vara ganska arbetsamt. För att göra det ännu mer komplicerat finns det i Linux-världen ett antal olika …