Understanding the Hadoop Adoption Roadmap

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Stage 1: Understanding and Identifying Business Cases As with every technology switch, the first stage is often understanding the new technology and tool stack as well as propagating the benefits that the end user and the organization sees. At this stage looking at your current system with a close eye helps to identify the business … Read more

Comparing DevOps VS Traditional SDLC

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Traditional Software Development Life Cycle Challenges Requirements to Production deployment of any business need or story (in Extreme programming) is an interesting journey with a lot of human intervention at different milestones. Predicting where things may go wrong even when risks are identified and mitigated is challenging for any software project. The basic thinking is … Read more

5 Keys To Unlocking Value From Production Support

Keys to effective production support strategies

1. Proactive Monitoring & Alerting Proactive monitoring is important to make sure corrective steps are taken to prevent issues like not meeting SLAs (Service Level Agreements). More focus in this area will certainly reduce downstream issue resolution ticket volume. Monitoring does not necessarily mean keeping eye on each and every job constantly. It is recommended … Read more

How To Conduct Effective Testing Of Business Intelligence Applications

BI Testing Strategy The goal of testing BI applications is to achieve credible data. And data credibility can be attained by making the testing cycle effective. A comprehensive test strategy is the stepping stone of an effective test cycle.   The strategy should cover test planning for each stage, every time the data moves and state … Read more