How much do you think that down time really costs? Sure a few hours of hosting might only be a negligible amount of money, but what are the real effects? How many potential customers are you losing that are trying to access your product for the first time only to…

Today we added a new integration to the ContainerShip Cloud click to deploy marketplace, IronFunctions. IronFunctions is an open source project developed by iron.io that offers a FaaS (functions as a service) platform for developing and running AWS Lambda style micro applications. Over the last 6 months, …

Any DevOp team wants to write clean code that enables minimum downtime, scales to meet demand and can be easily maintained. This, however, isn’t always easy to achieve. Some of the popular configuration management systems that development teams use include Chef, Puppet and CFEngine, to name a few. These…

I travel to many DevOps and software engineering conferences, both large and small. When the topic of what DevOps really means arises, someone always brings up the argument: DevOps is NOT a set of tools that you can string together and magically say "we do DevOps". DevOps is a…

Interest in container technologies keeps growing; and when you consider the wide range of benefits they provide, it’s not surprising. Big names like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have relied on containers to support their massive ops for years, but smaller companies and startups are only now starting to realize…

For successful SaaS companies, growth can happen at lightning speed. A great software product can propel any small SaaS startup from obscurity to worldwide fame virtually overnight. When this happens, scaling up becomes an immediate priority that, if ill-prepared for, can seriously undermine a promising newcomer’s ability to step…

The automation of previously human-dependent tasks is nothing new. The industrial revolution was the first big wave of automation where machinery was introduced to production lines as a means to reduce operation times, costs and complexities. Now, in the Information Age, we’re seeing the automation, yet again, of once…

While many development agencies have already embraced the cloud, dependence on existing IT infrastructure and legacy systems have resulted in most agencies having some sort of hybrid solution. This means that while some applications and servers are cloud-based, there are still local environments in use that need to integrate with…

To move a project through the delivery pipeline effectively, you need some level of automation. Delivering software isn’t simply a process of taking one set of files and copying them over to a new environment – it’s a delicate orchestration of processes. And with more businesses looking to adopt…