Top SRE Toolchain Used by Site Reliability Engineers

Introduction

Site reliability engineering (SRE) practices help organizations by ensuring the smooth functioning of their deliverables with utmost reliability and resilience. These can be achieved by a set of well-defined tools that are deployed at every phase of the production system to keep up with SRE best practices.

This blog identifies and lists the chain of top SRE tools and their significance towards ensuring the reliability of the architecture.

The Top DevOps Testing Tools of 2019

A significant parameter of software growth and delivery is the interaction and association that takes place among operation experts and project management professionals.

And this can happen only with the help of DevOps. It is just not a software or tool; it’s an art that you can accept for consistent development. DevOps has the ability to align your operations professionals and developer experts, permitting them to work together in comfort.

Test Automation Tools for Desktop Applications: Boxed vs. Open Source

Software development practices change over time, and so does the test automation landscape. Today most applications are either web- or mobile-based. The test automation of such systems is well-described. There are some best practices, information-loaded conferences, good tools, and so on. However, we faced a lack of information regarding desktop testing automation, particularly for Windows 7+ apps.

Our task was to test such an application, given that the manual QA process would take more than a month. Here we share the pros and cons of discovered solutions, along with our experience and some best practices of the test automation process.

6 DevOps Trends to Watch in 2019

DevOps has evolved over the last few years, but it’s still in the early part of its journey. In the next five years, the global DevOps market is expected to reach $12.85 billion. Accelerated growth will kick off in 2019 when the market will begin to experience an 18.6 percent CAGR through to 2025.¹

At Flexagon, we’re excited for how DevOps has evolved and grown to this point, but we’re even more excited about where we see the field heading. As we look ahead to the new year, we’ve rounded out the six trends that will drive DevOps growth and shape its future.