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There has been a lot of conversation going on around the configuration of applications, and how you manage it. Tom Sulston, a colleague of mine at ThoughtWorks, and myself started the ESCAPE project ...

The triple effect of cloud adoption, DevOps and CI/CD has dealt a blow to the old tried-and-tested means of infrastructure provisioning and configuration. Thanks to the increasing size of software, ...

Nobody loves managing configuration files for their applications, and as systems get ever more complex and distributed, errors — and the potential security issues that come with them — can easily ...

Provisioning services is at the heart of what the IT operations team does. Because that mission is often more onerous than it needs to be, configuration as code is viewed as one approach that can make ...

Embedded software configuration management can be a tricky endeavor. Systems today are often designed to work in multiple products, for various customers, over long-time frames. These systems require ...

Infrastructure as code applies programming concepts to infrastructure configuration and is one of the best tools in a developer's toolbox. However, getting the code set is just the first step. Once ...

Perforce Software has introduced JRebel Enterprise, software that promises to accelerate the configuration of cloud-based Java development environments, and that enables incremental code changes to ...