Healthy recipe for a DevOps Dashboard
In La Redoute we are working with Jenkins as our CI / CD tool and we already have a delivery dashboard in place. However, we are starting to move to…
Daily Deployments? From Chaos to the Cloud
Time travel If we go back to 2004, the goal was the same as today. To deliver features as fast as possible, with the minimum impact on the business. We…
Our Tech Center Growth in Portugal, from 15 to 100+ Part 2
. A need to take control of our IT operations In parallel to the development story, we wrote another one more focused on the IT operations part. At the beginning,…
Process Mining 101: Why should we care?
The Origin and Motivation for Process Mining Wil van der Aalst, known as the “Godfather of Process Mining” is a well-known researcher and advisor in the industry. This field of…
Our Tech Center Growth in Portugal, from 15 to 100+ Part 1
The evolution is based on various company stories, evolution, context change that we will share below. Each story was based on projects, people and accomplishments as a team in order…
Configuration management with Puppet
There are several advantages to this, most of them already covered in this great post by Maxime Drouet, but just to outline a few: easier to maintain as the code…
The Traditional Test Automation Pyramid, Pitfalls and Anti-patterns
Why automating tests in the first place? To contextualize our reflection, we must step back regarding our objectives. The Test activity aims to support Business to reach a Flow state…
Infrastructure As Code with Terraform
What is Infrastructure as Code? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a term to describe a paradigm change where operators stop to create, configure and change the infrastructure manually and begin…
PenTest: Information Gathering and Scanning
The importance of gathering information To start a pentest it’s important to collect information about the target in the first place, this also includes to define the goals and the…
Boxing our custom CentOS 7 for Vagrant to manage a virtual machine environment, Part 3
CentOS 7 configuration You can start your configuration by setting SELinux to permissive mode (prints warnings instead of enforcing the security policy) # sed -i -e 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config Allow the…