XaaS: The Go-To For IT Operations
Thanks to the popular movement known as XaaS, or Everything as a Service, every software project, platform, and product cloud is now consumable from mainstream providers. XaaS is a subset of cloud computing, as the "aaS" addition to any group of letters turns that cloud feature into a service. It covers products, tools, and technologies that can be delivered over a network rather than installing locally.
Understanding ALM Systems
ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tools are those that attempt to manage the entire lifecycle in a one-stop solution. For organizations looking to simplify, or those early in their decision-making process who are passionate about making the right selection the first time, we would like to offer our experiences with two major players in the Enterprise ALM space: Atlassian's suite of core products (BitBucket, Jira, and Confluence) and Microsoft's ALM tool (Azure DevOps).
An Overview of Microservices
Microservices is a modern architectural style and approach to software development where applications are built as a suite of modular services that are kept as small, scalable, and customer-focused endpoints with specific business goals. Being independently deployed and scaled, each service provides a firm boundary of what business case they are solving for. They are also designed to be independently scalable for reuse by many other applications.