Hiera, a key/value data lookup tool for Puppet and Puppet Enterprise, defaults to storing data in YAML and JSON files. This is fine for many uses, but often someone will want to use a different storage format or import a bunch of data from an existing tool of some kind. To do this, you need […]
Everyone wants to release software faster, with fewer errors, so continuous integration is the watchword for modern release management. But as Andrew C. Oliver writes in InfoWorld, it’s surprising how few organizations integrate load testing early in the development cycle, since failing early is a lot less expensive than failing in production.