The notion of DevOps is often linked to mindset, culture, and collaboration, but beneath these aspects one needs tools and guidance that enable efficient development and operations. SAP Cloud Platform offers a rich set of DevOps-related services sup...

Overview This article describes the usage of Tracks (in JDI) to address a few branching use-cases. A simple branching pattern is first used to indicate what is possible with Tracks, and the two concrete use-cases that follow provide detailed descript...

In 1990, an anthropologist named Julian Orr published results from his study of Xerox's technical representatives who serviced Xerox copiers at customer sites. Although the representatives were supposed to work alone using troubleshooting documentati...

Last week, on my way to a presentation, I ran into this colleague of mine – the same one who had Why DTR ? Why not Perforce or ClearCase...?.“Hey!” she said, apparently thrilled that she’d caught me finally, “I read your The Evolution of Development ...

Once upon a time,not so long ago, there lived a Developer who worked for a software firm calledChaotic Systems.  The process of software  development in this firm waserror-prone and, in many ways, sub-optimal.  The Developer didn't realize itthen; be...