Delivering high-quality software fast, without compromising on security or user experience can be a difficult goal to achieve. Toolchain sprawl, communication gaps, and disconnected DevOps processes slow delivery and drive up costs. As the most comprehensive...
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Achieving Zero-Downtime Nightly Releases in a Highly Regulated Environment
Market traders understand the importance of timing in the trading industry. Each day missed (or hour missed) is considered lost revenue. When a proprietary trading firm began to miss trading days due to issues with its software, leaders of the firm contacted SPK to...
Building a Secure DevOps Framework: SPK’s Role in Supporting mysherpas Innovative Lending Platform
Introduction: A Secure and Seamless Lending Journey mysherpas is more than just a lending platform—it is a trusted partner that ensures every client’s success. In an industry where efficiency and automation often come at the expense of personal support, mysherpas...
How SPK’s Application Management Services Solved Klocwork License Tracking Challenges
Effectively managing software licenses can be challenging, but it is critical in ensuring your organization works cost-efficiently. These challenges only increase when vendors make unexpected changes. This was precisely the case when Klocwork, a leading static code...
A Comprehensive Checklist for Implementing DevOps Best Practices
DevOps has completely changed the software development sphere by enabling faster, more reliable software delivery. Implementing DevOps best practices can improve your business outcomes. Explore how to use DevOps technologies and trends to your advantage in this...
Elevating Code Quality with SonarQube Cloud
Building secure, maintainable, and efficient software can be challenging. Achieving high-quality code to ensure these features requires a proactive approach to code analysis and quality control. SonarQube and SonarQube Cloud (previously named SonarCloud) provide...
Strategies to Maximize Developer Productivity in Enterprise Environments
In enterprise software development, productivity is not just about writing more code. Instead, it’s about creating an environment where developers can produce high-value work. Today’s development landscape is complex, with toolchain overload, frequent context...
Getting the Most Out Of Your GitLab Investment
While there are other DevOps platforms on the market, GitLab offers more than just a way to deliver software. GitLab is an all-in-one DevOps platform designed to boost productivity, secure your supply chain, and automate software delivery. Utilizing GitLab to its full...
Optimizing Your Transition from Fisheye and Crucible to Atlassian Cloud
As many organizations shift to the cloud, Atlassian is encouraging its users to utilize more cloud-based solutions. For many, this means a transition from Jira Server to the Cloud. However, teams using Fisheye and Crucible must consider their next steps carefully,...
Integrating Jira with Azure DevOps for Seamless Operations
In SPK’s over 20 years of experience, we’ve found that efficiency and seamless collaboration are key to helping clients get their products to market quickly. Many organizations find themselves relying on both Atlassian's Jira and/or Microsoft's Azure DevOps to manage...
The Top 9 DevOps Trends For 2023 And Beyond
Firstly, if you’re unfamiliar with DevOps, you can check out this video that covers all the basics and how it will benefit your company. But, essentially DevOps is about integrating software development practices, and the processes and procedures of IT Operations. In...
Infrastructure as Code: Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts
The ability to scale a business is no longer solely defined by manpower, money, and on-premises infrastructure. Infrastructure as Code (IaC), in fact, has revolutionized the ability to scale and grow businesses globally. But what is IAC? How can migrating to it enable...