The Vamp Blog

Feature Flags vs. Canaries - can they ever live together?

In this blog post we explain the differences between Feature Flags and Canary Releasing. Learn how to use both methodologies to achieve the holy grail of delivering better features with higher velocity and quality to our customers even better.

Microservices

Moving From Monoliths To Microservices While Keeping The Shop Open

In this post we discuss two smart approaches to migrate from monolith to microservices in a save, scalable and cost-effective way.

Release Strategy

Don’t Lose Control! Avoid the Point-of-No-Return When Releasing New Software to Production

Practical steps to improve your release process and avoid lengthy manual rollbacks, outages in production, and the general stress to people and risk to business of failing software.

AIOps

Vamp Official Partner of Commercetools Integration Marketplace

We're happy to announce that Vamp is an official partner of the Commercetools Integration Marketplace. Together we're accelerating and changing the way eCommerce platforms are releasing software today.

AIOps

What is AIOps? (and how it helps to accelerate your software delivery pipeline)

There is a new trend going around, one which has been hard to miss: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). In this post we will discuss how AIOps systems help you to accelerate the velocity of your software delivery pipeline.

AB Testing

The Product Owner’s Guide to Friday Releases: Data-driven, hands-off experimentation

Learn how optimizing revenue and customer experience can become a hands-off process that runs any time of day or night, without having to rely on IT.

Kubernetes

The Stay-Home Conference Guide for IT Professionals - 64 Resources, Podcasts and People to Follow to Inspire Your Cloud-Native Strategy

Keep learning with this stay-home conference guide for DevOps, SREs and Cloud Architects. Here's a compilation of 64 resources to inspire your Cloud-Native strategy.

AB Testing

The Product Owner’s Guide to Friday Releases: Rocket-fueled releasing through customer segmentation

Learn how to inject your release process with targeted customer segmentation to drive KPIs. The best part? You're the one pushing the release button.

Testing in Production

The Product Owner’s Guide to Friday Releases

Learn how by moving from “big bang” launches to gradual rollouts through testing-in-production, you can continuously ship changes to customers, even on the weekend!

DevOps

Top 10 DevOps, SRE and Cloud Conferences of 2020

You might be building complex distributed systems, but this selection of cloud, DevOps and SRE conferences puts some of the industry’s best events into a single, simple listicle. We invite you to be there and be x 3!

Canary Releasing

Balancing throughput and stability in your release management process

Increasing software delivery performance is not as simple as it looks. Organizations often fall into the ‘enterprise release trap’, thinking slow throughput of new releases is a way of ensuring stability in the production environment. How to balance that? Let's take a practical look.

Canary Releasing

How Testing in Production isn't Scary. Actually, it can benefit your entire organization

Dev vs Ops, product vs IT, senior vs product management – the fear of releasing new software into production can expose hidden tensions in any organization. In this post, we look at how testing in production can relieve fear and make everyone’s job, from product owner to support teams, easier.

Canary Releasing

A Pager-Duty-Free Christmas Blog Post Special

You’re 20…30…80 minutes into a production outage, and it’s Christmas Day. As you're faced with a dreaded manual rollback scenario, you might be asking the spirit of Christmas “why me?”. In this Christmas Blog Post, we invite you to answer a more constructive question: Did it have to be this way?

AB Testing

Why Testing in Production Needn't be so Scary! Because, yes, it can be safe

For many, testing in production sounds cool, but also like living on the edge - think base-jumping for your application environment. The truth is that testing in production can be completely safe. And it's key to releasing features faster without breaking things.

Canary Releasing

Deploying vs Releasing: the differences you should know to prevent outages

You can be regularly deploying to production, but still be doing rolling updates as part of your release process. That means big, risky releases that result in issues. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Canary Releasing

Release Strategies Episode Three: Canary releasing or the “how-to-scale” guide to release management

It’s Friday at 3pm…are you ready to push the release button? In this post, we unpack how building canary releases around release policies can transform a manual, subjective and error-prone process into a repeatable, hands-off, data-driven release process.

Kubernetes

Vamp’s a sponsor at O’Reilly Velocity and Software Architecture Conference 2019 – and you’re invited!

It’s coming! Catch up on today’s biggest trends in cloud-native systems like Kubernetes, site reliability engineering and observability at this year’s combined O'Reilly Velocity and Software Architecture Conference in Berlin from Nov 4-7.

Canary Releasing

Release Strategies Episode Two: Blue-green deployment or the “rough cut” guide to release management

Lucky release t-shirts anyone? In our last blog post, we talked about “big bang” software releases. In this post, we explore the pros and cons of blue-green deployments and start unpacking canary releasing as a release strategy.

Canary Releasing

Release Strategies Episode One: The “big bang” or the “how-not-to” guide to release management

Nail-biting? Finger-crossing? The hokey pokey in reverse pentagram? While there are many potentially nerve-wracking moments in any software delivery lifecycle (SDLC), none can fill a team with white-hot fear quite like the release step.

DevOps

State of DevOps 2019: Security is Key to DevOps Evolution, Release is Key to DevOps Revolution

Unlike security, release integration can pay "sunshine and rainbows" dividends when it comes to making IT a business driver.

Kubernetes

Network Policies made easy on GKE

At Vamp our trial clusters present a harsh security challenge. To secure them, we make extensive use of Kubernetes network policies, which are powerful, but difficult to configure and debug. Til now!

Microservices

The Misconceptions of Moving to Microservices Part Three: teams don't need to share operational telemetry

In this series of blog posts, we talked about various misconceptions of microservice architectures and the organizational structures around them. We touched on testing-in-production as a strategy to ensure teams can continue working

DevOps

How to Save Big on Google's Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Using Preemptible Nodes

Using a mix of normal and preemptible nodes we were able to save 44% on our Google Cloud bill.

Microservices

The Misconceptions of Moving to Microservices Part Two: services perform perfectly all of the time

In a microservice architecture and organizational structure, teams can work in relative isolation during the development cycle. In part one of this series, we looked at how that approach works well throughout the

Microservices

The Misconceptions of Moving to Microservices Part One: your team can work in full isolation

Building microservice architectures is a staple of cloud-native development. And with good reasons. There are significant benefits to splitting up your software into smaller, more manageable parts, allowing each team to work on

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