The Vamp Blog

Vamp is joining CircleCI!

We are thrilled to announce that Vamp is joining CircleCI. Together, we will realize our shared vision and enable software teams across the world to ship quality code, faster and more frequently - even on a Friday afternoon.

Progressive Delivery

Progressive Delivery Series 3/4 - Release Strategies on Kubernetes

It's Friday at 4.15pm and the weekend is just around the corner... are you ready to push the release button and go home? While there are many potentially nerve-wracking moments in any

Progressive Delivery

Progressive Delivery Series 2/4 - The Differences Between Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery

Learn the differences between Progressive Delivery and Continuous Delivery and what it means for your delivery process.

News

Vamp Joins The MACH Alliance To Help Enterprises Accelerate Their Release Cycles

With new member Vamp the MACH Alliance opens up the ‘Enabler’ category next to ‘MACH Vendors’ and ‘MACH System Integrators’.

Progressive Delivery

Progressive Delivery Series 1/4 - What Is It and What Does It Mean?

Kicking off our first part of a four-part series about Progressive Delivery. As more companies are moving towards distributed environments and the pressure to release software faster increases, a new way of software delivery is needed to manage this risk of changes.

News

Vamp.io Introduces Research Report The 2021 State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration

In our report we dive into challenges, trends and opportunities for improvement when it comes to releasing and validating software in production. Backed by 250+ responses from DevOps and SREs across the world.

AIOps

Cloud-Native Continuous Release Orchestration: everything you need to know

You've probably heard of terms like Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), but what in earth means Continuous Release Orchestration? In this blog post we will explain what Cloud-Native Continuous Releas Orchestration

AIOps

A Continuous Release Orchestration Carol by Vamp.io

2020 was a year full of the unexpected. But one thing you can expect is a holiday message from your friends at Vamp. To wish you happy holidays, we have made a short Carol for you.

AIOps

Vamp and DeltaBlue Partner To Integrate AIOps-Driven Release Orchestration Technology Into PaaS Platform

The joint effort enables users of the DeltaBlue PaaS platform to automate their "Go-Live" process, safely A/B test applications in production and apply auto-rollbacks when KPIs are not met to avoid production issues and revenue loss.

AIOps

How to avoid microservice dependency hell using Vamp without slowing down your release process

The challenge of how to work with different release cadences eventually hits every microservice-based application. Some microservices will be updated more frequently than others which leads to uncertainty about the compatibility between different versions.

AIOps

Vamp Launches Continuous Cloud Optimizer: Defining Performance-Cost Sweet Spot for Kubernetes to Help Enterprises Control Soaring Cloud Costs

Vamp Continuous Cloud Optimizer is a new machine learning optimization solution that pinpoints the perfect balance between performance and cost for Kubernetes-running apps.

AIOps

Vamp.io Launches New Cloud-Native Release Orchestration-As-A-Service Platform Based On AIOps

Vamp, the industry’s first AIOps platform designed for Cloud-Native Release Orchestration, launches its new SaaS platform Vamp Cloud, offering release orchestration-as-a-service helping enterprises working in Kubernetes environments to accelerate release velocity while ensuring zero downtime.

Release Strategy

How To Setup Trunk Based Development With Vamp and Reduce Merging Hell

Escape from merge-hell: learn what Trunk Based Development is, how other companies have implemented it and how you can apply it to release software faster and more frequently with near-100% reliability.

Canary Releasing

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.

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