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Top 5 Application Performance Management Tools

by scmgalaxy KApplication ServerLeave a Comment on Top 5 Application Performance Management Tools
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This is the age of applications. We are using various applications in our day-to-day life to get our things done or to get information and for various other things. Therefore, applications are now playing a vital role in our life and so that for today’s businesses. In these days organisations whether they are small or large they somehow rely upon applications for there marketing, customer relations or engagements or to reach them directly and for various other reasons. Therefore, it’s really important to manage application performance so that business runs smoothly and generate productivity continuously and users can get what they want. Simply means to say everyone benefits when applications run at their best.
But, how to know is your application is performing well or not ? You can not test them manually every time or You can not wait when the users will call the customer support with issues. Right?
So, Here comes the solution “Application Performance Management” Tools. Let’s see what it is and it’s importance ?
Application performance management or APM is a kind of practice through which you can easily detect and short out the issues which occurs in applications while using, so that your application users have a good experience with it. Actually, APM monitors and manage the performance, availability and security of the application. It provides data to the administrators which makes their job easy to find the issues and resolve before it impacts on application performance.
Now, let’s check out the major benefits of Application performance management
1. Reduce Downtime (Availability) – When you integrate APM tool you can decrease your application downtime by 80 to 90 percent.
2. End User Experience – The main purpose of any application is to satisfy the user or to give them a quality experience while using there platform and APM makes it possible.
3. Generate Leads – If your application is for ecommerce or for sales perspective than it’s really important that it’s perform well so that you don’t miss the opportunity to generate the sales or leads in your business.
4. Productivity – APM can help you to save your time in troubleshooting which ultimately means you have more time to implement other things and for changes and monitoring.
Now let’s move on to the section where, You will get the real benefit of this article. All these things cannot possible without a right tool. So, I have done some research and make this list of Top 5 Application Performance Management Tools.
Here is the list:-

1. New Relic APM

 

New Relic APM

Highlights
  • Application Monitoring
  • Deployment Analysis, History, and Comparison
  • Database Monitoring
  • Availability & Error Monitoring
  • Complete report
  • Team Collaboration – Team can work together
  • Secure

2. AppDynamics

 

AppDynamics

Highlights
  • End-to-end transaction tracing
  • Troubleshooting and control
  • Code level visibility
  • Scalability
  • Dynamic baselining and alerting
  • Data retention

3. Foglight

 

Foglight
Highlights
  • Integrated transaction- and customer-centric application performance monitoring
  • User Experience Monitoring
  • Transaction DNA
  • Advanced analytics
  • Enhanced collaboration
4. BMC Software APM
BMC Software APM
Highlights
  • Application Centric Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Synthetic Testing
  • End user experience monitoring
  • Deep dive diagnostic
5. OpsView

OpsView

Highlights
  • Track and alert on application health
  • Group apps by business process
  • Set thresholds to trigger alerts
  • Ensure business services are meeting SLAs
  • Supports monitoring of major application servers
  • Synthetic transactions to monitor end-to-end performance
So, This is my list of Application Performance Management Tools. Hope you guys will like my efforts and if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than feel free to share with us in the comment section below.
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Top 5 Release Management Tools

by scmgalaxy KRelease ConceptLeave a Comment on Top 5 Release Management Tools
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These days the software industry is going under transformation and lots of new tools and skills introduced in software development process. So, today we will talk about a similar process & tool which plays a vital role in Software development. The process name is Release management. In this article we are going to help you to select best release management tools which are mostly used by professionals these days.
But, before moving forward let’s have a look on to the Release management.
Let’s see what is Release Management ?
As per the “wikipedia” Release management is the process of managing, planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; including testing and deploying software releases. But in simple words we can say “Release management is a process to oversees development, testing, support and deployment of software.” It is comparatively new process in the comparison of others but growing rapidly within the software development process.

It’s growing rapidly which means it’s really beneficial in “Software Development Life Cycle”,

So let’s have a look on to the benefits.

1. Team Collaboration — Release management helps to bridge the gap between development & operation team by involving them into the process through information sharing and instant communication. 
2. Configuration Management — Release management helps to know what environment setting is, application requirements, and dependences exist in the production, test, and development environments.
3. Efficiency — Release management helps to increase the efficiency by reducing the time which spent on finding and fixing the problems with the help of tools which ultimately results to deliver reliable and quality software faster to the market or customer.
4. Increased Productivity — It also helps to increase productivity by pre planning of the best practices in the release process through which teams can utilise there times on important things rather than figuring out the what steps should be next or versions should be used or any other stuffs like that which delay the delivery process.
5. Minimizing Failure Risk — Release management helps to reduce the risk of release failure by making strong policies and allocation of works based on researched information and by providing them real time visibility into the release status which helps them to find the possible cause of failures and they can act on them quickly.
Now, let’s move on to the next section. Release management is not an easy task to do. It requires team coordination , build versions tracking , transparency and much more. There for release management requires dedicated tools to make this process easy. So, I have done some research and choose the top 5 release management tools which are mostly used these days by professionals.
Here is the list:-
1. Serena Release Control

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  • Dashboards and Reports
  • Environment Management
  • Planning and Control
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Managing Deployment and Task Lists
  • Enterprise Scalability

2. ElectricFlow

 electricflow

  • Microservices and Container Orchestration
  • Shared Visibility
  • Process as Code
  • Advanced Deployment Strategies
  • Enterprise Security and Compliance
  • Automation at Any Scale
  • Automated Rollbacks
  • Environment Reservations and Calendaring
  • Built-in Artifact Repository

3. BMC Release Process Management

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  • Easy to use
  • Executable checklist
  • Centralized management
  • Meaningful metrics
  • Extensive reach
  • Better planning

4. URelease

 urelease

  • Multi-Application Continuous Delivery
  • Impact Analysis
  • Release Pipeline Visualization
  • Release Gates
  • Deployment Plans and Templates
  • Federated Release Dashboard


5. XL Release

 

 xl-release

  • End-to-end release dashboards
  • Complex pipeline orchestration
  • Automation that scales
  • In-depth analytics and reports
  • Enterprise auditability and controls
  • Easy to use
So, This is my list of Top release management tools. Hope you guys will like my efforts and if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than feel free to share with us in the comment section below.
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Top 5 Hypervisor tools | List of best Virtual machine tools | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KVirtualizationLeave a Comment on Top 5 Hypervisor tools | List of best Virtual machine tools | scmGalaxy
Today we are going to talk about Hypervisor which is also an important tool for Developers or programmers these days. In this post we are going to share the name & features of top Hypervisor tools which are mostly used by Developers these days.
But, before that let us first understand Hypervisor.
Hypervisor which is also known as Virtual machine monitor (VMM) is a software or firmware which allow to run and manage the virtual machines. In a broader way, we can say Hypervisor makes it possible to run different operating systems in the same machine by using all the hardwares like processor, memory etc. if no other operating system is on. In simple terms just understand, it is a tool which control and distributes the hardware resources to each operating system according to their needs without interrupting other operating systems.
Now, If we look forward there are two categories of Hypervisors
1. Type 1 hypervisor — This type of Hypervisor are also known as bare metal or native or embedded hypervisors. It can be installed and runs directly on the system hardware.
Highlights
  • More Efficient
  • Higher performance
  • Higher availability
  • Higher Security
  • Need skills to operate
2. Type 2 hypervisor — This type of Hypervisors can install & run on host operating system.
Highlights
  • Less Efficient
  • Less expertise Needed
  • Less security
  • Complex problems cannot handled
  • Easy to Install
  • Useful when I/O devices support is important.

 

So, Till now we read and understand about Hypervisors and types of hypervisors. Now, let’s move on to the important section where we will look on to the top 5 hypervisor tools. So let’s start.

1. VMware ESX or ESXi

 

vmware

Highlights
  • Type 1 Bare Metal
  • Belongs to Vmware
  • Known as Mature & Stable tool
  • Required License for advanced features & scalability
  • Free edition available with limited features
  • 5 commercial editions
  • Good for enterprises
  • It includes its own kernel
  • Memory over commitment
  • High availability
  • vMotion
  • Storage vMotion
  • Fault Tolerance
2. Microsoft Hyper V

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Highlights
  • Belongs to Microsoft
  • Type 1 Bare Metal
  • Good for Small-Medium Businesses
  • Good for running windows
  • 4 commercial editions
  • Free edition available (with no GUI and no virtualization rights)
  • Live Migration
  • Storage Migration
  • Dynamic memory
  • Extensible virtual switch

3. VMware Workstation/Fusion/Player

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Highlights

  • Type 2 Hypervisor
  • It can run only single Virtual Machine
  • Not allow to create VMs
  • Licensing plans
  • Good for running multiple different operating systems or versions of one OS on one desktop
  • Good for labs and demonstration objectives
  • Good for sandbox environments and snapshots
  • Good Option for running Windows and Linux on Macs
4. Oracle VM VirtualBox
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Highlights
  • Type 2 Hypervisor
  • Mature and Stable
  • Belongs to Oracle Corporation
  • Similar to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Alternative of expensive server and desktop virtualization
  • Open-source hypervisor
  • Suitable for Small-Medium Business & Enterprises
  • Live migration
  • Multiple host resource pools
  • Automated workflows

5. KVM

 

kvm

Highlights
  • Open Source
  • Belongs to Red Hat, Inc.
  • Mature hypervisor
  • Contains the features of Type 1 & Type 2
  • Suitable for Personal & Small medium solutions
  • Based on Linux
  • Numerous guest operating systems work with KVM (BSD, Solaris, Windows, Haiku, ReactOS, Plan 9, and the AROS Research)
  • KVM is used in products such as Redhat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
  • Live migration
  • Storage migration
  • Configuration snapshots
So, this is my list of top five hypervisor tools. Hope you guys will like my efforts and if you want to share your list of hypervisor tools than feel free to share in the comment box below. Lastly, I just want to say choose those tools which are suitable for you as per your requirements.
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Top 5 Virtualization tools for Developers | List of Virtualization tools | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KVirtualizationLeave a Comment on Top 5 Virtualization tools for Developers | List of Virtualization tools | scmGalaxy

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Software developers are busier now than ever before. They want to do more work in less time with quality. But, as we all know it’s not possible without right set of tools in your arsenal. So, it’s always good to find tools that can make work faster and make you more productive. Today we are going to talk on Virtualization tools. In this article I’m going to share a list of top 5 virtualization tool which will definitely help developers to improve their productivity and allow them to build better applications faster.

But, before that let’s have Quick introduction to Virtualization

Virtualization is a process in which, with the help of tools you can create a virtual version of resources like memory, operating system , server or networks instead of deploying the actual resource. In simple words you can understand it like this way: Virtualization let you run or operate a single computer into multiple ones. It let you run a Mac OS on Linux or Windows system in a single computer simultaneously. The Windows, Mac, Linux, or other system running in the virtual machine acts exactly as if it were running on real hardware. The same thing apply with storage, server or networks.

Basically Virtualization tools are used for server consolidation. But they are useful for software developers for writing or testing software.

If we look on to the benefits than these are the major benefits of Virtualization.

  1. Lessen the number of Hardware Resources
  2. 80% server use possible
  3. Cut IT costs
  4. consolidated hardware to achieve higher productivity from fewer servers
  5. multiple operating systems and applications on a single computer
  6. simple IT infrastructure with low upkeep
  7. Quickly deployment of new applications

So, Now without any further ado lets check out the Top 5 tools and their features.

1. Vagrant

Vagrant is an open source virtualization tool which developed by Hashicorp and written in Ruby. But, it’s support projects written in other languages too, like as Java, javascript, C#, Python and PHP. It’s work on platforms Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Features:

  • Open Source
  • Cross Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows essential
  • Natively supports Docker containers
  • Can work with Puppet & Chef
  • Users can share running environment via Internet

 

2. VirtualBox

VirtualBox is also an open source virtualization tool which is developed by originally by Innotek GmbH and now being developed by Oracle Corporation. This virtualization tool is written in C, C++, x86 Assembly. It is one of the oldest tool in the industry which is used by developers.
Features:
  • Open Source
  • Virtualization Type: Hardware Assisted Virtualization & Paravirtualization
  • Cross Platform: Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris
  • Easy to install and use-friendly
  • Video capture support
  • VirtualBox adds support for touchscreens

3. VMware

 

VMware is a veteran in the software industry which is developed by VMware Inc. and comes in 3 different packages by name VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and VMware workstation Player in which player comes free for users who are looking to run virtual machines on their Windows or Linux systems. The first one is good option which is designed for professionals and the second one is for home users who simply wants to run windows on MAC. VMWare products are mostly written in c, C++ and assembly but different different languages are used in various other bits.
Features:
  • Free and Paid
  • Cross Platform: Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
  • Comes in three packages
  • Virtualization Type: Full Virtualization, Hardware Assisted Virtualization & Paravirtualization
  • Easy to use
  • Quick Installation

4. Xen

 


Xen is initially developed by University of Cambridge but now it’s belongs to Linux Foundation. Xen runs on Linux and Unix. Xen is included with most popular Linux platforms like Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian.
Features:
  • Open Source
  • Platform: Linux/Unix
  • Virtualization Type: Paravirtualization & Hardware Assisted Virtualization
  • Guest Os: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000
  • Also supports Red Hat, SUSE and Debian Linux guest OS.

5. KVM

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is also an open source intended for personal and small-medium business solutions. It’s originally developed by Qumranet and now belongs to Red Hat. KVM is written in C and it;s suitable for Linux. If you need or looking for command line interface virtualization tool which comes with updated solutions, boundless use mode and without extra features and permitting charges than this is the right tool you can have.
Features:
  • Open Source
  • Platform: Linux
  • Virtualization type: Full Virtualization, Hardware Assisted Virtualization and Paravirtualization
  • Powerful command line interface
So, This is my list of Top 5 virtualization tools. Now, what you think about my list or if you are not agree with my selected tools or if you think this list should contain some other Virtualization tools instead of this, than write in comment section below.
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Top 5 Log Monitoring Tools | List of Log Monitoring Tools | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KApp / Web ServersLeave a Comment on Top 5 Log Monitoring Tools | List of Log Monitoring Tools | scmGalaxy
These days there are various kinds of tools used by professionals in Software industry. From CI tools to Virtualization, to Issues, bug tracking tools to various others tools, the lists goes on and on. Thus, it’s really a tough task for them to select best tools as per their needs. So, today I am going to help System Administrators and operations by providing them the lists of top log monitoring tools.
But before that lets see, what is log monitoring ?
Log monitoring is a process of monitoring and understanding the state of the system, server, network, security devices and different applications and how they are working. Actually when these servers and different applications runs, they generate log files and events like Errors, problems, and more information is constantly logged and saved for analysis as text or binary files in the system. System admin keep reviewing these log files on daily basis so they can understand the condition and functioning of systems and different applications. But reviewing all those log files on daily basis is not an easy task, to do this laborious task log monitor needs to be set on those logs which automatically
monitor, review, analyze and generate reports as per the instructions set by System Admin.
As you saw how helpful this is for system admin but to find a good tool for this process is not an easy task. So, without wasting any time let’s check out the top 5 monitoring tools.
1. Logstash
logstash
Features
  • Extended functionality via plugins.
  • Free and open source.
  • Filters are code.
  • Great integration with other Elastic products.

2. Fluentd
fluentd
Features
  • Handles up to 50,000 messages per second at peak time
  • Data filtering and alerting
  • Apache 2.0 License project
  • Simplify and scale data pipeline management with tags
  • More than 200 community-contributed plugins
  • Real-time monitoring and alerts system
  • Store data in multiple systems
  • Collect and correlate web server access logs and application error logs

 

3. Loggly

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Features
  • Text-based logs from any source
  • Custom source groups
  • Point-and-click trending graphs
  • Automated filters and event parsing
  • Full-system RESTful API to integrate with other applications
  • Unlimited saved searches and users
  • Adaptable interface with multiple views, pages and workspaces
  • Unlimited custom dashboards based on any search
  • Built-in customizable alerts with triggers

4. Graylog2
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Features
  • Leverages Java, Scala and ElasticSearch technologies
  • Central syslog monitoring
  • Interactive API browser
  • Application debugging
  • Exception monitoring
  • API analytics
  • Intuitive search interface
  • Comprehensive dashboard

5. Splunk
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Features
  • Works with Hadoop & NoSQL
  • Setup standard searches as real-time alerts
  • Trigger automatic responses
  • Scale from a single server to multiple data centers
  • Deployable to on premise sites, hybrid-cloud, and/or private and public cloud based infrastructures
  • Securely make data available
  • Supports various use cases including log consolidation/retention, security, compliance reporting, and more
  • Perform ad hoc queries
So, this is the list my top log monitoring tools, I hope you find this useful and if not than feel free to share your thoughts in comment section below.
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Top 10 Continuous Integration Tools | List of Best CI Tools | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KContinuous IntegrationLeave a Comment on Top 10 Continuous Integration Tools | List of Best CI Tools | scmGalaxy
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Today we are present here with another interesting article which will help you to know about the best tools which are used for continuous integration in DevOps practices.
Continuous Integration has become a mainstream technique for software development. Which makes it mandatory to implement it in your software development lifecycle (SDLC). But implementation of CI required best selection of tools to achieve good results and there is still a confusion amongst beginners and even in vetrans of software industry while choosing the best tools. So keep reading, I have done some research and compile a list of CI tools which will definitely going to help you.
Before going further, let’s first see what is Continuous Integration?
Continuous Integration is a practice in DevOps software development process which improves the quality of the code. In this practice all the developers who are related and working on the project integrate there codes into a central repository frequently for several times in a day. After which automated build and automated tests run, which verify each integrations in the repository. The main objective of the continuous integration is to provide rapid feedback when any defect is found in the code base and correct it as soon as possible.
Now we know about continuous Integration but one question arises here, Why we do Continuous Integration?
So, Now let’s see the benefits of CI
  • Earlier finding & addressing of Bugs – By implementing continuous integration you can do frequent testings which helps to find bugs and error quickly before they ruin your whole efforts later.
  • Improve software quality – Early finding issues in the codes, developers can act on them early before they grow into larger problems later,  which ultimately improves the quality of the software.
  • Reduce the time it takes to validate – CI immensely reduce the waiting time to find out if your code’s going to work or not.
  • Release new software updates – Doing frequently and numbers of time automated build and test of codes helps teams to deliver the new updates to the user more often and faster.
So, these are the major benefits of CI. Now back to the point and purpose of this article, as I said earlier continuous intergation needs various tools to implement the process and choosing amongst the available tools for your purpose can be a daunting task, especially when you are going to select for the first time.
So, without further wasting any time let’s check out the top 10 Continuous integration tools.

1. Jenkins

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Jenkins is a Java written Continuous Integration tool, which was initiated as the fork of Hudson after conflict with oracle. It is a cross platform tool which allow GUI interface and console commands configuration. It available under MIT license which make it free to use. It supports rich plugins that integrates with virtually every existing software configuration management [SCM] or builds tool.

Features:- 

  • Open Source
  • Easy installation
  • Easy configuration
  • Rich plugin ecosystem
  • Extensibility
  • Distributed builds
  • Platform: Cross-platform

2. TeamCity

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TeamCity is one of the mature and wise java based continuous integration server which is belongs to JetBrains labs. It is available in free and paid license for users. It’s free version offers almost all the features but for up to 20 build configurations and 3 free Build Agents. Teamcity also supports different tools and frameworks and also it’s available with wide variety of plugins. It’s also support .Net features which makes it suitable for .Net projects.

Features :- 

  • Free and Paid
  • Gated Commits (prevents developers from breaking sources in a version control system by running the build remotely for local changes prior to commit)
  • Build Grid. Allows running multiple builds and tests under different platforms and environments simultaneously
  • Integrated code coverage, inspections and duplicates search
  • Integration with IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio
  • Platforms supported: Java, .NET and Ruby
  • Supports cloud integration

3. Travis CI

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Travis CI is an open source continuous integration tool which is written in RUBY. It’s easily get sync with GitHub. It’s supports platforms like Linux, Mac or iOS and also supports many languages in which Node js, php, Xcode, python, java, are few of them. It also performs parallel test runs using their great APIs and command line tools.
  • Open source
  • Supports pull request and branch build flow
  • Parallel test runs
  • Easily synchronize with GitHub
  • Flexible plans for every size project
  • Platforms: Hosted
  • Supports Many Languages like Node js, php, Xcode, python and many more.

4. Microsoft Team Foundation Server

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Team foundation server which is also abbreviated to TFS is a product of microsoft. It is a collaborative tool that consists the code repositories, continuous integration, and bug or task tracking. TFS perform in environment like Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio or in Git client. It’s also support languages like Python, C#, HTML, Java and various others too. It is available for free downloading but under trialware license.

  • Trial-ware
  • Supports many languages like Python, C#, HTML, Java and various others
  • Work in any environment like Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse, or any Git client
  • Extensible tool can work effectively for all shapes and sizes

5. Bamboo

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Bamboo is also one of the top continuous integration tool which is developed by Atlassian. This is available with free trial license. Bamboo is written in Java and it is easily works with JIRA & Bitbucket. It’s also allow you to import jenkins data to Bamboo easily. Bamboo also supports others tools like AWS, Amazon S3, Ant, Docker, codeDeploy, Maven, Git & SVN.

Features:- 

  • Paid and Free trial
  • Cross platform
  • Allow to Import data from Jenkins
  • Works with JIRA and Bitbucket
  • Works with others tools like CodeDeply, Ducker, Maven, Git, SVN, Mercurial, Ant, AWS, Amazon S3 buckets
  • Support many languages
  • Can run multiple builds parerally
  • customization of triggers and variables
  • Very fast and easy to use

6. UBuild-UDeploy-URelease

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UBuild-UDeploy-URelease is also known as Urbancode deploy is a collaborative product of IBM. It provides continuous delivery, self-service, speedy feedback and progressive updates within the agile development and automates the applying deployments during a consistent manner. With urbancode You can systemise the changes you pushed on servers, tiers and components and also restore the applications.

Features:- 

  • Licensing plans
  • Hosted service
  • Server virtualization
  • Integrated with middle-ware
  • Clear visibility: what is deployed where and who changed what
  • Configuration and security differences across environments
  • Orchestration of changes across servers, tiers and components
  • Automated provisioning, updating, and de-provisioning of cloud environments
  • Automated, consistent deployments and rollbacks of applications

7. Go CD

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Go CD is a free of charge (excluding commercial support) tool written in Java and Ruby which belongs to ThoughtWorks. This tool works on Linux, Windows and Mac Platforms. It’s also supports many languages but which makes it stand out among-st the tools is the Pipeline concept which makes build process easy and it eliminate the file-handle leak errors and fix the OOM on agents when parsing large xml test artifacts.

Features:- 

  • Availability: Free with paid support
  • Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac
  • Pipeline Concept
  • Parallel execution of the tasks
  • Support Many languages
  • Easily compare builds
  • Clearly visualize workflow
  • Promote trusted artifacts
  • Plugins availability
8. GitLab CI

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GitLab CI is an open source and also comes with commercial licesnse continuous integration tool. It belongs to Gitlab inc. which is written in Ruby and Go. This tool support platforms like Windows, OSX , Linux, Unix and various others which supports Go. Gitlab work with languages like Java, PHP, Ruby, C and with various others too.

Features:- 

  • Platform: Hosted
  • Availability: Free and paid with trial
  • Easy to learn
  • GitLab CI is fully integrated with GitLab
  • Docker support
  • Pipeline Concept
  • Supports multi-languages – Java, PHP, Ruby, C etc..
  • Parallel builds
  • Autoscaling
  • Build artifacts

9. CircleCI

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CircleCI is also belongs to Gitlab Inc, free and paid with trail option which runs in any environment like cross platform mobile app too. Circle ci supports languages such as Python, Ruby/Rails, Node.js, PHP, Haskell, Skala and Java. This tool is scalable which minimize the errors and improves application quality. Circle CI also supports Docker.

Features:- 

  • Availability: Free and paid with trial
  • Platform: Cross platform
  • Supported languages includes Java, Ruby/Rails, Python, Node.js, PHP, Haskell, and Skala
  • Supports Docker
  • Flexible pricing model

10. Codeship

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Codeship is also an powerful hosted CI tool which is available with free and paid support options. This tool is very easy to set up and it automatically deploy the passed tests results. This tool works on GitHub and Bitbucket, but you can use it with docker platform too by opting packages. This tool support langusges such as Java, PHP, Ruby (Rails), Node.js, Python, and Go.

Features:- 

  • Availability: Free and paid
  • Platform: Hosted
  • ParallelCI feature
  • Supported languages Go Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Java, Go, Dart etc..
  • Flexible Pricing
  • Docker Supported (by upgrading)
  • Easy to setup, fast and reliable
So, this is my list of top continuous integrations tools. Hope my efforts will help you in your Continuous integration process. One more thing, I would like to add here is that, if you want to learn the continuous integration process or you need support to get started with these tools in your work environment than scmGalaxy offers support from industry experts. And, If you think that any others tools deserves place in this list than feel free to share with us in the comment section.
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Top 10 DevOps Tools which is mostly used by DevOps Engineers | scmGalaxy

by scmgalaxy KDevOps ToolingLeave a Comment on Top 10 DevOps Tools which is mostly used by DevOps Engineers | scmGalaxy
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DevOps is an important component for software industry today. Developing and implementing a DevOps culture helps to focus IT results and to save time and money as the gap between developers and IT operations teams closes. Just as the term and culture are new, so are many of the best DevOps tools these DevOps engineers use to do their jobs efficiently and productively. To help you in your DevOps process, we have searched and created this list of DevOps tools which is mostly used by DevOps Engineers in their projects.

1. Chef

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Chef is an extremely popular tool among DevOps engineers. From IT automation to configuration management, Chef relies on recipes and resources so you can manage unique configurations and feel secure knowing Chef is checking your nodes and bringing them up to date for you.
Key Features:
  • Manage nodes from a single server
  • Cross-platform management for Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and more
  • Integrates with major cloud providers
  • Premium features available

2. Jenkins

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An extensible continuous integration engine, Jenkins is a top tool for DevOps engineers who want to monitor executions of repeated jobs. With Jenkins, DevOps engineers have an easier time integrating changes to projects and have access to outputs to easily notice when something goes wrong.
Key Features:
  • Permanent links
  • RSS/email/IM integration
  • After-the-fact tagging
  • JUnit/TestNG test reporting
  • Distributed builds
3. Puppet

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Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. DevOps engineers often rely on Puppet for IT automation. Get a handle on configuration management and software while making rapid, repeatable changes with Puppet.
Key Features:
  • Automatically enforce consistency of environments
  • Works across physical and virtual machines
  • A common tool-chain
  • Support key DevOps best practices, including continuous delivery

4. Ant

 

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A Java library and command-line tool, Apache Ant looks “to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.” This build automation tool is one that saves DevOps engineers a great deal of time.
Key Features:
  • Supplies a number of built-in tasks for compiling, assembling, testing, and running Java applications
  • Builds non-Java applications, such as C or C++ applications
  • Pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks
  • Extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool

5. Apache Maven

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DevOps engineers can manage a project’s build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information with Apache Maven. A software project management and comprehension tool, Maven has been a reliable tool for DevOps engineers.
Key Features:
  • Simple project setup follows best practices
  • Easily work with multiple projects at one time
  • Large repository of libraries and metadata that continue to grow
  • Extensible, with the ability to write plugins in Java or scripting languages
6. Logstash

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For open source log processing, search, and analytics, Logstash is a popular tool among DevOps engineers. Because Logstash is licensed under Apache 2.0, you can use it in the way that best suits your needs.

Key Features:
  • Collects, parses, and stores logs for later use
  • Includes a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs
  • Ship logs from any source, parse them, timestamp them correctly, index them, and search them

7. Docker

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An open platform for distributed applications, Docker is an application for DevOps engineers who want to “build, ship, and run any app, anywhere.” With Docker, you can quickly assemble apps from components and work collaboratively.
Key Features:
  • Assemble multi-container apps and run on any infrastructure
  • Compose an app using both proprietary containers and Docker Hub Official Repos
  • Manage all containers of an app as a single group
  • Cluster an app’s containers to optimize resources and provide high-availability
8. New Relic

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With New Relic APM, DevOps engineers spend less time monitoring applications and more time on building and deploying. A popular, reliable tool, New Relic APM is a great choice for DevOps engineers.
Key Features:
  • Helps in the build, deployment, and maintenance of web software
  • Application monitoring in one place
  • Cross application and transaction tracing
  • Database and availability and error monitoring
9. Gradle

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Gradle is a robust tool for automating building, testing, publishing, and deploying software packages and other projects. With the combined power and flexibility of Ant and Maven, Gradle is an open source build automation system which is perfect and very useful for DevOps engineers.
Key Features:
  • Declarative builds and build-by-convention
  • Language for dependency-based programming
  • Structure your build
  • Deep API
  • Multi-project builds
  • Ease of migration
10. Git 

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Git is a mature, actively maintained open source project originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the famous creator of the Linux operating system kernel. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Key Features:
  • Working offline
  • Fast to Work With
  • Repositories Are Smaller
  • Moving or Adding files
  • Ignore Certain Files
  • Branches
  • Check the Status of Your Changes
  • Stash Branches
  • Cherry Pick Changes from Branches
  • Find version that Introduced a bug using Binary Search
These are the most popular DevOps tools which are used by DevOps engineers or practitioners these days. But to make most out of these tools you need to have proper knowledge of these tools like installation process, implementation process, where to you use, how to use, troubleshooting and much more. So, if you think you need help or training for these tools or for DevOps related helps than we are here to assist you with our industry expertise professionals.
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Top 5 Code Coverage Tools | Best Test Coverage Tools

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Today we will talk about code coverage tools which are used by developers for measuring the quality of the software testing. There are so many different types of code coverage tools, some are basics and others that are exceptionally thorough.
But before going further on tools let’s first see what is Code Coverage?
Code Coverage is a methodology, which is performed to measure and describe how much the source code of a program is executed when a specific test suite runs. It gives a percentage score to a program which defines as a high code coverage and low code coverage. If it gets high percentage of code coverage during testings which means it has a minimal chance of containing undiscovered software bugs in the comparison of a program which scored low percentage of code coverage while testing. In simple words , code coverage is performed to check whether your tests are really analyzing your code or not. With code coverage, one can tell the amount of your code is being tested by running the test.
Where to use ?
Code coverage tools can be performed on .NET, Java, Visual C/C++ and Visual Basic applications.
Benefits of Code Coverage
Dead Code Identification – The first and the major benefits of code coverage is that after running this test you will get the outputs that shows those functions which are not called, after detecting that you can identify whether the code is untouched as no required use case exists or code is dead code (i.e. not required).
Missing test Identification – It can be beneficial in identifying the extra tests (exceptional cases), which are missed out earlier after running the test suites analysis report.
Quality Assurance – Quality of a product or application is one of the major concern in software world and this can be done by measuring the report after running the code coverage. Higher the amount of coverage better will be the quality of product or application and lesser is the chance to have defects.
Now the next question here is which code coverage tools to choose ?
This is the real challenge to choose which code coverage tools to use for application testing. I also thought about it and after few hours research on the internet and with the help of google trend I shortlisted my results and pick top 5 code coverage tools.
1. Cobertura –
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Cobertura is one of the most used and best code coverage tools. This is a free Java tool that calculates the percentage of code accessed by tests. It can be used to identify which parts of your Java program are lacking test coverage. It is based on jcoverage. It is easy to use and can measure coverage without having the source code. It’s represents reports in HTML or XML format, It has capacity to test lines and branches of class and method.
2. JaCoCo –
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JaCoCo is also an open source free code coverage tools for Java, which has been made by the EclEmma group in view of the lessons gained from utilizing and joining existing libraries for a long time. JaCoCo offers instructions, line and branch coverage. It can instrument off-line and on-the-fly and It fully supports Java 7 and Java 8. It also has capacity to test lines and branches of class and method. It also provide very nice and easy to navigate HTML or XML report.
3. Clover –
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 Clover is also a Java Code Coverage tools bought and further developed by Atlassian. It is also an open source tool. Clover provide very helpful configurable HTML reports demonstrating code scope as well as high level risks and so on, per-test code coverage and test enhancement, dispersed per-test coverage and many instrument integration; it is by and large effectively created and supported.
4. NCover-
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NCover is a code coverage tool for .Net programs and applications. It supports statement coverage and branch coverage. It is also very easy to use and fast tool which is available on open source and as well as on commercial license. This tool can perform manual as well as automated code coverage tests and it provides nice and attractive multiple testing environments.
5. Testwell CTC++ –
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Testwell CTC++ is a code coverage tool for  C and C++ but it also can be used for Java and C#. The development of this tool is belongs to Testwell which lately acquired by Verifysoft Technology GmbH for C and C++. This tool can check Statement Coverage, Function Coverage, Decision Coverage, Multi Condition Coverage, Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC), Condition Coverage. This is also in the category of user-friendly and fast tools. It finds missing test cases smoothly. It provide reports on XML format.
So, This is my list of top code coverage tools, I hope this list will help you in your testings. But, if you think this list should contain any other tools instead these than feel free to share with us in comment box below.
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Top 4 open source alternatives to Slack for team collaboration and Chat

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Off course Slack is market leader in terms team collaboration and Chat but here are the list of 4 open source alternatives to Slack for team collaboration and Chat.
Slack 
Slack offers a lot of IRC-like features: persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, as well as private groups and direct messaging (again, historically based on IRC).[14] All content inside Slack is searchable, including files, conversations, and people. Slack integrates with a large number of third-party services and supports community-built integrations. Major integrations include services such as Google Drive, Trello, Dropbox, Box, Heroku, Crashlytics, GitHub, Runscope and Zendesk. In December 2015, Slack announced their app directory, consisting of over 150 integrations that users can install.[21] Users can add emoji buttons to their messages, which other users can then click on to express their reactions to messages.
More info – https://slack.com/
IRC
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, is a protocol which dates back to the late 1980s. Since it’s been around so long, there are numerous open source implementations on both the client and the server side.
Coming with its age, however, are numerous drawbacks. It lacks many features one might expect in a modern chat client, from security to identity management to even just being able to easily transmit non-text components, like images, files, or emoticons (the latter might be seen as a plus to some, however). Some features have been implemented after-the-fact through bot services, including nickname management, logging, and other features, but these vary from server to server.
IRC does still have some things going for it, though. It’s nearly universal, and clients are available for basically every platform out there. Though the command-driven interface isn’t necessarily intuitive for beginners, many clients re-implement commands through a GUI. And if you’re doing upstream open source development, there’s a good chance you’re already hanging out in IRC anyway, so adding a team server might be a path of least resistance.
Let’s Chat
Let’s Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It’s designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams.
It’s free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.
Let’s Chat is a side-project of the development team at Security Compass. (A real life 10% time project!)
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Mattermost
As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings all your team communication into one place, making it searchable and accessible anywhere. It’s written in Golang and React and runs as a production-ready Linux binary under an MIT license with either MySQL or Postgres.
Rocket.chat
Rocket.Chat is an incredible product because we have an incredible developer community.
Over 200 contributors have made our platform a dynamic and innovative toolkit, from group messages and video calls to helpdesk killer features.
Our contributors are the reason we’re the best cross-platform open source chat solution available today.
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Useful Web Development ToolKit

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Bokeh
Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of D3.js, but also deliver this capability with high-performance interactivity over very large or streaming datasets. Bokeh can help anyone who would like to quickly and easily create interactive plots, dashboards, and data applications.

Quick Example – http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/gallery.html#gallery

Jupyter Notebook
The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much more.
More Info
bqplot
Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks by bloomberg

More Info – https://github.com/bloomberg/bqplot

Bootstrap by Twitter
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile-first web sites.
Learn Faster using Web –http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/

Learn Faster Using Videos – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wesUO81YX0U&list=PL41lfR-6DnOovY0t3nBg8Zb6aqm_H70mR

 

RTBkit 
RTBkit is a real-time bidder framework designed for use on advertising exchanges such as the Rubicon Project, Nexage, App Nexus, The Google Ad Exchange and others.

More info – http://rtbkit.org/site/

meatspac

Chat with Webcam Application devloped using Node.js
talky
Google Hangout Like application Developed using Node.js
sputnik

More – http://sputnik.szwacz.com/

CSS Guidelines
High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS
http://cssguidelin.es/
Uptime Robot
Another area of web development that should be constantly going on in the background is the monitoring of a website’s performance. Uptime Robot does this for you. It checks 50 of your monitors every five minutes, including the HTTP(s), Ping, Port, and keywords. You can choose how to be alerted–for example, through email, SMS, or even Twitter. You’re able to view uptime, downtime, and response times as well.
Converse
For a chat facility on your website, Converse allows you to set up single-user chats or multi-user chat rooms. Users can send chat requests and accept or decline, plus add their chat status like “busy” or “available” and show their typing status.
It has the ability to translate into 15 languages and can be screencast to chat with friends on Gmail or jabber.org. Converse can be integrated with many web platforms, like WordPress and Roundcube, and since it’s written in Javascript, it runs directly through your browser.
HumHub
This is another tool that lets your website users chat to each other. However, HumHub does this on a much grander scale since you can create your very own social networking site with it. It has a user-friendly interface and lets the website’s business, school, project group, or friendship club communicate and collaborate easily.
Every user of the site has their own “V card,” giving an overview of their profile, plus groups can be set up. Users can post, follow, comment, and like other people’s content, or simply share files and discuss them. It’s completely secure as it’s a self-hosted solution and it’s flexible since you can add in third-party applications. Also, as any good social network, it’s mobile-friendly.
Impulse
This tool can create interactivity for your website, or specifically, dynamic physics based interactions. For example, you can create Chat Heads like Facebook’s, a pull-down menu, inertia scroll, Oridomi Cover, and Bouncy Scroll. They’re all designed to work with mobile devices.
Using Impulse to create dynamic content works better than CSS for example, as there ends up being a shorter delay between when the animation is generated and when it starts playing. CSS tends to be better for static animations. Impulse has created a variety of animations and is always working on more.
Monit
Monit is fantastic for monitoring your server and is used for error recovery – it’s one of those apps that you need to have to keep some weight off your mind. It conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. For example, if sendmail stops working, Monit can start it again and send you a warning message so you can act quickly.
It can be used to monitor daemon processes or similar programs running on localhost, checking for changes, like timestamps changes, checksum changes or size changes. It monitors network connection to servers, which is useful if you work in the cloud. It also allows you to test programs or scripts. Both the free and open versions of BSD, many Linux distributions from .deb to .rpm packages, OS X and Solaris .pkg include Monit.
Onsen UI
A tool specifically for apps, Onsen UI has a large selection of web-based UI components and Java and CSS frameworks to build HTML5, PhoneGap, and Cordova apps. It works with jQuery and AngularJS and is customizable, for example, by using Font Awesome.
And of course, it has a responsive layout for all devices, switching between column sizes for mobiles and tablets. It makes the user experience of browsing apps superior and fast, and it’s incredibly simple to use.
Cinematico
Cinematico will create a responsive website for you, which is already elegant and sophisticated, but is customizable for your needs. You can add your logo and background image, for example, or spend a little money on a theme.
The main use of Cinematico, however, is that it updates your website whenever you publish a new YouTube or Vimeo video. It links to your YouTube and Vimeo playlist, channel or account and synchronizes automatically. All of this and it’s free, since it’s open source.
Rollerblade
For images with a difference, Rollerblade is a brilliant app. It allows users on smartphones, tablets, and desktops to slide the image they see left to right, and this will show a 360-degree view of the image. It works to showcase a building or location, or simply a product shot. With online shopping such a huge business, it makes sense to give customers as “real” an experience as possible.
For web developers, all you need to do is include the code in the top of your page with your CSS and do a few tweaks to get the rotator how you want it. You can have as many image rotators as you like, plus change the sensitivity and choose whether it plays automatically or needs to be dragged by the user.
Icon Maker
Icons and emoticons are everywhere these days and it’s easy to understand why: a simple smile can add warmth to any communication–even if it’s a little yellow face doing the smiling. With Icon Maker you can create your own icons to add to your website.
It’s easy enough for anyone to use and perhaps just a little bit of fun for the experienced web developers looking for their own, personalized icons. Create a flat or 3D icon with drop shadows and other design features in minutes.
Cylon JS
This is at the end of the list as it looks towards the future–with robots! Although the Internet of Things has been around some time now, it’s not fully integrated into every home. This tool allows developers to create a web between its 35 supported platforms. This includes Nest and Pebble, plus your basics like your keyboard or for marketing purposes; Salesforce.
It has an NPM module so that it can be run in your browser directly, or you can run it via your mobile through a Chrome connected app or a PhoneGap mobile app. It supports HTTP and Socket.io APIs, allowing you to send commands, send real-time data, and monitor your robots.
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