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Seeking perfection by optimizing and automating flow – DevOps Webcast Series

February 24, 2020
  Dr Eliyahu Goldratt shares in his book "The Goal", “every organization has at any given point in time at least one constraint which limits the system’s performance relative to its goal”. And as Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, & George Spafford point out in "The Phoenix Project”, one of the…
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UrbanCode Deploy

Modern Mainframe Deployment Strategies

January 29, 2020
Mainframe application development is constantly going through changes, but the tools that support them, like the legacy library managers, are stuck two decades back. There is a need to rethink the entire lifecycle of mainframe application development process in the new CI-CD world. This is not just about plugging tools…
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UrbanCode Deploy

Implementing rolling deployments in UrbanCode Deploy

January 16, 2020
A rolling deployment is appropriate for big applications that are composed of multiple independent nodes. These nodes can be as big as dedicated servers or as small as Docker containers. This deployment technique is relatively complicated in terms of deployment orchestration. UrbanCode Deploy helps you simplify such complicated deployment processes…
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UrbanCode Velocity listed in the SD Times Value Stream Management Buyer’s Guide

January 13, 2020
SD Times, the leading software development magazine, declared 2019 the year of the value stream, and they weren't wrong. Value Stream Management was a hot topic at DevOps conferences and in industry media outlets. At UrbanCode, we continued to enhance our own Value Stream Management Tool, Velocity. This month, SD…
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UrbanCode Velocity

Looking Ahead to Value Stream Management in 2020

December 23, 2019
By every measure, 2019 was a breakout year for Value Stream Management – it was the hot request from our customers and a focus of analysts, industry media and conferences. Driven by the need to ensure we’re connecting technology investments to business value, VSM is helping to ensure the promise…
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UrbanCode Velocity

More UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition FAQs

December 10, 2019
UrbanCode Velocity is the free version of our value stream management tool that is perfect for small teams. We answered basic questions on our "Get Started" page, but here are a few more FAQs about Community Edition. What are the system requirements for Community Edition? 4 CPU Cores and 8…
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UrbanCode Deploy

Removing agents from ephemeral environments

December 9, 2019
If you are spinning up and destroying dev and test environments regularly (for example, with Ansible) and deploying applications with UrbanCode Deploy, you may have run into the problem of UrbanCode Deploy agents remaining "connected" and counted when you don't want that behavior. The most straightforward way to avoid orphaned…
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Releases and Updates

Introducing UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition

December 3, 2019
The team at UrbanCode is excited to offer a free version of our value stream management tool - UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition. UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition comes with two concurrent user seats and is great for "two-pizza development teams." Community Edition has all the same value stream management, release orchestration,…
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UrbanCode Build

Refreshed UI for Request Context in UrbanCode Build 6.1.6

December 2, 2019
One of the challenges users face while running complex builds is being able to track how the build workflow is proceeding and how dependencies are getting executed, which dependencies failed and how the overall build got stuck. For this problem, UrbanCode Build has the Request Context view feature, where you…
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UrbanCode at Gartner App Solutions and Strategies Summit

November 27, 2019
For three days, December 3 – 5, executives, application development professionals, and leaders will be at Gartner’s Application Solutions and Strategies Summit in Las Vegas, crafting strategies to address legacy and integration issues to deliver effective and engaging customer experiences. The IBM Cloud team, fueled with UrbanCode, the IBM Cloud…
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UrbanCode at DevOps World | Jenkins World in Lisbon

November 22, 2019
UrbanCode is heading to Lisbon, Portugal December 3-5, 2019 for the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference! DevOps World brings together DevOps thought leaders, IT execs, and continuous delivery practitioners for 3 days of networking and learning. Connect with us during the show at HCL Software booth #11. There, we…
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Share Your UrbanCode Story at Think 2020

November 1, 2019
As a friend of UrbanCode, we'd like to invite you to submit a speaking proposal for the 2020 IBM Think conference in San Francisco.  Whether you have spoken at conferences in the past or offer a "new voice", we hope you will consider sharing your experiences and expertise with others.…
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Events and News

We’re in Vegas! DOES 2019

October 28, 2019
The UrbanCode team is away this week at one of the biggest industry events of the year: The DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas brings together thousands of DevOps practitioners and subject matter experts ready to explore 'what's new' in the DevOps space. If you're at the show, make sure…
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UrbanCode Velocity

UrbanCode Integration with AppScan on Cloud

October 24, 2019
UrbanCode, together with AppScan on Cloud (ASoC), gives us the ability to automate control of our application security within our overall DevOps lifecycle, including automation, reporting, release and value stream management. UrbanCode provides development supported integrations for both UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) and UrbanCode Velocity (UCV).  This article will take you…
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UrbanCode Velocity

What is a Value Stream Manager?

October 24, 2019
My role as a value stream manager is to increase the work throughput that flows through our development practices while reducing the drag or problematic areas that may arise during the normal development processes. In short, it’s my job to pinpoint areas of improvement and act on them. If you’re…
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Getting Started

Continuous Delivery for the Enterprise

October 22, 2019
What should you look for if you want to architect an enterprise-scalable continuous delivery solution? One of the main things you need to do is have automation processes that can be templatized. This means creating automation in such a way that many teams can consume them while still being consistent.…
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Releases and Updates

What’s new in UrbanCode Velocity 1.3

October 22, 2019
With the release of UrbanCode Velocity 1.3 we’re advancing how we solve the Day 2 DevOps problem of spotting the bottlenecks in your software delivery pipeline. In our latest release of Velocity, we introduced the Metrics Bar. This feature gives you transparent and visible ways to display actionable metrics to…
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UrbanCode Deploy

UrbanCode Deploy Support for DB2 on Z

October 16, 2019
I received a number of questions related to our IBM UrbanCode Deploy 7.0.4 announcement and IBM Db2® for IBM Z. Here is something a FAQ: What does the announcement say? "The UrbanCode Deploy backend database for Db2® for IBM Z is no longer supported. Existing clients using Db2 for IBM…
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