Octopus Deploy

3 February 2020

Octopus Deploy

3 February 2020

Implementing DevOps in Federal Government

  Governments are often slow-moving bureaucracies, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to implement better processes within government agencies. A few years ago, I was hired as a Configuration Manager at a small US state government agency. I had a challenging mandate that took years to achieve: Automate the manual processes to improve the... Read more

Devin Conn

30 January 2020

Devin Conn

30 January 2020

What is the California Consumer Privacy Act and how will it affect your business? Part 4

In this series of articles about the CCPA, we’ve been talking about how the new privacy Act affects businesses in California (and businesses outside the state if they handle the data of California residents). We’ve seen that consumers now have seven key rights, and that businesses need to change the way they handle personal... Read more

Devin Conn

28 January 2020

Devin Conn

28 January 2020

What is the California Consumer Privacy Act and how will it affect your business? Part 2

With the CCPA now enacted, although enforcement doesn’t start until July 1, customers are waking up and starting to ask questions about it. In part 1 of this series, my colleague Ryan Easley wrote about which businesses will need to comply with it and the penalties for non-compliance. In this post, I want to... Read more

Ryan Easley

27 January 2020

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Ryan Easley

27 January 2020

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What is the California Consumer Privacy Act and how will it affect your business? Part 1

Remember all that talk in 2018 about the introduction of the GDPR across Europe? For many of us in the US, it didn’t seem real because it wasn’t in our corporate jurisdiction and we were observers rather than participants. That’s all about to change because on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act... Read more

Alex Tercete

23 January 2020

Alex Tercete

23 January 2020

Flyway 6.2.0 Released

Flyway 6.2.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.1.0. Highlights The highlights of the 6.2.0 release include: We’ve also written a guide for adding support to your database. You can find a detailed list of issues fixed in the release notes. Validate migration naming We’ve added the flyway.validateMigrationNaming configuration option to enforce the... Read more

Alex Tercete

26 November 2019

Alex Tercete

26 November 2019

Flyway 6.1.0 Released

Flyway 6.1.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.0.0. Highlights The highlights of the 6.1.0 release include: You can find a detailed list of issues fixed in the release notes. Manual transaction override You can now override Flyway’s decision to wrap the execution of a script in a transaction by creating... Read more