Sorin Dumitrescu

In an ideal situation, your development team is productive and delivers a great app with minimal downtime. Does this sound too good to be true? That usually means it is.

You want to deliver a flawless app to your stakeholders, not overwork your team members, and get to production within your allotted time frame. But wait, a bottleneck appears. 

SaaS companies constantly make improvements and develop new features (big and small) to enhance user experience and “keep up with the times” for each product. In turn, they’re optimizing their SaaS release management process each time. Or are they? 

Is keeping your codebase stable a vital thing for you and your team?

What about the possibility of multiple developers working on a particular feature without disturbing that codebase?

Every other type of environment has been mentioned so far, except for training environments. Yet they are essential for learning about the software you’re working on and coming up with solutions to bugs or other issues.

A lot goes on behind the scenes to successfully release software. Competitive pressures and technological advancements are ever-growing in our day and age. Therefore, release management exists to help organizations with software release complexities.

Manual testing is time-consuming, and your CI/CD pipeline struggles without speed, but you want to deliver robust and reliable software to your customers. How do you do that? Through test automation. Although it can be pricier initially, it ends up being cost-effective in the end if done right. 

There are different kinds of testing environments as part of the deployment process. But, in this article, we’ll focus on staging environments and their best practices to optimize deployment.

We’re dependent on the Internet; and the internet? It’s dependent on high availability architecture. What would you do if it just stopped working one day? No work. No social media sites. No streaming channels. What would we do with ourselves? 

Ever since its launch back in 2003, WordPress has become a global phenomenon. Today, most websites, from presentation sites to personal blogs, use WordPress as their Content Management System (CMS). In fact, WordPress websites make up 14.7% of the top 100 websites in the world.