Reading Time: 3 minutes Up to 2019 We released each customer once a month with a minimum down time of 2 hours (this led us to night releases in order to reduce the business impact). Having usually 1 month of development released at once meant we had to check a huge amount of work every release, that means a lot of people involved without proper context on manual testing. Sometimes we had issues with some specific test cases […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I want to write a series of blog posts talking about the iSEvolution project that we started last year. Context My name is Marco Rossi and I am the CTO of the company. I work here since 2006, initially as a developer, after that as Solution Architect and in the last years as CTO. In […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes From Visual Sourcesafe® to Team Foundation Server® Here in iSolutions we have been using Team Foundation Server® since version 2010. We migrated from Visual SourceSafe® several years ago, and this meant moving from a system that only keeps versions of our source code to a full-fledged Application Lifecycle Management system, where version control is “only” […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In our R&D work in iSolutions, happens very frequently to implement “exotic” patterns to try some new features and create interesting PoC. You always have to think in such different ways to jump over technical issues or simply to achieve your goals with less headache. Recently I had to install e configure Ansible AWX (the […]