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  • Inside ANZ’s ‘industrialised’ CI/CD

    ANZ’s high-profile agile transformation program – dubbed New Ways of Working, or NWOW – has seen thousands of the bank’s employees shift into tribes, squads and guilds. The program is ANZ's response to the banking sector facing emerging challenges in the form of fintechs, as well as the changing expectations of customers.

  • The path to microservices

    Applications professionals face increasing pressure to deliver applications quickly and support rapid scaling. Microservices appear to be the shining light, promising development agility, deployment flexibility and precise scalability.

  • Microsoft ‘doubling down’ on blockchain

    ​Microsoft has unveiled Azure Blockchain Service, which the company’s head of corporate communications, Frank Shaw, said “simplifies the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks, allowing businesses to focus on workflow, logic, and app development.”

  • What are microservices?

    The origin of the term 'microservices' may not be that easy to pin down, but over the past decade the approach to application development and management has reached near ubiquity in the enterprise, with everyone from Spotify to the BBC shifting from monolithic architectures to embrace microservices.

  • How Google decides to open source its technology

    Google has a solid reputation as an engineering organisation with an open source culture, with Googlers contributing a huge amount of code back to the community and projects like TensorFlow and Kubernetes making a mainstream impact.

  • Inside Xero’s mammoth cloud migration

    When Xero announced in November that it had completed its shift to a public cloud platform, the accounting software-as-a-service provider claimed that it was one of the largest migrations of its kind to be attempted in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Recruit IT launches developers contest

    IT recruitment company, Recruit IT, has launched two competitions for IT developers, one for individuals and one for teams: NZ Top Tech Head and Top Tech Team 2016.

  • Gaming going gangbusters, says developer association

    The New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) estimates that the game development industry earned revenues of $88.9m in the 12 months to 31 March 2016, a 13 percent increase on the prior year and with 92 percent coming from exports of interactive software and online services.

  • Visa seeks innovative payment applications

    Global credit card company, Visa, is staging a competition for Australian and New Zealand for startups that can develop innovative applications using Visa APIs “to solve business challenges and bring new ideas to payments.”

  • DevOps: The right tools, the right teams

    Just as accepted definitions of what DevOps entails have morphed and grown over the years, so too have the toolsets and management approaches employed to build and manage a DevOps culture within the organisation.

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