ALM | DevOps Rangers
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Dear reader, As everything changes over time, so do we. If you follow our blog you would have...
Date: 02/16/2019
Follow the ALM | DevOps Ranger blogs and twitter feeds
Here is a list of interesting and informative ALM | DevOps Ranger blog and twitter feeds....
Date: 09/06/2018
Kanban Board Tools Extension Now Available
Introduction The Kanban Tools extension for VSTS is now available on the marketplace. This is our...
Date: 08/24/2018
Modern Security- & Load-Testing with VSTS when bound to on-premises
In many enterprises Azure is the strategic public cloud. But it still can have technical or...
Date: 08/21/2018
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shimail Gillani
Why do you want to join the Rangers? From last 3 Years as Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, I have...
Date: 08/13/2018
VSTS Gems - Preview Features
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 05/25/2018
Announcing the deprecation of a number of guidance and tools
Our mission is to provide practical guidance, experience, and gap-filling solutions to the developer...
Date: 05/24/2018
VSTS Gems - Analytics Extention #1 - Analytical widgets
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 05/04/2018
Refreshed VC, VSTS, and DevOps articles and a call for feedback!
We refreshed a batch of materials we’re creating and updating to support your development efforts...
Date: 05/02/2018
Recent work on the Countdown Widget for VSTS
Countdown Widget is one of the oldest Ranger extensions. This extension was part of the first batch...
Date: 04/30/2018
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Art Garcia
Who Are You?I am a .NET developer with over 20 years of industry development experience. I have done...
Date: 04/27/2018
VSTS Gems- Chain related builds
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 04/26/2018
Yet another CI/CD post - Java, Apache spark, Cloudera, Azure and TFS
The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) team is committed to the...
Date: 04/17/2018
VSTS Gems - Marketplace, the one stop location for added functionality
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 04/12/2018
Our April champion is Mikael Krief … again … for his continued passion to deliver value to our users
We are pleased to re-introduce Mikael Krief in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the...
Date: 04/03/2018
How we checked and fixed the 503 error and Performance issue in our Azure Function
How we checked and fixed the 503 error and Performance issue in our Azure FunctionSince we released...
Date: 04/03/2018
devconf’s log #3 – Sessions, Cubes, and lots of collaboration
Continued from devconf’s log #2 – Sun, Mandela, and no Bowtie. After lots of meetings, discussions,...
Date: 03/27/2018
devconf discussions – What is DevOps?
Sharing a few of the discussions before, during, and after devconf, a community driven, developer...
Date: 03/25/2018
devconf discussions – Feature Flags
For the next few days I’ll try to share a few of the discussions before, during, and after devconf,...
Date: 03/24/2018
VSTS Gems- Release gates
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 03/22/2018
How we deliver the DevOps VSTS Bot
To deliver changes for the DevOps VSTS Bot into production, we use a combination of Github and...
Date: 03/04/2018
We have an idea … now what?
Our ALM | DevOps Ranger community consists of a bunch of smart, passionate, part-time volunteers –...
Date: 03/02/2018
VSTS Gems - Manual step in release management pipelines
VSTS Gems - Manual step in release management pipelines VSTS is a great platform, but did you know...
Date: 03/01/2018
VSTS Gems- Identify stale branches
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 02/22/2018
Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream
In my last blog post, I wrote about benefits of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in the realm of software...
Date: 02/16/2018
How to analyze your open source project with SonarCloud and VSTS
Among the code analysis tools, there is SonarQube which I think no longer needs introductions and...
Date: 02/15/2018
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Oren Novotny
Who are you?I am Oren Novotny, Chief Architect, DevOps & Modern Software at BlueMetal, and...
Date: 02/15/2018
VSTS Gems- Branch filters in environment triggers
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 02/14/2018
VSTS Gems- Identify flaky tests
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 02/08/2018
Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Converting Existing Extensions
This post is basically a continuation on the series of posts that took you through a journey of...
Date: 02/06/2018
Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot
Dear community, I want to inform you for my upcoming update, which will be deployed on February 10,...
Date: 02/05/2018
VSTS Gems- Three ways to beef up your boards
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 02/01/2018
Value Stream Mapping for our VSTS Extensions
We the ALM | DevOps Rangers are a bunch of volunteers brought together by our enthusiasm of...
Date: 01/25/2018
VSTS Gems- Skip scheduled builds if nothing has changed in the repo
VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...
Date: 01/23/2018
Using the NavigationService in your VSTS and TFS extension
Last week a user of our Team Project Health extension reported an issue when using the extension on...
Date: 01/16/2018
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jose DelaCruz
Why did you join the ALM Rangers? I found very interesting what ALM Ranges are doing, I think I can...
Date: 01/08/2018
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Thomsen
Who are you? Michael Thomsen, Builder of Software, professionally since 2004 with a focus on the...
Date: 01/08/2018
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Richie Lee
Why did you join the ALM Rangers?I think that it is very important to recognise that there is more...
Date: 01/08/2018
Feature Flags Performance Testing
As described in the article Phase the features of your application with feature flags, a Feature...
Date: 12/05/2017
Roll-up Board Widget goes wide
In response to user demand, the Roll-up Board Widget v2.0.24 introduced support for wider views, up...
Date: 12/03/2017
Roll-Up Board widget extension supports feature flags
We shared our research of the implementation of the feature flags, using LaunchDarkly, with our VSTS...
Date: 11/23/2017
Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Extension Time
We continue from Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – a few moving bits. Now that we have some...
Date: 11/17/2017
Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – a few moving bits
Moving on from Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Typescript tools, we can start adding a few...
Date: 11/09/2017
Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Typescript tools
In the series of blog on how to leverage Office UI Fabric in VSTS Extensions , we continue on from...
Date: 11/07/2017
Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Getting Started
Continuing from Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions. I have spent way too much time trying to get...
Date: 11/02/2017
Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions
Office UI Fabric is the “official front-end framework for building experiences that fit seamlessly...
Date: 11/02/2017
How do I roll-back a VSTS extension when I am using a CI/CD pipeline?
A few days ago, 2 to be exact, we experienced a critical issue in production when we released a...
Date: 11/02/2017
Our journey to WhiteSource and OSS security, licensing and quality checking
This is the third, and final, article in the WhiteSource series for managing open source usage and...
Date: 10/16/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Geoff Gray
Who are you?I am a Senior Load and Performance Test Consultant with a degree in Computer and...
Date: 10/13/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ken Muse
Who are you?I am a cross-platform cloud architect, ALM and DevOps engineer, and recovering polyglot...
Date: 10/12/2017