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Lawrence Hecht

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Tag: Automation

test automation coverage decreased dramatically
October 5, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Test Automation for Software Development

The biggest challenge to test automation is no longer dealing with changing functionality but instead not having enough time to create and conduct tests.

business tech managers are satisfied to facilitate no code automations
September 2, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Why Businesses Want to Enable ‘No-Code’ and ‘Low-Code’ Automation

Business technology pros have seen firsthand how business processes are managed, and 78% still allow end-users to build automations.

chart shows what SREs' service level objectives cover
March 27, 2019February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

SREs Wish Automation Solved All Their Problems

SREs are more than glorified IT operations professionals, but a focus on availability means they often are often not empowered to work on the engineering challenges they rather being working on.

how automated are each of the following lifecycle stages in relation to customer-facing business services and applications?
May 26, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Don’t Automatically Make Automation Assumptions

Automation did not originate with Henry Ford’s assembly line. Automation will not end with voice-enabled, machine-learning chatbots supporting ITSM. Automation is evolutionary. Even though time savings are real, every few months it’s important to throw cold water on optimistic expectations. A recent blog by HfS Research CEO Phil […]

Automation of workloads in cloud environments
February 23, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Automation Is Still Hand-coded

A year ago, most users of containers were not using orchestration tools, but instead relied on custom scripts, CLIs and perhaps their configuration management solutions. Those were supposedly early adopters. Six months ago an UBM/Interop ITX report, based on a broader base of general cloud computing users, found […]

Benefit Realized From Network Automation
May 27, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Tug of War Between Network Automation Benefits

IT pros are of mixed minds about CLIs. They know CLIs inhibit network automation, but they appreciate the agility they can provide. Based on an ESG survey of IT pros, the main benefit of network automation, cited by 20 percent of respondents, is that configurations become […]

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