IT Best Practices

Encryption

When there is requirement to hash or encrypt data then the most secure and up-to-date methods and standards must be used. The recommended algorithms include Triple DES (3DES), AES-256, AES-128, blowfish, twofish. If other stronger algorithms are available such as SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, or SHA-512, it is encouraged to use them. Do not ever use MD5.

DevOps

• DevOps is about increasing delivery velocity, driving up quality and enabling innovating experimental delivery capability
• DevOps asks to stop thinking about big releases but deliver series of changes in pipeline. Start thinking Agile.
• Series of practices and techniques makes productivity improvement and increases Time to Market
• Business need features deployed quickly (in days) so that they can test and adapt quickly as per consumer demands
• Helping deliver applications at a pace of business
• Streamlines and accelerates interaction between development and operations
• New IT
• Agile
• Methodology where we embrace change
• Smaller increments
• Scope decide in just in time basis
• Continuous Integration
• Working on common code set
• Continuous Delivery
• Each code change is a shippable product and available on production with automated deployment
• Principles
• Test Early and Often
• Automate Everything
• Strong Source Control
• Test Driven Development
• Enable incremental delivery
• In Action
• Access Jira to understand requirement specified in a User Story
• Access Git to pull the code
• Write test case using Mocha
• Write web application code
• Code being reviewed
• Push code to working repository
• Merge and Build
• Code Analysis with complexity
• Unit and Functional Test Automation
• Deployment
• Challenges => Solution
• Inefficient Practices => Streamlined Practices
• Phased Delivery => Continuous Delivery
• Manual Process => Automated Quality Process
• Siloed Teams => Integrated Teams