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Getting to Know Ada Developers Academy Graduate Brandi Wilson

  • Posted on: March 24, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Here at Skytap, we take every opportunity we can to promote and help support Ada Developers Academy, a local non-profit software development school for women. Ada is tuition-free and places the school’s graduates in a five-month internship at one of Seattle’s amazing software companies. We’re beyond proud to sponsor Ada Developers Academy and to have

Skytap’s Can’t-Miss Action at Learning Solutions 2016

  • Posted on: March 14, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We’re packing our bags and heading to Orlando this week for Learning Solutions 2016! There is a ton going on at this year’s show, so here are the sessions we’re most looking forward to, where you can find us and our friends, and how to make it an awesome week. Bill Nye? BILL NYE? Learning Solutions

All Onboard: Learn at the new Skytap Academy!

  • Posted on: March 11, 2016
  • Author: Michele Costello
This week, Skytap’s help and documentation team launched Skytap Academy—a new site with free courses that teach you how to build, use, and manage virtual environments in Skytap. Each new training course contains a series of short, 3-to-5 minute videos, along with exercises and links to more detailed supporting documentation from our help and documentation site.

Helping Business and Training See Eye to Eye [Podcast]

  • Posted on: March 3, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We sat down with CentralKnowledge, Inc. President, Ajay Pangarkar, at Training 2016 to discuss the disconnect that often exists between “the business” and training departments. In this episode of The DevHops Podcast, Ajay offers some excellent tips for trainers looking to avoid over-promising a training ROI to finance professionals, and how to deliver learning that

Making Self-directed Training Accessible and Learner-centric

  • Posted on: March 2, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We’re taking a bit of a departure from the normal theme of The DevHops Podcast to focus on virtual training! Shannon Tipton sat down with us at Training 2016 to give us a preview of her session, “Creating Your 21st Century Toolbox.” Shannon explained how the modernization of training involves using traditional tools in a

What’s in Your DevOps Toolchain?

  • Posted on: March 1, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
In this chapter of our technical series, “Scaling Modern Software Delivery,” we sit down with Derek Weeks, Sonatype VP and DevOps advocate, to discuss the benefits and challenges of building—and governing—a modern DevOps toolchain. Derek also provides some incredible thoughts on the responsibility we all share for delivering the highest quality software possible as software is embedded

Introducing MinorJS Frames

  • Posted on: February 28, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
The Skytap web UI is a Node.js application that’s built on both server- and client-side use of Backbone. We’re open-sourcing a number of the tools we use to glue it all together, beginning with minorjs, our base framework. Next up is minorjs-frames, which we use to manage Backbone views. If you’re familiar with backbone.layoutmanager, you’re on the

Vagrant at Skytap: The Nick Astete Interview

  • Posted on: February 23, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
You saw the recent demo and news about the new Vagrant provider from Skytap. Three new capabilities really set Skytap apart for developer productivity when used with Vagrant: the ability to securely VPN between the developer’s laptop and Skytap public cloud services, rapid syncing of the application stack through a NFS folder on the desktop,

Cloud Transformation at Netflix: It Wasn’t Instant

  • Posted on: February 22, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Netflix has always been a leader in adopting technology and processes. Go to pretty much any technical conference, summit, or meet-up and you’ll find someone from Netflix’s engineering team presenting on the leading edge technology or process they’re implementing or have implemented. Last week Netflix announced in their blog they’ve completed their cloud migration for their streaming

CAN-Toronto Makes Seven Skytap Datacenters

  • Posted on: February 18, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
News today from Toronto, where Skytap just launched a seventh cloud datacenter (CAN-Toronto) in Toronto, Canada. Read the press release here: Skytap Delivers New Cloud Datacenter in Toronto, Canada Offers businesses a production-ready Canadian cloud service uniquely optimized for enterprise software development and modernization Besides providing lower latency and less distance to cover for some

New Skytap provider gem for Vagrant: Demo Up!

  • Posted on: February 17, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
As the next step of Skytap’s continuing commitment to supporting developers through integration with open source tools and software, Skytap today announced new capabilities with Vagrant to provide management of Skytap environments through your local Vagrant client. Authentication, creation, management, destruction, and even sharing of your Skytap environments can all be controlled through standard Vagrant

Self-Directed Training at CA Technologies

  • Posted on: February 15, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
Lots of heat generated by our Virtual Training Lab solution right now at Skytap. A big Training 2016 show going on, a new LMS partnership announced today and more. Sticking to this theme, what makes this CA Education case study so interesting? A global enterprise software company like CA Technologies has hundreds of hands-on classes to offer