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AGILE METHODOLOGY

LIST OF INTERESTING COMPANIES

LINKS (various articles)
AGILE METHODOLOGY (specific articles/tools)
Agile software development is an approach to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer/end user.
EXTENDED NOTE: The method no matter how efficient it is can be and is successful only and ONLY in organizations where EVERY SINGLE LEADER regardless of which department they are part of has bought into the idea, process, rules, and efficiency of this methodology! It means that no matter what seniority they posses they will not break the rules and push their agenda, personal or departmental need just because their title and related power allow them thus cause interruptions to the development and overall seamless workflow (trust me, this is 100% the case! I worked in org's where methodology was implemented and accepted on paper, while executives often ignored it, thus work ended up done based who's ever "scream was louder," and when managers attempted to protect their domains so work can be efficiently and timely done, they were....(I'll leave it at that).
DEVOPS/SRE (specific articles/tools)
There are many theories, analysis, studies, guides and thousands of opinions. Wikipedia's explanation that DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). Amazon's DevOps Concept where multiple teams comprise a single unit where the engineers work across the entire application lifecycle, from development and test to deployment to operations, and develop a range of skills not limited to a single function which many find to be an easy way to describe and create a DevOps culture and team. IMHO, the DevOps concept is a combo of tech skills, and processes in technology (yes more often with Software Dev CD/CI and delivery than any other area) and it is what you make out of it, meaning there is no strict set of rules while you choose to follow the general concept of combining skill sets from development and operations. These fields are, but not limited to, architecture, development, implementation and operational support which work closely with everyone in a given organization including sales, business people, product development, operational support and/or customer care, among others. This approach aims to make things work efficiently and cost-effectively to deliver excellent products and services. This section includes various links on the subject - articles, opinions, studies, resources, tools...etc.

To me, DevOps is a WAY OF LIFE (a business that is) that helps you, and those alike, get things done better, more efficient (or cost-effective), up to date while allowing innovation, experimentation, and learning while guaranteeing long term success!Mix into that SRE or Site Realibility Engineering and you have yourself a prime examople what real DevOps is suppose to be. DevOps is quickly becoming as mainstream as the cloud is. Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE for short, has become known as the distant cousin of DevOps that effervesces some of the same core principles but applies them to large scale frameworks, like those done by Google, Amazon or Facebook and alike.
- DevOps Tools
  - Communications / Collaboration/ ChatOps (key to DevOps)
  - Cloud Platforms & Related Info/References
  - Build systems
    - Jenkins - automation server for CD/CI code testing, build and release
    - Hudson - Oracle owned java based tool which runs in a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat or the GlassFish application server (retired/obsolete as of Feb 8, 2017
    - Maven - a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects Git Repository here
    - Node.js an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code server-side
    - Gradle - an open-source build automation system that builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven and introduces a Groovy Git Repository here
  - Automation (testing and ops)/Config Management
    - Terraform - On GitHub Repository
    - Ansible - automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment
    - CHEF configuration management tool is written in Ruby and Erlang
    - Puppet open-source software configuration management tool
    - AWS OpsWorks a configuration management service for managed instances of Chef and Puppet
    - Apache Maven a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects
    - Apache Ant - software tool for automating software build processes
    - CFEngine open source configuration management system
    - Salt a Python-based open-source configuration management software and remote execution engine
    - Vagrant an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual sofdev environments On GitHub Repository
    - Bcfg2 a configuration management tool developed in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory
    - Blue Prism enables business operations to be agile and cost effective by automating, manual, rule-based, repetitive back-office processes and improving accuracy
    - SeleniumHQ automating web applications for testing purposes
    - Katalon free automation testing solution built on top of the open-source automation frameworks Selenium, Appium with a specialized IDE interface for API, web and mobile testing
    - SoapUI web service testing application for service-oriented architectures (SOA) and representational state transfers (REST)
    - Appium an open source automation tool for running scripts and testing native applications, mobile-web applications and hybrid applications on Android or iOS using a webdriver
    - Ranorex is a GUI test automation framework provided by Ranorex GmbH, a software development company. The framework is used for the testing of desktop, web-based and mobile applications.
    - Postman API Testing Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
    - Apigee Apigee Corp. was an API management and predictive analytics software provider before its merger into Google Cloud.
    - SoapUI SoapUI is an open-source web service testing application for Simple Object Access Protocol and representational state transfers. Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing. On GitHub Repository
    - Katalon Katalon Studio is an automation testing software tool developed by Katalon, Inc. The software is built on top of the open-source automation frameworks Selenium, Appium with a specialized IDE interface for web, API, mobile and desktop application testing.
    - Tricentis Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria and Mountain View, California. It provides software testing automation and software quality assurance products for enterprise software
    - AssertibleAssertible provides a reliable first line of defense against web service failures by providing simple and powerful assertions to test and monitor your APIs and websites. Lower the number of false positives in your automated QA tests and be confident your APIs are healthy.
    - Karate DSLCreating scenarios for API-based BDD tests has never been easier. Karate DSL helps users accomplish this without needing to write down step definitions. It also has already created those definitions, so users can get on with API testing as quickly as possible.
    - Rest Assured is a Java library for testing RESTful APIs. It is widely used to test JSON and XML based web applications. Furthermore, it fully supports all methods including the GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, and DELETE. Still, you are required to have Java, Maven, TestNG, and IDE (IntelliJ, Eclipse, etc.).
    - JMeter is an Apache project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications. On Git Repository
    - API Fortress API Fortress is a continuous testing platform for APIs that helps organizations accelerate releases while decreasing risk. Get Started Here for FREE
    - Hoppscotch Hoppscotch started as Postwoman, an open-source API testing tool that offers an alternative for the popular Postman API testing tool. Git Repository here
    - Testim Testim is an automated testing platform for fast authoring of AI-powered stable tests and tools to help you scale quality.
  - Source control & code management/Dev Frameworks
    - Apache™ Subversion® (SVN)
    - GitHub
    - Git
    - GitLab - Git-repository manager with wiki and issue-tracking features
    - IBM® Rational® ClearCase®
    - BitBucket by Atlassian
    - Eclipse IDE - integrated development environment
    - TeamCity: Hassle-free CI and CD Server by JetBrains
    - Bamboo CI / CD server developed by Atlassian
    - SmartFrog Java based open-source framework 4 hosting large scale apps
    - Juju an open source application modelling tool developed by Canonical Ltd
  - Code Review Tools
    - Codacy automatically identifies issues through static code analysis. Get a quick notification on security issues, code duplication, and code complexity in every pull and commit request.Support 28 coding languages.
    - CodeFactor.io allows you to have a glance of code quality for the whole project, recent commits, and the most problematic files. You can track and fixed issues for every commit & pull request.
    - Helix Swarm a code review tool that arranges reviews, shares content and sees code review changes. It allows continuous integration deployment. It helps you to monitor progress, automate design process and improves release quality of the project.
    - JArchitect a code review tool for analyzing the Java code. After each review, it sends a report about the development of your project. The tool also helps you to improve code maintainability.
    - Collaborator the most comprehensive peer code review tool, built for teams working on projects where code quality is critical.
    - Review Assistant a code review tool. This code review plug-in helps you to create review requests and respond to them without leaving Visual Studio. Review Assistant supports TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. Simple setup: up and running in 5 minutes.
    - Codebrag a simple, light-weight, free and open source code review tool which makes the review entertaining and structured. It is used to solve issues like non-blocking code review, inline comments & likes, smart email notifications etc.
    - Gerrit a free web-based code review tool used by the software developers to review their code on a web-browser and reject or approve the changes. Gerrit can be integrated with Git which is a distributed Version Control System.
    - Codestriker an open source and free online code reviewing web application that assists the collaborative code review.
    - Rhodecode an open source, protected and incorporated enterprise source code management tool that can be deployed as a serves based integrated tool for Git, Subversion, and Mercurial.
    - Phabricator a complete suite of open-source software development applications which include light-weight web-based code review, planning, testing, browsing and audit score, finding bugs etc.
    - Crucible by Atlassian a web-based collaborative code review application used by developers for code review, finding defects, discussing the changes and knowledge sharing etc and easy for SVN, Perforce, and CVS.
    - Veracode (now acquired by CA Technologies) is a company which delivers various solutions for automated & on-demand application security testing, automated code review etc.
    - Review Board is a web-based, collaborative, free and open source tool used for code review and document review by open source projects and companies. It can be integrated with ClearCase, CVS, Perforce, Plastic etc. and supports pre-commit reviews and post-commit reviews. (a good option for analytics platfotms)
    - Barkeep
    - JArchitect a tool for analyzing the Java code. After each review, it surrenders a report stating the development of your project or software which eases your task of customizing the code.
    - Code Review Tool uses the light-weight review technique by providing all the advantages of formal inspections by reducing the effort and time.
    - Reviewable light-weight and powerful code review tool which makes the code review faster and thorough. It facilitates in improving the code quality by cleaning the User Interface, Customizing the code font, finding bugs or issues, highlighting the syntax etc.
    - Rietvelda web-based code collaborative code review tool from Google. Basically, it was developed to demonstrate the google app engine. However, now it is used by many open source projects for code review.
    - Peer Review Plugin is a web-based environment that makes the code review user-friendly. It allows the developers to review the code during their own time and that too in a distributed manner. The ultimate purpose of this plug-in is to review the files from the repository and comment the same.
  - Code Editor Tools
    - Notepad++ free to use code editor written in C++. It uses pure win32 API which offers greater execution speed and small program size. It runs only in the window's environment, and it uses GPL License.[for Windows Platform/Cost:Free]
    - Atom useful code editor tool preferred by programmers due to its simple interface compared to the other editors. Atom users can submit packages and them for the software.[for Windows, Mac and Linux Platforms/Cost:Free]
    - Visual Studio Code an open source code editor software developed by Microsoft. It offers built-in support for TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js.[Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux/Cost:Free]
    - Brackets is a lightweight tool developed by Adobe. It is an open source text editor which is free to download. It allows you to a toggle between your source code and the browser view.[Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux/Cost:Free]
    - NetBeans an open-source code editor tool for developing with Java, PHP, C++, and other programming languages. With this editor, code analyzers, and converters.[Platforms: Mac Windows Linux/Cost: Free]
    - Bluefish is a cross-platform editor is a speedy tool which can handle dozens of files simultaneously. The tool allows developers to conduct remote editing. This code editor tool offers many options to s programmers and web developers, to write websites, scripts, and programming code.[Platforms: Mac Windows Linux/Cost: Free]
    - VIM n advanced text editor open source tool which is also considered to be an IDE in its way. This tool allows managing your text editing activities with vim editors and UNIX System which can be used on-premise or online.[Platform: Linux]
    - Geany a text editor which uses GTK+ toolkit. It also has certain basic features of an integrated development environment.[Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux / Cost:Free]
    - Komodo Edit is an easy to use and powerful code editing tool. It allows you to do debugging, unit testing, code refactoring. [Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux / Cost:Free Trial]
    - Emacs a Unix based text editor tool which is used by programmers, engineers, students, and system administrators. [Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux / Cost:Free]
    - jEdit a code editor program which is written in Java. This open source tool supports hundreds of plugins and macros. It offers a large collection of plugins maintained by a worldwide developer team. [Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux / Cost:Free]
    - TextMate a versatile plain text editor for mac with unique and innovative features. [Platform: Mac / Cost:Free]
    - gedit designed as a general-purpose text editor. It offers simple and eases to use GUI. It includes features for editing source code and structured text like markup languages. [Platform: Mac & Windows/ Cost:Free]
    - Light Table is an IDE and text editor tool for software development.[Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux/ Cost:Free]
    - Blue Griffon an open source HTML editor powered by Gecko, which is Firefox's rendering engine.[Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux/ Cost:Free]
  - Containers/Orchestration
    - Docker app for operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization
    - Kubernetes: Production-Grade Container Orchestration
    - Spring Framework application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform
    - Apache TomCat an open-source Java Servlet Container
  - Automated testing
    - Web based automation - portable software-testing framework for web applications.
    - Gradle build automation system that builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven
    - Automated testing by Cucumber
    - JUnit - testing framework for the Java programming language
  - Databases (SQL, noSQL, inMemory & RDBMS types - incomplete list)
    - SQL
      - Microsoft SQL Server
      - SAP HANA
      - ADABAS by Software AG
      - MySQL (likely the most popular by general public)
      - FileMaker (an Apple subsidiary)
      - Microsoft Access
      - Informix
      - SQLite
      - PostgreSQL
      - Ingres
      - dBase
      - PervasisDB (could be listed under SQL db's as well due to the fact it provides SQL Relational Database Engine and MicroKernel Database Engine)
    - noSQL
      - Ultimate guide to non-relational db's (no https)
      - Amazon DynamoDB
      - AWS's Amazon RDS
      - AWS's Amazon SimpleDB
      - MariaDB
      - Apache CouchDB
      - Apache Couchbase Server
      - Apache Cassandra
      - MnogoDB
      - RethinkDB
      - Datomic (runs on AWS)
      - ArangoDB
      - Aerospike database
      - OrientDB
      - Aqua Data Studio
      - c-treeACE db listed here but also has an SQL version
    - inMemory
      - VoltDB
    - RDBMS
      - Oracle RDBMS
      - IBM DB2
      - IBM Informix
      - Redis
      - MaxDB by SAP AG
      - Apache Derby
      - HSQLDB
      - mSQL
      - MonetDb
      - Amazon Aurora propriatery
      - Postgres-XL
      - Virtuoso Universal Server
      - ScimoreDBor SciMoreDB (have not used it thus not sure which code is more relevant)
      - Polyhedra DBMS
      - H2 as open source software Mozilla Public License 2.0 or the original Eclipse Public License
  - Operational Monitoring/Analytics
    - Elasticsearch (a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine), the Repository and Wikipedia About
    - Kibana by Elastic , the Repositoryand Wikipedia About
    - Logstash: Collect, Parse, Transform Logs by Elastic, the Repositoryand Wikipedia About
    - Splunk (a software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a Web-style interface), and Wikipedia About
    - Open Source Search & Analytics - Elasticsearch by Elastic and the Repository
    - Apache Kafka for a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds, and the Repository
    - Ops Monitoring by Cisco's AppDynamics
    - Prometheus
    - Grafana
    - New Relic
    - CloudWatch by Amazon AWS
    - Nagios - The Industry Standard In IT Infrastructure Monitoring
    - Nagios - Network, Server and Log Monitoring Software
    - Cacti® - The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution
    - RRDTool and the Repository
    - MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
    - Ganglia Monitoring System
    - collectd and the Repository
    - OpenNMS and the Repository
    - ZABBIX and the Repository
    - Munin and the Repository
    - Datadog: Modern monitoring & analytics
    - Monit and the Repository
    - FluentD
    - Open Tracing
    - BIRTis open source BI software that can be used to create data visualizations and reports, which can all be embedded into web applications. About the project
    - ClickData Easy to use yet powerful and affordable business intelligence software to quickly create custom dashboards & reports from 200+ data sources.
    - Helical Insight an open source BI framework that provides e-mail scheduling, visualization, exporting, multi-tenancy, user role management along with an API-driven framework that allows users to add any additional functionality that they may need.
    - Jedox provides powerful planning and beautiful reporting on every desktop and mobile device.
    - JasperReports Server a standalone Self-service Reporting and Analysis Server
    - KNIME an open source platform for data analysis
    - Pentaho Reporting platform is a suite of the company’s open source reporting tools that lets users create historical data reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, text, rich-text file, XML, and CSV formats
    - Microsoft Power BI a free version of the platform with a 1 GB per user data capacity limit and once-per-day data-refresh schedule.
    - RapidMiner allows data scientists to build a complete analytical workflow in data science and business intelligence projects, allowing them to do data preparation, modeling, and deployment in a single environment.
    - ReportServer integrates various BI reporting engines into a single user interface with the goal of allowing people to use the right analytics tool for the right purpose at the right time.
    - Seal Report an open source framework that can produce reports and dashboards based on the information in a database.
    - Spago BI an open source business intelligence suite that includes reporting, charting, and data-mining tools.
    - SQL Power Wabit open-sourced Wabit, which provides a single framework for all ad-hoc queries and OLAP analyses that works with almost any database platform.
    - Tableau Public free BI software that allows people to create interactive charts and live dashboards and then publish them on the Internet, embed them on a website, or share them on social media.
    - Tableau an interactive data visualization software focused on business intelligence
    - Zoho Reports BI platform connecting to almost any data source and then create visual reports and dashboards for analysis.
    - Applications Performance Monitoring Tools
      - New Relic APM software analytics product for application performance monitoring (APM) delivers real-time and trending data about your web application's performance and the level of satisfaction that your end users experience.
      - AppDynamics
      - Stackify Retrace
      - Scout (Solar winds)
      - Riverbed SteelCentral
      - Dell Foglight
      - IDERA Precise
      - Nastel
      - Loupe
      - SmartBear (formally Lucierna)
      - AWS's Elastisearch Service
      - Moogsoft | AIOps Collaborative Platform for IT Ops and DevOpse
  - Code Performance Analysis Tools
    - DynamoRIO is a BSD licensed dynamic binary instrumentation framework for the development of dynamic program analysis tools. Repository
    - Dynatrace software intelligence company providing application performance management (APM), artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps), cloud infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience management (DEM), with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Products (SaaS and Managed
    - FusionReactor is a developer focused Java application performance monitor for monitoring Java application servers such as Tomcat, JBoss. WebSphere and MongoDB, and in particular Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, Lucee, and Flex Data Services Documented Features
    - GlowCode is a performance and memory/resource profiler
    - Gprof is a performance analysis tool for Unix applications.
    - PurifyPlus is a memory debugger program used by software developers to detect memory access errors in programs, especially those written in C or C++
    - Valgrind is a System for debugging and profiling; supports tools to either detect memory management and threading bugs, or profile performance (cachegrind and callgrind). KCacheGrind, valkyrie and alleyoop are front-ends for valgrind. Repository
    - VTune Amplifier XE by Intel Corporation Tool for serial and threaded performance analysis.
    - InspectIT is an open-source application performance management (APM) tool, which enables the diagnosis, analysis and monitoring of Java applications. Repository
    - Plumbr is built on top of a proprietary algorithm that automatically detects the root causes of Java performance issues by interpreting application performance data.
    - OverOps uses a Java agent to perform code analysis and track code changes in real time. Using graph analysis, OverOps maps an application's codebase and the different connections between variables, methods and classes.
    - The Falcon Monitoring and Steering System by Georgia Tech set of tools that collectively support on-line program monitoring and steering of parallel and distributed application Repository
    - TAU by University of Oregon s a portable profiling and tracing toolkit for performance analysis of parallel programs written in Fortran, C, C++, UPC, Java, Python.
    - DevPartner Studio (DPS) a suite of tools allowing a developer to analyze native (unmanaged) and .NET (managed) code for, among other, Performance analysis (timing) and Performance expert (CPU, disk and network resource usage) as well memory issues etc.
    - DevPartner Java Edition (DPJ) integrates a set of functionality enabling developers to analyze Java code for performance profiling and optimization, memory leaks and optimization; Thread analysis and dead-lock detection; Code coverage analysis and Code quality and complexity
    - Arm MAP for profiling the performance of C, C++ ,Fortran 90 and Python software.
    - AQtime is a performance profiler and memory/resource debugging toolset
    - AMD CodeAnalyst a GUI-based code profiler for x86 and x86-64-based machines
    - AMD CodeXL ool suite that includes a GPU debugger, a GPU profiler, a CPU profiler, Graphics frame analyzer and a static shader/kernel analyzer
  - Ticketing/Bug Tracking/US Management/Documenting/Wiki
    - JIRA - proprietary issues tracking and agile development user story repository and management product, developed by Atlassian
    - Confulence (Wiki) collaboration and document sharing web application by Atlassian/span>
    - Trello web-based agile project management application
    - ServiceNow - various solutions IT/Operational/Business/Security/HR
    - Evernote - a mobile app designed for note taking, organizing, task lists, and archiving
    - Evernote SKitch App - Ability to communicate fast and efficiently with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
    - Pivotal Tracker web-based Agile Project Management Software
    - Asana web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work
    - Bugzilla web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work
    - TAIGA project management platform for agile developers & designers
    - Basecamp Project Management & Team Communication Software
    - RedMine open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool
    - VersionsOne Agile management solution for managing and tracking multiple teams, tasks, and projects
    - Rally an tool for user story tracking by CA Technologies
    - FogBugz web-based PM system featuring bug and issue tracking, discussion forums, wikis, CRM, and evidence-based scheduling
    - Trac Web-based project management and bug tracking system
    - YouTrack a proprietary, commercial browser-based bug tracker, issue tracking system and pm
    - Mantis Bug Tracker free and open source, web-based bug tracking system
    - Gerrit by Google a free web-based team code collaboration tool
    - Aha! Roadmap software to manage your products
VIDEO
- Video Streaming by Specific Companies, Orgs or Educational Institutions (along side monetisation solutions used)
Various solutions / Whitepapers/Tech Docs/Reference Articles/Links
- Streaming Services (OTT & VOD ref list)