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From legacy to leading-edge: Why testing centers of excellence are making a comeback

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, testing centers of excellence (TCoEs) are experiencing a revival. Once seen as artifacts of the waterfall era, modern TCoEs are emerging as indispensable hubs for driving quality, collaboration, and innovation in Agile and DevOps environments. This resurgence stems from their ability to centralize standards and unify distributed teams while supporting the rapid iteration that modern delivery demands.

Don't let poor performance leave you stranded: Behind Zipcar's Black Friday outage

On Black Friday 2024, Zipcar faced a severe technical issue that disrupted its app and website services, leaving countless customers stranded and frustrated. Users reported being unable to unlock cars, make reservations, or even retrieve belongings from rented vehicles. The fallout and backlash have been widespread, with many taking to social media to voice their frustrations with the platform.

What is Staff Augmentation, and How Does It Benefit Your Business?

We are seeing businesses across industries engage with large-scale projects needing a talent pool experienced in AI, cloud, IoT, or other emerging technologies. However, the fluctuating nature of these projects requires a flexible workforce, which can only naturally comprise part-time hires. This is why we see a steady investment in the staff augmentation market. The 2023 evaluation for the IT staff augmentation market was approximately USD 300 billion in the recent market reports.

Using shift-left and shift-right in video games

There’s a new way to approach quality. In game testing, "shift-left" is all about catching issues earlier in the development process rather than waiting until production. @Mac Clark from Sauce Labs explains how game engines like Unity and Unreal allow for a shift-left approach using AI agents to automate testing before a game reaches players. This proactive method can help identify potential crashes and errors at the engine level, ensuring a more stable product launch.

The best Testlio alternatives in 2025

When you want to expand your QA testing capabilities or resources, Testlio can recruit QA specialists from their large “crowd” of QA personnel. Testlio also provides a platform to manage your tests, test runs, and results. If you’re considering a platform-enabled QA service like Testlio, there are a handful of other noteworthy providers you should know. We’ll cover them in this piece.

Kubernetes vs Docker: 7 Key Differences

It’s impossible to learn about containerization without hearing about Docker and Kubernetes. These two tools together dominate the world of containers, both being the de facto standard in what they each do. When you’re first getting started learning about containers, it can be quite a challenge to figure out the differences between these two tools.

DevOps as a Service (DaaS): Transforming Enterprise IT Operations

A software update failure led to one of the most infamous outages of the year: the Crowdstrike Outage. The incident is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies more than USD 5 billion. Per the congressional testimony by Crowdstrike’s officials, the downtime wasn’t attributed to a malicious attack but a configuration and software update failure. Incidents like these make us question how we deal with our digital ecosystems - the configurations, the monitoring, the testing, etc.