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Dear reader, As everything changes over time, so do we. If you follow our blog you would have...

Author: J. Opdam Date: 02/16/2019

Follow the ALM | DevOps Ranger blogs and twitter feeds

Here is a list of interesting and informative ALM | DevOps Ranger blog and twitter feeds....

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/06/2018

Kanban Board Tools Extension Now Available

Introduction The Kanban Tools extension for VSTS is now available on the marketplace.  This is our...

Author: Edward Fry Date: 08/24/2018

Modern Security- & Load-Testing with VSTS when bound to on-premises

In many enterprises Azure is the strategic public cloud. But it still can have technical or...

Author: joweibel Date: 08/21/2018

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shimail Gillani

Why do you want to join the Rangers? From last 3 Years as Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, I have...

Author: Edward Fry Date: 08/13/2018

VSTS Gems - Preview Features

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Rui Melo Date: 05/25/2018

Announcing the deprecation of a number of guidance and tools

Our mission is to provide practical guidance, experience, and gap-filling solutions to the developer...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/24/2018

VSTS Gems - Analytics Extention #1 - Analytical widgets

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Rui Melo Date: 05/04/2018

Refreshed VC, VSTS, and DevOps articles and a call for feedback!

We refreshed a batch of materials we’re creating and updating to support your development efforts...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/02/2018

Recent work on the Countdown Widget for VSTS

Countdown Widget is one of the oldest Ranger extensions. This extension was part of the first batch...

Author: Henry Been Date: 04/30/2018

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Art Garcia

Who Are You?I am a .NET developer with over 20 years of industry development experience. I have done...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/27/2018

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 04/26/2018

Yet another CI/CD post - Java, Apache spark, Cloudera, Azure and TFS

The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) team is committed to the...

Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 04/17/2018

VSTS Gems - Marketplace, the one stop location for added functionality

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Rui Melo Date: 04/12/2018

Our April champion is Mikael Krief … again … for his continued passion to deliver value to our users

We are pleased to re-introduce Mikael Krief in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/03/2018

How we checked and fixed the 503 error and Performance issue in our Azure Function

How we checked and fixed the 503 error and Performance issue in our Azure FunctionSince we released...

Author: mikaelkrief Date: 04/03/2018

devconf’s log #3 – Sessions, Cubes, and lots of collaboration

Continued from devconf’s log #2 – Sun, Mandela, and no Bowtie. After lots of meetings, discussions,...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/27/2018

devconf discussions – What is DevOps?

Sharing a few of the discussions before, during, and after devconf, a community driven, developer...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/25/2018

devconf discussions – Feature Flags

For the next few days I’ll try to share a few of the discussions before, during, and after devconf,...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/24/2018

VSTS Gems- Release gates

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 03/22/2018

How we deliver the DevOps VSTS Bot

To deliver changes for the DevOps VSTS Bot into production, we use a combination of Github and...

Author: J. Opdam Date: 03/04/2018

We have an idea … now what?

Our ALM | DevOps Ranger community consists of a bunch of smart, passionate, part-time volunteers –...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/02/2018

VSTS Gems - Manual step in release management pipelines

VSTS Gems - Manual step in release management pipelines VSTS is a great platform, but did you know...

Author: Rui Melo Date: 03/01/2018

VSTS Gems- Identify stale branches

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 02/22/2018

Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream

In my last blog post, I wrote about benefits of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in the realm of software...

Author: Hamid Shahid Date: 02/16/2018

How to analyze your open source project with SonarCloud and VSTS

Among the code analysis tools, there is SonarQube which I think no longer needs introductions and...

Author: mikaelkrief Date: 02/15/2018

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Oren Novotny

Who are you?I am Oren Novotny, Chief Architect, DevOps & Modern Software at BlueMetal, and...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/15/2018

VSTS Gems- Branch filters in environment triggers

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Rui Melo Date: 02/14/2018

VSTS Gems- Identify flaky tests

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 02/08/2018

Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Converting Existing Extensions

This post is basically a continuation on the series of posts that took you through a journey of...

Author: niel zeeman Date: 02/06/2018

Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot

Dear community, I want to inform you for my upcoming update, which will be deployed on February 10,...

Author: J. Opdam Date: 02/05/2018

VSTS Gems- Three ways to beef up your boards

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Rui Melo Date: 02/01/2018

Value Stream Mapping for our VSTS Extensions

We the ALM | DevOps Rangers are a bunch of volunteers brought together by our enthusiasm of...

Author: Hamid Shahid Date: 01/25/2018

VSTS Gems- Skip scheduled builds if nothing has changed in the repo

VSTS is a great platform, but did you know about its gems? Follow this short post series where we...

Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 01/23/2018

Using the NavigationService in your VSTS and TFS extension

Last week a user of our Team Project Health extension reported an issue when using the extension on...

Author: WouterdeKort Date: 01/16/2018

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jose DelaCruz

Why did you join the ALM Rangers? I found very interesting what ALM Ranges are doing, I think I can...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/08/2018

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Thomsen

Who are you? Michael Thomsen, Builder of Software, professionally since 2004 with a focus on the...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/08/2018

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Richie Lee

Why did you join the ALM Rangers?I think that it is very important to recognise that there is more...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/08/2018

Feature Flags Performance Testing

As described in the article Phase the features of your application with feature flags, a Feature...

Author: geoffgr Date: 12/05/2017

Roll-up Board Widget goes wide

In response to user demand, the Roll-up Board Widget v2.0.24 introduced support for wider views, up...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/03/2017

Roll-Up Board widget extension supports feature flags

We shared our research of the implementation of the feature flags, using LaunchDarkly, with our VSTS...

Author: mikaelkrief Date: 11/23/2017

Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Extension Time

We continue from Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – a few moving bits. Now that we have some...

Author: niel zeeman Date: 11/17/2017

Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – a few moving bits

Moving on from Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Typescript tools, we can start adding a few...

Author: niel zeeman Date: 11/09/2017

Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Typescript tools

In the series of blog on how to leverage Office UI Fabric in VSTS Extensions , we continue on from...

Author: niel zeeman Date: 11/07/2017

Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Getting Started

Continuing from Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions. I have spent way too much time trying to get...

Author: niel zeeman Date: 11/02/2017

Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions

Office UI Fabric is the “official front-end framework for building experiences that fit seamlessly...

Author: niel zeeman Date: 11/02/2017

How do I roll-back a VSTS extension when I am using a CI/CD pipeline?

A few days ago, 2 to be exact, we experienced a critical issue in production when we released a...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/02/2017

Our journey to WhiteSource and OSS security, licensing and quality checking

This is the third, and final, article in the WhiteSource series for managing open source usage and...

Author: Jeff Bramwell Date: 10/16/2017

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Geoff Gray

Who are you?I am a Senior Load and Performance Test Consultant with a degree in Computer and...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/13/2017

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ken Muse

Who are you?I am a cross-platform cloud architect, ALM and DevOps engineer, and recovering polyglot...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/12/2017

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