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Joel Kruger
Joel Kruger
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Joel Kruger

Joel Kruger is a senior DevOps professional and solutions architect with over 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipeline infrastructure in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building reusable CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. Joel is a very hands-on and customer-service-oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoelaces. Joel owns and operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, as a freelance DevOps consultant and has experience architecting solutions that scale, reduce waste, and increase visibility. He works together with clients to help manage their value streams better.
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The spiral model

In 1986, Barry W. Boehm created the spiral release management model as a method for organizing the SDLC. It assumes that building an app is a cycle that may be repeated indefinitely until the desired result is achieved. By continuously monitoring risks and inspecting the intermediate product, the spiral model significantly reduces the likelihood of failure in large software projects.

Issues that arise during the course of the development process have a variety of potential impacts on the finished product. If such an outcome occurs, you should prepare for an increase in prices, an increase in work, and a delay in the delivery date. These are all elements that have the potential to quickly become a threat to the sustainability of your company. The iterative and gradual approach that the spiral model takes, in addition to the regular risk assessment that can take the form of prototype drafts, studies, or simulations, is designed to either eliminate the possibility...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835461853

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Joel Kruger

Joel Kruger is a senior DevOps professional and solutions architect with over 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipeline infrastructure in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building reusable CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. Joel is a very hands-on and customer-service-oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoelaces. Joel owns and operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, as a freelance DevOps consultant and has experience architecting solutions that scale, reduce waste, and increase visibility. He works together with clients to help manage their value streams better.
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