AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
Zilliz Unfurls Managed Vector Database Service
Zilliz this week made generally available a managed cloud service that can now be spun up in less than five minutes. The service is based on the company’s open source Milvus vector database. Frank Liu, director of operations for Zilliz, said the managed Zilliz Cloud service running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud will […]
A DevOps Thanksgiving: What Are You Thankful For?
As crazy as it seems, here we are on the cusp of another Thanksgiving. This year has gone by so quickly, and as we enter the holiday season and the end of 2022, those of us in the DevOps community have much to be thankful for. First and foremost, I’m so happy to once again […]
CircleCI Will Use AI to Increase Collective DevOps Intelligence
CircleCI has committed to adding additional collective intelligence capabilities to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that will leverage machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize application development and delivery. CircleCI CEO Jim Rose said that as the company’s namesake CI/CD platform continues to collect more telemetry data from multiple customers, […]
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
In this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol.
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux.
Red Hat and IBM Pledge to Bring NLP to Ansible
At the Ansiblefest 2022 conference today, Red Hat and its parent company IBM announced the Project Wisdom initiative to bring natural language processing (NLP) to the open source Ansible IT operations automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat announced that the curated instances of Ansible from Red Hat are now available in the marketplaces […]
5 Ways to Transform DataOps With Human-in-the-Loop Automation
We are in the middle of a data renaissance. Today, it’s not just about data instrumentation but also learning how to make DataOps a real business advantage for the entire organization. Data has become an inextricable part of products, used to enhance the quality of user experiences. Reliable access to data and the integrity of […]
Game Developers: 5 Strategies for a Great User Experience
The gaming industry has exploded since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people turned to social and casual gaming to entertain themselves at home and interest is expected to continue to rise. According to PwC, the global gaming industry is forecast to increase revenue from $214 billion in 2021 to $321 billion by 2026. […]
Testing Automation has Become a Necessity – Techstrong TV
Guljeet Nagpaul, Chief Product Officer for ACCELQ, explains why automating testing has become a necessity. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Mike Vizard: Hey, guys. Thanks for the throw. We’re here with Guljeet Nagpaul, who is chief product officer for ACCELQ, and we’re talking about all things related to testing. […]
Finding Value in AI-Augmented DevOps
While artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are emerging technologies, we know they can help an organization parse large data sets and glean actionable insights. But do AI-infused processes actually make a difference in organizations that employ DevOps? The answer is explored in a recent survey by Tricentis. Working in partnership with Techstrong Group, […]
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations.
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.
Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out
This week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images.
Automation has Become an Absolute IT Necessity – Techstrong TV
Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies and Incubation for Cisco, explains why automation has become an absolute IT necessity. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Michael Vizard: Hey, guys, thanks for the throw. We’re here with Vijoy Pandey, who’s vice president of emerging technology and incubation for Cisco. We’re […]
NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner
Once again, we are seeing an uptick in the use of the term NoOps. I always felt that NoOps was a misleading and, in fact, empty phrase. I don’t care what magic you think you have; you are never going to eliminate the need to operate your software, applications and infrastructure. I first heard the […]
Techstrong TV: Scratching the Surface of Testing Through AI
Mark, Torsten and Alan discuss the findings of the “Disrupting the Economics of Software Testing Through AI” report. The report identifies critical factors that hinder software engineering and DevOps teams including the escalating costs of quality control, and growing complexity associated with the increasing release velocity, number of smart devices, operating systems, and programming languages. […]
Techstrong TV: The Use of AI in Low-Code
In this talk, Dave Wright, Chief Innovation Officer of ServiceNow, talks about how low-code is accelerating organizations’ AI journeys and is expanding into new, scalable use cases as we move into a post-COVID-19 world. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recorded Voice: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. […]
MLOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
Machine learning operations, or MLOps for short, is a key aspect of machine learning (ML) engineering that focuses on simplifying and accelerating the process of delivering ML models to production and maintaining and monitoring them. MLOps involves collaboration between different teams including data scientists, DevOps engineers, IT specialists and others. MLOps can help organizations create […]
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive.
Iterative Adds Registry to GitOps Portfolio for ML Models
Iterative added a registry for machine learning models to its portfolio of Git-based tools for infusing artificial intelligence into applications. Iterative CEO Dmitry Petrov said the Iterative Studio Model Registry is intended to make it easier for application development teams to track which models are being used as the number of applications infused with AI […]
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
In this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient is dumped by Google.
A Full Pipeline: CI/CD for Network Automation and Orchestration
The intersection of CI/CD and network automation has grown substantially over the past few years. Network teams have seemingly reached the point in their automation and orchestration journey where it has become critical to implement a strategy to manage the testing, version control and deployment of both network changes and automation assets. While CI/CD has […]