How to Avoid Risk When Using Multiple Low-Code Platforms
Organizations are still increasing their use of low-code/no-code (LCNC). But this adoption isn’t always consolidated around one tool—frequently, multiple low-code/no-code platforms are used under the same roof. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2024, 75% of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development […]
Cycloid Adds Templates to Simplify GitOps Workflows
Cycloid’s Bootstrap Stacks capability provides DevOps teams with the ability to build Git templates to define cloud computing environments.
Quali Adds Governance and Cloud Cost Control Tools to Automation Platform
Quali today revealed it added governance and cloud cost management tools to its Torque platform for automating IT infrastructure management. David Williams, senior vice president for market strategy at Quali, said the added governance tools will make it possible to enforce security, compliance and consumption policies as IT environments are launched using the automation blueprints […]
Leaders in Resilience See ROI From Observability
Observability is touted to advance the application monitoring practices of yesteryear, but are investments paying off?
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
Four Ways to Modernize Your Enterprise Monoliths
In a perfect world, every application would run like Netflix–by which I mean every application would be cloud-native, microservices-based, containerized and, in all other senses of the word, modern. Unfortunately, not every application can be transformed in these ways. Some of the most important enterprise applications–like those powered by SAP or Oracle–don’t lend themselves to […]
Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards
At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]
Survey Finds Cloud Management Strategies Shifting
Even though organizations continue to consume cloud resources inefficiently, they continue to increase the amount of money allocated. These were among the findings of a global survey of 1,000 technology practitioners and decision-makers conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HashiCorp. The survey found a full 94% of respondents reported that their organization struggled with […]
Cycode Leverages eBPF to Secure CI/CD Pipelines
Cycode today added a Cimon extension to its application security platform that uses extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to thwart cyberattacks against continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Alex Ilgayev, head of security research for Cycode, said Cimon uses eBPF to inspect network connections, running processes and file modifications within a pipeline to learn standard behaviors. […]
Snyk to Add ASPM Platform via Enso Security Acquisition
Snyk this week announced it plans to acquire Enso Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that tracks events and analyzes metadata collected from DevOps and security tools. At the same time, Snyk revealed it has added a DeepCode AI Fix tool that creates validated fixes for code written by either […]
The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?
In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might be for drinks that only recently arrived on the scene. Mixer’s manuals also can be great sources of inspiration for new, yet-to-be-tested recipes […]
Report Surfaces DevOps Challenges for Mobile Applications
An assessment of 1,600 DevOps teams involved in building and deploying mobile applications found that 62% were adversely impacted by manual processes that slowed the rate at which these applications were deployed and updated. Based on the Mobile DevOps Assessment (MODAS) created by Bitrise, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for building […]
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work.
PagerDuty Signals Commitment to Adding Generative AI Capabilities
PagerDuty has signaled its intention to add generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its cloud platform for managing IT operations via integrations with large language model (LLM) providers that it will disclose at a future date. These capabilities will make it possible to invoke natural language via PagerDuty Operations Cloud to automatically generate status updates, […]
Chronosphere Adds Professional Services to Jumpstart Observability
Chronosphere has added a professional services capability through which it will provide the resources and expertise needed to deploy and manage its observability platform. Ian Smith, field CTO for Chronosphere, said the Chronosphere Quick Start program will make it easier for organizations to transition away from legacy monitoring tools that only track a set of […]
Logz.io Taps AI to Surface Incident Response Recommendations
Logz.io this week added a supervised machine learning capability to its observability platform that reduces mean-time-to-remediation by surfacing recommendations for resolving incidents. Asaf Yigal, vice president of product for Logz.io, said the Alert Recommendation capability added to the Logz.io Open360 platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to model the steps a DevOps team needs to complete […]
Why You Need a Multi-Cloud and Multi-Region Deployment Strategy
As I began writing this article, I encountered some technical challenges in my attempt to provision three cloud providers in three separate regions to simulate multi-cloud and multi-region deployments. I couldn’t get one of the regions to behave as I expected when provisioning the environment. As it turned out, the region (and by association, cloud) […]
Cloud Drift Detection With Policy-as-Code
Cloud configurations can change and change often. Introducing new technologies, releasing new features and supporting new business requirements entail a constant flow of configuration changes in web application development. However, drift occurs regardless of how well-designed your IaC implementation is. The term “drift” is used to denote a state in which the actual state of […]
Checkmarx Brings Generative AI to SAST and IaC Security Tools
Under an early access program, Checkmarx today made available query builder and guided automation tools that take advantage of OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to make it simpler for developers to resolve application security issues. AI Guided Remediation surfaces actionable remediation recommendations for vulnerability issues such as misconfigurations directly from within integrated development environments […]
Is Your Monitoring Strategy Scalable?
Every company is trying to get better insights into its operational effectiveness, and they are running into the same problem: Scale. So what does a scalable monitoring strategy look like and how can you safeguard against the most significant issue in observability? What is a Scalable Monitoring Strategy? We’ll begin by identifying the two things […]
The Metrics Disconnect Between Developers and IT Leaders
A survey of 350 software developers found a majority (91%) of respondents are unhappy with the actual metrics leadership teams are measuring. The survey, conducted by Atomik Research on behalf of Uplevel, an enterprise intelligence platform provider, found the top metrics developers say should be tracked include hours worked (52%), work allocation (49%) and the […]
US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
In this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them
Amazon Web Services relies on the AWS IAM service to govern who is authenticated and authorized to use AWS resources. It plays a hugely significant role in AWS security–and so do its various identities. Let’s look in more detail at IAM roles and how they work. What is the Purpose of IAM? When you create […]