Predicting, Preventing and Resolving Incidents With AIOps
IT operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs) and service providers are on a mission to scale across geographies, expand their digital services and create new experiences for customers. Amid this drive, their backend IT systems are getting more complex. This hinders visibility into applications and makes monitoring and troubleshooting cumbersome. With heightened competition in the […]
Fiberplane Adds Open Source Libraries to Automatically Collect Metrics
Fiberplane today added an ability to automatically collect metrics in real-time and make them accessible either via its namesake notebook software for debugging infrastructure or an open source Grafana dashboard. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said Autometrics is an open source set of libraries the company created to make it simpler for developers to […]
The Now and Next of Automation
Today’s never-ending flood of data has many of us drowning in noise. And while humans are still essential for thoughtful analysis and driving action, it’s no longer possible for a human to parse gigabytes of data alone. How do you begin to filter out the noise and then understand what to do with it? How […]
How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable
The world is constantly becoming more and more aware of the importance of sustainability in every aspect of our daily lives from buying groceries to traveling, and the IT world is no exception. Indeed, sustainability is already gaining importance in software development. For example, in the latest version of Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar, “carbon efficiency as […]
CircleCI Report Surfaces DevOps Productivity Gains
An analysis of more than 14 million workflows from thousands of organizations conducted by CircleCI, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, revealed the mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) decreased by about 13% year-over-year. Half of CI workflows (50%) recovered from a failed run in 64 minutes or less. That compares to 73 minutes or more […]
Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT and DevOps leaders at organizations with more than 3,000 employees. On a positive note, the survey found 57% of respondents were starting to […]
CodeSee Extends Reach of Code Visualization Platform
CodeSee updated its code visibility platform to enable instant mapping of application services, directories, file dependencies and code changes. CodeSee CEO Shanea Leven said CodeSee Enterprise 2.0 should extend the appeal of the platform beyond developers to include software engineers managing DevOps workflows. CodeSee Enterprise 2.0 provides real-time visibility across multiple repositories regardless of whether […]
5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023
It’s never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 rolls on, I’ve been thinking about some key performance metrics that help to ensure critical applications and websites perform optimally throughout the year—especially […]
Debunking Myths About Reliability
“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they […]
New Relic Bets on AI to Advance Observability
New Relic is preparing to extend the capabilities of its observability platform by making use of both additional machine learning algorithms and the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Peter Pezaris, senior vice president for strategy and experience at New Relic, said during an interview on an episode of TechStrong TV that a prototype of […]
Vega Cloud Commits to Reducing Cloud Costs
Vega Cloud today made a commitment to save customers at least 10% on their cloud infrastructure spending or it won’t charge for its software. Vega Cloud’s software automates cloud infrastructure management. The Vega Cloud platform enables IT teams to connect, automate, manage and optimize new and existing networks, applications and other multi-cloud IT environments from […]
How Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Enhances Software Delivery
Developer experience (DX) is in the zeitgeist, and for a good reason. Digital demands are increasing, yet the market faces cautious IT budgeting, workplace burnout, and high resignations. The idea is that quality developer experience can help keep the remaining talent happy and increase productivity. And organizations are considering many strategies for increasing DX, such […]
Enfabrica Makes Cloud Networking Performance Advances
Enfabrica Corp. today emerged from stealth at the MemCon conference to launch a class of processors for networking in cloud computing environments that are optimized for moving data between CPUs, graphical processor units (GPUs), accelerators and memory. Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar said the Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) enables scalable, streaming, multi-terabit-per-second movement of data in […]
Survey Surfaces Application Modernization Challenges
A survey of senior IT leaders suggested the level of confidence in application modernization projects that many organizations initially had is now starting to wane. The survey polled 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more 1,000 employees and was conducted by Global Surveyz Research on behalf of EvolveWare, a provider of platform for automating […]
Why Observability is Important for Development Teams
Observability, which allows development teams to understand better how their systems behave in production, is critical to successful software delivery. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied this practice will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes. Observability allows development teams to identify and […]
Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope to Add Code Profiling Capability
Grafana Labs this week announced it acquired Pyroscope and plans to merge Pyroscope’s open source continuous profiling project with the open source continuous profiling database that Grafana Labs launched last year. Richard Hartmann, director of community at Grafana Labs, said after logs, metrics and traces, continuous profiling is now the fourth pillar of observability that […]
Large Organizations Are Embracing AIOps
A survey of 265 IT leaders found the primary reason organizations are applying artificial intelligence to IT operations (AIOps) is to improve service and application availability and performance (60%), followed closely by automation of operations (58%) and processes (54%). Conducted on behalf of OpsRamp, a provider of an AIOps platform, the survey polled 138 IT […]
JFrog Aligns With New Relic to Improve Observability
JFrog and New Relic jointly announced today they will provide a free integration tool that will enable New Relic’s observability platform to consume log data from JFrog platforms for building and deploying applications securely. Announced at the Futurestack conference hosted by New Relic, this integration eliminates the manual effort that was previously required to integrate […]
NETSCOUT Taps F5 to Optimize Custom App Performance
Through its alliance with F5, NETSCOUT Systems has extended the reach of its nGeniusOne enterprise performance management platform to support custom applications. The nGeniusONE platform supports more than 1,000 voice, video and business data applications using NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG appliances in combination with nGeniusONE to provide visibility into any infrastructure environment, including data centers, private and […]
Improving the DevOps Process for Mobile App Developers
Development teams—perhaps especially mobile development teams—have heavily invested in systems to automate their processes and accelerate the delivery of mobile apps. From build, test and release to tracking and monitoring, the mobile DevOps team depends on systems like Fastlane, Bitrise, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines and GitLab—and really, that list just scratches the surface. The mobile app […]
Balance Software Quality, Dev Speed and Cost With CI/CD
In many cases, success in the business world relies on software, be it a compelling mobile app, desktop application suite, interactive website or even an embedded system for the IoT. Because of this need, companies with mature software development processes enjoy a significant competitive advantage over those without. Part of fostering this maturity involves crafting […]
New Relic Adds Module to Surface Code Metrics
New Relic today added a free CodeStream module to its observability platform to give developers access to metrics and telemetry data that will enable them to write higher-quality code faster. Peter Pezaris, group vice president and general manager of strategy and experience for New Relic, said this capability is part of an effort to shift […]
Zenhub Brings Issues Management to Project Management Platform
Zenhub today announced it is adding an issue management module that makes it simpler for stakeholders to collaborate with developers on application development projects without having to log into a GitHub repository. Fresh from raising an additional $10 million in capital, Zenhub co-founder Aaron Upright said Zenhub Issues is a plug-in for a project management […]