AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance types, dubbed M7g and R7g, that are now generally available are based on the AWS Graviton3 processors developed using an architecture created by […]
Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform
Checkly this week added a monitoring-as-code (MaC) workflow capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that is used to create synthetic tests for applications. The Checkly platform spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and application programming interface (API) level. That capability, currently available in […]
Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation
Sysdig this week announced there is now a Wireshark Foundation that will oversee future development of the widely used open source traffic protocol analyzer. Gerald Combs, who is now director of open source projects at Sysdig, along with Loris Degioanni, CTO of Sysdig, launched Wireshark in 2006 to enable teams to monitor network traffic, learn […]
How GitHub Actions Simplifies Your CI/CD Workflow
In today’s fast-paced world, being able to deploy applications quickly is essential for success. However, setting up a CI/CD pipeline can be a tedious and time-consuming task. Fortunately, GitHub Actions can help simplify and automate your workflow, making it easier than ever to get your applications up and running in no time. In this blog […]
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)
In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure.
Nobl9 Adds Service Level Analyzer to SLO Management Platform
Nobl9 today added a free tool for analyzing service level objectives (SLOs) to its platform to enable DevOps team to more accurately set reliability goals. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said Service Level Analyzer collects metrics and observability data from more than 24 DevOps tools and platforms that can then be used to […]
How to Rethink Your Website Uptime
COVID-19 rapidly accelerated e-commerce, almost shutting down in-person shopping during the lockdown. Ordering from Amazon became second nature. The online giant accounted for approximately 33% growth—50 million new Amazon Prime members. While there are concerns that consumer spending will fall short this year, according to Adobe’s 2022 holiday shopping predictions, online discounts are already playing […]
Logz.io Integrates ChatGPT With Observability Platform
Logz.io has integrated the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform with its Open 360 observability platform to extend its automated recommendation capabilities to reduce mean-time-to-remediation. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is based on a large language model that Logz.io uses to enrich crowdsourced data. That approach enables ChatGPT to surface links to related information and best […]
Understanding the Infrastructure Automation Maturity Model
Nearly every company wants to evolve its digital transformation and increase the pace of software delivery and operations. And infrastructure automation is a new means to achieve these ends. It supports the emerging discipline of platform engineering and can increase scalability and reactivity to unforeseen events, enabling software ecosystems to be more anti-fragile. Increased infrastructure […]
Running Serverless in Production: 7 Best Practices for DevOps
Serverless in production refers to the deployment and use of serverless architecture in a live, production environment. In this context, serverless refers to a cloud computing paradigm where the cloud provider manages the infrastructure and allocates resources as needed to run and scale applications and services. In a serverless production environment, applications and services are […]
Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability
Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […]
5 Technologies Powering Cloud Optimization
Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, as well as implementing best practices for security, scalability and disaster recovery. The goal of cloud optimization is to maximize the benefits of […]
Blameless Integrates Incident Management Platform With Opsgenie
Blameless this week announced it has integrated its namesake incident management solution with the Opsgenie alerting platform from Atlassian. Aaron Lober, director of product marketing for Blameless, said the Blameless platform is now integrated with both Opsgenie and PagerDuty, the two most widely used platforms for managing alerts. Blameless provides an incident management platform that […]
Automation Challenges Holding DevOps Back
A survey of 500 IT and engineering leaders in the U.S. published today finds organizations build an average of 6.7 internal applications per year themselves in addition to investing in 7.7 separate platforms to build applications. Commissioned by Internal, a provider of platforms for building application development environments, the survey also found organizations are spending […]
Cisco AppDynamics Survey Surfaces DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of 1,150 large enterprise IT professionals from the AppDynamics unit of Cisco suggested application security progress is being made slowly and steadily as organizations continue to embrace DevSecOps best practices. The survey finds that while more than three-quarters of respondents (76%) believe that DevSecOps is essential for organizations to effectively protect against a […]
Jellyfish Adds Tool to Visualize Software Development Workflows
Jellyfish today unveiled a tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes using data the company collects via Git repositories and project management software from Atlassian. Krishna Kannan, head of product for Jellyfish, said Life Cycle Explorer provides managers with a tool that makes it simpler to identify the root cause of a process breakdown. […]
3 Performance Challenges as Chatbot Adoption Grows
Today, many organizations are starting to use voice or text-enabled chatbots for the first time or already have chatbot systems in place. In fact, Gartner said 25% of organizations are predicted to make chatbots their primary customer communication channel by 2027. This is because consumer behavior has shifted to primarily digital interactions and away from […]
How To Build Anti-Fragile Software Ecosystems
Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across an entire organism, causing it to break. As such, increasing the resiliency of a software ecosystem is something engineers continually strive for. But […]
New Relic Bolsters Observability Platform
New Relic has updated its observability platform to include the ability to better detect and track errors in addition to monitoring vulnerabilities. At the same time, an instance of the New Relic observability platform that runs natively on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is now also generally available. Manav Khurana, general manager for observability product […]
Let the Machines Do It: AI-Directed Mobile App Testing
AI has been in the news a lot lately. We’ve all heard a lot about ChatGPT and you’ve no doubt encountered the end result of a variety of other advances in AI technology of late, such as Lensa. But there’s also a much quieter and less visible shift happening behind the scenes during the development […]
Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach
Atlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it’s now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within the company’s Jira project management application. At the same time, it’s now possible to automatically generate feature flags from within Jira through integration […]
GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to track the overall status of application development projects. David DeSanto, chief product officer for GitLab, said GitLab Remote Development takes advantage of an […]