Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
A History of Distributed Tracing
Organizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]
AWS Makes Economic Case for Graviton Processors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors. The C7gn instances provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and as much as 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous-generation C6gn instances. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, […]
Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs
Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference and the company also revamped its pricing. Nobl9 Teams Edition (formerly Nobl9 Hydrogen) now includes 50 SLOs, up from 25, for […]
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment without changes to the code used to construct them. Yrieix Garnier, vice president of product at […]
Logz.io Unveils Managed Open 360 Observability Platform
At the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Logz.io launched an Open 360 platform that combines multiple open source technologies to provide observability across both existing monolithic and emerging cloud-native application environments. Existing Logz.io offerings included in the Open 360 platform are Logz.io Kubernetes 360, a managed observability platform based on open source tools such as OpenSearch […]
4 Best Practices for Entertainment App Testing
Entertainment apps represent a broad category of software, ranging from mobile games, to social media platforms, to streaming video apps and beyond. However, all entertainment apps share a few key traits in common: They typically host dynamic content that is unique for each user. This makes entertainment apps different from apps where most or all […]
Switching From FluentD to Vector Log Aggregation Tool
Log files are extremely important to the data analysis process as they contain essential information about usage patterns, activities and operations within an operating system, application, server or device. This data is relevant to a number of use cases across an organization from resource management, application troubleshooting, regulation compliance and SIEM and business analytics and […]
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.
How a Mature DevOps Practice Can Strengthen Competitive Advantage
Saman Pourkermani, practice lead, operations effectiveness, Inspirant Group, co-authored this article. Software development and delivery has become an integral part of every aspect of a business and is no longer simply a support function. Nowadays, most of us, including those in business operations, know the anxieties of having to wait for specific environment release dates […]
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.
Cribl Simplifies Telemetry Data Analytics
Cribl today announced general availability of a search capability that makes it simpler to query observability data where it resides without having to first collect and centrally store it. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy for Cribl, said Cribl Search makes it possible to analyze telemetry data at its point of origin or when […]
OutSystems Acquires Ionic to Further Automate App Development
OutSystems this week revealed it has acquired Ionic, a provider of an open source framework that provides developers with a higher level of abstraction for building and deploying mobile and desktop applications. OutSystems CTO Patrick Jean said Ionic will accelerate the company’s ongoing efforts to extend the reach of its platform for building low-code applications […]
SRE Survey Reveals Major Technical and Cultural Challenges
Catchpoint, in partnership with Blameless, today published an annual survey of 559 site reliability engineers (SREs) that found 59% of respondents didn’t view tool sprawl to be a major concern. Another 40% said tool sprawl is a moderate (33%) to serious problem (8%). More than half of respondents said they build as much as 30% […]
2023 Application Security Budgets on the Rise
A survey of 500 DevSecOps professionals in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters (73%) of organizations plan to increase investment in application security in 2023. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Invicti, a provider of dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools, also found 97% of DevSecOps teams said they ignored a real vulnerability […]
Nobl9 Simplifies SLO Identification
Nobl9 today added a Replay capability to its service level objectives (SLO) management platform that makes it simpler to collect the historical data a DevOps team needs to get started. Nobl9 COO Kit Merker said Nobl9 Replay makes service level indicator (SLI) data instantly available in minutes using 30 days of historical data collected from […]
Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, Mezmo launched an Observability Pipeline platform that promises to make it simpler to manage, enrich and correlate machine data. Previously known as LogDNA, Mezmo is expanding the scope of its reach to add the ability to augment and analyze data on top of its core […]
Making App Dev More Efficient
Applications of all kinds are continually popping up across various industries to help improve consumer customer experiences, provide entertainment, make certain tedious or error-prone tasks easier for workers and to help businesses improve their operations overall. In fact, there are over 5.4 million applications available across the Apple App and Google Play stores as of […]
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.
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
Cisco Unveils 800G Networking Platform to Advance DataOps
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice president of product management for cloud networking for Cisco’s Nexus and ACI product line, said the throughput provided by the latest 7-nanometer iteration […]
Of Max and Min: The Non-Interference Prime Directive (for Visibility)
Last issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In this issue, I will expand on what improved visibility means and present two case studies that illustrate a recent antipattern that I’ve noticed […]