Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours.
Time-Series Database Basics
There’s been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you’re monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give you valuable insights into trends and patterns. But what exactly is a time-series database, and why do you need one? This article will […]
The Rogers Outage of 2022: Takeaways for SREs
When, eight years from now, folks are creating lists of the top IT incidents of the 2020s, there’s a good chance that they’ll include the Rogers outage of 2022. The failure, which made internet and cellular network service unavailable for more than 12 million users across Canada, was one of the most significant outages in […]
Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations use between 10 and 15 tools for monitoring, metrics and gathering logging and tracing data. A full 50% also noted that engineers and […]
Why App Dependency Mapping Is Critical for Cloud Migration
Software dependencies are a crucial part of efficient, component-based programming. At the same time, they can be a hurdle for fast-paced agile development teams, because they can make it more difficult to deploy, update and migrate software applications. Many applications have dozens or hundreds of dependencies, each with its own transitive dependencies, making the problem […]
What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?
Working in the software field, it’s not uncommon for engineers to refer to different “layers.” Perhaps you’re working with protocols at the “networking layer” or evaluating a solution that sits at “Layer 4” or “Layer 7.” Although these concepts are obvious to some, not everyone knows what these layers refer to. To get you up […]
RapidAPI Adds Tool to Make Building APIs Simpler
RapidAPI today added a free RapidAPI Studio offering to its portfolio that makes it easier for developers to build, consume, manage and monetize application programming interfaces (APIs). Wade Wegner, senior vice president and head of product at RapidAPI, said RapidAPI Studio, available in beta, makes it simpler for developers to move between design and development, […]
Dynatrace Embeds DX Monitoring in Observability Platform
Dynatrace has enhanced its analytics capabilities to enable digital experience monitoring, including session replays, based on the logs, metrics and traces it collects via its observability platform. Steve Tack, senior vice president of product management at Dynatrace, said this update makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track user journeys across the multiple components and […]
Deciphering the Observability Market
Observability has become one of the most overused buzzwords in IT and cybersecurity. Today, the term is used by vendors to refer to everything from application performance to network monitoring, cybersecurity and data and analytics. While the term’s ubiquity has created confusion for everyone from end users to journalists, startups in the space have also […]
Deloitte Aligns with Dynatrace for Observability
Deloitte has expanded its cloud observability practice to include the Dynatrace Software Intelligence platform. Jay McDonald, managing director and co-chair for modern delivery at Deloitte, said the IT services provider will now provide traditional DevOps and observability consulting expertise along with a set of instances of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform that it will manage […]
Why More Incidents Are Better
Ask most SREs how many incidents they’d have to respond to in a perfect world, and their answer would probably be ‘zero.’ After all, making software and infrastructure so reliable that incidents never occur is the dream that SREs are theoretically chasing. Reducing the number of actual incidents as much as possible is a noble […]
Red Hat CEO: Out | Blind Users: Revolt | ARM: Google Joins Party
In this week’s The Long View: Matt Hicks is the new Red Hat CEO, visual accessibility is in focus, and Google Cloud rolls out ARM instances.
CodeLogic Toolkit Increases Visibility Into App Dependencies
CodeLogic launched today a toolkit that enables developers to scan binaries, runtime application behavior and database connections and then leverage graph technology to identify connections and dependencies in real-time. Brian Pierce, CodeLogic CEO, said the goal is to make it simpler for developers to identify the relationship between application elements to increase overall productivity and […]
BMC Adds Support for DORA Metrics to Mainframe Tools Portfolio
BMC this week announced it has added support for DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics within its portfolio of DevOps tools for mainframe environments. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for intelligent Z optimization and transformation at BMC, said the latest edition of BMC Compuware zAdviser now includes a DORA KPI Dashboard that […]
Planview Outlines VSM Strategy After Acquiring Tasktop
Planview this week announced it completed its acquisition of Tasktop, a provider of a value stream management (VSM) platform that enables DevOps teams to align their efforts more closely with strategic business goals. Louise Allen, chief product officer for Planview, said the goal is to tighten integration between the Tasktop VSM platform and the project […]
5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying bottlenecks in the support process. It’s also something executives like to show higher-ups when sharing a snapshot of overall platform performance. However, focusing […]
Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization
A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with 79% noting that at least one of these projects has failed. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of vFunction, a provider of a […]
Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences
Dynatrace today extended the application release management capabilities it provides to include synthetic tests for validating and assuring user experiences. Saif Gunja, director of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the user experience validation and user experience assurance (UXA) capability spans everything from application availability and performance to actual engagement with specific features based on the […]
Quality Is a Top Challenge for Data-Driven Projects
Software systems continue to produce more and more data. And making use of it has proven benefits — so much so that many analysts have, over the years, referred to data as the new oil. As a result, the majority of organizations are expending effort into refining their data — in fact, a recent study […]
ServiceNow Adds Lightstep Notebooks to Visualize Observability Data
ServiceNow today added a visualization tool to its Lightstep observability platform that will make it simpler for DevOps teams to correlate metrics, logs and traces. Ben Sigelman, general manager for Lightstep at ServiceNow, said Lightstep Notebooks will make it easier for DevOps teams to make sense of the massive amounts of data collected by the […]
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports.
ShiftLeft Report Reveals State of Application Security
A report published today by automated application security testing platform ShiftLeft found only one in three applications has an attackable vulnerability. The report also found organizations that prioritized their remediation efforts based on the level of actual threat are fixing 76% of those vulnerabilities within two sprints lasting 12 days, on average. Based on millions […]
Improving Observability With ML-Enabled Anomaly Detection
Nowadays, DevOps and SRE teams have many tools to access and analyze logging data. However, there are two challenges that prevent these teams from resolving issues in a timely manner: They aren’t equipped with all the data they need Detecting and resolving issues is reactive and manual In this article, I’m going to break down […]