GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab’s namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as defined in the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) framework. Version 14.10 of GitLab also expands the GitLab Runner Operator for Kubernetes to any […]
Hasura Adds Join Capability to GraphQL Engine
Hasura today announced it has extended its GraphQL engine to make it possible to join data generated by multiple sources. Hasura CEO Tanmai Gopal said GraphQL Joins makes it possible to join data from across different GraphQL services that can then be accessed via a single GraphQL application programming interface (API). The extension of the […]
SRE Vs. DevOps: The Wrong Question?
The age-old question about the competition between DevOps and SRE sets up a false dichotomy. DevOps is a methodology while SRE is a team within operations. Although the two are often pitted against one another, developers also embody the skills and the capabilities to implement fixes. Traditionally, application changes were reactive. The process of SRE […]
Datadog Unfurls Application Security Service
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available an Application Security Monitoring (ASM) service that is based on the same agent software that many DevOps teams already use to monitor applications. Pierre Betouin, vice president of product for the cloud security platform at Datadog, said ASM is designed to make it simpler for DevOps teams to add […]
Riverbed Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Riverbed today launched a beta of a unified observability platform it will make available under the Alluvio by Riverbed brand name. Jim Hansen, senior vice president for product management at Riverbed, said the Alluvio by Riverbed observability platform combines several existing network and application performance management platforms into a single offering that is now infused […]
What’s the Difference Between SLI, SLA and SLO?
If you’re just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you’ve probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in the day-to-day life of an SRE but may seem foreign to outsiders. So, what are the differences between these abbreviations? Well, one of […]
How Engineers Can Contribute to API Security
I’m an engineer, not a security professional. I’ve worked at several startups over the years and have discovered ways to shift my engineering mindset to include a security focus and to incorporate security into my coding practice. I’ve found that when you work with others, an engineering organization can significantly contribute to API security. But […]
How DevSecOps Teams Can Level Up
In 2019, I wrote a post detailing the traits of DevSecOps—the practice can be defined as the process of security automation in which IT and security are more de-siloed. DevSecOps introduces a more intentional culture wherein security-by-design principles are baked into the software development process early on. All in all, the aim is to have […]
Survey Shows Shift to SRE Principles to Automate IT Management
A global survey of 1,500 IT decision-makers conducted by F5 found that, on average, organizations are managing more than 200 applications deployed across an extended enterprise as well as more than 20 different security and delivery technologies. Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist in the Office of the CTO for F5, said that level of complexity […]
Atlassian Expands DevOps Tools Portfolio to Improve Collaboration
Atlassian has added an extensible catalog for tracking software components, dubbed Compass, to its portfolio of DevOps tools along with an Atlassian Data Lake and Atlassian Analytics cloud service that makes it simpler to aggregate and query data collected from the company’s portfolio of tools. In addition, Atlassian is making its Atlas collaboration framework—formerly known […]
Survey Shows Increased Focus on Modernizing IT, Retiring Apps
A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by retiring applications. Conducted by LeanIX, a provider of a platform for managing enterprise architecture and managing value stream management (VSM), the survey found […]
Overcoming IT Complexity With Full-Stack Observability
Organizations embarking on digital transformation journeys tend to develop complex infrastructures. They update their legacy applications while adding multi-cloud, virtual and cloud-native capabilities. Eventually, IT pros find themselves managing diverse, complex and distributed networks including cloud, system, application and database infrastructures. To rein in the resulting complexity, organizations tend to amass monitoring and managing tools. […]
New Relic Adds SLO Tools to Observability Platform
New Relic this week made a service level indicator (SLI) and service level objective (SLO) capability generally available within the New Relic One observability platform. The new capability makes it possible for DevOps teams to customize metrics, unified health reports and alerts. Alex Kroman, general manager and senior vice president for product engineering for New […]
Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight
In this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable.
3 Steps to Jumpstart Your App Modernization Journey
Like organizing your garage, modernizing your applications can seem daunting before you start, but you know it will pay off once done. So, instead of thinking about this project as a technical challenge, let’s look at it in the wider context of the business. Just as getting rid of old junk in your garage frees […]
How Observability Can Improve Gaming
Competing in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly costly. To attract new players, millions of dollars are spent in user acquisition (UA), development and cloud infrastructure. As the space becomes more expensive, revenue and cost optimizations can become a matter of survival. The cost to businesses because of server outages, game response lag or generally […]
Harness Acquires ChaosNative to Meld Chaos Engineering, DevOps
Harness this week announced it acquired ChaosNative as part of a plan to more deeply integrate chaos engineering with DevOps workflows. At the same time, the company added a Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) and Harness Security Testing Orchestration capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Chaos engineering, as a discipline, refers to experiments […]
Survey Sees App Testing More Widely Distributed
A survey of 900 application testing professionals conducted by PractiTest, a provider of a platform for managing testing tools, suggested the number of organizations that have dedicated testing teams is declining at a steady rate. The survey found a 15% decrease in organizations with dedicated testing teams that have six or more members. At the […]
5 Steps to More Sustainable DevOps
The rise of remote workforces, cryptocurrencies and super-sized data centers brings to the forefront a concern in tech development that doesn’t get enough attention: The impact of computing and advanced technologies on the environment. About six months into the pandemic, people began to notice cleaner air, clearer water and an overall calming effect on the […]
Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security
Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, with more and more moving parts. It is not uncommon for enterprises to have over 1,000 microservices and millions of containers running thousands […]
Log Management Challenges Grow With Observability Adoption
It appears that, in many IT environments, observability is becoming too much of a good thing. A global survey of more than 315 IT executives, cloud application architects, DevOps professionals and site reliability engineers (SRE) conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of log data management platform provider Era Software, found 96% are witnessing an explosion […]
Survey Surfaces Observability Challenges in the Cloud Era
A recent cloud observability survey found nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents reported the adoption of public clouds has made it more difficult to achieve observability. Nearly half of respondents (48%) said they now consider providing real-time insights into application/infrastructure environments to be a top priority. The survey polled 357 IT professionals and was conducted by […]
TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300.