How to Build a Team That Embraces Metrics
When we talk about metrics in software delivery, a lot of developers think of execution metrics — things like throughput, delivery and number of deploys. But in reality, those metrics don’t motivate anyone — at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. I’ve worked in software for 23 years. I’m a three-time founder […]
Automation is Needed for Reliable Cloud Platforms
From six to 1,400 microservices in less than five years? At first glance, that sounds like overwhelming complexity. Can you actually see the entire system across all of the microservices? This is the key to highly available and reliable SaaS cloud platforms. But what does this mean, and how can SaaS providers achieve it? Over […]
Unqork Extends Automated No-Code SDLC Platform
Unqork today announced it has extended a no-code platform for managing the software development life cycle (SDLC) to include the ability to automatically document changes to application programming interfaces (APIs) and data models in addition to adding a point-in-time rollback capability. Ken Gavranovic, head of strategy and engineering for Unqork, said Unqork 2021.5 also adds […]
Implementing an On-Demand Feature Environment
Not long ago, developers at LeanTaas implemented an on-demand feature environment. It came about as the result of a collaborative effort to support a faster go-to-market strategy. Moving to an on-demand feature environment resulted in greater agility, effectiveness, quality and a better bottom line for the organization. With careful implementation, any development team can benefit […]
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web application developed using JavaScript and leave comments for developers. Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, said Netlify will embed that collaboration capability in the […]
ZenHub Brings More Science to Sprint Planning
ZenHub today revealed it has added a Planning Poker capability to its platform for managing software development projects that is designed to make it possible to prioritize sprints based on feedback collected from members of the application development team. That capability extends a sprint planning capability the company added this year to a project management […]
Nobl9 Makes SLO Specification Open Source
During an online SLOconf event today, Nobl9 revealed that the platform it created to enable IT teams to achieve service level objectives (SLOs) is now available under an open source Apache license. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said the goal is to make a YAML specification format for defining SLOs that includes a […]
Perforce Acquires 21 Labs to Advance Mobile App Testing
Perforce Software announced today is has acquired 21 Labs, a provider of a suite of tools that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a no-code approach to testing mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tim Russell, chief product officer for Perforce Software, said the 21 Labs tools complement a set of similar […]
Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs
The abrupt need to transition to remote work last year caused many companies to migrate to the cloud or accelerate an in-process migration. Cloud has become an essential part of company operations and budgets. Last year, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services was $257.5 billion, making up 9.1% of total global enterprise IT […]
Why QA and Monitoring Need to Merge
Customer expectations for speed and reliability have upended the software development life cycle. Whereas developers used to develop a product and send it to quality assurance engineers for testing before widespread release, customers now demand new versions and features on a quicker timeline. In an era with little available time to run QA in the […]
Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs
When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […]
What Data Catalogs Don’t Reveal
In today’s data intensive world, data catalogs, as the name implies, are simply catalogs of information (some human-entered and some extracted from metadata in systems). The importance of data in the enterprise has grown, and analytics plays an increasingly important role in generating value. So, while it’s important to collect and store and organize all […]
Consider Telemetry When Rearchitecting Applications
Australia and New Zealand have seen a big move to the public cloud, and “… when I talk to customers, I see huge interest in rearchitecting applications rather than doing a lift-and-shift right into public cloud,” said Scott van Kalken, F5 ANZ solution architect for DevOps and modern applications. That migration to the public cloud […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to Embrace Prometheus
OpsRamp today announced it has added the ability to ingest data captured via the open source Prometheus monitoring software into its namesake IT operations platform infused with machine learning algorithms. In addition, the company is adding support for customizable dashboards using the Prometheus Query Language to create visualizations of hybrid infrastructure performance. Also, a set […]
ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […]
Trend Micro Allies With Snyk to Advance DevSecOps
Trend Micro and Snyk unveiled today a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform the two companies have jointly developed to identify vulnerabilities in open source code. The Trend Micro Cloud One – Open Source Security by Snyk platform enables DevOps teams to both identify vulnerabilities and licensing issues to better monitor, prioritize and share information about risk and […]
How IT Ops Can Exceed Service Level Objectives in Digital Transformations
The pace of change can be managed successfully by defining service level objectives and more in dev environments Mobile applications, data lakes, microservices, data visualizations, SaaS integrations, automations, IoT data streams, machine learning models—in proof of concepts, pilots and scaling production environments, for customer-facing capabilities and employee workflows—all of these technical capabilities are developed, deployed […]
Splunk Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Splunk today unveiled an observability platform delivered as a cloud service that captures all metrics, traces and logs in real-time without relying on sampling. Spiros Xanthos, vice president of product management for observability and IT Ops at Splunk, said Splunk Observability Cloud collects all that data via a single agent based on open source OpenTelemetry […]
Debugging is Broken – Here’s How To Fix It
Let’s face it, debugging is broken. Whether you wholeheartedly agree or vehemently disagree with that statement, I think we can all agree that debugging, at the very least, has room for improvement. In fact, the way software developers debug their code hasn’t changed much. Of course, there are now a wide array of observability and […]
More and More Enterprises Go Headless
IT faces high expectations for building and supporting omnichannel digital experiences. Simultaneously, web developers hold an evolving toolkit of architectural approaches to deliver content. One such framework gaining mindshare is headless, a style that decouples front end user experiences from back end application logic. Legacy options for content delivery can be somewhat cumbersome in that […]
Blips and Downtime: Incident Management 101
Nothing gets the blood pumping like seeing an IT incident alert flash across the screen. Is the network traffic anomaly a potential intrusion? Are we about to have an outage? Is it just a random blip on the radar? The implications of these different potential incidents vary wildly, and each requires a different set of […]
Why Real-Time Asset Intelligence is a Must
Complexity breaks correlation. Intelligence brings cohesion. This simple principle is what makes real-time asset intelligence a must-have for AIOps that is meant to diffuse complexity. To further create a context for the user, it is critical to understand service dependencies and correlate alerts across the stack to resolve incidents. Why not just CMDB? CMDB systems […]
Make Metrics Matter: Measure What’s Important
In a data-driven society, organizations rely heavily on sets of metrics to evaluate how they’re doing on a particular task, initiative or resource allocation. Metrics are particularly important to DevOps teams, whose very function is tied to concepts like collaboration and continuous improvement. But, while metrics can help drive efficiencies, they can also drive DevOps […]