Splunk to Acquire SignalFx to Gain APM Platform
Splunk today announced it will acquire SignalFx as part of an effort to extend its reach beyond IT operational analytics and into the realm of application performance management (APM). Valued at approximately $1.05 billion, the deal to acquire an APM platform delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering will expand and accelerate Splunk’s overall transition to […]
Catchpoint Expands Network Monitoring Service Reach
Catchpoint has expanded the number of locations worldwide from which it is gathering telemetry data for its networking monitoring service to more than 825 sites. Drit Suljoti, chief product officer for Catchpoint, said as applications continue to become more distributed, the worlds of DevOps and network operations (NetOps) converge. DevOps teams need more visibility into […]
Autonomous Security in Containers
With the advent of DevOps, the development world has quickly moved to agile development practices and containerized applications. At Forum Systems, we have responded to this trend by putting our API security software, Forum Sentry, into virtual form factors such as Amazon Machine Image, Azure Image, VMware Image, Linux, Windows and Docker. Why do we […]
Speaking the Language of Applications
I arrived early to a meeting, and the pleasant security guard at AT&T suggested I take a look at their innovation museum while I wait. Among motion picture sound technology and life-size photos of switchboard operators on roller-skates stood a transistor prototype. The transistor was invented in Bell labs in 1947, and it changed the […]
Debunking Myths Around RASP
Runtime application self-protection (RASP) has taken a fair bit of scrutiny over the last few years. Like many security technologies that pioneer new ways of tackling old problems, people inherently don’t like change. Several companies entered the space early and early adopters helped mature various RASP solutions on the market and the technology has advanced […]
Datadog Fetches Bevy of Additional DevOps Services
At its Dash 2019 conference today, Datadog launched a series of DevOps initiatives that significantly expand the use cases for the agent software that drives the company’s monitoring services. Additions to the Datadog portfolio include Network Performance Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM) services as well as general availability of a previously announced service for […]
The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery
Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in a data center or cloud knows how laborious and time-consuming it can be. Osquery, a project started by Facebook, aims to lessen this […]
Low-Code Providers Continue Enhancing Their Development Platforms
Enterprise low-code development continues to grow in popularity as software vendors continue to unveil tool enhancements designed to help business users and non-developers build functional applications and business processes. The help from low-code platforms (and other platforms that are integrating low-code capabilities) couldn’t come at a better time, as enterprises continue to struggle to digitize […]
The Purpose of Microservice Architecture
Microservice is an architectural style that can be implemented during complex application development within an organization. The implementation of this architecture allows the application being developed to be highly maintainable and testable, loose, independent during deployment and also strongly organized around business capabilities. In another way, the microservice architecture can be explained quite easily. It […]
How to Automate an API Security Program Without Adding Staff
In today’s information economy, data is a primary raw material and a source of value to both providers and consumers. For many companies, entire business models are built on the exchange of information. Consider a ride-sharing business that owns no vehicles of its own. What the company does possess, however, is a database of private […]
Continuous Reliability: How QA and SREs Can Improve Their CI/CD Workflow
A key challenge in maintaining and accelerating the speed of software delivery is balancing the rate of change with the reliability of your software. With the move toward an increasingly automated workflow, as well as teams of dozens to hundreds of engineers introducing changes at a high frequency, the ability to identify the issues that […]
Survey Finds Reliance on APM Mainly Reactive
A survey of 358 strategic IT decision-makers in enterprise organizations across North America and Europe conducted by the market research firm GigaOm on behalf of SolarWinds, a provider of IT management tools, finds that roughly half of the respondents consider themselves proactive in their use of application performance management (APM) tools. That definition is based […]
How to Create Bug-Free Blockchain Apps
While all developers strive for bug-free code, it’s particularly crucial in a blockchain deployment where sensitive data or other confidential info is being exchanged, such as in health care or finance. However, some businesses have learned that lesson the hard way. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance recently revealed a devastating security breach that resulted in a loss […]
New Relic Doubles Down on DevOps
New Relic today unfurled an extension of its monitoring platform specifically designed for DevOps teams tasked with managing complex IT environments. Nadya Duke Boone, vice president of product management for New Relic, said New Relic One, available to existing customers at no additional cost, makes it possible for DevOps teams to now visualize all the […]
Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution
Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. While this isn’t news for developers (65% of which are active open source contributors), leading cloud […]
Application Monitoring Using Stagemonitor
This article covers important steps to monitor a typical Java application using Stagemonitor tool, Kibana as a dashboard viewing tool and Elasticsearch as a data processing engine. Stagemonitor is an open source Java application performance monitoring (APM) tool that provides everything you need in development, quality assurance and production to monitor the performance of your […]
Wavefront Provides Map for Microservices
VMware announced it is adding a service mapping capability to the Wavefront 3D Observability platform it provides with the Wavefront by VMware monitoring tools. Stela Udovicic, senior director of product marketing for Wavefront, said Wavefront Service Maps will make it easier for IT organizations to visualize what will soon be thousands of microservices running highly […]
Keeping NoOps From Going Rogue
“We’re NoOps—everything is in the cloud and we have no infrastructure to manage.” Before running that victory lap and shifting everyone to the dev side, consider several NoOps risks carefully. I’m really thinking about teams using all-SaaS stacks, especially in martech, edtech and other areas. However, the rise in microservices and serverless means more teams […]
TypeFox Ties Cloud-Based IDE to GitHub
TypeFox has launched a GitPod.io service that melds the integrated development environment (IDE) based in the cloud from TypeFox with the open source GitHub repository. Sven Efftinge, co-founder of TypeFox, said this level of integration will make it easier for developers to navigate multiple projects from which they pull code from GitHub into an Eclipse-based […]
How to Modernize Mainframe Applications
It’s easy to understand the current disillusionment around the term “digital transformation,” as it has been thrown around vaguely as the ultimate answer to business innovation without much recognition of the nuances of technological change. When it comes to mainframe systems, the issue here most likely can be traced back to the word “transformation.” The […]
Using Spark and Jenkins to Deploy Code into Hadoop Clusters
This article illustrates how to deploy an application into a Hadoop cluster using GitLab/Jenkins/Spark application. In this article, we will cover the following: Auto-triggering Jenkins build when code is committed in Git. Pulling the latest code from the repository through Jenkins. Building, compiling and packaging the “.jar” using SBT tool. Uploading the .jar to the […]
New Relic Accelerates AIOps with SignifAI Acquisition
New Relic, following its acquisition of SignifAI, is in the process of accelerating its investments in machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of an effort to make it easier to separate the signal from the noise created by all the alerts in an IT environment. Aaron Johnson, senior vice […]
Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo
Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo. Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be more informed by the metrics gathered by IT monitoring tools. The combined Datadog/Madumbo will bring intelligence to automated testing processes using both application […]