4 Ways to Uplevel Your Software Engineering Team
In my 20 years leading software development teams, I’ve witnessed the industry’s continuous growth alongside technology’s evolution. The only thing we know for certain is that the industry will continue to change and winning businesses will be those that build with change in mind, backed by effective, fast-moving software teams. This is the year we […]
AWS Outage Outrage | Rusty Linux | ARM Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon Web Services falls on its face, Linux’s move to Rust takes the next step, and the FTC stabs another fatal wound in the horrible Arm/Nvidia deal.
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Private 5G | Graviton3 ARM Chips | DevOps Guru++
In this week’s The Long View: Three things that caught my eye from Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Private 5G, Graviton3 chips, and something called DevOps Guru for RDS (yes, really).
Securing Your Software Development Pipelines
Earlier this year, it was announced that the attack on IT management software provider SolarWinds had been used to compromise other organizations, including parts of the United States government. There were several reasons for alarm because of this news, but one of the biggest was the revelation that attackers breached SolarWinds’ software development process and […]
Why IT Should Focus on Quality Over Velocity
Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pandemic, with extreme pressure for businesses to digitally transform quickly, it’s a discipline at risk of being dismissed by organizations and tech leaders as a […]
NS1 Touts a Common Delivery Platform for Devs and Ops
NS1 has extended the capabilities of its DNS and network management platform with the release of NS1 Connect. The platform is designed to serve as a delivery platform that integrates developer and network operations teams’ tasks for the creation and management of applications across highly distributed cloud-native and on-premises environments. While DevOps teams typically rely […]
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 […]
Empowering Developers Through Lean Code
Digital transformation is widely understood as a critical component for increasing user adoption, fueling workplace productivity and innovation, and driving business growth. Software has become increasingly important across countless industries, teams, and functionalities, and as a result, companies are beginning to understand that being an industry leader and gaining competitive advantages starts with software development. […]
How Shifting Testing Left Can Boost DevOps Velocity
DevOps is all about balance: How can speed and quality be balanced to best meet the demands of customers who want exceptional digital experiences as fast as possible? DevOps looks to meet these expectations head-on by helping to deliver a faster cadence of new builds to customers while keeping quality high. What’s more, quality should […]
DevOps Chat: Maximizing the Benefits of DevSecOps
When discussing security in DevOps, we often focus on the security tools instead of the DevSecOps process itself. In this DevOps Chat, ZeroNorth CEO John Worrall takes us to the root of “why” DevSecOps, focusing on the business benefit, gain and measurement of what we seek to accomplish through DevSecOps. John advocates we concentrate on […]
Solving Cloud-Native Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud
The shift to cloud-native environments away from traditional data center infrastructures continues unabated, but security and complexity challenges remain a struggle for DevOps teams. These were two of the main takeaways in a survey and analyst report published by the IT consultancy firm Flexera. The survey, based on the responses of 750 IT professionals, revealed […]
Solo.io Announces General Availability of Gloo Mesh Enterprise, Delivering a “Command Center” for Service Mesh Management
Solo.io Announces General Availability of Gloo Mesh Enterprise, Delivering a “Command Center” for Service Mesh Management Solo.io Also Deepens Technical Investment in Istio Service Mesh with Appointment of Industry-Recognized Istio Expert Lin Sun CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— Feb. 18, 2021 — Solo.io, the modern API infrastructure company delivering application networking from the edge to service mesh, today […]
Unlocking Your DevOps Automation Mindset
In the new digital normal, where remote working has upended conventional software development cycles, the role of DevOps is central. Many enterprises have an accelerated digital agenda, but are often underinvested in rebooting DevOps for several reasons, including a lack of experience and insight into how it can help businesses recover from the new challenges […]
Groove Launches the First Sales Engagement Platform for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
New platform enables banks and wealth management advisors to strengthen customer relationships and accelerate sales productivity post COVID-19 December 7, 2020 – San Francisco, CA – Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced general availability of their first industry-specific product, Groove for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. The new sales engagement […]
AWS Expands Breadth, Depth of DevOps Services Portfolio
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a bevy of cloud services, including a preview of Amazon DevOps Guru, that collectively promise to make it much easier to deploy and manage cloud applications. Announced during the online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed service that employs machine learning algorithms to automatically detecting […]
Cracking Production Performance Issues With Open Source Observability
I would like to share a recent case study on our organization, Logz.io, which battled a very serious performance issue, the solution for which turned out to be a small change in code but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform. Among other topics, I’ll cover: How we investigated […]
GitOps on AWS: Accelerate software delivery on EKS
“I feel the need – the need for speed.” Many companies have chosen Kubernetes as it speeds up application development and delivery. So how can teams truly accelerate their software delivery? Can you avoid the steep learning curve altogether? GitOps lets teams continuously deploy new versions to hundreds of EKS environments simultaneously. With a clear […]
GitOps on AWS: Managing Governance, Compliance and Risk for Kubernetes on EKS
4 out of 10 enterprises are now running Kubernetes in a production environment today but many still consider security and policy concerns an overwhelming obstacle and bottleneck to innovation. The GitOps workflow gives teams a head start as it relies on git’s strong correctness and security. Every pull request has a built-in and fully auditable […]
GitOps on AWS: How to build a high-performing team operation
Many modern enterprises embrace DevOps methodologies – automating and streamlining the integration and deployment processes – in order to increase development speed and reliability. GitOps takes DevOps principles one step further while leveraging best practices from managing application infrastructure as code. GitOps allows development teams to use the tools that they are already familiar with […]
GitOps on AWS: Codifying cloud operations
Kubernetes is the foundation for modern cloud native architectures today but it is just one of the building blocks. To unlock cloud native agility, platform teams require new components and methodologies in order to successfully operationalize the entire stack. Many enterprise IT teams encounter production challenges when it comes to managing multi-cluster Kubernetes across multiple […]
GitOps on AWS: Managing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Models
Data has proven to be a competitive differentiator for decades and the adoption of machine learning can now deliver even greater insights from data. Adopting machine learning requires a technology environment with processes and platforms that can deliver innovation at scale. EKS is a managed Kubernetes platform for scale. GitOps introduces processes and principles that […]
EKS + GitOps QuickStart
Excited about the opportunities of Cloud Native development, GitOps and Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) – but not sure how to navigate your organization to the path to success? Whether your team is already using Kubernetes in the cloud or behind the firewall they need battle-tested architectures, workflows and skills to operate EKS reliably. Weaveworks […]
Three Mistakes to Avoid When Migrating to the Cloud
Migration and modernization is a process – it doesn’t all happen at once, and some applications don’t make the journey. AWS and CloudBees help customers navigate cloud adoption and DevOps transformation with tools and practices that help customers make good decisions on how to move, migrate, rebuild or replace the components you need. Many enterprise […]