Application Performance Management/Monitoring
How the SRE Role Is Evolving
In recent years, site reliability engineering (SRE) has garnered much interest. In , LinkedIn listed site reliability engineer as the second most promising job in the United States. Now, in 2021, the ...
CNCF Graduates Open Policy Agent Project to Manage Compliance as Code
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, ...
Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep's CEO, said ...
AppDynamics Partners With Cisco to Secure Application Runtimes
AppDynamics today announced its agent software, which it provides as part of its observability platform, now has the ability to enforce application security policies. Developed in collaboration with the security business unit ...
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the ...
Tidelift Secures Open Source Software Supply Chains
Tidelift today announced the general availability of a platform dubbed Tidelift catalogs, through which enterprise IT organizations can more effectively manage their open source supply chains. Donald Fischer, Tidelift's CEO, says the ...
vFunction Automates Conversion of Java Apps to Microservices
vFunction has developed an eponymous platform capable of automatically converting a monolithic application written in Java into a set of microservices. The startup is emerging from stealth mode today. Fresh from raising ...
DevSecOps Implementation: EDR/XDR
We mentioned host intrusion detection and network intrusion detection in an earlier blog, and mentioned firewalls a couple of times in passing. Let’s delve a bit into the history to understand how ...
OpenTelemetry Project Gains Log Agent Software from observIQ
Stanza, an open source log agent developed by observIQ, a provider of an observability platform, has become part of the OpenTelemetry Project for collecting telemetry data. Mike Kelly, CTO and co-founder, observIQ, ...
ARMO Aims to Simplify Microservices Security
ARMO this week emerged from stealth to launch a platform to secure cloud-native workloads and improve visibility. The ARMO Workload Fabric technology attaches code within the memory invoked by a microservice to ...
Sentry Updates Tool for Monitoring JavaScript Apps
Sentry today announced it has updated its JavaScript SDK tool for monitoring applications to provide a more comprehensive view of application health. Previously, Sentry's JavaScript SDK enabled JavaScript developers to insert lines ...
An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as ...

