Continuous Delivery

In the last few years, DevSecOps has become the security process of choice for many forward-thinking enterprises.  These organizations have come to understand that fixing bugs in the latter stages of product ...

At a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of ...

The practice of hardcoding secrets—such as authentication credentials, passwords, API tokens and SSH Keys—as non-encrypted plain text into source code or scripts has been common in software development for many years. It ...

A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based ...

In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double ...

Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are ...

Balancing the speed of innovation with security is an age-old problem in software development. This is no different in modern DevOps. Development teams want a frictionless path to deploy new code but ...

Change introduces risk. It’s one of those foundational principles of software development that most of us learned very early in our careers. Nevertheless, it always seems to keep cropping up in spite ...

Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service ...

Progress this week extended its DevSecOps portfolio—built atop the Chef automation framework it acquired in 2020—to now include the ability to programmatically address compliance mandates. At the same time, Progress has updated ...

In this age of sweeping digital transformation and accelerated change, organizations are recognizing that depending solely upon the drawn-out process of waterfall methodology is no longer sustainable if they are to remain ...

Many companies are adopting a DevOps approach in their workflows as IT moves toward a more automated and cloud-native world—but for some industries, this migration isn't easy. Many of these companies—in finance, ...