Continuous Delivery
Building New Value in IT Systems Management
For decades, companies treated the IT system as a cost center not much different from facilities maintenance. The job of IT was to keep the lights on, ensuring that the technology a ...
Making App Dev More Efficient
Applications of all kinds are continually popping up across various industries to help improve consumer customer experiences, provide entertainment, make certain tedious or error-prone tasks easier for workers and to help businesses ...
Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event ...
Sigstore Code Signing Service Becomes Generally Available
A free digital signing service for software created by the Sigstore open source community has become generally available this week via the cloud. Announced at the SigstoreCon event that occurred during the ...
Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations
JPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (and cost ...
BMC Extends Scope of ServiceOps Initiative
At the BMC Exchange conference this week, BMC revealed it has updated its Helix IT service management (ITSM) platform to include mapping and discovery capabilities. Those updates make it simpler for cross-functional ...
Three Ways to Speed up SAST
In modern, continuous software development life cycle (SDLC) processes, when code is written and before it’s committed to the repository, it’s run through testing, which may include unit testing, regression testing or ...
When Self-Service DevOps Forgets Who it Serves
For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish ...
Of Max and Min: The Non-Interference Prime Directive (for Visibility)
Last issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In ...
Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem ...
Sonatype Report Surfaces Scope of Known Vulnerability Challenge
Sonatype this week published a State of the Software Supply Chain Report that found a 633% year-over-year increase in malicious attacks aimed at open source software residing in public repositories. In addition, ...
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, ...

