Continuous Delivery
Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations
James Walker | | CI/CD, collaboration, development, engineering, industry 3/4.0, modelling, quality, Quality Assurance, shift left, testingJPMorgan 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
Bill Doerrfeld | | application architecture, continuous deployment, Life cycle management, technical debtIdeally, 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
Mike Vizard | | cloud cost management, cloud security posture management, datadog, DevOps metrics, IT observabilityAt 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, ...
Making SBOMs Actionable
A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a list of all the software components found in a given codebase or used in a given software build. Great. So, now what? Why do ...
JFrog Adds Module to Better Secure Software Supply Chains
JFrog today added a JFrog Advanced Security module to its Artifactory repository that enables DevOps teams to scan both binaries and source code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Stephen Chin, vice president of ...
Of Max and Min: When Performance Engineering Plans Go Awry
Modern software developers have access to powerful tools and services which allow them to quickly develop, demo and deploy fully functional applications. But what happens when the single-user prototype satisfies all required ...
DevOps Principles, Implementations and Culture
When organizations begin using DevOps for application development, many only reference DevOps as part of their infrastructure and select a subset of DevOps before understanding the cultural and process changes needed for success ...
