Continuous Testing
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI ...
The Benefits of Crowdsourced Testing
Charlene O'Hanlon and Rob Mason from Applause talk about how crowdsourced testing is a highly effective method for testing applications and its benefits to DevOps teams. The video is below followed by ...
Dependability is Crucial for Real-Time Experiences
Matthew O'Riordan | | data integrity, dependability, downtime, infrastructure, performance, real-time, reliability, scalabilityMillions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, ...
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer ...
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
Richi Jennings | | ARM, cosmic rays, Fall seven times and stand up the eighth, Green data center, Information batteries, machine learning, muons, NVIDIA, reliability, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO ...
The Evolution of Incident Management
Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that ...
Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
James Reinders | | hardware, open source, open systems, parallel programming, supercomputing, universal softwareAs hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, ...
Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security
An application programming interface (API) is a data transfer approach that enables services within an application to talk to other applications (or other services within a system). Essentially, it enables Service A ...
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they ...
Continuous Security: The Next Evolution of CI/CD
Following a wave of high-profile cyberattacks and the White House’s release of the executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity, how to build a successful cybersecurity program has never been so hotly ...
Improving Software Security in 2022
Pieter Danhieux | | developer skills, secure code DevSecOps, Secure Code Warrior, Secure Software Summit, shift leftThe recent Log4j vulnerability showed just how quickly a security bug could disrupt not just an industry, but the entire world. Organizations, especially federal agencies, will always find themselves at some level ...
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Comes of Age in 2022
The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is still gathering steam across organizations. In January 2022, LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st job with the highest global demand throughout the past five years ...
