DevOps Culture
flox Unveils More Accessible Instance of Nix Framework
This week, flox launched a more opinionated implementation of the open source Nix framework that programmatically automates package management and system configuration. Fresh from raising an additional $16.5 million in funding, flox ...
Atlassian Extends Scope of Jira Project Management Portfolio
At the Atlassian Presents: Unleash event today, Atlassian announced it is adding a Jira Product Discovery application to its portfolio. Jira Product Discovery makes it easier for organizations to keep track of ...
Leveraging Automation for Secure, Cost-Effective Mobile App Delivery
As businesses mobilize their customers and employees, they need to develop innovative mobile applications that safeguard user trust. But secure mobile development and manual security testing can be expensive and time-consuming—a bigger ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.aiIn this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
Platform Engineering: Creating a Paved Path to Reduce Developer Toil
This article is part one of a series of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in reducing cognitive load and creating a better developer experience. Developer toil and ...
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
Richi Jennings | | ChatGPT, Codex, github, GitHub Copilot, gitops, microsoft, Netflix, open source, OpenAI, password policies, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts ...
The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a DevOps Engineer
The economic downturn, pandemic management challenges, supply constraints and the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war have led to layoffs in many industries. While these events also impact the technology industry, it does not necessarily ...
The Strategic Product Backlog: Lead, Follow, Watch and Explore
The economic outlook for 2023 suggests many organizations will be leading through a period of resource scarcity as IT budgets are scrutinized and organizational priorities are re-evaluated. For the product manager, smaller ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
Richi Jennings | | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long ViewAll of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic ...
6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity
Bill Doerrfeld | | CI/CD, continuous deployment, continuous integration, developer productivity, devops culture, employee engagementA big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many ...
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, deep learning, floating point, FP8, inference, layoffs, microsoft, ml, recession, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going ...
