DevOps Culture
The Rogers Outage of 2022: Takeaways for SREs
When, eight years from now, folks are creating lists of the top IT incidents of the 2020s, there's a good chance that they'll include the Rogers outage of 2022. The failure, which ...
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS ...
Next-Level Tech: DevOps Meets CSOps
Operations are some of the most important aspects of an organization. In tech, DevOps has dominated the conversation due to its necessity in keeping up with the rate of building products, applications ...
Why You Should Rip Up Your Org Chart and Reorganize Around Value Streams
To compete in the digital economy, teams must optimize both efficiency and effectiveness–it's a tough ask. The traditional dominator hierarchy is a problem because organizations that use command and control create silos ...
What GitHub’s 2FA Mandate Means for Devs Everywhere
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly standard within software development organizations, with GitHub recently announcing that two-factor authentication (2FA) will be mandatory for all code contributors by the end of 2023. This ...
Don’t Let Developer Toil Affect the Business Value of Your Apps
Michael Cote | | audit, burnout, developer, digital transformation, efficiency, metrics, software, wellbeing, workforceIt is no surprise that the world today is driven by apps. Organizations all over the world are basing their business goals on their capacity to integrate new apps quickly, and they ...
Leverage Empirical Data to Avoid DevOps Burnout
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers ...
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, Alphabet, Apple, ARM, data centers, facebook, google, Green data center, hiring, Intel, Meta Platforms, microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, recession, RISC-V, Salesforce, Tesla, The Long View, There’s no point in questioning authority if you aren’t going to listen to the answers, twitter, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
The Everything-As-Code Revolution and the OWASP Top 10
After years of stagnation, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 list finally saw some shakeup. Most notably, insecure design debuted on the list as the number four security risk ...
Majority of Open Source Devs Open to Change Jobs in 2022
Open source is the foundation of most modern software applications. Now more than ever, retaining developers with experience working on and with open source projects is critical to maintaining software development agility ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
Empathy for the API Developer
Security teams have always been perceived as an impediment to delivery by software teams who feel that security imposes arbitrary and unreasonable policies and use poorly-integrated tools that are beset with high ...
