DevOps in the Cloud
U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle ...
AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?
Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my ...
NetApp Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud is Maturing
A small survey of 79 midsized to large enterprises conducted by NetApp suggests enterprise IT organizations might finally be embracing hybrid cloud computing beyond use cases involving backup and recovery. The survey ...
AWS Outage Exposes Weaknesses of DevOps Resilience
The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on ...
DevSecOps for Databases: Data Masking, Cloud Backup, WAF and More
DevSecOps is everywhere. More and more organizations realize that the traditional separation between DevOps and security is wasteful and dangerous. As a result, they are rushing to integrate security into all their ...
Sumo Logic Extends Observability Reach to AWS Lambda
At the AWS re:Invent conference this week, Sumo Logic announced that in addition to collecting log data, metrics and traces, it now can collect telemetry data from the Lambda serverless computing service ...
AWS Unfurls Bevy of Automation Tools to Streamline DevOps
At the AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) added a bevy of tools to its portfolio intended to accelerate the pace of application development while simultaneously simplifying DevOps processes. AWS development ...
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Private 5G | Graviton3 ARM Chips | DevOps Guru++
In this week’s The Long View: Three things that caught my eye from Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Private 5G, Graviton3 chips, and something called DevOps Guru for RDS (yes, really) ...
Why Do You Need GitHub Backup?
You've probably heard the joke that there are two types of people in IT: Those who do backups and those who will start. Though it's still valid, this joke has become less ...
Does Your Organization Need a Data Diet?
The scenario is all-too-familiar: There’s a security breach, and afterward, the affected organization asks what it must do to better protect its data. But what if that organization never collected and stored ...
GraphQL as a Meta Layer
There's a lot of interest in GraphQL lately. The query language is excellent for data retrieval, and it could act as a more usable mechanism to evolve the traditional REST API integration ...
Fugue Marries Compliance-as-Code Tool to AWS Well-Architected Framework
Fugue has infused the best practices defined by Amazon Web Services (AWS) within its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for provisioning infrastructure using its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform. Fugue CEO Josh Stella said that IT ...

