Doin’ DevOps

Stream Big, Think Bigger: Analyze Streaming Data at Scale
Data streams are all the rage. Once a niche element of data engineering, streaming data is the new normal—more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted Apache Kafka, the most common ...

What’s Ahead for the Future of Data Streaming?
Data is everywhere. It's being produced by almost everyone and everything around us. For businesses to be competitive, they need to build resilient, scalable systems that can efficiently tap into and react ...

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?
All 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 ...

Digital Experience and the Future of Observability
Over the past two years, there’s been significant hype around observability in the IT operations and DevOps world. As shorthand for providing better insights, observability has seen a rise in lockstep with ...

8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going ...

Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize ...

FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad ...

Why GraphQL Will Reign King
After years of development, GraphQL is set to reign as the go-to API for data fetching. But what is GraphQL? Simply put, it’s a query language that allows you to fetch data ...

5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve ...

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 ...

How DevOps Helps Banks Optimize Their Services
A world-renowned bank's CEO was recently quoted as saying that while there are thousands of manual banks now, the future will see only a handful of digital banks. Along with the rest ...