Doin’ DevOps
How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers
Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those ...
Loosely Couple Your Schema and Keep Data Separate
In software development, one of the primary goals is to write clean, maintainable and extensible code. To achieve this, developers often strive to design systems that are loosely coupled and separate concerns ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
You’re Already a Distributed Developer
For many coders, the idea of distributed systems development might seem like a dark art. They think of high-performance computing wizards crafting mysterious spells with job schedulers to work magic with hundreds ...
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term 'OpenTelemetry.' At that time, I was an active member of ...
Preparing for Machine Learning Readiness to Unlock its Full Potential
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), companies need to understand and evaluate their readiness to adopt these technologies and drive material business outcomes. To assess a ...
Continuous Testing: The Key to Quality Assurance in the DevOps Era
Continuous testing has emerged as a critical aspect of quality assurance in the DevOps era. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in software development methodologies. With the advent of ...
The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring ...
Optimizing SaaS With Automation and Zero-Touch IT
For the first time in 10 years, businesses have slowed their frenetic pace of SaaS adoption. Based on recent BetterCloud research, the average enterprise today uses 130 SaaS applications. While that represents ...
The Rise of NetDevOps and CI/CD Pipeline Solutions
Over time, as organizations, networks and technologies have changed, the way enterprises think about managing networks has shifted as well. Enterprises are continuing to evolve their networking strategies, specifically with regard to ...
How Application Developer Turnover is Shaping Security
Observing the developer job market for the past two years reveals a surprising truth that has a profound impact on technology organizations. In the “new normal” of hybrid work, life moves fast ...
Turning Software Testers Into 10xers
How do you make technical processes faster and more scalable? If your answer is simply to automate them, you're stuck in the 2010s. Today, automation is widespread, and automating processes in a ...

