Doin’ DevOps
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 ...
Digital Experience and the Future of Observability
Nik Koutsoukos | | application management and monitoring, devops, digital experience, Digitial Experience Monitoring, observabilityOver 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
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 ...
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!
Richi Jennings | | cryptography, database, devsecops, Don’t settle for what life gives you—make life better and build something, encryption, end to end, FAA, federal agencies, legacy, mainframe, NOTAM, privacy, risk, security, technical debt, The Long View, ThreemaIn 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 ...
Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci ...
How Embedded Analytics Can Transform Future Businesses
It’s no secret that big tech companies like Google, Amazon and Netflix are not only leveraging data but also delivering embedded analytics and insights as a standard functionality of their software, services, ...
Best of 2022: The Great DevOps Burnout
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. DevOps needs ...
