Doin’ DevOps
A DevOps Reset for a Multi-Cloud World
In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those apps, ...
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786, Elon Musk, If life were predictable it would cease to be life—and be without flavor, layoffs, OpenSSL, RCE, redundancy, security vulnerabilities, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow ...
Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering
The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the ...
For Engineers, Meetings Waste Time and Money
Meetings can be the lifeblood of any organization, allowing coworkers to check in with one another, exchange ideas and solve problems. But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number ...
Break Open the Black Box of Software Development
Cameron Van Orman | | Business, development, flow, leadership, software, technology, value stream managementIf you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in ...
Know What You Want and Need
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, ...
Building New Value in IT Systems Management
For decades, companies treated the IT system as a cost center not much different from facilities maintenance. The job of IT was to keep the lights on, ensuring that the technology a ...
Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations
James Walker | | CI/CD, collaboration, development, engineering, industry 3/4.0, modelling, quality, Quality Assurance, shift left, testingJPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (and cost ...
Adopting Shift Left Testing in Software QA
I am often asked to recommend best practices for building software testing programs. The problem is that it depends on your definition of “best.” What works for an innovative startup developing software ...
Session Tokens Vs. JWTs: Choosing Your Session Management Solution
In the world of authentication today, session tokens and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are the two most popular ways to manage user sessions and maintain a user’s authentication state between calls. Impassioned ...
When Self-Service DevOps Forgets Who it Serves
For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
Richi Jennings | | disaster recovery, downtime, IaaS, Kakao, Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, on-premises, PaaS, Pangyo, SaaS, SK C&C, South Korea, The Long View, uptimeIn this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
