Doin’ DevOps
Why MTTR is a Vital Metric for DevOps Teams
In DevOps, every second counts. System failures mean your engineers lose valuable time improving software and developing new features. So how do you effectively detect and manage these issues? Mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) can ...
Agile Development at 20: Can it Thrive in the Hybrid Work Era?
The Agile Manifesto turns 20 this year, and while many of the core tenets are still applicable, the world has changed considerably in the last two decades. What would the Agile Manifesto ...
DevSecOps in Azure
DevSecOps is everywhere, and chances are your organization is shifting toward this convergence of development, security and operations. In an on-premises environment, you build your own DevSecOps process by mixing and matching ...
Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight
Richi Jennings | | Ampere, ARM, azure, facebook, google, Great Resignation, Microsoft Azure, No legacy is so rich as honesty, The Long View, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable ...
Bringing Development Environments Into the Modern Age
It’s time to rethink how we deliver distributed access to software development environments. We know how to write code. And there are plenty of well-established tools, techniques and processes for doing so. We ...
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, Apple, authentication, DNS, Identity, insider threats, LAPSUS$, linux, NIST, Okta, outage, random number generator, The Long View, This above all—to thine own self be trueIn this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again ...
TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
Richi Jennings | | Apple, ByteDance, Good words shall gain you honor but good deeds shall gain you friends, non-practicing entities, Patent assertion entities, Patent trolls, Patents, Russia, The Long View, TikTok, UkraineIn this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300 ...
Guide to Privacy Management for Developers
Privacy has taken on an unprecedented level of importance in 2022, primarily online privacy. There are multiple reasons behind this increase. The primary one is that users online are now more educated, ...
Ukraine Asks for DNS Censorship | Ukraine Snapchat Staff Danger | #BoycottKaspersky?
Richi Jennings | | DNS, ICANN, If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality, Kaspersky Lab, Looksery, Russia, Sanctions, Snap, Snapchat, The Long View, UkraineIn this week’s The Long View: Censoring the Russian internet, Snap fears for hundreds of Ukrainian employees, and Eugene Kaspersky acts like a **** ...
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, careers, COVID-19, Failure is the foundation of success—and the means by which it is achieved, Firefox, Gecko, Great Resignation, Linode, Mozilla, remote workers, The Long View, WFH, work from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office ...
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, COVID-19, Devops for z/OS, Great Resignation, ibm, IBM Cloud, IBM Wazi, mainframe, mainframe security, remote working, The Long View, Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know, WFH, work from home, z/OSIn this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually ...
