DevOps and Open Technologies
Update to Open Source ZAP Tool Improves DAST Performance
An update to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool made available today improves performance by employing a multi-threaded passive scanner engine. Version 2.12.0 of ...
The Dog Ate My DevOps Dozen
As the new Techstrong Group team member, I wasn’t familiar with the DevOps Dozen awards. The basics: It’s a cool program that recognizes excellence across a number of categories in the DevOps ...
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
Richi Jennings | | Apple, facebook, in-app purchase, initrd, iOS, Lennart Poettering, linux, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Metaverse, secure boot, systemd, The Long View, Your time is limited—so don’t waste it living someone else’s lifeIn this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux ...
Sigstore Code Signing Service Becomes Generally Available
A free digital signing service for software created by the Sigstore open source community has become generally available this week via the cloud. Announced at the SigstoreCon event that occurred during the ...
JFrog Gives Pyrsia to CD Foundation to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, JFrog announced it contributed the Pyrsia project, which uses blockchain technologies to secure software packages, to the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation. Stephen ...
Cisco Unveils 800G Networking Platform to Advance DataOps
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice ...
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
Mike Vizard | | cloud cost management, cloud security posture management, datadog, DevOps metrics, IT observabilityAt its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, ...
Red Hat and IBM Pledge to Bring NLP to Ansible
At the Ansiblefest 2022 conference today, Red Hat and its parent company IBM announced the Project Wisdom initiative to bring natural language processing (NLP) to the open source Ansible IT operations automation ...
New Relic Reports Major Spike in Volume of Log Data
New Relic today shared a report based on anonymized data it collects that showed a 35% increase in the volume of logging data collected by its observability platform. The report also identified ...
Of Max and Min: When Performance Engineering Plans Go Awry
Modern software developers have access to powerful tools and services which allow them to quickly develop, demo and deploy fully functional applications. But what happens when the single-user prototype satisfies all required ...
Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy
Richi Jennings | | 4-Day Work Week, FIDO, google, I am not bound to please thee with my answer, Passkeys, The Long View, WebAuthnIn this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed ...
GraphQL: Security by Obscurity Just Isn’t Enough
The debate about how to secure GraphQL rages on. Many organizations are hesitant to adopt GraphQL for public-facing APIs as there is no precise method to handle authorization concerns as of yet ...
