DevOps and Open Technologies
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Private 5G | Graviton3 ARM Chips | DevOps Guru++
In this week’s The Long View: Three things that caught my eye from Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Private 5G, Graviton3 chips, and something called DevOps Guru for RDS (yes, really) ...
GraphQL as a Meta Layer
There's a lot of interest in GraphQL lately. The query language is excellent for data retrieval, and it could act as a more usable mechanism to evolve the traditional REST API integration ...
WhiteSource Report Finds NPM Vulnerabilities Fixed Fast
WhiteSource today published a report that found most of the vulnerabilities that affect node package managers (NPMs), widely employed to deploy JavaScript applications, are addressed long before they are assigned a Common ...
WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes
In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm ...
Some Change is Bad
Some time toward the end of the year, I start considering the volume of change we, as practitioners, have been under for … literally years, even decades. And I start to try ...
WhiteSource Adds SBOM Tool That Lists Vulnerabilities
WhiteSource has added a software bill of materials (SBOM) tool to its portfolio that, in addition to capturing the components of an application, also surfaces vulnerabilities that should be addressed. Many organizations ...
Logz.io Extends Open Source Observability Platform
Logz.io has enhanced its observability platform to include both unified dashboards and support for distributed tracing to monitor service performance enabled by the open source Jaeger agent software being advanced under the ...
Top 10 DevOps Things to Be Thankful for in 2021
Thanksgiving has been observed in the U.S. since 1861 and was officially designated as an official holiday in 1863 by president Lincoln. Of course, the tradition itself traces its lineage to the ...
Nvidia/ARM Wavering | Google Outage Outrage | Backblaze IPO on Fire
In this week’s The Long View: Nvidia’s faltering attempt to buy Arm, Google’s load balancers go offline, and Backblaze’s newly-IPO’ed stock jumps 60% ...
Building on Terraform: Evolution, not Revolution
Terraform is widely adopted among both enterprises and service providers who embrace infrastructure-as-code (IaC) as their model for infrastructure provisioning automation in DevOps environments. And while the technology has limitations, innovations seeking ...
Era Software Adds SaaS Edition of Log Management Platform
Era Software has unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its platform for collecting and managing log data that is based on a time-series database it built. At the same time, the company ...
What Developers Need to Know About Edge Computing
More and more companies are living “on the edge” as they move from “I’ll think about edge computing” to “I don’t think our business can optimally grow and compete without edge computing.” ...

