DevOps Practice
Smoothing the Transition From REST to GraphQL
Since its open source release in 2015, GraphQL has taken the development world by storm. GraphQL, the query language originally developed by Facebook, is a big boon for frontend developers, as it ...
Git for Mainframe: Back to the Future
Software delivery modernization should be done with care, especially with mission-critical mainframe apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a trip back to the future. Mainframe applications are typically systems of ...
This is Not Just a Test: DevOps and the Need to Automate
Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and ...
Why We Still Need Specialists
A few years back, I wrote here that specialists—particularly infrastructure specialists—were not going anywhere. I think it is worth updating that prediction and reminding you all that specialists across the bulk of ...
vFunction Tool Uses AI to Help Convert Monolithic Java Apps
vFunction today added the ability to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically assess the level of effort required to convert a monolithic Java application into a set of microservices. Bob Quillin, chief ...
Database Migration From Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 2
In part one of this blog series, we looked at our approach to migration by leveraging the Azure data factory, tuning the performance of Data Factory Pipeline, using Parquet files and increasing ...
Applause Report Surfaces Functional Testing Issues
Mike Vizard | | accessibility testing, Applause, bugs, custom software development, functional testingAn analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of ...
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts ...
BMC Integrates DevOps Mainframe Portfolio With Git
BMC has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the development of mainframe applications by integrating the BMC Compuware ISPW continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with Git repositories. In addition, ...
GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab's namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as ...
Hasura Adds Join Capability to GraphQL Engine
Hasura today announced it has extended its GraphQL engine to make it possible to join data generated by multiple sources. Hasura CEO Tanmai Gopal said GraphQL Joins makes it possible to join ...
SRE Vs. DevOps: The Wrong Question?
The age-old question about the competition between DevOps and SRE sets up a false dichotomy. DevOps is a methodology while SRE is a team within operations. Although the two are often pitted ...
