DevOps Practice
Stytch Launches New, Flexibility-First SDK
Passwordless solutions have been a trend for a while now, improving user experience (UX) while reducing exposure to common attack vectors. Now, Stytch’s new JavaScript SDK aims to make password-free authentication a ...
DevSecOps: Realities of Policy Management
Policy management is essential to scale cloud environments and is key to secure DevOps practices. It enables organizations to manage policies put in place that secure the cloud environment, ensure Kubernetes configurations ...
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
In this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working ...
Pulumi Extends Infrastructure-as-Code Reach
At its online PulumiUP conference, Pulumi announced it will make its Pulumi CrossCode translation technology available to third parties and DevOps teams. The technology was developed to integrate a wide range of ...
Internal Developer Portal: What it Is and Why You Need One
One main advantage of the cloud is that it offers developers flexibility and a self-service solution. Instead of having to contact the central infrastructure team whenever a dev team needs a new ...
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
An 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 ...

