DevOps Practice
Kong Enterprise 2.7 Simplifies API Management
Kong Inc. this week advanced its service connectivity platform strategy with an update to Kong Enterprise that makes it simpler to collectively manage groups of application programming interfaces (APIs). Michael Heap, director ...
No Matter How Things Change, Have a Plan
Had enough change yet? It is almost amusing that I and some other tech people had that conversation a decade ago, and since then, nothing has slowed down. Our conclusion was that, ...
3 Technologies Driving Business Sustainability
The pandemic highlighted many things, not least of which was the shift in consumer behavior toward further encouraging companies to change their operations and act with sustainability in mind. An overwhelming 96% of ...
The Evolution of Incident Management
Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that ...
Why Developer-First is the Future of AppSec
DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption mean developers are shipping code faster than ever and, in many cases, security teams struggle to keep up. To avoid relegating security to afterthought status, organizations ...
4 Ways to Uplevel Your Software Engineering Team
In my 20 years leading software development teams, I’ve witnessed the industry’s continuous growth alongside technology’s evolution. The only thing we know for certain is that the industry will continue to change ...
Trends in the API Industry
The application programming interface (API) economy is chugging along full steam ahead. The API management market alone is expected to expand 35% by 2025, supported by the sheer number of web APIs ...
Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security
An application programming interface (API) is a data transfer approach that enables services within an application to talk to other applications (or other services within a system). Essentially, it enables Service A ...
It is Time to Secure Git
At this point, we’ve got a ton of experience with the bits of Git that we use. And locking down Git is well-documented. Okay, it is documented; we can say that, at ...
Continuous Security: The Next Evolution of CI/CD
Following a wave of high-profile cyberattacks and the White House’s release of the executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity, how to build a successful cybersecurity program has never been so hotly ...
AI: It’s What Staff Crave!
If you’ve seen Idiocracy (Side note: I am not recommending the movie; I’m using a phrase from it we’ve all heard. The movie itself was a comedy not at all meant to ...
Source Code Management Best Practices
Source code is, of course, the foundation of any software development practice. Managing that source code is the first task tackled by modern software development pipelines, with all subsequent stages of the ...

