DevOps Practice
No-Nonsense Guide to Distributed Databases
I got my first DBA job 15 years ago, and quite a few things have changed since then. The amount of data exploded, we saw the rise of NoSQL, and business logic ...
How Low-Code/No-Code Can Transform Your Organization
For many companies, IT transformation is no small feat. Between the technology, process and organizational changes needed, it can take time to see a return on your IT transformation efforts and investments ...
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to API Management
As API use has exploded across IT departments large and small, the need to manage APIs as independent entities—both APIs themselves and calls to them—rapidly became apparent. We have been through this ...
Cribl Automates Observability Efforts
Cribl today announced it has updated the Cribl LogStream observability tool in addition to generally making available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering dubbed LogStream Cloud. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy and ...
How to Build a People-First Engineering Team
When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead ...
Learning ‘The First Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Flow
Many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even 'the first way' of DevOps – continuous flow. DevOps is an evolving body of knowledge. There is no one-stop shop that covers all ...
Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use ...
7 Step Transformation Blueprint for SecDevOps
The struggle for continuous software security is obvious, but the solutions are not. As I indicated in my prior blog, SecDevOps is the Solution to Cybersecurity, a security-first mindset, coupled with SecDevOps-specific ...
How to Move Fast Without Breaking Security
“Move fast and break things,” is a familiar motto. The phrase, attributed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, helps to explain the company's stellar growth over the past decade, driven by its product ...
Unifying Partner Ecosystems With a Distributed Ledger
Blockchain has become famous in recent years for powering the cryptocurrency craze. But the fundamentals behind blockchain could prove helpful in other areas of the data economy, too. Because, as the value ...
JFrog Adds Private Distribution Network for App Binaries
At its online swampUP conference today, JFrog launched a Private Distribution Network (PDN) that makes it simpler and faster to distribute application binaries across an extended enterprise. Yoav Landman, JFrog CTO, said ...
Cattle, Not Kittens – Revisited
The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we ...

