DevOps Practice
Software Supply Chain Attacks: How to Disrupt Attackers
Supply chain attacks—compromising an organization via insecure components in its software supply chain—are a growing concern for organizations. Throughout the past three years, an increasing number of open source software package repositories ...
How to Use DevOps for Compliance
Picture this: You’ve been working in an organization's IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine ...
Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?
In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these ...
DevSecOps: 10 Best Practices to Embed Security into DevOps
For companies that employ the agile approach, DevOps seems like a natural extension. Traditionally, enterprises started with integration, development and test automation early in the product lifecycle. Gradually, the agile delivery team ...
Five IT Ops-tackles that Stifle Business Growth
I was recently asked about the top five IT obstacles that stifle business growth, and I want to help clear a path too often lined with fear, uncertainty and doubt. In the ...
Is COBOL Here to Stay? Five Signs IT is Ready to Modernize
With increased demands and challenges around compliance and regulations, plus growing expectations for IT to provide more value-added services, companies are looking for more flexible and collaborative options. Interestingly though, while some ...
The Role of Developers in Digital Transformation
Developers are an integral part of digital transformation. They architect the modular systems that overcome legacy and build the applications and solutions that allow firms to deliver products and services in new ...
A Developer’s Task: Minimizing Challenges Created by Fragmentation
Over the past decade, there has been a wellspring of apps, services and platforms to help developers build custom solutions for businesses. Some are great, some not so much. Regardless of quality, ...
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their ...
The Disservice of Cloud Consolidation
There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services ...
Service Meshes: Improving Security, Delivery and Availability
Containerized microservices are taking over the software world. These services provide developers a way to quickly create and deploy cloud-native applications. However, containers aren’t perfect. Orchestrating and managing container deployments can be ...
DevOps Versus ITIL: How to Win the Battle Over Change Management
Ever since DevOps came on the scene a decade ago, ITIL has been under siege. ITIL lays out a number of IT service management (ITSM) best practices, including release management, change management, ...

