DevOps Toolbox

Harness Employs ML to Streamline DevOps Workflows
At the online {Unscripted} 2021 conference, Harness today announced an update to its namesake DevOps platform that includes support for feature flags that expose new capabilities to a select number of users ...

Using Rust to Build Distributed Applications
Rust is an open source programming language that was initially developed at Mozilla Research and became increasingly popular for building distributed applications. It has been referred to in the Stack Overflow Survey ...

Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic
Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacity and prioritized routing. At the same time, the company is ...

Observe Seeks to Put More IT Metrics in Context
Observe, Inc. announced today it has updated it observability platform to add support for metrics based on time series data. In addition, the company is revamping how the platform generates alerts as ...

Grafana Labs Advances Open Source Visualization and Observability
During the online GrafanaCONline conference today, Grafana Labs announced that version 8.0 of its open source visualization software widely employed by DevOps teams is now generally available. In addition, version 1.0 of ...

Digital Customer Experiences: The Future is Modular
With the proliferation of microservices and APIs, will UIs go modular too? Some technologists note a rising trend around smaller, intent-based customer experiences that more directly mirror API endpoints. I recently met ...

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 ...

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 ...

How IT Can Use AI To Prepare For Uncertainty
The past year has been unpredictable for businesses – from migrating to remote work to planning for a return to offices to keeping pace with shifting government guidelines. With so much in ...

Turbocharge Enterprise Apps With Contextual Analytics
Software product managers and developers typically treat analytics as a standalone capability—something to be integrated into their application’s dashboard or reporting module. As a product feature, analytics is undoubtedly a valuable tool ...

Atlassian Delivers on Forge App Dev Platform Promise
Atlassian this week made available a Forge platform for building applications that complements its existing portfolio. Mike Tria, head of platform engineering for Atlassian, said Forge is intended to provide an application ...

Serverless Computing Brings New Security Risks
Attracted by lower costs and less operational overhead, serverless computing is an unmistakable undercurrent in the world of DevOps. Developers are drawn to the innovation because it requires no architecture to manage ...