DevSecOps
Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region
Richi Jennings | | A fool thinks himself to be wise—but a wise man knows himself to be a fool, Africa, Debian, Debian package, free software, GCP, Google Cloud, Linus Torvalds, linux, Linux 6.0, open source, open source vs. proprietary, proprietary software, South Africa, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region ...
Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report
“Ship it!” We have just completed the research and analysis for the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) and oh boy, do we have some interesting things to share! First, let ...
Business Leaders Will Trade Speed for Security
A global survey of 600 C-level executives conducted by CloudBees found that when it comes to building software, more than three-quarters of respondents said it is more important to be secure and ...
‘The OG App’ Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH Vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO
Richi Jennings | | API, California, facebook, Gavin Newsom, Hybrid Work environment, Instagram, Meta, Meta Platforms, Recruiting, Remote work, reverse engineering, The Long View, The OG App, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: A third party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law ...
What Developers Need for Software Security Success
Given today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations and businesses in every sector now have a critical need to produce secure software. Criminal gangs, professional attackers and hostile nation-states are employing advanced tactics designed ...
This Has Been a Test
For nearly the entire history of application development—certainly since application development became available to a larger market with the adoption of the personal computer for expansive business use—testing has taken a back ...
Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
Richi Jennings | | Alphabet, careers, CVE-2007-4559, facebook, google, I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue, layoffs, Meta Platforms, Python, Software Supply Chain Security, tarfile, The Long View, WiproIn this week’s The Long View: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it ...
The Real Pipeline
Don Macvittie | | Agile Security, AI Test, DevOps management, security, test, user acceptance testingI’ve made no secret of the fact that DevOps was a game-changing advance in how the business of IT was done. But people tend to get religious about the methodology and forget ...
GitBOM Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components
An open source GitBOM tool, discussed at the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software ...
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
Richi Jennings | | ai, business continuity, CSAM, disaster recovery, Glassdoor, layoffs, Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, Patreon, redundancy, Sacramento, Starlink, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations ...
Survey Surfaces Massive Number of Application Vulnerabilities
A survey of 16,510 IT and IT security practitioners published today by Rezilion, a provider of a platform for automating the remediation of software vulnerabilities, found nearly half of respondents (47%) worked ...
Database Observability: How to Circumvent your Weakest Link
Today, IT pros field an increasing number of assets they need to monitor to secure systems and understand what’s happening in their database and applications. This is further complicated as organizations adopt ...
