Enterprise DevOps

TechStrong Con: Open Source Software Community Needs Security Help
The only way to make significant improvements in the state of open source security is if more organizations that benefit from open source projects commit to making more resources available to achieve ...

Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports ...

Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand
A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with ...

At Some Point, We’ve Shifted Too Far Left
Those of us involved in DevOps have a tendency to see the world with blinders on. It is rather easy to fall into the “If all you have is a hammer, everything ...

Survey Uncovers Depth of Open Source Software Insecurity
A survey from Snyk and the Linux Foundation published today found that less than half of respondents (49%) work for organizations that have security policies in place for the use or development ...

TechStrong Con: Downturn Brings Additional Sense of DevOps Urgency
Regardless of whether the overall economy is experiencing a correction or is on the cusp of a recession, organizations are going to prioritize some projects over others as resources become more constrained ...

Supergraph: One GraphQL Schema to Rule Them All
GraphQL has been garnering much interest as a way to seamlessly interact with backend services. The query language is a boon for frontend developers, too, as it conveniently allows you to fetch ...

Armory Aims to Turn Continuous Delivery Into a Service
Armory this week made generally available a continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) offering that promises to make it simpler for a much wider range of organizations to programmatically deploy applications. The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service ...

Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
In this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer ...

There are Few Enough Silver Bullets
I was working through this week’s blog this morning, and it was laser-focused on a narrow topic. I had examples of why too much of a good thing is bad, how absolutism ...

Saying Goodbye to Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not. But if you were, you’d still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day ...

Catchpoint Enables Experimentation by Automating Web App Testing
Catchpoint this week expanded its open source WebPageTest performance testing suite of tools to enable IT teams to run instant tests that surface suggestions for improving overall web application and site performance ...