After over a year of business disruptions, modern enterprises have realized that speed and agility are the only way forward. In fact, according to Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 eBook, “Organizations that don’t focus on efficiency, ...

Alan Shimel talks with Ashley Mehta, CEO and president of Nolij Consulting, about the company's deep expertise in health care IT, digital health care transformation, testing and evaluation, and the use of ...

Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different ...

In the years that low- and no-code development tools have been available, the movement has been slow to gather pace. Until recently, the vast majority of app and workflow development has remained ...

There is a growing amount of hand-wringing about the state of DevOps; that adoption is not progressing apace, or that the full benefits of the methodology are not being realized by the ...

Shopify's Unite 2021 conference was held on June 29, 2021, and the e-commerce platform had some big, developer-centric news to share. Alan Shimel spoke with Shopify's Glen Coates about the developer-first business ...

An enterprise with many databases and various data requirements for DevOps continuous delivery presents a problem. For example, test data provisioning is a challenge today, particularly in pre-release testing of database updates ...

I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount ...

The pandemic has forced organizations of all sizes to overcome colossal challenges and embrace flux. We’ve all heard stories about businesses having to adopt a new communication tool and train staff overnight, ...

I was reading Nuria Manuel's excellent article about quality assurance (QA), and it got me thinking about the wide variety of 'pendulums' that impact IT. I call them pendulums because they follow ...

The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization ...

To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks' personal repositories. And it ...