Open source has permanently altered how we work and conduct business. Linux, and thousands of other open source projects and open standards, now dominate the software landscape, supporting emerging technologies like artificial ...

LogDNA announced today it will enable IT teams to apply usage quotas to help rein in log management costs. Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA, said as applications become more complex - thanks, in ...

Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual ...

Leaders need not be DevOps experts, but they need to distinguish DevOps myths and realities to lead their digital transformation projects. As I indicated in a recent article, Engineering Practices Can Overcome ...

Datadog is planning to expand the scope of the security and observability services it provides following the acquisitions of Sqreen, an application security platform provider, and Timber Technologies, a provider of a ...

Puppet has launched a DevOps consulting service that promises to help organizations implement best practices that will ultimately make their IT organizations more efficient. Nigel Kersten, field CTO, Puppet, said the Scaling ...

The cloud has been getting a lot of press in the past few years—and with good reason. The elasticity and flexibility of resources are transformational for businesses. However, there are also drawbacks ...

Every monitoring solution is limited by the information the system allows to be collected. PostgreSQL DBMS provides many metrics reflecting its internal state, running queries and background processes, and each release brings ...

Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be one of the ...

SolarWinds is unifying its various application performance management (APM) tools within a single suite accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Denny LeCompte, senior vice president for products at SolarWinds, said the APM ...

Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, ...

When I think about the challenges of DevOps transformations, I love the viewpoint expressed by Ryan Harmon, strategic accounts manager at Trace3: “DevOps is a complex maze that has many leaders frustrated ...