IT as Code
Cisco AppDynamics Survey Surfaces DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of 1,150 large enterprise IT professionals from the AppDynamics unit of Cisco suggested application security progress is being made slowly and steadily as organizations continue to embrace DevSecOps best practices ...
New Relic Bolsters Observability Platform
New Relic has updated its observability platform to include the ability to better detect and track errors in addition to monitoring vulnerabilities. At the same time, an instance of the New Relic ...
Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach
Atlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it's now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within ...
Software Supply Chain Security Debt is Increasing: Here’s How To Pay It Off
Last year, the world woke up to the software supply chain dilemma. We saw a spike in attacks as hackers sought to exploit known and unknown vulnerabilities within dependencies. There is also ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
Deploying a Service Mesh: Challenges and Solutions
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It helps to abstract the underlying communication infrastructure, such as network protocols and load balancing ...
State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized ...
Why Can’t We Be Friends? Improving Developer-Tester Alignment
Sometimes coding can be such an art form that it deserves to be a masterpiece in a museum. Developers are proud of their code—at least until the so-called art critics (aka testers) ...
Okta Makes No-Code Integration Tool for Identity Platform Available
Okta today made generally available an Actions Integration capability that makes it possible to integrate third-party tools without having to write any code. Shiven Ramji, chief product officer for Okta, said this ...
AppSec in the Cloud: What DevOps Teams Should Know
Cloud application security refers to the measures and controls that are put in place to protect cloud-based applications and data from cyberthreats, unauthorized access and data breaches. These measures can include technical ...
Devs Increasingly Rely on IaC to Manage Multiple Clouds
A survey of more than 300 DevOps professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for automating cloud provisioning, found that more than a third of organizations (36%) have allocated the ...
Predict 2023: Stand and Deliver
It’s that time of year again—the New Year's ritual: Time to predict the big trends in your world for the new year. By now you have probably seen dozens of headlines, articles, ...

