IT as Code
DevOps World 2022: A DevOps Retrospective
With the seminal IT conference DevOps World 2022 in Orlando September 26 to September 29 upon us, I think about the pivotal industry conferences and events critical to my path to the ...
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 ...
Where Should I Store My IaC?
The most successful software companies rely on repeatability, auditability and simplicity when building solutions. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has empowered developers to apply these practices to infrastructure allocation. What are the ...
How IaC Helps Relieve Development Pain Points
Developers spend much of their day digging into their systems' guts, allocating storage to an application, connecting the security system to the user interface and tracking which version of the application is ...
New Relic Survey Unearths Observability Challenges
A New Relic survey found only 27% of respondents have achieved full-stack observability with only 5% claiming they have a mature observability practice in place. A third (33%) of respondents also said ...
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 ...
Rust Foundation Allies With OpenSSF and JFrog to Secure Code
The Rust Foundation announced today it is working with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and JFrog to help maintainers secure open source software created using the Rust programming language. Rebecca (Bec) ...
Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is ...
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes ...
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft ...
Federal Agencies Share DevSecOps Guidelines
The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have published a set of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring ...
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, ...

