IT as Code
Contrast Security Adds Free Code-Scanning Tool
Contrast Security this week made available a free security tool that enables developers to scan their code using the same core engine used by the cybersecurity team within their organization. Steven Phillips, ...
LogicMonitor Expands Reach and Scope of Observability Platform
At its LM Elevate user conference, LogicMonitor today formally launched LM Envision, an observability platform that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) to both discover and then remediate issues. LogicMonitor CEO Christina Kosmowski said ...
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing ...
Could Buying VMware Bring Broadcom Hybrid Cloud Bona Fides?
Rumors are swirling that Broadcom wants to buy its way into the growing hybrid cloud market by acquiring VMware. The deal won’t come cheap—after news of the potential deal surfaced, VMware’s market ...
Survey Surfaces Challenges Ahead on National DevOps Day
A survey published today for National DevOps Day found nearly two-thirds (63%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the course of the ...
Survey Surfaces Multi-Cloud Computing and Cost Challenges
A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they ...
What SREs Can Learn From the Atlassian Outage of 2022
What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive site reliability engineering turns out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question teams at about ...
New Relic Expands Scope of Observability Reach
At its Futurestack conference, New Relic announced it expanded the integrations and tools it provides for its observability platform and added its first cybersecurity tool. The company now provides more than 470 ...
Is Your Future in SaaS? Yes, Except …
The growth of SaaS—including IaaS—was phenomenal when it came and it has become somewhat pervasive. Today, there are SaaS tools in use at just about every business, large or small. From sales ...
Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are ...
15 Ways Software Becomes a Cyberthreat
Software is an integral part of private and commercial life; there is no way around it. You need software to do your taxes, book a flight or browse the internet. Software has ...
Nobl9 Shares SLO-as-Code Methodology
Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service ...

