IT as Code
Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security
Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, ...
A Closer Look at Azure DevOps
Microsoft's Azure DevOps Server is emerging as one of the most popular cloud application development environments. Like most continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, it provides features such as version control, reporting, project ...
CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000
In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff ...
Log Management Challenges Grow With Observability Adoption
It appears that, in many IT environments, observability is becoming too much of a good thing. A global survey of more than 315 IT executives, cloud application architects, DevOps professionals and site ...
Secure Software Summit: Measuring and Mitigating OSS Risks
Measuring and mitigating the security risks in open source software is becoming a major issue in the software development community. Attacks on open source software (OSS) are on the rise; open source ...
Managing Endpoint Compliance-as-Code
The rapid pace of modern software delivery and increasing fleet sizes have transformed how organizations see and handle security strategies. Compliance-as-code is required for today’s organizations that need security as a fundamental ...
CircleCI Report: Pipeline Optimization Best Practices
CircleCI today published a report that found most successful software engineering teams have average workflow durations of five to 10 minutes, with any failed run being fixed or reverted in under an ...
Secure Software Summit: The State of OSS Supply Chain Security
The open source software (OSS) supply chain is under attack. As evidenced by the recent Log4Shell vulnerability, the OSS supply chain is increasingly a focus for attackers seeking to exploit weak links ...
ServiceNow Launches Incident Management Platform Infused with Observability
ServiceNow added an incident management platform based on the Lightstep observability platform it acquired last year to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolio. Ben Sigelman, general manager of Lightstep at ServiceNow, said Lightstep Incident ...
Survey Finds Widespread Adoption of DevOps in Mainframe Sites
A survey of IT leaders by the market research firm Global Surveyz found a full 100% of respondents are modernizing their mainframe applications, but the reasons behind and approaches to achieving that ...
Google Focuses on Enterprise Cloud With Mandiant Acquisition
Thomas Kurian became the CEO of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a modest mandate: Turn Google Cloud into an enterprise cloud platform behemoth. Easy, right? By 2019 “Google” was already a verb ...
Pulumi Adds Business Critical Edition to Infrastructure Management Platform
Pulumi today added a Business Critical edition of its Cloud Engineering Platform that provides large enterprises with additional security and compliance features, premium 24x7 support, training, professional services and a self-hosting option ...

