IT as Code
Everything You Need to Know About Cookiecutter
Cookiecutter is a templating library for creating project boilerplates in any programming language. When individuals, teams and organizations create projects, they must follow consistent standards so that those projects are easily readable ...
How Observability Can Improve Gaming
Competing in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly costly. To attract new players, millions of dollars are spent in user acquisition (UA), development and cloud infrastructure. As the space becomes more expensive, ...
How DevOps is Revolutionizing Embedded Development
There’s something curious happening on the desktops of embedded developers around the world. From home offices to cubes to labs, in lamp-lit rooms late at night and sun-lit rooms early in the ...
Securing APIs at the Speed of DevOps
In the 2021 State of DevOps Report, 83% of IT decision-makers told Puppet that their organizations were in the process of implementing DevOps practices to improve the quality of their software, the ...
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
In this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again ...
Secure Software Summit: Behold the SBOM
With supply chain security becoming more of a focus, the SBOM is now viewed as a critical element in shoring up supply chain security. SBOM stands for software bill of materials. At ...
Secure Software Summit: Reachability and Risk for Security Leaders
It is impossible to manage security posture without considering two key factors in any potential vulnerability or security flaw: Reachability and risk. The two factors are related. Reachability defines the degree to ...
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 ...

