IT as Code
Updating and Managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC), often embodied by open source Terraform, is an essential ingredient to cloud and cloud-native strategies. But without the ability to scale, secure and manage IaC, you very quickly experience drift ...
Natural Language Query (NLQ) is Key for Self-Service BI
Modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics software solutions offer more ways to explore data and find insights than ever before. However, ensuring everyone in the enterprise can use analytics independently, when they ...
Snyk Acquires Fugue to Secure Cloud Infrastructure
Snyk today announced it has acquired Fugue as part of an effort to embed security within an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provisioning tool. The Fugue platform combines a unified policy engine with an implementation ...
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, COVID-19, Devops for z/OS, Great Resignation, ibm, IBM Cloud, IBM Wazi, mainframe, mainframe security, remote working, The Long View, Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know, WFH, work from home, z/OSIn this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...
How to Migrate Existing Infrastructure to Terraform
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) enables managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of manual processes. IaC is crucial for DevOps teams as it lets them manage infrastructure components, such as networks and load balancers, ...
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer ...
Dynatrace Advances Application Environments as Code
Mike Vizard | | application performance management, applications as code, observability, software intelligenceDynatrace, at its online Perform 2022 event, launched a bevy of updates to its portfolio that make it easier for DevOps teams to programmatically embed observability and other software intelligence capabilities within ...
Elevating Agile With Financial Discipline
Andrey Mihailenko | | agile approach, DevFinOps, finance, FinOps, it, ITFM, technology business managementA corporate axiom is changing, shifting from “Big eats small” to “Fast eats slow.” But change doesn’t happen overnight. While Agile and lean methods continue to chip away at the status quo, ...
How Stream Processing Goes Beyond Real-Time
How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller's 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the ...
Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
James Reinders | | hardware, open source, open systems, parallel programming, supercomputing, universal softwareAs hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, ...
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they ...
How Does IT Management Govern EverythingOps?
The number of tools engineers use to provision software architecture in the cloud is starting to get a little out of hand. There are many competing ways to do one thing. Most ...
