92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
Four Ways to Modernize Your Enterprise Monoliths
In a perfect world, every application would run like Netflix–by which I mean every application would be cloud-native, microservices-based, containerized and, in all other senses of the word, modern. Unfortunately, not every application can be transformed in these ways. Some of the most important enterprise applications–like those powered by SAP or Oracle–don’t lend themselves to […]
How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience
Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […]
BMC Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Helix Management Platform
BMC today revealed it is embedding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its BMC Helix service and operations management platforms. BMC CTO Ram Chakravarti said the company is incorporating the open source GPT-J large language models (LLMS) to build generative AI models. Those models are optimized for specific domains using data collected by BMC and […]
It Is Time for DevOps to Focus on Ops
The advent of both Agile development and DevOps were great steps in improving an IT process that had become ossified, with policies that alternated between resistance to change and trying to do things better/faster. Between them, Agile and DevOps broke the cycle of resistance … but only for development. The confusion around CI/CD is a […]
HashiCorp Releases Slew of Updates to Improve DevSecOps
At a HashiDays event this week, HashiCorp launched updates to its Terraform implementation and a software-as-a-service offering, dubbed HCP Vault Secrets, that promise to simplify infrastructure security and ensure that secrets are not leaked. In addition, HashiCorp has added a self-hosted edition of its remote access security tool, Boundary, that can now also record SSH […]
Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards
At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]
The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk
Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the “tragedy of the commons,” the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared resource as possible at the expense of the larger society. With fisheries, for example, a logical fisherman would like to make as many […]
Avoiding the Pain of a ‘Resume-Driven Architecture’
Successful new technologies follow a predictable arc, from initial innovation to technical gold rush and, ultimately, to mass market adoption. As a consequence, they achieve strong standardization and productization. Being highly attuned to where a specific field lies on the maturity arc is how you yield the greatest benefits to a business. But what happens […]
Leading DevOps Transformations With AI
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that AI-engineered tools can help with automating repetitive tasks, improving decision-making with predictive insights and facilitating proactive issue resolution. AI can drive a higher level of quality, security and performance in the software life cycle. Leadership, the first of the […]
Survey Finds Cloud Management Strategies Shifting
Even though organizations continue to consume cloud resources inefficiently, they continue to increase the amount of money allocated. These were among the findings of a global survey of 1,000 technology practitioners and decision-makers conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HashiCorp. The survey found a full 94% of respondents reported that their organization struggled with […]
Cycode Leverages eBPF to Secure CI/CD Pipelines
Cycode today added a Cimon extension to its application security platform that uses extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to thwart cyberattacks against continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Alex Ilgayev, head of security research for Cycode, said Cimon uses eBPF to inspect network connections, running processes and file modifications within a pipeline to learn standard behaviors. […]
Revolutionizing DevOps With Low-Code/No-Code Platforms
The DevOps industry is growing at an incredible pace, with its worth exceeding $8 billion in 2022. Analysts predict that the market will experience a five-fold increase and reach almost $40 billion by the end of the decade. But with this growth, there is a significant issue within the DevOps chain that continues to escalate: […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Snyk to Add ASPM Platform via Enso Security Acquisition
Snyk this week announced it plans to acquire Enso Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that tracks events and analyzes metadata collected from DevOps and security tools. At the same time, Snyk revealed it has added a DeepCode AI Fix tool that creates validated fixes for code written by either […]
The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?
In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might be for drinks that only recently arrived on the scene. Mixer’s manuals also can be great sources of inspiration for new, yet-to-be-tested recipes […]
Technical Debt? No Sweat!
As a product manager, I dread the moment a developer says, “Wait a minute; I need to refactor …” (I wish it was just a minute). Something that should take two days starts taking three days and then a week. Over an application’s lifetime, the app starts accumulating technical debt. At that point, innovations become […]
Technical Debt is Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It
Eventually, your organization will accumulate technical debt. It doesn’t matter what programming language, software stack, computing style, host, or slick hybrid mix you use. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a waterfall or agile methodology. Ultimately, most technology becomes technical debt one day. “Technical debt is inevitable,” said Insight’s North American chief technology officer, Juan […]
Report Surfaces DevOps Challenges for Mobile Applications
An assessment of 1,600 DevOps teams involved in building and deploying mobile applications found that 62% were adversely impacted by manual processes that slowed the rate at which these applications were deployed and updated. Based on the Mobile DevOps Assessment (MODAS) created by Bitrise, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for building […]
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work.
Supercharging Ansible Automation With AI
Whether the latest incarnations of generative AI will live up to their seemingly great promise remains to be seen. This does not always happen with new technology, but the torrent of AI advancements is promising disruption across nearly every industry. Instead of posing a threat to human roles, AI now aims to make tasks easier, […]
Coming Soon: AutoOps
I’ve spent a lot of time looking at products in the DevOps toolchain and paying attention to where they are going, what they are doing that is new and how they are differentiated. That has led me to one inescapable conclusion: AutoOps is on the way. What is AutoOps? AutoOps is full robotic automation; the […]