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Software Deployment Security: Risks and Best Practices
In an era where software is at the heart of every business, deploying applications securely and efficiently has never been more critical. ...

Evolution of Toil Identification and Mitigation – A Classic SRE Challenge
Ingo Averdunk, leading architecture and solutions for cloud service management and site reliability engineering for IBM Cloud, contributed to this article. Christine White, architect at IBM Consulting, also contributed to this article ...

Container Image Tags
In a Kubernetes environment, you encounter a situation where a service's configuration is not consistent across multiple clusters. What common configuration element could be the source of this issue? 1. Pod resource ...

How to Navigate App Modernization Strategies for the Cloud
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations continuously seek ways to innovate and enhance customer experiences while optimizing efficiency. One of the most transformative strategies is modernizing applications for the cloud. App modernization ...

Improvement Cycles and AI
Don MacVittie makes one early prediction for 2024: AI will be the next big DevOps tool to break bottlenecks ...

EP 39: DevOps Building Blocks Part 2: Power Up Your Automated Testing
Automation is critical to DevOps success. Test automation accelerates and simplifies the software development process, empowering DevOps teams to deliver high-quality, secure and reliable products to market faster without sacrificing crucial debugging ...

Mend.io Adds Enterprise Edition of IT Automation Framework
Mend.io added an enterprise edition of the Mend Renovate IT automation framework to its portfolio that enables higher levels of horizontal scaling ...

DevOps Halloween: Tricks and Treats
In the spirit of Halloween, let’s explore the tricks and treats of DevOps choices to ensure your team ends up with a bag full of treats rather than some nasty tricks ...

Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a 'boring' standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability ...

Atlassian Brings Generative AI to ITSM
Atlassian added generative AI capabilities to Jira Service Management, an ITSM platform built on top of Jira ...

How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In ...