Platform Engineering

Blameless Integrates Incident Management Platform With Opsgenie
Blameless this week announced it has integrated its namesake incident management solution with the Opsgenie alerting platform from Atlassian. Aaron Lober, director of product marketing for Blameless, said the Blameless platform is ...

How To Build Anti-Fragile Software Ecosystems
Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across ...

GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to ...

Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...

State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized ...

FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad ...

Why SREs Are Critical to DevOps
Although a relatively new concept, site reliability engineers (SREs) have become crucial for DevOps teams, helping to solve an array of operational problems such as network availability and user experience. However, in ...

4 Ways to Build With an Accessibility-First Mindset
Over 1.3 billion people live with some form of disability. This accounts for almost 20% of today’s workforce in the U.S. While great strides have been made in closing the disability inclusion ...

Best of 2022: SRE Vs. Platform Engineering: What’s the Difference?
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Site reliability ...

When Self-Service DevOps Forgets Who it Serves
For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish ...

Is DevOps Dead? I Don’t Think So!
A lesson I have learned over my 30 years in the tech world is that technology and frameworks never truly die—they evolve and they grow. When I read a recent article proclaiming, ...

Understanding the Importance of Developer Experience
If you're creating a developer tool, you're bound to run into this dilemma—you know the inner workings of it really well, but others don't. And without solid documentation and samples to follow, ...