Nixpkgs: How to Build Better, More Open Software
The world we know today depends in fundamental ways on open source software. As providers of this software, package managers serve their respective ecosystems from their centralized, opaque hubs in ways that are sometimes difficult to reconcile with the open source nature of the software they’re serving. I want to talk about the extent to […]
Consider Performance, Growth & Budget When Buying Data Analytics
So, your business needs to invest in data analytics technology to improve efficiencies, competitive advantage or business outcomes. There are a ton of things to consider, but underlying each decision are three driving factors: Performance – The need to meet service level agreements. Growth – The need to accommodate success, as well as deal with […]
Why We Need to Rethink Data Pipelines
Data is the fuel that powers modern business. But as demand for data surges, so does the pressure on data leaders and practitioners to deliver it. Businesses need resilient data pipelines that deliver critical insight for real-time decision-making to users on demand. However, against the backdrop of today’s chaotic modern data ecosystems, this is much […]
A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity
Skilled engineers are in high demand, as their ability to build new products quickly is extremely valuable for businesses competing in a tight market. Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success. However, in the current economic context, companies are being forced to reduce […]
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 […]
7 Benefits of Self-Contained Apps for BPM
According to Gartner, “As business needs change, organizations must be able to deliver innovation quickly and adapt applications dynamically—reassembling capabilities from inside and outside the enterprise. To do this, organizations must understand and implement the ‘composable enterprise.’” This is an appealing concept for companies looking for a good balance between highly centralized and highly distributed […]
Survey: Much Greater Focus on Reining in IT Costs
A survey from Vega Cloud found 62% of respondents are more closely monitoring all IT costs, with more than half (52%) more closely evaluating their cloud service provider options. The survey polled 100 vice presidents from organizations with more than 1,000 employees and was published today by Vega Cloud, a provider of a platform for […]
Observability Costs are too Damn High
Today, any business that deploys software faces an obscene amount of expenses. It has to pay for cloud hosting, assuming of course that it’s among the 92% of companies that use the cloud. It needs trustworthy networks to connect its apps to its employees and customers. It probably pays for a suite of cybersecurity software […]
Black Box SLIs
This article is a preview of a talk by Stephan Lips for SLOconf 2023, on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. SLOs are fast becoming the industry standard to measure reliability and help teams decide when to prioritize it. The first step in […]
GitLab Allies With Google to Bring AI to DevOps
GitLab extended its alliance with Google as part of an effort to bring more generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to DevOps workflows. The GitLab suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications already reside on the Google cloud platform to provide GitLab with the foundation of data required to train those AI models. Over the course of the […]
Survey: Most Open Source Software Maintainers Want to Get Paid
A survey of 339 maintainers of open source software projects found 60% of them classified themselves as unpaid hobbyists versus only 13% who said they earn most or all of their income from maintaining projects. Slightly less than a quarter (23%) described themselves as semi-professionals, earning some of their income from maintaining projects. Overall, more […]
Open Source Communities Need More Than Funding From Big Tech
In recent years, major players like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have increased their involvement in open source projects, providing both financial and technical support. More consistent contributions from big tech—whether in the form of people or resources—is exactly what the open source community needs. However, underdeveloped collaboration guidelines can lead to friction between large corporations […]
How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers
Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those innate skills and attributes. But simply having the skills doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy being an engineering manager. For example, the nature of the […]
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 […]
Loosely Couple Your Schema and Keep Data Separate
In software development, one of the primary goals is to write clean, maintainable and extensible code. To achieve this, developers often strive to design systems that are loosely coupled and separate concerns into smaller, more manageable components. Loose coupling refers to the practice of designing components that are not tightly dependent on one another, allowing […]
Majority of Organizations Report Benefits From Low-Code Platforms
Some IT departments are feeling the strain amid recent economic downturns. 2023 has already seen a disproportionately high degree of layoffs in the tech sector. As a result, there aren’t always enough software developers available to meet the demand. This has led some organizations to turn to new ways to upkeep morale and reduce burnout, […]
Device42 Brings Power and Carbon Emission Tracking to IT Asset Management
Device42 today made available a power and CO2 Summary Dashboard to its agentless platform that employs machine learning algorithms to discover and track IT assets. Raj Jalan, Device42 CEO, said the dashboard makes it possible for IT teams to combine the tracking of assets and associated dependencies with a capability that enables them to reduce […]
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble.
Implementing SLOs-as-Code: A Case Study
This article was co-authored by Stephan Lips, Devin Cunningham and Justin Hoang of Procore and is a preview of their talk for SLOconf 2023 on May 15-18, 2023. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. By managing service level objectives (SLOs) as code, we can co-locate SLO definitions […]
DORA Report 2022: The Magnitude of Software Supply Chain Security
The term ‘software supply chain security’ (SSC) can be interpreted in many ways. Following the White House executive order in May 2021 and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) of 2022, both governments and corporations are taking a more active role in ensuring their software is secure. Fundamentals such as having a software bill of […]
You’re Already a Distributed Developer
For many coders, the idea of distributed systems development might seem like a dark art. They think of high-performance computing wizards crafting mysterious spells with job schedulers to work magic with hundreds of connected nodes in massively-parallel systems. Or large, distributed content delivery networks that balance resources to deliver content across the world no matter […]
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 […]
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]