Continuous Testing: The Key to Quality Assurance in the DevOps Era
Continuous testing has emerged as a critical aspect of quality assurance in the DevOps era. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in software development methodologies. With the advent of DevOps, there has been a significant shift toward automation and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). The traditional approaches to quality assurance are no […]
The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […]
Optimizing SaaS With Automation and Zero-Touch IT
For the first time in 10 years, businesses have slowed their frenetic pace of SaaS adoption. Based on recent BetterCloud research, the average enterprise today uses 130 SaaS applications. While that represents an 18% increase from last year, it’s worth noting that it’s the slowest annual growth rate since we began tracking SaaS usage in […]
The Rise of NetDevOps and CI/CD Pipeline Solutions
Over time, as organizations, networks and technologies have changed, the way enterprises think about managing networks has shifted as well. Enterprises are continuing to evolve their networking strategies, specifically with regard to how they expand their efforts to adopt infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices. Looking ahead, the industry will continue to see the proliferation of solutions that […]
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 […]
How Application Developer Turnover is Shaping Security
Observing the developer job market for the past two years reveals a surprising truth that has a profound impact on technology organizations. In the “new normal” of hybrid work, life moves fast and there’s no sign of slowing down. Since 2021, we’ve witnessed all-time record demand for software engineering developers. The emergence of privately held […]
PagerDuty Bets on AIOps and Automation to Simplify IT Management
PagerDuty this week made generally available an artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform that leverages the data model embedded in its incident management software to reduce the amount of time required for an AI platform to learn how an IT environment operates. Jonathan Rende, senior vice president and general manager for PagerDuty, said that […]
Turning Software Testers Into 10xers
How do you make technical processes faster and more scalable? If your answer is simply to automate them, you’re stuck in the 2010s. Today, automation is widespread, and automating processes in a basic sense is no longer enough on its own to maximize efficiency and velocity. Instead, teams who want to excel–who want to become […]
How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable
The world is constantly becoming more and more aware of the importance of sustainability in every aspect of our daily lives from buying groceries to traveling, and the IT world is no exception. Indeed, sustainability is already gaining importance in software development. For example, in the latest version of Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar, “carbon efficiency as […]
Why Monitoring-as-Code Will be a Must for DevOps Teams
Over the last decade, we’ve seen an increasing number of operations teams and development teams using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) process for provisioning cloud-based infrastructure. In that model, IaC tools like CDK, Pulumi or Terraform are employed to allow developers to code, deploy and manage cloud-based infrastructure. The advent of cloud services and IaC tools has […]
How the ‘Great Rebalance’ Accelerates Low-Code/No-Code Adoption
If you were just reading headlines, you would think that careers in tech were limited—especially developers and DevOps professionals. The media and job sites have highlighted layoffs weekly since the beginning of the year, with over 120,000 employees eliminated from 400+ companies (including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and others). With this much shedding of technical […]
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 […]
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder.
Are you Being ‘Nice’ to Your Developers? Think Again
As a developer, you’ve learned your craft. From your fingers comes the magic that builds the applications that run the world. You can literally create something from nothing! And not just software programs. You can create value that means revenue for your company. You’re a revenue machine — no, you’re a god, creating anything that’s […]
How To Keep Engineers Happy and Reduce Burnout
Software development can be a mentally taxing profession. It requires intense mental focus, often under heavy workloads, with unclear job expectations and a lack of control. And with recent labor shortages due to layoffs and resignations, teams may also be understaffed, making matters more complicated. These issues can compound and lead to prolonged excessive stress—that’s […]
Database Virtualization – Driving the Next Big Transformation
Data is both the most important asset and the biggest challenge for most corporations. It impacts every aspect of the business from financial considerations to AI/ML training. Data is used by development and DevOps teams, engineering teams, quality assurance, business intelligence teams and database administrators. Despite its central role in operations, traditional forms of database […]
Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns
The tech industry has faced strong economic headwinds over the past year or so. We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding. Although some analysts see light at the end of the tunnel, the current slump doesn’t seem like it’s quite over […]
npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust
In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad.
5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023
It’s never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 rolls on, I’ve been thinking about some key performance metrics that help to ensure critical applications and websites perform optimally throughout the year—especially […]
Vega Cloud Commits to Reducing Cloud Costs
Vega Cloud today made a commitment to save customers at least 10% on their cloud infrastructure spending or it won’t charge for its software. Vega Cloud’s software automates cloud infrastructure management. The Vega Cloud platform enables IT teams to connect, automate, manage and optimize new and existing networks, applications and other multi-cloud IT environments from […]
The Business Case for DevOps Culture
Culture is nebulous. It encompasses all the behaviors and attitudes of an organization, from overarching business values down to the individual actions of an employee. Because culture is transient, it’s unique to every business, feels difficult to change and is even harder to measure. This can make it frustrating to see DevOps research continuously name […]
Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head
A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]
The Power of Observability: Performance and Reliability
Observability has become an essential aspect of modern IT, and its importance is only expected to increase in the years to come. The ability to monitor and understand the behavior of systems in real-time provides organizations with a wealth of information that can help them improve the performance, reliability, and overall health of their networks […]