Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort 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 […]
How to Modernize a Data Warehouse in Months, Not Years
Modernizing a data warehouse ranks among the worst imaginable tasks for IT. The end result is immensely desirable. The benefits of moving from an on-premises to a cloud data warehouse are well-documented. But database migrations require huge efforts and the stakes are high. What makes it so difficult? All applications, including ETL, BI, analytics and […]
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 400 IT leaders at organizations with 1,500 employees was conducted by Foundry, the market research arm of International Data Group (IDG) on behalf of Insight Enterprises, a […]
FinOps & ITAM Must Team up to Cut Cloud Spend
Ahead of its Wisdom NA 2023 event taking place in Florida March 21-22, Rich Gibbons from the ITAM Review explores the relationship between FinOps and IT Asset Management when it comes to managing software costs. With on-premises revenues in decline, will the major software publishers respond by increasing policing and enforcement of their licensing rules in […]
Watching the Watchers: Solving the Problem of Meta-Permissions
The move to the cloud and microservices has introduced new challenges in managing permissions. Software has been broken down into small, independently-deployable microservices, each with its own unique set of permissions. These permissions make it excruciatingly hard to ensure and track correct access. While this technological shift is challenging, it pales in comparison to the […]
Organizations Prioritizing Java Application Modernization
A survey found that modernizing existing Java applications is a higher priority than other projects for 87% of respondents, with more than 80% of these applications expected to be re-engineered over the next five years. The survey polled 450 IT professionals working in organizations in the U.S. and United Kingdom that have more than 500 […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
The Evolution of DevOps: Developer Productivity and Platforms
This article is part two in a series of three on the rise of platform engineering and its role in improving the developer experience. Read part one here. Developer experience is business-critical in organizations of all sizes and across all industries. In the first article of this series, I make the case that the cloud-native […]
Taking the Modular Route
In today’s world of continuous software development and integration, removing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency is of utmost importance. One surefire way to improve this efficiency is leaning into modularity–or ‘taking the modular route.’ In software engineering, modularity refers to building complex products or processes using individually distinct functional modules. An analogous way to describe this […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort 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 […]
Data Mobility: Why it’s a Must and How to Achieve It
The workplace has undergone a drastic change, and so has the way companies need to move their data. Wondering how those two points are connected? Let’s dig in. It’s clear that remote work is here to stay: Just over a quarter (26%) of U.S. employees are currently working remotely, and a staggering 36.2 million Americans […]
flox Unveils More Accessible Instance of Nix Framework
This week, flox launched a more opinionated implementation of the open source Nix framework that programmatically automates package management and system configuration. Fresh from raising an additional $16.5 million in funding, flox CEO Ron Efroni said the company will also make an enterprise edition of its namesake flox framework available later this year. The Nix […]
Atlassian Extends Scope of Jira Project Management Portfolio
At the Atlassian Presents: Unleash event today, Atlassian announced it is adding a Jira Product Discovery application to its portfolio. Jira Product Discovery makes it easier for organizations to keep track of the ideas that drive software development initiatives. At the same time, Atlassian is making available Jira workflow and toolchain templates to make it […]
Leveraging Automation for Secure, Cost-Effective Mobile App Delivery
As businesses mobilize their customers and employees, they need to develop innovative mobile applications that safeguard user trust. But secure mobile development and manual security testing can be expensive and time-consuming—a bigger challenge in slowing economies. However, the latest innovations in security automation for mobile teams can drive down security costs by half while speeding […]
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas.
Platform Engineering: Creating a Paved Path to Reduce Developer Toil
This article is part one of a series of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in reducing cognitive load and creating a better developer experience. Developer toil and cognitive load in the cloud-native space is real. The complexity posed by microservices, Kubernetes, and “software-defined everything” almost necessitated that ops needed to […]
Where Does Observability Stand Today, and Where is it Going Next?
As we move into the second half of 2023, it’s only natural to engage in the annual ‘state of the industry’ reviews and take a general inventory of the past year while looking out into the immediate future. Observability has gained traction among DevOps and platform engineering teams over the past year and is poised […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort 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 […]
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts.
Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023
The onset of COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD, giving long-delayed projects the budget and staffing they needed to build momentum. After almost three years of increased investment and accelerating progress, CTOs and software development teams are navigating how to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience that […]
The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a DevOps Engineer
The economic downturn, pandemic management challenges, supply constraints and the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war have led to layoffs in many industries. While these events also impact the technology industry, it does not necessarily have to mean disaster for DevOps professionals who find themselves looking for a new role. Tech recruiters are looking for candidates with the […]
5 Unique Challenges of Mobile App Testing
At first glance, testing a mobile app may not seem to be very different from testing a conventional desktop app. Mobile and desktop apps are often written in the same languages and hosted on the same servers. They must also meet the same basic user expectations in areas like loading speed and accessibility. But when […]