From Frontend to Full Stack: How I Leveraged Modern Dev Tools to Make the Leap
A few years ago, I had an idea about how to make publishing recipes on the internet more accessible and profitable. As a front-end engineer-turned-product manager, I could write code as long as it involved JavaScript. But I needed someone who could handle the whole stack, especially the back end—you can’t build a platform with […]
Prioritizing Product Security With DevSecOps
Building software with strong security can no longer be an afterthought for organizations. The need for a reliable cybersecurity posture has proven vital amid the constant attacks we’re seeing across industries, all over the world. Product-specific security is top of mind for most companies, and a successful product security practice requires integrating with the ethos […]
CloudBees Survey Sees VSM Driving Digital Transformation
A global survey of 600 senior executives conducted by CloudBees suggested a high correlation between investments made in value stream management (VSM) and digital business transformation success. The survey found 90% of respondents agreed that organizations that committed to VSM are likely to be further ahead in terms of achieving their digital business transformation goals, […]
Index Tracks Impressive Growth of API-First Startups
APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and their use continues to grow around the globe. A full 89% of investment into APIs will increase or stay the same over the next 12 months, Postman’s 2022 State of the API report found. And the evolving API-first approach is ushering in many innovations and startups […]
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 serve our audience better. 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 […]
Codenotary Extends Dynamic SBOM Reach to Serverless Computing Platforms
Codenotary has extended the reach of its platform for automatically generating software bills of materials (SBOMs) to serverless computing platforms running software constructed using functions. Codenotary CTO Dennis Zimmer said because serverless apps are dynamically created, it’s not possible to generate SBOMs using traditional approaches. The TrueSBOM platform makes it possible to create an SBOM […]
Survey Surfaces Agile Development Challenges
A survey of 3,220 software development professionals published this week found that among the 80% of respondents that embraced Agile practices for building software, just under half are tracking on-time delivery (47%) and business objectives achieved (44%). The survey, conducted by Regina Corso Consulting on behalf of Digital.ai, a provider of a value stream management […]
Migration to AWS Cloud: Do’s and Don’ts
What if one day, you were told to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure/any other cloud provider? It would likely introduce some stress, to understate the case, right? I’ve seen quite a few migrations in my career and, in this article, I would like to share some thoughts to help DevOps engineers, architects, managers or anyone else who […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
Report: Impact of Bad Software on US Economy Reaches $2.41 Trillion
A report published this week by Synopsys in collaboration with the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimated that software quality issues might adversely impact the U.S. economy to the tune of $2.41 trillion in 2022. Cybercrime losses due to a rising number of software vulnerabilities alone are on track to increase 42% in […]
Looking to the Future of Developer Experience
Developer experience is where it’s at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox environments, SDK ergonomics and more. By improving a developer’s experience with a tool, software providers can increase stickiness and retain more users. Nowadays, […]
Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
Survey Surfaces Raft of DevSecOps Cultural and Technical Challenges
A global survey of 606 IT, security, application development and DevOps decision-makers found that the biggest barrier to adoption of DevSecOps best practices is cultural rather than technical. However, the survey, which polled organizations with more than 500 employees and was conducted by Progress, also found only 16% of respondents planned to prioritize addressing those […]
What Should Business Owners Know About SSDs?
Without a doubt, SSDs have become the latest trend in hardware storage, and you can expect their use to increase over time. Implementing SSDs in your business can improve productivity and make it more efficient by increasing the speed of your PC long enough to extend its useful life. Here is all you need to […]
How to Select the Right Volume Type/Storage for Your Workload
AWS services are at the top of the cloud services food chain, and a hot topic for nearly every business considering migrating to the cloud. Along any cloud migration journey, many hidden traps await the unprepared. The volumes you’ve already provisioned might seem like a perfect match—but are you sure they suit your workload and […]
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 serve our audience better. 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 […]
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren’t many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of the largest and most powerful mechanisms of software propagation. However, open source is in danger. The Two Sides of Open Source Development In […]
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs
Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference and the company also revamped its pricing. Nobl9 Teams Edition (formerly Nobl9 Hydrogen) now includes 50 SLOs, up from 25, for […]
Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud
While ransomware has been the leading concern for enterprise security teams over the few past years, software vulnerabilities are nipping at its heels. The boom in cloud-based apps and services and increased digitization of work have been a boon for hackers, who are taking advantage of developers’ and DevOps teams’ attempts to work faster and […]
Top 10 US States for a Coding Career
Coding jobs are in high demand and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that computer and information technology employment will grow 13% by 2030. Alongside the increasing demand, coding has emerged as a highly flexible career option with room for growth. If you’re looking to build a lucrative career in coding, researchers at Scrapfly.com pulled […]
Blue-Green Deployment: What Are the Options?
Blue-green deployment is a change management strategy for software releases. Blue-green deployments require two identically configured hardware environments. One environment is active and serves end users while the other remains idle. Blue-green deployments are typically used for applications with strict uptime requirements. First, new code is released to staging environments and fully tested. Once the […]
4 Best Practices for Entertainment App Testing
Entertainment apps represent a broad category of software, ranging from mobile games, to social media platforms, to streaming video apps and beyond. However, all entertainment apps share a few key traits in common: They typically host dynamic content that is unique for each user. This makes entertainment apps different from apps where most or all […]