Finding Value in AI-Augmented DevOps
While artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are emerging technologies, we know they can help an organization parse large data sets and glean actionable insights. But do AI-infused processes actually make a difference in organizations that employ DevOps? The answer is explored in a recent survey by Tricentis. Working in partnership with Techstrong Group, […]
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations.
Where Should I Store My IaC?
The most successful software companies rely on repeatability, auditability and simplicity when building solutions. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has empowered developers to apply these practices to infrastructure allocation. What are the best practices for storing IaC? Should IaC code be stored with the application and feature code? Should it be stored separately in its […]
Embrace Change in Production to Improve MTTR
DevOps creates value through constant deployment changes. When done right, more frequent deployments allow teams to continuously improve their products or services while making it easier to manage the effects of the change. One way to do this is with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). CI/CD helps to reduce the risks to each build […]
The Definition of Done: Why it’s Important for Success
Establishing clear communications and expectations across software organizations is essential to the success of any project. A company is less likely to experience unexpected delays or other unpleasant surprises if everyone is on the same page. To ensure all team members are synchronized and to eliminate unnecessary ambiguity, engineering teams should create a “Definition of […]
The Curious Connection Between Cloud Repatriation and SRE Ops
I have a fondness for philosophy. I’m about three classes short of a degree, and every few years I tell myself one day I’ll finish it. Thus, I am very familiar with what is known in statistics—and logic—as a post hoc fallacy, from which we get the saying “correlation is not causation.” This is the […]
DevOps World 2022: DevOps Tail Wags the Dog of Digital Business
As a methodology for building and deploying applications faster, DevOps has been around for more than a decade. But it’s only now that the methodologies and concepts pioneered years ago are starting to wag the dog of digital business transformation. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital business transformation has been all the rage. […]
The Future of FinTech and the Cloud
The integration of FinTech continues to revolutionize the way businesses interact with their consumers. What started as a viable solution to eliminating the need to carry physical currency has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Basically, FinTech is a catch-all term used to describe software, mobile applications and other integrated technologies that improve and automate traditional […]
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes. As part of this momentum, new roles are emerging to oversee cloud financial operations. Amid rising cloud costs, FinOps is emerging as a […]
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.
Playwright: A Modern, Open Source Approach to End-To-End Testing
I was excited when I started writing my first end-to-end tests years ago. The idea was promising; create an automated test suite that spins up a browser and mimics your user’s behavior. Test your website end-to-end. Frontend, backend, your database—you name it. All these automated tests would cover everything! Unfortunately, it wasn’t all roses and […]
Governing Microservices in an Enterprise Architecture
Software development strategies continue to evolve to meet changing business needs. There has been a lot of discussion of digital transformation recently, and custom software development is driving much of that transformation. Agile software development and DevOps have become the norm as companies strive to develop better, faster, more flexible applications. Microservices offer the next […]
Study: Real-Time Data Has A Transformative Effect
We all know that data is the heart of the modern digital business. And real-time data is arguably the next evolution—having up-to-date data can empower energy savings and optimizations to reduce cost. Real-time data processing also aids fraud detection and improves health care responsiveness. Especially in DevOps, access to real-time data is necessary 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 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 […]
Solving the DevOps Labor Deficiency
We all know there’s a chronic imbalance when it comes to DevOps talent: High demand and limited supply. Look no further than a 2021 DevOps Institute report which found that while 60% of organizations are hiring for such roles, 64% of IT leaders have a tough time finding skilled DevOps professionals. And it’s not just the […]
Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out
This week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images.
Getting Started With GraphQL APIs
GraphQL, a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data, is rapidly growing in popularity. According to the latest State of JavaScript survey report, 44.3% of respondents said they had used GraphQL APIs in 2020 compared to only 5% in 2016. Additionally, many Fortune 500 companies now use […]
The Secret to Secrets Management: Reduce Source Code Vulnerabilities
We are in the cyberattack age. From Microsoft to Crypto.com, no company is completely safe from malicious attackers, and it seems as if a new major cyberattack is announced weekly, if not more frequently. As more companies not only go digital but expand their digital offerings and initiatives, there are more opportunities for cyberattackers. Security […]
Old Software Never Dies – But What is it Really Worth?
I’ve been thinking about the news from last week that OpenText acquired Micro Focus for what seems to be $6 billion in cash. Mike Vizard did a nice write-up on the news with his take on it here on DevOps.com (and if you’re interested in the security industry implications, Techstrong Research’s Mike Rothman talked about […]
The Power of Automation and Distributed Sources of Truth
Enterprise networks are vast, intricate systems with multiple methods for storing configuration and state information. The configurations of those networks are also constantly changing as new applications, services or other updates are added. When you consider the complexity and dynamic nature of an enterprise network, it may be alarming to learn how much data–including most […]
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 […]
OpenText to Create Software Powerhouse – Acquires Micro Focus for $6B
OpenText this week announced it will acquire Micro Focus for $6 billion. The acquisition is part of an effort to reinvigorate a broad portfolio of information management, application development and testing, integration and cybersecurity platforms by accelerating the rate at which they are transitioned to OpenText’s managed private cloud. The acquisition is expected to close […]
What Devs Need to Know About R&D Tax Credits
The research and development (R&D) tax credit was created to reward innovative companies for building and improving products and processes, including software development. Yet software companies often overlook claiming this lucrative credit. Less than one-third of eligible companies take advantage of R&D tax credits from the U.S. federal government. While the software development community may […]