IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually like to work as a site reliability engineer, there is perhaps no better source than job descriptions. SRE job ads explain what real […]
How to Migrate Existing Infrastructure to Terraform
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) enables managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of manual processes. IaC is crucial for DevOps teams as it lets them manage infrastructure components, such as networks and load balancers, and enables test applications in production-like environments early in the development cycle. It allows DevOps teams to build, change and manage infrastructure in […]
Will Splunk be Gobbled up by Cisco?
Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
Dependability is Crucial for Real-Time Experiences
Millions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, also went down for some users. And in the last few weeks of 2021, Amazon’s AWS caused considerable global chaos after significant networking […]
Using Data Fabric for Real-Time Processing
Charlene O’Hanlon and Scott Gnau from InterSystems talk about silos in organizations and how data fabric enables organizations to process, transform, secure and orchestrate data from disparate sources in real-time. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tech Strong TV. […]
Great Resignation Spurs Interest in Tech Certifications
It has been almost a year since the phenomenon known as the Great Resignation started appearing in national news. The reports showed millions of U.S. workers leaving their jobs each month to look for something better. This trend, according to the latest news, is not going away. While labor experts have provided a steady stream […]
The DevOps Journey: Continuous Mindset Starts With Cultural Change
DevOps is not just about technology. In many ways, the technology aspect of DevOps is finite but the people, organizational and cultural aspects are infinite. We see many clients get so focused on the tools and technology that they forget about the impact beyond the technology. An important part of building a world-class DevOps process […]
Irreconcilable Differences: DevOps Grapples With Issues
DevOps issues can be a thorny subject. The coming together in harmony of Dev (developer) and Ops (operations) represents an arranged marriage of sorts that, for some, will never have a ‘happily ever after’ ending as both parties ultimately grapple with irreconcilable differences. But despite the naysayers, the very existence of DevOps as a portmanteau […]
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
In this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO.
Elevating Agile With Financial Discipline
A corporate axiom is changing, shifting from “Big eats small” to “Fast eats slow.” But change doesn’t happen overnight. While Agile and lean methods continue to chip away at the status quo, making gains and increasingly moving beyond pockets of teams to the portfolio and then enterprise-wide adoption levels, waterfall approaches to delivery persist. Rumors […]
3 Technologies Driving Business Sustainability
The pandemic highlighted many things, not least of which was the shift in consumer behavior toward further encouraging companies to change their operations and act with sustainability in mind. An overwhelming 96% of businesses said the pandemic shifted their focus to the social component of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies. Technology has been a key […]
A New Language for Digital Transformation
Charlene O’Hanlon and Rich Nanda discuss a new Deloitte study, “A New Language for Digital Transformation,” which explores why so many transformations fail to deliver concrete impact. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Welcome back to Techstrong TV. I’m Charlene O’Hanlon […]
Why Developer-First is the Future of AppSec
DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption mean developers are shipping code faster than ever and, in many cases, security teams struggle to keep up. To avoid relegating security to afterthought status, organizations must shift left and adopt a developer-first approach to application security (AppSec). Organizations that depend on software development need a solution that accomplishes […]
4 Ways to Uplevel Your Software Engineering Team
In my 20 years leading software development teams, I’ve witnessed the industry’s continuous growth alongside technology’s evolution. The only thing we know for certain is that the industry will continue to change and winning businesses will be those that build with change in mind, backed by effective, fast-moving software teams. This is the year we […]
Front-End Frameworks Enable Better Dev Collaboration
The general public often thinks about software development in terms of a lone software developer hacking away tirelessly at their keyboard. Of course, that is an anachronism, at best. What is true is that collaboration among software engineers, especially with their colleagues in IT operations which evolved into DevOps, has become the norm for rolling […]
Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And while network, storage and compute have long been democratized by virtualization, one discipline has held out as the last bastion of vendor lock-in: […]
Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security
An application programming interface (API) is a data transfer approach that enables services within an application to talk to other applications (or other services within a system). Essentially, it enables Service A to talk to Service B in a uniform way. Companies benefit from APIs on a daily basis without even thinking about them. APIs […]
App Store Antitrust Bill | GDPR vs. Google Fonts | Wordle Worth $1M+
In this week’s The Long View: The Open App Markets Act polls well among devs, Germany fines a website for using Google Fonts, and the NY Times buys Wordle for an unfeasible sum.
How Does IT Management Govern EverythingOps?
The number of tools engineers use to provision software architecture in the cloud is starting to get a little out of hand. There are many competing ways to do one thing. Most often, people simply adopt a new tool to solve a DevOps problem in the moment, not always considering the longevity of the solution […]
A Pandemic Side Effect: Rampant Technical Debt
On average, about a quarter of all IT budgets are allocated to handling technical debt each year. And this figure is set to rise, as 68% of organizations say their technical debt will increase in 2022. As digital acceleration continues to drive more IT investment across divisions, the technical burden almost seems like an inevitable […]
Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead
In this week’s The Long View: Google’s FLoC proposal is dead, Meta/Facebook is buying RSC—a huge AI supercomputer, and Arm “will IPO” instead of selling to Nvidia.
The Lego Approach to Overcoming the Developer Divide
As end-user demand for new services continues to rise and businesses adapt to changing times, digitalization has never been more important. Pressure is increasing on organizations to deliver digital transformation initiatives more quickly as 55% of CIOs in 2021 said they were increasing staff to accelerate their digital programs. The cloud is essential for this. […]