DevOps for Salesforce: CI/CD Challenges
DevOps encompasses a wide variety of technical and social practices for improving the development, delivery and operation of IT systems. Salesforce has become more than a CRM system; it evolved into a full-featured ecosystem and a low-code platform that made development far simpler and more approachable than traditional code-based platforms. Cross-functional teams build on Salesforce […]
Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud
A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]
Zoom-Layoff CEO is Back | Bill Bans Targeted Ads | More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: The return of the CEO who fired 900 staff on a Zoom call, Capitol Hill has a bill to kill ads, and a last-minute hiccup in the FAA/FCC 5G truce.
How Test Automation Can Help Drive DevOps Success
Testing can be one of the more time-consuming aspects of the DevOps process. It can be exhaustive, frustrating, requires a lot of hands-on labor hours and people seldom enjoy it. But testing is vital, and no developer should simply skip it. Recently, a strong trend has emerged wherein DevOps experts encouraged developers to automate their […]
Using Open Source to Secure Software Supply Chains
Recently, there’s been a lot of attention paid to software supply chain security. In particular, here’s a quote from the May 2021 presidential executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity: “The Federal government must … advance toward zero trust architecture; accelerate movement to secure cloud services, including … platform as a service (PaaS).” There are […]
Innovation With Software Architectural Excellence
Software architecture plays an irreplaceable role in enabling businesses to deliver value efficiently. This is evident in how digital natives have been challenging incumbents and forcing them to rapidly digitize and transform how they operate and innovate. Accordingly, achieving architectural excellence is a continuous process of efficient implementation, advanced planning, and executive leadership engagement. Furthermore, […]
Enabling Cloud Adoption in the Government
In 2022, federal agencies are estimated to spend $7.8 billion on cloud computing. While this spending on cloud computing is necessary, it’s imperative that the government uses its allotted funding appropriately to leverage the cloud’s full potential and avoid common pitfalls. Avoiding Common Cloud Adoption Pitfalls I’ve frequently witnessed government agencies get locked into a […]
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
In this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla.
Continuous Delivery Challenge Looms Large in 2022
As 2022 kicks off, it’s becoming apparent that the major DevOps challenge organizations will face is mastering best practices that enable continuous delivery. A global survey of more than 19,000 software development professionals conducted by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation found 44% of respondents use either continuous integration or deployment. However, less than one in […]
Shift Left: Right or Wrong?
The term DevOps emerged into mainstream software development communities roughly 10 years ago. It represented a combination of tools and techniques which helped solve many pertinent issues of the time, namely responsibility for code in production and lack of a positive feedback loop. As of today, DevOps is a massive movement. It is considered the […]
IT Ops Trends: Cloud, Containers and COVID
Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT Ops 2021 survey, more than 160 IT professionals were asked how the implementation of IT strategies affected their day-to-day work. The results provided […]
CNCF Takes LitmusChaos Platform to the Incubation Level
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […]
Crafting an Agile Enterprise Architecture
Digital transformation, business agility and enterprise architecture are frequently heard terms in this era of digital technologies and rapid change. The appropriation of digitalized applications, solutions and processes has enabled organizations to increase efficiencies. In turn, this allows them to respond to shifting customer needs and trends in a more flexible and agile manner. Digital […]
Theranos’s Holmes VC Reverb | 5G C-Band Marches On | Mozilla Jumps Shark
In this week’s The Long View: The conviction of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leads to greater scrutiny of startups, higher-frequency 5G NR is creeping towards reality, and Mozilla gets criticized for promoting climate-harming scams.
Best of 2021 – 6 Signs You’re Doing DevOps Correctly
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twenty-first in our series of the Best of 2021. A lot of organizations claim to be DevOps-focused because they use specific tools and loosely follow certain practices. But to really be a DevOps-centric organization, […]
Best of 2021 – Why DevOps Will Cease to Exist
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twelfth in our series of the Best of 2021. Nowadays I feel like there is no need to explain why DevOps as a methodology exists, as it is widely understood and accepted. But the […]
Best of 2021 – The ‘Great Resignation’ in DevOps? Bah, Humbug
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the tenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Like me, you have probably heard a lot about the “Great Resignation” lately. I’ll admit—at first I did not think it had anything to with […]
Best of 2021 – 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the […]
Best of 2021 – Seven Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a DevOps Engineer
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a culture, not a title. Therefore, companies should follow DevOps principles, rather than hiring one savant to fix an entire organization’s delivery model. […]
Rails 7 FTW | WFH is SOP | 586M Passwords Dumped
In this week’s The Long View: Ruby on Rails 7.0 is go, working from home is still de rigueur, and HIBP gets far, far bigger.
Hasura Adds Engine to Transform REST APIs to GraphQL
Hasura today unveiled a Data Hub repository for integrating application programming interfaces (APIs). The repository includes a connector that makes it easier for IT organizations to convert REST APIs into ones based on the GraphQL specification. Tanmai Gopal, Hasura CEO, said the connector eliminates the need to write custom code to connect existing REST endpoints […]
U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle.
Low-Code: Bridging the Gap Between DevOps and Business
The need to innovate faster, manage multiple environments, optimize an application’s life cycle and achieve continuous delivery are aspirational goals that a successful DevOps team strives for. But there are loads of challenges, as meeting these goals increases the pressure on DevOps teams to adopt improved application architecture, new tools and developer workflows. The overarching […]