No-Nonsense Guide to Distributed Databases
I got my first DBA job 15 years ago, and quite a few things have changed since then. The amount of data exploded, we saw the rise of NoSQL, and business logic moved away from being stored in relational databases to applications. To this day, the three pillars of reliability, scalability, and maintainability are the […]
10 Actions IT Can Take to Curb Climate Impact
Digital technology is responsible for 3.7% of total CO emissions, according to estimates from The Shift Project. This could increase, as cryptocurrency mining is leaving a massive carbon footprint. With the world’s climate at stake, every percentage point matters. Thankfully, many tech companies have announced significant climate pledges to reduce emissions or offset their carbon […]
Turbocharge Enterprise Apps With Contextual Analytics
Software product managers and developers typically treat analytics as a standalone capability—something to be integrated into their application’s dashboard or reporting module. As a product feature, analytics is undoubtedly a valuable tool. But offering it merely as a tacked-on function is an approach that lags behind where your users are today. When data analytics is […]
Unifying Partner Ecosystems With a Distributed Ledger
Blockchain has become famous in recent years for powering the cryptocurrency craze. But the fundamentals behind blockchain could prove helpful in other areas of the data economy, too. Because, as the value of data rises, so does the need for accurate, real-time data sharing across multiple partners. As we saw recently, global trade is surprisingly […]
Tiering Cold Data to the Cloud Without Tears
The cloud provides inexpensive storage. But like everything else in the cloud, there are hidden costs. Cloud storage providers (CSPs) charge to put data into and retrieve data from the cloud. They charge for the API calls and they generally charge an egress cost when the data is extracted from the CSP. So, to keep […]
Unqork Extends Automated No-Code SDLC Platform
Unqork today announced it has extended a no-code platform for managing the software development life cycle (SDLC) to include the ability to automatically document changes to application programming interfaces (APIs) and data models in addition to adding a point-in-time rollback capability. Ken Gavranovic, head of strategy and engineering for Unqork, said Unqork 2021.5 also adds […]
ZenHub Brings More Science to Sprint Planning
ZenHub today revealed it has added a Planning Poker capability to its platform for managing software development projects that is designed to make it possible to prioritize sprints based on feedback collected from members of the application development team. That capability extends a sprint planning capability the company added this year to a project management […]
Nobl9 Makes SLO Specification Open Source
During an online SLOconf event today, Nobl9 revealed that the platform it created to enable IT teams to achieve service level objectives (SLOs) is now available under an open source Apache license. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said the goal is to make a YAML specification format for defining SLOs that includes a […]
Will App Dev Become a Normal Competency?
With a shortage of available developers, companies are considering low-code methods to meet massive application development needs. As a result, by 2024, citizen developers will be responsible for 65% of applications, Gartner predicted. So, if technical ability rises across the board, will application development become an expected skill set for tomorrow’s digital workers? And if […]
Why DevOps Needs Mandatory Vacations
“If a team doesn’t have time for retrospectives, you should hold them twice as often.” It’s 5:00 p.m. on Friday, and you’re just shutting down your computer to kick off the weekend. A message pops up in Slack: “Congratulations, you’ve been selected to take the next week off! We’re cutting off access to all work-related […]
Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs
When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […]
Five Tips For Creating Design Systems
Design systems were all the rage half a decade ago, with an explosion of open source resources made public by Google, Salesforce and Shopify, for example. Not long after, design tools like InVision, Sketch, Adobe XD and Figma featured ways for product teams to maintain design systems within their apps. If you want to build […]
The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […]
Appian Extends Low-Code Approach to Aggregating Data
At an online Appian World conference, Appian today unveiled an update to its low-code platform that adds a set of visual tools that enables developers to aggregate data within an application with the help of a database administrator (DBA) or data engineering team. Malcolm Ross, vice president of product at Appian, said one of the […]
Linux Foundation Embraces Lightweight API Gateway
The Linux Foundation announced today that an open source application programming interface (API) gateway known as KrakenD has become the latest project it will oversee. Rechristened the Lura Project, the lightweight stateless API gateway was originally developed by KrakenD, which plans to continue to offer an enterprise edition of the platform. KrakenD CEO Albert Lombarte […]
Why Browser and API Testing is Shifting Left
For developers working with cloud-native technologies, software testing and quality assurance is a key part of product development. For most teams, testing has “shifted left,” so the quality of the code can be assessed as it moves through the CI/CD pipeline. This approach to quality assurance reflects the rise of DevOps and other modern development […]
Trend Micro Allies With Snyk to Advance DevSecOps
Trend Micro and Snyk unveiled today a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform the two companies have jointly developed to identify vulnerabilities in open source code. The Trend Micro Cloud One – Open Source Security by Snyk platform enables DevOps teams to both identify vulnerabilities and licensing issues to better monitor, prioritize and share information about risk and […]
Why We’re Swimming in Dashboards and Drowning in Data
Knowing how to use a dashboard is table stakes in the enterprise. Information technologies generate countless volumes of data from multiple sources, and dashboards are meant to harness all of that information, reduce the noise and display the stats you need to do your job. Yet businesses are still struggling to unlock the value of […]
Why You Must Lead With AI
AI will soon be a necessary part of doing business. Every company will have an AI strategy in the same way that they have a social media strategy, branding strategy, talent strategy, etc. So if you want to stand out from the competition and gain an edge, you can’t just use AI; you must lead […]
Using RPA for DevOps Process Automation
Modern operations teams today are at the cutting edge of automation. DevOps and SRE practices are entirely based on an automation-first philosophy. CI/CD is fully automated and the next generation of automated testing is now being adopted. However, these same teams are still running their human processes based on hastily thrown-together wiki pages. The increase […]
Debugging is Broken – Here’s How To Fix It
Let’s face it, debugging is broken. Whether you wholeheartedly agree or vehemently disagree with that statement, I think we can all agree that debugging, at the very least, has room for improvement. In fact, the way software developers debug their code hasn’t changed much. Of course, there are now a wide array of observability and […]
More and More Enterprises Go Headless
IT faces high expectations for building and supporting omnichannel digital experiences. Simultaneously, web developers hold an evolving toolkit of architectural approaches to deliver content. One such framework gaining mindshare is headless, a style that decouples front end user experiences from back end application logic. Legacy options for content delivery can be somewhat cumbersome in that […]
Low-Code/No-Code and Simple APIs
In recent years, implementing AI and IoT technologies has been top priority for many organizations as their leading-edge capabilities have become a requisite for digital transformation – but the speed of their adoption is greatly influenced by the flexibility of supporting software. Enter low-code, no-code programming and truly open APIs. Low-code/no-code platforms are a promising […]