Make Metrics Matter: Measure What’s Important
In a data-driven society, organizations rely heavily on sets of metrics to evaluate how they’re doing on a particular task, initiative or resource allocation. Metrics are particularly important to DevOps teams, whose very function is tied to concepts like collaboration and continuous improvement. But, while metrics can help drive efficiencies, they can also drive DevOps […]
Successful Digital Transformation: It’s About Strategy
While having a mature digital enterprise helped organizations to better survive – and even thrive, in some cases – the pandemic, that’s not the primary reason why organizations will continue to invest in their digital transformation efforts. According to new research from consultancy Deloitte, businesses will continue to invest in their digital transformation capabilities to […]
How to Modernize Data Integration
In times of uncertainty, accurate real-time data becomes essential to informed decision-making. When the pandemic ends and businesses begin to reopen, this will be truer than ever. While there is no precedent for COVID-19’s impact on the economy, what is clear is that the enterprise is clamoring for more analytics than ever. Data engineering is […]
Are Developers Responsible for Open Source Governance?
There are lots of factors in the open source software world converging to make it a big year for “shift left” in software development. Heightened security concerns, an increasing need for software supply chain visibility and the growth and complexity of open source ecosystems will continue to push the responsibility for ensuring code is secure […]
Earth Day: The Green Side of Computing
When we think of climate change and the existential threat of global warming, our minds often conjure images of dirty factories pumping out carbon dioxide or fuel-guzzling cars sitting idle with their engines rumbling. We think of ice sheets tumbling into the ocean and sea levels rising, and we know that grand, sweeping changes are […]
ADOC: Assessing DevOps Culture
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]
How the DevOps Skill Journey Fosters a Learning Culture
Human skills, among others, have always been important; now more than ever. Empathy, diversity, creativity, personal commitment have been put to the test. The increase in remote work tends to challenge individuals in unique ways, and these human skills are becoming critical. Top 5 Skill Domains for 2021 This year, 69% of respondents to the […]
Redis Labs Extends Reach of In-Memory Database
At its online RedisConf 2021 event, Redis Labs today detailed how the company’s in-memory database will be employed to drive real-time applications that are at the core of most digital business transformation initiatives. Yiftach Shoolman, Redis Labs CTO and co-founder, said there are four initiatives at the core of the Redis Labs effort to replace […]
Pulumi Moves to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning
Pulumi announced today it is expanding the scope of its automation ambitions to make it easier to securely provision cloud infrastructure-as-code. Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, said the Cloud Engineering Platform enables DevOps teams to use Pulumi Packages to create reusable components for automating IT infrastructure provisioning in a way that can be embedded within workflows […]
Solving Cloud-Native Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud
The shift to cloud-native environments away from traditional data center infrastructures continues unabated, but security and complexity challenges remain a struggle for DevOps teams. These were two of the main takeaways in a survey and analyst report published by the IT consultancy firm Flexera. The survey, based on the responses of 750 IT professionals, revealed […]
Seeing the Bigger Picture With BizDevSecOps
Not long ago, if you can believe it, software was shipped on physical floppy disks and CDs. These physical relics contained dense paper instruction books that humans read diligently for hours on end (I guess they had more time to spare back then?). Complexity was a given for computer-based tasks. Fast forward past the consumerization […]
Survey Shows Mounting DevOps Frustration and Costs
A survey of 400 developers and DevOps team members in the U.S. and Europe found, on average, 15 hours a week are being spent managing tasks such as debugging pipelines and waiting for tests and builds to complete. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Garden, a provider of a platform […]
Survey Finds Digital Transformation Outcomes in Doubt
The COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations, both large and small, to either launch or accelerate digital business transformation initiatives that, to varying degrees, depend on their level of DevOps acumen to succeed. Value stream management platform provider Digital.ai today published the results of a survey of 200 IT decision makers, 200 security decision makers and 200 […]
Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?
There’s no getting around the fact that security is one of the most essential factors in day-to-day operations for most software developers. From proprietary code to sensitive customer data and everything in between, there are hundreds – if not thousands – of crisis scenarios that can result from gaps in security. Data security is an […]
Agile Divide Between IT and Business Is Narrowing
A global survey of 1,350 business and IT executives conducted by Jigsaw Research on behalf of NTT Ltd., a provider of IT services, suggests organizations are a lot more agile in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s still a significant gap in terms of prioritizing agility. A full 89% of business and IT […]
What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy at the start of Q3 2021 signals a major shift in the future of technology – and not only for organizations specializing in […]
Survey Sees Application Testing Shifting Further Left
PractiTest, a test management platform provider, published a report today that suggests professional application testers have become more adept at working within DevOps workflows. The annual survey of more than 1,000 application testing professionals finds that 80% of all application testing within organizations is being done by test engineers, test leads, testers and automation testers. […]
GitLab Survey Surfaces Advances in DevOps Education
As more organizations clamor for employees with some type of DevOps education, higher education is responding in kind, according to survey findings. A survey of 843 students and teachers at various academic institutions who have had some exposure to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform suggests the number of individuals with DevOps skills graduating […]
AlmaLinux Foundation Delivers on CentOS Promise
A nonprofit organization launched this week to oversee future development of AlmaLinux, a distribution of Linux based on code originally contributed to the open source CentOS project. At the same time, CloudLinux, which created AlmaLinux in response to a decision by Red Hat to pull financial support for CentOS, announced that a stable version of […]
How To Address DevSecOps Skills Shortages
“If it’s scarce, it drives the price up,” said McAfee director of systems engineering Sahba Idelkhani. And DevSecOps talent is scarce, and expensive. Restrictions on international travel are having an effect on immigration in some countries, notably Australia. But there’s practically nothing employers can do about that. But some aspects of the supposed skills shortage […]
Citizen Development Program: Establishing Guardrails
Citizen development is as easy as one, two, three. Select the right use cases Enable the citizen developer(s) And establish the guardrails, which I will cover here. Of course, there is a little more to it than this. Success requires focus, planning and patience. We previously discussed, in parts one and two of the series, […]
Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source
A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed environments. Based on a survey of 1,250 IT professionals, Red Hat maintains that the survey respondents — from organizations that were Red Hat […]
The Surprising Secret to DevOps ROI
As a result of my many years of DevOps consulting, I have discovered a simple, but not well-understood, secret ingredient that drives ROI for all the Three Ways of DevOps. Measuring and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for DevOps is not well-understood. It is a proven fact that DevOps, when engineered well, delivers tremendous value […]