The Evolution of Technology Driven Banking
History repeats itself with every technological revolution, sparking the same old fears about job loss and human redundancy. Much of this is unfounded because each time, when routine and repetitive jobs got mechanized, those who were displaced often were elevated into bigger, better roles. The pattern was consistent across industries; whether it was manufacturing, retail, […]
Managing Business Risk in a DevOps Context
We hear a lot in the industry about the importance of automation in DevOps to enable speed. However, there is another element that is often missing in the discussion – risk, compliance and security. Traditionally we have a zero-sum approach, where we need to either go fast or be safe and secure. It’s one or […]
Make GitHub Backups Part of Your Development Process
GitHub’s platform is the largest host of source code in the world, hosting over 190 Million repositories. So much of the code we rely on every day is hosted there. You are, in all likelihood, using it. But what would you do if, one day, all of the project code GitHub stored for you disappeared? […]
DevOps Jobs Remain in High Demand, Survey Shows
There’s good news for those interested in a career in DevOps or development — there are plenty of opportunities. And there’s even room for those with unconventional backgrounds, according to a newly released report from CodinGame. The CodinGame Developer Survey 2021, which is based on responses from 15,000 international developers and HR professionals, found that […]
Teleport Adds Database Support to Security Gateway
Teleport announced today it has added support for databases to a security gateway, delivered as a cloud service, that is currently used to secure Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters. Ev Kontsevoy, CEO, said Teleport intends to extend the reach of the security gateway up the entire stack of IT infrastructure that developers routinely use to […]
Without These 3 Things, You Don’t Have DevSecOps
DevSecOps adds security to the DevOps software development and releasing paradigm. Everyone thinks this is a great idea, except actual Dev and Ops practitioners, for whom security can be a thankless, stressful time sink. Without the right approach and tools, an organization can run a DevSecOps process that actually contributes little to security. Security simply […]
IBM Deepens DevOps Insights on Mainframes
IBM today extended its effort to enable IT organizations that have mainframes to embrace DevOps best practices by updating the analytics tools it provides. Tom McPherson, vice president for IBM Z Software, said a version 6.0 update to the suite of IBM application discovery and delivery intelligence (ADDI) for IBM Z tools surfaces more granular […]
How to Know if You Need Multi-Cloud — and Succeed if You Do
There are many good reasons for running in multiple clouds, as well as times when multi-cloud environments are unavoidable due to organizational history or legal reasons. However, operating in multiple clouds adds complexity, increases operational overhead and can become expensive. Organizations should only pursue it when they have clear business reasons for doing so. In […]
LinearB Raises $16M for Software Delivery Intelligence
LinearB announced today it has raised an additional $16 million in funding to advance adoption of a software delivery intelligence platform. Ori Keren, LinearB CEO, said rather than relying on antiquated processes that require software development teams to track progress by reentering data into a project management application, it’s now possible to automatically collect all […]
Despite the Pandemic, DevOps Salaries Rose in 2020
Puppet today published the results of an annual global DevOps survey that found, despite the downturn in the global economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most DevOps professionals saw their salaries rise in 2020. However, for the first time since Puppet started collecting this data, DevOps professionals working in the life sciences, health care […]
Introduction to Materialized Views
More often than not, the types of queries that use materialized views are both faster, and use fewer resources than those that are still processing queries directly to base tables. But the key to understanding the potential that materialized views bring with them involves first understanding as much about them as possible. What is a […]
How Open Source Software Powers Digital Innovation
Open source has permanently altered how we work and conduct business. Linux, and thousands of other open source projects and open standards, now dominate the software landscape, supporting emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and edge computing. Without open source, the DevOps tooling ecosystem would lack Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, popular databases, and many CI/CD tools […]
LogDNA Adds Usage Quota Tools to Help Control Costs
LogDNA announced today it will enable IT teams to apply usage quotas to help rein in log management costs. Tucker Callaway, CEO, LogDNA, said as applications become more complex – thanks, in part, to the rise of microservices – the amount of log data that a DevOps team can collect has significantly increased. IT teams […]
IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?
Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed. In […]
Scarf Gateway Tracks Open Source Software Usage
Scarf today exited stealth to launch a gateway that makes it simpler for individuals or organizations to track usage of open source software. Avi Press, founder of Scarf, said the Scarf Gateway is an online service through which providers of open source software can redirect downloads from a wide range of repositories and registries. That […]
Value Stream Management Consortium Makes Debut
A consortium dedicated to advancing the adoption of value stream management best practices is being launched today with backing from Digital.ai, HCL Software, Plutora, ServiceNow and Tasktop. The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC) will create an open community around which organizations that are seeking to expand DevOps workflows and processes across functions and organizations can […]
How to Build Actionable Logging Systems
Logging is often considered an automatic process that doesn’t require much thought. We see logs, in general, from any system and take for granted that those logs have the information that’s needed. However, thinking through a logging strategy and architecture is extremely important for troubleshooting and performance efficiency. Regardless of how you log, the most […]
Puppet Adds DevOps Consulting Practice
Puppet has launched a DevOps consulting service that promises to help organizations implement best practices that will ultimately make their IT organizations more efficient. Nigel Kersten, field CTO, Puppet, said the Scaling DevOps Service is especially focused on improving workflows among organizations that have already started down the DevOps path. Most IT organizations that embrace […]
How to Respond to Rising Cloud Costs
As organizations ascend to the cloud, their cloud expenses are floating to the same lofty heights. But are all cloud costs necessary? The answer is a resounding no — there’s a lot of waste. In 2020, organizations wasted $17.6 billion on idle cloud resources and cloud overspending, according to ParkMyCloud. Data egress, upgrades and subscriptions […]
Survey: The State of Database DevOps
Enterprises are undergoing rapid changes. Throughout the past year, companies have been pressed to learn a diversified set of technologies and methods to remain agile in a changing economy. In this digital-first world, data plays a heightened role; in tandem, so does the delivery of data and the persistence of the database layer itself. Applying […]
CircleCI Adds Private Orbs to DevOps Toolchain
CircleCI announced today it is enabling IT reams to configure their own private integrations around its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. The company enables integrations with third-party services via reusable config packages, based on YAML files, known as orbs. Now, internal IT teams can create private orbs that they can securely reuse to invoke, […]
Open Source Advocates Want Share of Wealth
The egalitarian spirit of the open source community might be starting to fray as individual developers begin to question who is really benefiting most from their efforts. A survey of 4,440 developers who actively participated in open source projects in 2020 finds more than half (54%) of respondents said they feel that individuals should be […]
Survey: DevOps Growing Pains in Salesforce Environments
IT organizations that have adopted software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platforms from Salesforce in part to jumpstart their digital business transformation initiatives are experiencing some DevOps growing pains. A survey published this week of 230 executives, managers, and members of Salesforce delivery teams conducted by Beagle Research on behalf of Copado, a DevOps platform for IT teams […]