Containers

What OpenTofu 1.7 Means for DevSecOps

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | May 6, 2024 | devsecops, kubernetes, OPA, opentofu, policy as code, Terraform

With built-in end-to-end encryption, OpenTofu is a natural DevSecOps fit ...

Self-Hosting is Dead. Hybrid is the Way to Go

Kendall Miller | February 29, 2024 | Cloud Computing, cloud-native, CNCF, hybrid cloud, IaaS, self-hosting

A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here's why ...

serverless, architecture, TidalScale server database virtualization right-sizing ServiceNow

5 Serverless Challenges of DevOps Teams and How to Overcome Them

Gilad David Maayan | January 26, 2024 | Amazon Lambda, best practices, Cloud Computing, cost management, serverless

Serverless computing brings a paradigm shift in how applications are built, deployed and managed ...

Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics

In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...

A dolphin dances above the surface of the sea, with the caption, “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter

Richi Jennings | October 11, 2023 | ARM, ARM processors, Exascale, microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NVIDIA, Python, scripting, supercomputer, The Long View, VBScript, visual studio, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, windows

In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

Instabug, mobile applications, web application, attacks, APIs, RWD application Standardization

The Path to App Modernization: Benefits, Pitfalls and the Route to Success

Ori Pekelman | September 14, 2023 | Agility, application, cloud, configuration, PaaS, scale

There are many reasons an organization may find itself on the path to considering the risky journey of application modernization. It could be to gain an edge or to build a more ...

Java, industry, technology, productivity, developer, platform, startups, CraC, Spring OpenJDK Java

VMware Previews Spring AI to Accelerate Java Development

Mike Vizard | August 25, 2023 | application development, generative AI, java, Spring, vmware, VMware Explore 2023

VMware's Spring AI project makes it simpler to build Java apps that invoke multiple AI components with minimal changes to code ...

IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!

In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month ...

2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink

Richi Jennings | August 3, 2023 | Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window management

In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...

Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email

In this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.” ...

Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH

In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work ...

8 Hot Takes: Will We See a Monolithic Renaissance?

Ericka Chickowski | May 23, 2023 | application development, microservices, Monoliths, serverless, software development

Is the DevOps world slowly backing away from microservices and to a monolithic renaissance? After years of proselytization about the benefits (Flexibility! Resilience! Support faster release speeds!) of microservices and serverless architecture, ...