
Transitioning Legacy Systems to DevOps: The XDR Support Paradigm
While companies are keen to leverage DevOps’ benefits, the transition from legacy systems can be fraught with challenges.

A Practical Guide to Mitigating DevOps Backlog
Every company aspires to get the first-mover advantage in its respective industry. This strategy allows companies to establish a robust brand presence and offer strong product offerings in the market. However, at times, this may also lead early-stage startups to prioritize pushing product features to market without adequate consideration toward stabilizing and maintaining the product. […]

MongoDB Allies With AWS to Generate Code Using Generative AI
MongoDB and AWS extended their existing alliance to provide examples of curated code to train the Amazon CodeWhisperer generative AI tool.

Policy-Based Governance: Modernizing Authorization for the Enterprise
Change of control and management of access in the privileged environment requires a new approach to the solutions we use for privileged access governance.

Software Deployment Security: Risks and Best Practices
In an era where software is at the heart of every business, deploying applications securely and efficiently has never been more critical.

Evolution of Toil Identification and Mitigation – A Classic SRE Challenge
Ingo Averdunk, leading architecture and solutions for cloud service management and site reliability engineering for IBM Cloud, contributed to this article. Christine White, architect at IBM Consulting, also contributed to this article. When many people think of operations, they often associate it with manual, labor-intensive work. This is because operations traditionally encompass a wide range […]

DevOps Halloween: Tricks and Treats
In the spirit of Halloween, let’s explore the tricks and treats of DevOps choices to ensure your team ends up with a bag full of treats rather than some nasty tricks.

How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In 2023, however, organizations are finding that the road to adoption is bumpier than expected. Here are seven of the biggest challenges DevOps teams […]

IBM Applies Generative AI to Ansible Playbooks
IBM extended the reach of the generative AI tools it provides to automate the writing of code to the Ansible IT automation framework.

Digital.ai Update Extends Scope and Reach of DevSecOps Platform
A Denali update to Digital.ai’s DevSecOps platform promises to simplify integration of custom AI models with those developed by the company.

Avoiding Mistakes in Multi-Cloud Configurations
Knowing how to configure multiple clouds mistake-free is essential to keep the promise of multi-cloud alive.

A Manifesto for a More Sustainable Cloud Future
Benjamin Brial talks about the steps necessary for organizations to create a more sustainable cloud future.

LaunchDarkly Extends Scope and Reach of Feature Management Platform
LaunchDarkly added a range of tools to address delivery of specific capabilities to end users after deployment and increased workflow observability.

What is Just-In-Time (JIT) Permission Management, and Why is it Essential?
Have you ever experienced the frustration of discovering an unexpected charge on your bank statement for a forgotten gym membership? Perhaps you kept it active “just in case” you wanted to exercise someday. Similarly, always-on privileged access, also known as “standing privileges,” can lead to similar challenges. Surprisingly, 77% of organizations provide unrestricted access to […]

OpsCanvas Generates Code to Automate DevOps Workflows
OpsCanvas unveiled a Draw & Deploy platform that generates code to provision cloud infrastructure via a chat interface.

5 Reasons DevOps Teams Need Code Mapping
Just like a physical map gives you a bird’s eye view of a geographical area, code mapping gives you a high-level view of your code.

Maximizing Data Insights: How OLAP Empowers Modern Data Stacks
Besides being cost-effective, especially for cloud implementations, OLAP delivers real performance advantages.

OpsMX Adds Deployment Firewall to Ensure Compliance
OpsMx has added a deployment firewall to its Deploy Shield portfolio for securing CI/CD platforms.

Survey Sees Spike in Untested Code Leading to a DevOps Crisis
A Sauce Labs survey found many developers admitted they pushed code into a production environment without testing.

DevOps and ITIL Integration: Driving Collaborative Agility in ITSM
Businesses face continuous pressure to deliver high-quality IT services efficiently. One emerging integration to meet these goals is between DevOps and IT service management (ITSM), more commonly known as DevOps+. DevOps+ is becoming more than a trend and has emerged as a powerful collaborative approach to meet these challenges. By combining the strengths of DevOps’ […]

Preparing for the Shift to Platform Engineering
Organizations must proactively navigate newly emerging trends within platform engineering to remain competitive.

How to Build a Data Platform for Self-Service, Ad-Hoc Analytics
To truly fulfill the promise of self-service, ad-hoc data analytics across huge datasets, teams need to work in real-time.

Atlassian Makes Compass IDP Generally Available
Atlassian’s Compass provides an instance of an IDP that is simpler for DevOps teams to set up and maintain.
