
From DevOps to the Future: The Evolutionary Leap to Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is extending the principles that made DevOps so successful to meet the challenges and opportunities of the new tech era.

Does Platform Engineering Make DevOps & DevSecOps Irrelevant?
There’s an integral link between platform engineering and DevSecOps and the broader infrastructure management landscape.

Grafana Labs Delivers Open Source Code Profiling Tool
Grafana Labs’ Pyroscope 1.0 is an open source tool that collects data about an application’s code to aid debugging, troubleshooting and optimization efforts.

Google Adds App Modernization Tools to Generative AI Platform
Google this week added automated refactoring capabilities to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools it makes available to write code on Google Cloud.

CDF Report: Steady Growth in Number of Jenkins Jobs Run
The Jenkins Project reported that pipeline usage grew 79%, with total workloads running in the CI/CD platform growing 45%.

VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point
With the free and open Code4z extension pack, VS Code is mainframe-ready and it’s a great tool for mainframe developers.

Styra Makes Source Code Available for Enterprise Edition of OPA
Styra is making the Open Policy Agent (OPA) enterprise code available under a license that enables IT teams to modify or change the underlying code as they see fit.

Driving DevOps Excellence: Implementing SLOs for Your DevOps Team
Here’s how adding SLOs to your DevOps team can improve productivity, dependability and client happiness.

VMware Preps Generative AI Assistants to Automate IT Workflows
VMware previewed what will become a suite of intelligent assistants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of a wide range of IT tasks.

Why Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization is Harder Than it Looks
If your business is like most businesses that use the cloud today, you’ve gone multi-cloud. Nine out of 10 large companies have already adopted multiple clouds, and IT analysts expect that even more businesses will embrace multi-cloud architectures over the next several years. Now, the challenge facing those companies is how to optimize spending across […]

How Observability and Explainability Benefit the SDLC
Software systems require continual modification to meet changing requirements, address errors, improve performance and enhance reliability. Yet, maintaining and modifying complex and distributed software systems as they change and grow can present challenges. When systems are designed with observability and explainability in mind, adapting, expanding and troubleshooting software becomes easier and more effective. Observability refers […]

Using Observability to Create a Smart Data-Driven Culture
The first words that come to mind when talking about smart technologies are often artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation. While these smart technologies play a crucial role in smart-driven cultures, they are not the sole factor in making workplaces “smart.” Organizations that have a smart-driven culture, or data-driven culture, also promote innovation. An innovative […]

Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to production.”

How New Tech Elevates Release Management’s Quality Standards
Release management is a critical discipline within software development and IT operations that focuses on the planning, scheduling, coordination and deployment of software releases. It includes the procedures, plans and methods employed to guarantee that software updates or items are sent to customers in a secure and effective way. Release management’s main objective is to […]

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

Digital.ai Embraces Multiple AI Classes to Advance DevSecOps
Digital.ai has committed to adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and additional machine learning capabilities to its namesake platform for managing DevSecOps workflows.

The DevOps Pendulum: Agility Vs. Control
Engineering, like everything else in life, is all about balance. In DevOps, the balance is between control and agility.

Automation in DevOps: Advancements, Platforms and Examples
Automation is the backbone of DevOps. By facilitating seamless integration and continuous delivery, it revolutionizes the ways organizations deliver software, products and services. When applied correctly, automation can significantly enhance productivity, reduce time-to-market, improve software quality and minimize the risk of human error. A range of automation tools support these goals, each tailored to a […]

Extending the GitOps Pipeline: DevSecOps and Trusted Application Delivery
The fusion of DevSecOps and trusted application delivery can extend the GitOps pipeline and add business value.

Palo Alto Networks Extends CNAPP to CI/CD Platforms
Palo Alto Networks’ CNAPP now includes the ability to secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.

Automation or Concatenation?
We’ve been in a period of mergers and acquisitions for a while in the DevOps and DevSecOps spaces, and it seems to be heating up even more. Combined with products expanding to cover a more broad segment of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and strategic partnerships to cover more of the SDLC, it is […]

Using Generative AI for Issue Remediation and Software Reliability
Generative AI offers SRE teams a way to automate and streamline error investigation and remediation, making it more intelligent, focused and efficient.

Google Announces Availability of iPaaS Service
Google today made available an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) capable of invoking a range of methods to integrate applications.
