Shift Left With DAST: Dynamic Testing in the CI/CD Pipeline
By focusing on application security like an attacker would, DAST can discover potential security threats that static testing methods might miss.
State of API Report Highlights Productization and Generative AI
Postman’s fifth annual State of the API report sheds light on the ongoing API productization movement and API developers’ use of generative AI.
Is ChatGPT Helping or Hurting Your Developers’ Productivity?
ChatGPT’s ability to translate natural language into working code has sparked tremendous interest in the programming community. Developers are exploring ways to use ChatGPT to reduce redundant tasks, from creating code snippets to analyzing and debugging programs. This also allows them to focus on more complex tasks like data analysis and monitoring with the help […]
Don’t Let Developer Experience Break Your Business
These four tips will help ensure the developer experience is not your Achilles heel in fueling business performance.
Key Insights From the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey
Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey reveals insights into programming language and tooling preferences and the use of AI in the development workflow. Here’s what these trends could mean for DevOps.
Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source
Loft Labs’ DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.
How to Keep Your IT Infrastructure Invisible
IT infrastructure is critical. IT infrastructure enables businesses to run—from day-to-day operational execution to visionary strategic innovation and everything in between. What’s interesting, though, is that people are only aware of it when there’s a problem: HR can’t access the payroll application, customers are complaining about how slow the transactional system is or this month’s […]
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making it scale?
Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability
Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service. This makes […]
How Platform Engineering Protects Profit, People and our Planet
Platform engineering offers lots of tangible benefits for businesses, but sustainable platform engineering can be even better.
How IT Services Can Embrace Platform Engineering
We are all familiar with DevOps as a newer approach to software development. The concept is designed to enable developers and IT operations teams to work together. Platform engineering, on the other hand, is a more mature, older approach that has become new again. Platform engineering, at its core, is the concept of productizing your […]
Mendix Embraces DevOps for Next Era of Low-Code App Development
Mendix’s low-code app dev platform added support for DevOps workflows and makes it simpler for developers to compose apps and embed AI capabilities.
Noname Security Looks to Shift API Security Testing Left
Noname Security today made generally available an update to a tool for testing application programming interface (API) security that promises to make it easier for DevOps teams to ensure APIs are secure. Filip Verloy, a field CTO for Noname Security, said Active Testing V2 is purposely designed to make it simpler to integrate API testing […]
System Initiative Employs Modeling to Reinvent DevOps
System Initiative (SI) released a private beta of a platform to reimagine how DevOps processes are constructed and maintained.
Cycloid Adds Templates to Simplify GitOps Workflows
Cycloid’s Bootstrap Stacks capability provides DevOps teams with the ability to build Git templates to define cloud computing environments.
Harness Brings Generative AI Capabilities to DevOps Workflows
Harness today added a raft of generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of a larger effort to reduce the level of manual toil that today conspires to create DevOps bottlenecks. The added generative AI capabilities include an AI Development Assistant (AIDA), which analyzes log files and correlates […]
Choosing the Right Software Deployment Tools
Imagine this scenario: After investing countless hours in developing your software, it is finally ready for deployment. Now, you must select the appropriate software deployment tools to guarantee a seamless release. This article will guide you through the concept of software deployment and discuss various tools that cater to different needs—from dedicated deployment tools to […]
The Case For an API-First SCM
Somewhere around a decade ago, about the time DevOps really started to manifest, we began seeing technology companies—including some of the largest ones today—investing heavily in their APIs. API-first companies managed to rapidly gain widespread adoption because of the benefits of being API-driven. Everything from automation and scalability to flexibility, performance, speed and monetization. Once […]
Pulumi Embeds Terraform Conversion Tool in Platform
At its virtual PulumiUP event, Pulumi this week announced it embedded an ability to convert instances of Terraform into its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform via a simple command line interface (CLI) command. In addition, Pulumi added a Review Stacks capability that automatically creates a dedicated cloud environment to review code every time a pull request is […]
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
Four Ways to Modernize Your Enterprise Monoliths
In a perfect world, every application would run like Netflix–by which I mean every application would be cloud-native, microservices-based, containerized and, in all other senses of the word, modern. Unfortunately, not every application can be transformed in these ways. Some of the most important enterprise applications–like those powered by SAP or Oracle–don’t lend themselves to […]
Cycode Leverages eBPF to Secure CI/CD Pipelines
Cycode today added a Cimon extension to its application security platform that uses extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to thwart cyberattacks against continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Alex Ilgayev, head of security research for Cycode, said Cimon uses eBPF to inspect network connections, running processes and file modifications within a pipeline to learn standard behaviors. […]
Revolutionizing DevOps With Low-Code/No-Code Platforms
The DevOps industry is growing at an incredible pace, with its worth exceeding $8 billion in 2022. Analysts predict that the market will experience a five-fold increase and reach almost $40 billion by the end of the decade. But with this growth, there is a significant issue within the DevOps chain that continues to escalate: […]