Dylibso Releases Tool for Tracking and Validating Wasm Modules
Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […]
HPE to Acquire OpsRamp to Gain AIOps Platform
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed it is acquiring OpsRamp to gain access to a platform for embedding artificial intelligence in IT operations (AIOps). Latha Vishnubhotla, chief platform officer in the office of the CTO for HPE, said the company would embed the machine learning technology developed by OpsRamp across its entire portfolio in addition […]
How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines
The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […]
Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves
A global survey of 167 software professionals suggested that, while there is a lot more awareness of application security issues, the adoption of DevSecOps best practices is still not pervasive. The survey, conducted by Chainguard, the Eclipse Foundation, the Rust Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), found that just over half (51%) of […]
Why Observability is Important for Development Teams
Observability, which allows development teams to understand better how their systems behave in production, is critical to successful software delivery. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied this practice will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes. Observability allows development teams to identify and […]
5 Unusual Ways to Improve Code Quality
Code quality refers to how well-written and maintainable software code is. It encompasses factors such as readability, efficiency, scalability, reliability, maintainability and security. High code quality ensures that software is easy to understand, modify and extend, has fewer bugs and is less likely to break down. It also reduces development time and costs and improves […]
Four Technologies Transforming Data and Driving Change
Data is getting a facelift in 2023 courtesy of event-driven architecture (EDA). These four technologies are set to transform DevOps and IT operations over the next year–whether it be how companies make use of data or the customer experience they offer. 1. Applied Observability: A Powerful Source of Decision-Making Applied observability has been recognized by […]
Neural Hashing: The Future of AI-Powered Search
In recent years, vector embeddings have emerged as a promising technology to power information retrieval projects. Vectors use mathematics to represent words and encapsulate meaning. Combined with deep learning algorithms, you can build powerful AI search applications. However, recent advances have shown that another kind of technology – neural hashes – can outperform vectors while […]
What NetOps Teams Should Know Before Starting Automation Journeys
Automation has captured the human imagination since the earliest days of recorded history. A fanciful example of this comes from Homer’s classic “The Iliad” in the form of a bronze robot called Talos, which was designed to automatically monitor and defend the island of Crete from marauding intruders. The appeal of automation for IT organizations, […]
DevOps Adoption in Salesforce Environments is Advancing
A global survey of DevOps professionals building apps in Salesforce environments found 44% of respondents reported their organization has a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform in place, with another 39% planning to adopt one. The survey, conducted by Gearset, a provider of a DevOps platform for building custom applications in Salesforce environments, polled 1,254 DevOps […]
How Bazel and GitHub Can Fix the Dependency Availability Problem
Recently, GitHub upgraded the internal version of Git they use to produce repository archives. You’ve probably used these archives before if you’ve downloaded a .zip or .tar.gz file from a repository at a particular version. GitHub produces those archives on demand using Git archive and caches them for a short time. Upgrading Git regularly is […]
Addressing Software Supply Chain Security
It’s essential for organizations to learn more about the software supply chains they rely on and the steps needed to secure them. In just the past few years, we have seen a major uptick in malicious actors exploiting vulnerabilities in software supply chains to facilitate attacks on organizations. However, it’s important to remember that these […]
ReversingLabs Adds Ability to Detect Secrets in Application Binaries
ReversingLabs today announced it added an ability to detect secrets exposed in application binaries to its Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) platform. Tomislav Peričin, chief software architect for ReversingLabs, said this addition will make it easier for DevSecOps teams to identify secrets that are inadvertently left in applications as plain text or that can be […]
NETSCOUT Taps F5 to Optimize Custom App Performance
Through its alliance with F5, NETSCOUT Systems has extended the reach of its nGeniusOne enterprise performance management platform to support custom applications. The nGeniusONE platform supports more than 1,000 voice, video and business data applications using NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG appliances in combination with nGeniusONE to provide visibility into any infrastructure environment, including data centers, private and […]
Improving the DevOps Process for Mobile App Developers
Development teams—perhaps especially mobile development teams—have heavily invested in systems to automate their processes and accelerate the delivery of mobile apps. From build, test and release to tracking and monitoring, the mobile DevOps team depends on systems like Fastlane, Bitrise, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines and GitLab—and really, that list just scratches the surface. The mobile app […]
GitGuardian: 10M Exposed Secrets on GitHub
GitGuardian published an analysis of more than one billion commits to GitHub repositories that found 10 million occurrences of secrets, with one out of 10 developers exposing a secret. Mackenzie Jackson, a developer advocate for GitGuardian, said more than 80% of all the secrets caught by live monitoring GitHub were exposed through personal repositories, with […]
Documentation in Agile: Challenges and Trends in 2023
Agile documentation refers to the creation and maintenance of documentation in an agile software development process. It emphasizes “just enough” documentation that is necessary for the current iteration, preferring documentation that responds to specific needs over extensive upfront documentation. The goal is to provide clear and concise information to support the development team while keeping […]
Tools and Strategies to Drive a Developer Culture of Collaboration
Agile methodologies such as DevSecOps have instilled collaborative habits in many development teams. But developers still struggle to work effectively with other stakeholders in the development process. And hybrid work environments have made collaboration that much more challenging. In fact, across departments, employees cite collaboration issues among the chief difficulties of hybrid work, recent research […]
Balance Software Quality, Dev Speed and Cost With CI/CD
In many cases, success in the business world relies on software, be it a compelling mobile app, desktop application suite, interactive website or even an embedded system for the IoT. Because of this need, companies with mature software development processes enjoy a significant competitive advantage over those without. Part of fostering this maturity involves crafting […]
New Relic Adds Module to Surface Code Metrics
New Relic today added a free CodeStream module to its observability platform to give developers access to metrics and telemetry data that will enable them to write higher-quality code faster. Peter Pezaris, group vice president and general manager of strategy and experience for New Relic, said this capability is part of an effort to shift […]
Zenhub Brings Issues Management to Project Management Platform
Zenhub today announced it is adding an issue management module that makes it simpler for stakeholders to collaborate with developers on application development projects without having to log into a GitHub repository. Fresh from raising an additional $10 million in capital, Zenhub co-founder Aaron Upright said Zenhub Issues is a plug-in for a project management […]
Tips For Securing CI/CD Pipelines
Most development teams want to increase the pace of their software delivery. As such, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) has grown in importance, helping push code from build to production as seamlessly as possible. CI/CD pipelines often loop in many elements and may comprise a diverse stack of tools, automations and various languages. But because […]
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.