DevOps Flow: Accelerating Velocity With Software Factory Best Practices
In the cloud era, senior executives are investing in key capabilities like DevOps with the expectation this will accelerate innovation and bring new digital products to market faster. To deliver on these goals, enterprise organizations seek to deploy high-quality code faster and more frequently, but they face a organizational, process and technology complexity that can […]
The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity
Even in an era of unprecedented tech layoffs, most companies are still eager to find and retain top software developer talent. What’s more, many firms are discovering that they lack direct insight into their development teams’ needs and priorities. As a result, some of them are struggling to keep their developers happy and thus productive. […]
How to Achieve Data Mesh With Four Key Principles
Today’s world is becoming increasingly data-driven, which means businesses need to refine their practices and decision-making processes with the use of trustworthy data. However, this has proven challenging as organizations often don’t know what to do with the abundance of data available to them. According to a recent survey from Snow Software, 89% of IT […]
Why You Need to Break the Observability Data Silo
In my role as a developer advocate for Coralogix, I speak with organizations across almost every conceivable industry, and there is a pattern across almost all of them. In the world of observability, the challenge is battling scale. At scale, observability becomes a complex problem to solve. Surprisingly, the most common pattern for handling observability […]
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
Why Low-Code/No-Code Tech is Important in a Competitive Job Market
The demand for tech professionals is increasing exponentially as digital skills become a requirement for businesses. However, the world is facing a serious shortage of tech professionals. According to a forecast by the World Economic Forum, 50% of the world’s labor force will need to upskill in order to keep pace with technological advancements and […]
Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023
DevOps, or the automation of application development and hand-off to operations, is more prevalent than ever on the mainframe. As we begin 2023, below are six predictions for what the coming year will bring. The composite themes will undoubtedly be speed, alignment and experience. 1. Enterprise DevOps Will Break Down Silos Across Core Systems DevOps […]
WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)
In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure.
Tricentis Extends Mobile Testing Reach
Tricentis has added the ability to test native iOS and Android applications to its Testim software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Previously, the Testim platform was designed to test web applications, but is now being extended as organizations build and deploy more native mobile applications. Capabilities of the Testim Mobile platform include codeless authoring of mobile tests to […]
How Will Low-Code and AI Coexist?
Over the last few years, low-code solutions have become important to help organizations widen programming accessibility to a broader base of users and help fill development gaps. And these technologies are still gathering steam—Gartner estimated the market for low-code development technologies would grow to a total of $26.9 billion in 2023 and that 65% of […]
How to Modernize a Data Warehouse in Months, Not Years
Modernizing a data warehouse ranks among the worst imaginable tasks for IT. The end result is immensely desirable. The benefits of moving from an on-premises to a cloud data warehouse are well-documented. But database migrations require huge efforts and the stakes are high. What makes it so difficult? All applications, including ETL, BI, analytics and […]
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
FinOps & ITAM Must Team up to Cut Cloud Spend
Ahead of its Wisdom NA 2023 event taking place in Florida March 21-22, Rich Gibbons from the ITAM Review explores the relationship between FinOps and IT Asset Management when it comes to managing software costs. With on-premises revenues in decline, will the major software publishers respond by increasing policing and enforcement of their licensing rules in […]
Fiberplane Adds Wasm Plug-in Framework for DevOps Notebook
Fiberplane today announced it is extending the reach of a real-time collaboration notebook designed for DevOps teams by making available tools for building plug-ins based on the WebAssembly (Wasm) framework. Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Fiberplane CEO, said these plug-ins, dubbed providers, will make it much simpler for anyone to connect the Fiberplane notebook to other […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
The Evolution of DevOps: Developer Productivity and Platforms
This article is part two in a series of three on the rise of platform engineering and its role in improving the developer experience. Read part one here. Developer experience is business-critical in organizations of all sizes and across all industries. In the first article of this series, I make the case that the cloud-native […]
Understanding the Infrastructure Automation Maturity Model
Nearly every company wants to evolve its digital transformation and increase the pace of software delivery and operations. And infrastructure automation is a new means to achieve these ends. It supports the emerging discipline of platform engineering and can increase scalability and reactivity to unforeseen events, enabling software ecosystems to be more anti-fragile. Increased infrastructure […]
Taking the Modular Route
In today’s world of continuous software development and integration, removing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency is of utmost importance. One surefire way to improve this efficiency is leaning into modularity–or ‘taking the modular route.’ In software engineering, modularity refers to building complex products or processes using individually distinct functional modules. An analogous way to describe this […]
Graduating From DevOps to MLOps? 5 Tools to Help
DevOps is a set of practices that aims to bridge the gap between software development and operations. It aims to improve collaboration and communication between these two teams and to automate the process of software delivery so that changes can be made and deployed more quickly and easily. This can include continuous integration, continuous delivery […]
Data Mobility: Why it’s a Must and How to Achieve It
The workplace has undergone a drastic change, and so has the way companies need to move their data. Wondering how those two points are connected? Let’s dig in. It’s clear that remote work is here to stay: Just over a quarter (26%) of U.S. employees are currently working remotely, and a staggering 36.2 million Americans […]
flox Unveils More Accessible Instance of Nix Framework
This week, flox launched a more opinionated implementation of the open source Nix framework that programmatically automates package management and system configuration. Fresh from raising an additional $16.5 million in funding, flox CEO Ron Efroni said the company will also make an enterprise edition of its namesake flox framework available later this year. The Nix […]
The Differences Between DevOps and GitOps
The transition to a DevOps model has been welcomed by many organizations that are looking to implement more efficient development processes. However, there are multiple models to choose from, with GitOps a popular choice for many. So what is the difference, and which one is better? In this article, we will discuss what each model […]
Atlassian Extends Scope of Jira Project Management Portfolio
At the Atlassian Presents: Unleash event today, Atlassian announced it is adding a Jira Product Discovery application to its portfolio. Jira Product Discovery makes it easier for organizations to keep track of the ideas that drive software development initiatives. At the same time, Atlassian is making available Jira workflow and toolchain templates to make it […]