Chainguard Adds Private Edition of Code Signing Platform
Chainguard today added a private preview of a Chainguard Enforce Signing service, enabled by the open source Sigstore project, that allows developers to generate digital signatures for software artifacts using identities and one-time-use keys they create themselves. Kim Lewandowski, head of product for Chainguard, said Chainguard Enforce Signing provides an alternative to relying on a […]
Looking to the Future of Developer Experience
Developer experience is where it’s at! Developer experience (DX) means taking a user experience approach to the developer journey. DX (also abbreviated as DevEx) is commonly applied to areas like documentation, sandbox environments, SDK ergonomics and more. By improving a developer’s experience with a tool, software providers can increase stickiness and retain more users. Nowadays, […]
Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
A History of Distributed Tracing
Organizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren’t many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of the largest and most powerful mechanisms of software propagation. However, open source is in danger. The Two Sides of Open Source Development In […]
Securing Open Source Components in a World of Mixed Committer Motivations
Our world runs on software that contains open source components. This places an increased burden on developers, as the primary consumers and deployers of those components, to use code that is fully up-to-date and secure. The vast majority of open source committers with write access to project repositories remain focused on maintaining and making positive […]
AWS Previews Amazon CodeCatalyst to Automatically Create Dev Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week launched a preview release of the Amazon CodeCatalyst framework that leverages blueprints to automatically provision and configure developer environments in its cloud. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon CodeCatalyst takes advantage of a Project Blueprints tool to launch a source code repository and a project management tracker […]
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs
Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference and the company also revamped its pricing. Nobl9 Teams Edition (formerly Nobl9 Hydrogen) now includes 50 SLOs, up from 25, for […]
GitLab Unfurls Dedicated SaaS Edition in the Cloud
GitLab today made available to a limited number of customers a single-tenant version of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. David DeSanto, vice president of product at GitLab, said the GitLab Dedicated option provides all the benefits of a cloud platform without running afoul of any potential compliance issues. Designed […]
Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud
While ransomware has been the leading concern for enterprise security teams over the few past years, software vulnerabilities are nipping at its heels. The boom in cloud-based apps and services and increased digitization of work have been a boon for hackers, who are taking advantage of developers’ and DevOps teams’ attempts to work faster and […]
Blue-Green Deployment: What Are the Options?
Blue-green deployment is a change management strategy for software releases. Blue-green deployments require two identically configured hardware environments. One environment is active and serves end users while the other remains idle. Blue-green deployments are typically used for applications with strict uptime requirements. First, new code is released to staging environments and fully tested. Once the […]
4 Best Practices for Entertainment App Testing
Entertainment apps represent a broad category of software, ranging from mobile games, to social media platforms, to streaming video apps and beyond. However, all entertainment apps share a few key traits in common: They typically host dynamic content that is unique for each user. This makes entertainment apps different from apps where most or all […]
Rezilion Adds Windows Support to Dynamic SBOM Tool
Rezilion has added support for Windows applications to its tool for dynamically generating software bills of materials (SBOMs). Rezilion CEO Liran Tancman said in addition to existing support for Linux applications, it’s now possible to analyze all the components that make up a Windows application runtime environment in real-time. That capability also makes it possible […]
CircleCI Will Use AI to Increase Collective DevOps Intelligence
CircleCI has committed to adding additional collective intelligence capabilities to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that will leverage machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize application development and delivery. CircleCI CEO Jim Rose said that as the company’s namesake CI/CD platform continues to collect more telemetry data from multiple customers, […]
How a Mature DevOps Practice Can Strengthen Competitive Advantage
Saman Pourkermani, practice lead, operations effectiveness, Inspirant Group, co-authored this article. Software development and delivery has become an integral part of every aspect of a business and is no longer simply a support function. Nowadays, most of us, including those in business operations, know the anxieties of having to wait for specific environment release dates […]
Avoiding Developer Burnout With Clean Code Best Practices
Employee burnout is common in the tech industry, especially for developers. In fact, 83% of software developers feel burnt out from their work and of those, nearly half of them feel overworked. Often, this is because the processes currently in place at their companies are not effective and too much time is spent doing mundane […]
Atlassian Extends Jira’s Reach Into DevOps Workflows
Atlassian today added a range of capabilities to its Jira project management application that make it easier to manage software development projects, including a toolchain page that simplifies tool discovery for any given project. In addition, Atlassian is including a Discover tab on that page that makes it possible to track activities and set priorities […]
5 Tips for Securing DevOps: What You Wish You Knew Sooner
Foundations and frameworks, concrete and steel—not exciting. But that’s the foundation and framing of pretty much every modern building. Everything else that is part of a building–flooring, wiring, lighting, room placement and so on—is made possible by the foundation and the framework. If you want DevOps to succeed in your organization, you have to start […]
Fiberplane Notebook Tool Fosters DevOps Collaboration
Fiberplane today announced it is making available a public beta of a namesake real-time collaboration notebook specifically designed for DevOps teams that need to quickly debug IT infrastructure. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that the structure of DevOps teams has permanently changed now that […]
SAP Adds Low-Code Platform to Build Custom Apps Faster
At the SAP TechEd 2022 conference, SAP SE today announced it has added a low-code platform, dubbed SAP Build, to its portfolio to make it simpler for organizations to build custom applications. Sebastian Schrötel, vice president and head of low-code/no-code solutions for SAP, said SAP Build is designed to make the company’s low-code tools more […]
Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement
In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Software is more complex than ever and innovation is exploding across markets. To keep up with constant innovation from your competition in a global marketplace, […]
Codenotary Automates SBOM Creation
Codenotary today launched a tool that enables an application to automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) by adding a single line to its source code. Codenotary CEO Moshe Bar said TrueSBOM makes it possible to self-report the components used to construct applications to any organization that uses them for the first time. In […]