CodeSee Unveils Open Source Hub
CodeSee today launched a free Open Source Hub (OSH) community through which developers can more easily analyze the codebase that makes up an open source software project. Shanea Leven, CodeSee CEO, said that capability is crucial because making it easier to explore open source codebases reduces the level of effort required for developers to understand […]
What Is User Acceptance Testing and Why Is it so Important?
Anyone involved in software development knows how important it is to ensure a positive end-user experience. One way to do that is through the use of user acceptance testing (UAT). UAT is one of the types of testing that you can execute as part of your overall quality assurance process. Source It’s essential in helping […]
The Age of Software Supply Chain Disruption
The software supply chain is swiftly becoming a widespread attack vector, and securing it is now in the spotlight. Software supply chain attacks have become a given in 2022, reports Darktrace. SolarWinds, Kaseya and GitLab are just a few examples of organizations that have been vulnerable to attack in recent years. We’ve also witnessed an increasing […]
Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value
Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This model has served thousands of companies well, from manufacturing and product design to software development. Yet, one difficulty that comes up when discussing or applying Lean in software […]
Codenotary Adds SLSA Framework Support to Advance App Security
Codenotary this week announced it has integrated support for the Supply-Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework in its free notarization and verification service for ensuring the integrity of code. Moshe Bar, Code Notary CEO, said as the first application security platform to attain SLSA compliance, the company is making it easier for organizations to […]
Armory Aims to Turn Continuous Delivery Into a Service
Armory this week made generally available a continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) offering that promises to make it simpler for a much wider range of organizations to programmatically deploy applications. The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service platform has been available in beta since March. It differs from Armory’s existing open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in that it […]
Threat Modeling as a DevSecOps Practice
Software engineers are always under pressure to build more software, faster. At the same time, there is increasing regulatory and market pressure for secure software that meets users’ and regulators’ requirements for data privacy. This dynamic often puts software engineers at odds with application security or product security teams. In fact, 81% of developer teams […]
How to Adopt an SRE Practice (When You’re not Google)
Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks happened even before site reliability engineer was a defined job title. But organizing a proactive approach to building and maintaining software drives long-term success in improving operational efficiency, data-driven roadmap planning […]
CDEvents Aims To Standardize CI/CD Interoperability
Companies are under mounting pressure to continuously release new applications and features. And as software development life cycles become more iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a necessary ingredient to enable more rapid deployments. Many development teams now embrace DevOps, but fully automating a CI/CD pipeline from source code to production deployment […]
AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework
AppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language. Rishabh Kaul, head of marketing for AppSmith, said the Git support will make it simpler for developers to manage version control as they iteratively build applications using a set […]
Why is Security Still in the Way? A Look at DevSecOps Right Now
According to industry trend reports for 2022, DevSecOps is now considered to be one of the most effective approaches to building software quickly and securely. This effort, of course, means development, security and operations teams commit to addressing security as early as possible in the software development life cycle (SDLC). The goal of the shift […]
Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in the form of difficult software modifications or challenges in adding new features. Time is the usual culprit; your development team has one timeframe […]
CDF Report Surfaces DevOps Workflow Gains
At its cdCon 2022 conference today, the Continuous Delivery Foundation shared a State of Continuous Delivery in 2022 report that found nearly half of developers (47%) use either continuous integration or continuous deployment platforms—but only about 20% report using both to automate all application build, testing and deployment. Overall, only a little less than a […]
When DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) Meets Security
One of the most recent IT methodologies to be offered as a service is DevOps, a cultural and practical approach that brings development and operations teams together under one umbrella of work. DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS) ensures that everything related to the selection, management and maintenance of DevOps tools and infrastructure, including all policies and procedures, are […]
Contrast Security Adds Free Code-Scanning Tool
Contrast Security this week made available a free security tool that enables developers to scan their code using the same core engine used by the cybersecurity team within their organization. Steven Phillips, vice president of product marketing for Contrast Security, said while there is no shortage of free tools for scanning code these days, the […]
Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS
The number of DevOps tools keeps growing, as does the number of cloud resources and options to manage those resources. On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking and operating systems. Complicating this further is that users can choose from machines located in 24 regions and 77 availability zones. This proliferation […]
5 Testing Strategies For Deploying Microservices
With rigorous development and pre-production testing, your microservices will perform as they should. However, microservices need to be continuously tested against actual end-user activity to adapt the application to changing preferences and requests. This article will cover five deployment strategies that will help developers and DevOps teams when releasing new features or making changes to […]
The Risks of Shadow Code
As the economy struggles to recover after the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all learned a thing or two about supply chains—and what happens when they break down. But many people do not realize that modern websites also have digital supply chains, third-party ones that can be compromised in myriad ways. […]
Architecting an Auth System for Applications
Applications today use many login and authentication methods and workflows. Here, I’ll share the most relevant and proven authentication workflows, which you can use as a basis for architecting and designing an authentication system for traditional web applications, single-page applications and native mobile applications. Authentication Workflows for Traditional Web Applications Traditional web applications load a […]
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing.
GitLab Gets an Overhaul
GitLab launched its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, which the company said pulls together new DevOps and data science capabilities into the platform. With GitLab 15, GitLab says it provides (or soon will provide) continuous security and compliance, enterprise Agile planning, visibility and observability, workflow automation and increased […]
DevSecOps Deluge: Choosing the Right Tools
In the last few years, DevSecOps has become the security process of choice for many forward-thinking enterprises. These organizations have come to understand that fixing bugs in the latter stages of product and application development offers no favors to anyone but cybercriminals. So, they have overhauled traditional processes and united development, operations and security teams […]
Continuous Delivery Foundation Adds Interoperability Project
At a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data across multiple services, platforms and systems. Andrea Frittoli, open source developer advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member […]