The Importance of Customer Experience Observability
Ask anyone to name their favorite brand, and they’ll often respond with minimal hesitation. Prod a little further and the importance of customer experience (CX) is sure to play a major role in their response. In fact, 96% of consumers say CX is a key factor in their choice of loyalty to a brand. This […]
Survey Sees Little Progress on Securing Software Supply Chains
A survey of 1,750 IT security decision-makers published today found that, despite a series of high-profile cybersecurity breaches, nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents have done nothing to secure their software supply chain. A full 64% conceded that an attack against their software development environment could not be stopped. And nearly three-fourths (71%) of respondents admitted […]
Survey Shows Shift to SRE Principles to Automate IT Management
A global survey of 1,500 IT decision-makers conducted by F5 found that, on average, organizations are managing more than 200 applications deployed across an extended enterprise as well as more than 20 different security and delivery technologies. Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist in the Office of the CTO for F5, said that level of complexity […]
Atlassian Expands DevOps Tools Portfolio to Improve Collaboration
Atlassian has added an extensible catalog for tracking software components, dubbed Compass, to its portfolio of DevOps tools along with an Atlassian Data Lake and Atlassian Analytics cloud service that makes it simpler to aggregate and query data collected from the company’s portfolio of tools. In addition, Atlassian is making its Atlas collaboration framework—formerly known […]
Radware Embraces APIs to Improve AppSec Across Multiple Clouds
Radware this week launched an application programming interface (API) approach to securing multiple clouds designed from the ground up to be an extension of a DevSecOps workflow. Eyal Arazi, a senior product marketing manager in Radware’s security group, said that Radware SecurePath makes it possible to invoke any of the company’s cloud security offerings via […]
Survey Shows Increased Focus on Modernizing IT, Retiring Apps
A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by retiring applications. Conducted by LeanIX, a provider of a platform for managing enterprise architecture and managing value stream management (VSM), the survey found […]
Understanding SaaS Security for DevOps
As Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and DevOps adoption grew, new teams were formed to address emerging security challenges. Traditional solutions weren’t built to detect the new vulnerabilities in the cloud and created excessive noise for an already stressed pool of resources. The combination of emerging zero-day vulnerabilities and an avalanche of false-positives ends up increasing security […]
Dagger: Standardizing CI/CD is the Holy Grail of DevOps
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test and deploy code. A CI/CD pipeline is necessary to support an iterative, rapid deployment approach—yet, maintaining one is not an easy task. Enter […]
How to Get Started With Low-Code/No-Code
Software development is complex. It can take years of practice to become an experienced developer. But the good news is that you can build many applications without ever learning to code. Low-code/no-code development is the practice of using a visual interface and drag-and-drop elements to build applications for business processes without coding. These types of […]
The Missing Link in Continuous DevOps Cycles
Delivering software quickly, reliably and safely is at the heart of technology transformation and organizational performance regardless of industry. As part of overall technology transformation, many companies are recognizing the benefits of applying DevOps methodologies to areas outside of software development, such as general product development, IT expansion and scaling and new business processes. However, […]
GitLab Updates CI/CD Platform to Improve Dev Productivity
GitLab has made available a 14.9 update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds epic-linking, integrated security training, rule mode for scanning result policies and a revamped design, among other capabilities. The updated environment makes it easier to discover the state of the application development projects, GitLab said. Cindy Blake, director of […]
Positioning ML Devs and Teams for Success
Intelligent applications are (by their very nature) complex. While conventional software basically consists of one thing (code), intelligent software involves code, models and data. As previously discussed, three distinct fields—DevOps, MLOps and DataOps—have evolved to govern each of these interconnected disciplines. Moving through the ML life cycle quickly and efficiently requires collaboration between teams in […]
Lapsus$ Shames Okta/Sitel | Bitcoin Nukes Climate | EU DMA E2EE FAIL
In this week’s The Long View: Okta and Sitel under fire over Lapsus$ hack, Greenpeace and others call for bitcoin change, and Europe still hates encryption.
What Donuts Teach Us About DevOps and Delivery Risk
Today, most DevOps teams do not think too much about their approach to risk. Usually, the typical attitude focuses on what to add to reduce risk further. In other words, “Can we add more tests? Can we deploy more carefully?” More tests, more processes and less risk are all obviously good things. Or are they? […]
How DevOps is Revolutionizing Embedded Development
There’s something curious happening on the desktops of embedded developers around the world. From home offices to cubes to labs, in lamp-lit rooms late at night and sun-lit rooms early in the morning, developers are doing something different. They’re beginning to implement DevOps practices in their embedded development. Something quite serendipitous has occurred to make […]
Harness Acquires ChaosNative to Meld Chaos Engineering, DevOps
Harness this week announced it acquired ChaosNative as part of a plan to more deeply integrate chaos engineering with DevOps workflows. At the same time, the company added a Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) and Harness Security Testing Orchestration capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Chaos engineering, as a discipline, refers to experiments […]
Building a Culture of Full-Service Ownership
In recent years, our reliance on software has exploded. It has been more than a decade since Marc Andreessen made his prophetic observation that “Software is eating the world.” Today, nearly every interaction is mediated through a screen and backed by software. With the massive shift to remote and digital interactions due to the pandemic, […]
Secure Software Summit: Behold the SBOM
With supply chain security becoming more of a focus, the SBOM is now viewed as a critical element in shoring up supply chain security. SBOM stands for software bill of materials. At a very elementary level, an SBOM is a list of ingredients. Think about how every food product in the supermarket lists ingredients so, […]
Your DevOps Teams Can Do Better. Here’s How.
As more organizations focus on digital transformation as the centerpiece of their growth strategy, software developers and IT teams are under heightened pressure to perform—quickly and efficiently. That begs two questions: Can we do better? And if so, how can we do better? The answers can be elusive, especially for DevOps teams that have over-relied […]
Survey Sees App Testing More Widely Distributed
A survey of 900 application testing professionals conducted by PractiTest, a provider of a platform for managing testing tools, suggested the number of organizations that have dedicated testing teams is declining at a steady rate. The survey found a 15% decrease in organizations with dedicated testing teams that have six or more members. At the […]
Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security
Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, with more and more moving parts. It is not uncommon for enterprises to have over 1,000 microservices and millions of containers running thousands […]
A Closer Look at Azure DevOps
Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Server is emerging as one of the most popular cloud application development environments. Like most continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, it provides features such as version control, reporting, project management, automated builds, and testing. It covers all aspects of the application life cycle and enables DevOps. Here’s a closer look at this […]
CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000
In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff.