API Sprawl a Looming Threat to Digital Economy
New estimates say the total number of public and private APIs in use is approaching a whopping 200 million. APIs are becoming increasingly crucial to the global digital economy. They are the backbone of many digital platforms and drive the composable enterprise model. But this ubiquity presents sprawl issues. F5 recently released a study that […]
Is TypeScript the New JavaScript?
While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option; nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost-effective. Increasingly, TypeScript is becoming the go-to language for app development—particularly for larger apps. The time- and cost-saving benefits are significant enough that some organizations are […]
Will Automation Fill Gaps Left by the ‘Great Resignation’?
Between burnout, job-hopping and the ongoing pandemic, labor shortages will surely get worse before they get better, and automation is increasingly sought after as a way to mitigate the ripple effects of understaffed IT departments. For DevOps, automation has several benefits, from freeing up employees to work on more constructive tasks to minimizing software bugs […]
WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes
In this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm.
Digital Transformation Driving VSM Adoption
The number of organizations using value stream management (VSM) to bridge the divide between DevOps and the rest of the business is expected to dramatically increase over the next two years. The shift is due, in part, to investments in digital business transformation initiatives. A survey of more than 500 executives, IT and business leaders […]
WhiteSource Adds SBOM Tool That Lists Vulnerabilities
WhiteSource has added a software bill of materials (SBOM) tool to its portfolio that, in addition to capturing the components of an application, also surfaces vulnerabilities that should be addressed. Many organizations are becoming more rigorous about making sure SBOM are attached to every software development initiative in the wake of an executive order issued […]
DevOps Teams Struggling to Keep Secrets
A growing number of organizations are suffering security incidents related to exposed secrets in DevOps CI/CD pipelines, according to a recent ThycoticCentrify report. The study paints a troubling picture: Only 5% of survey respondents said most of their development teams use the same secrets management processes and tools. The incidents run the gamut, from secrets […]
Top 10 DevOps Things to Be Thankful for in 2021
Thanksgiving has been observed in the U.S. since 1861 and was officially designated as an official holiday in 1863 by president Lincoln. Of course, the tradition itself traces its lineage to the early days of the Pilgrims. This past year, of course, has been one of recovery from a pandemic that caused the deaths of […]
Rethinking Programmer Education for Today’s Coders
The proliferation of low-code and no-code applications are changing the landscape for software. In the past decade, growth in these areas has empowered employees to generate solutions at the speed of a digital world, regardless of their technical background. This raises several questions: What kind of programmers do businesses really need? Should they still rely […]
Netlify Acquires OneGraph to Integrate GraphQL APIs
Netlify this week announced it has acquired OneGraph, a provider of a platform that simplifies the integration and management of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language. At the same time, the company is committing $1 million to sponsor open source projects and setting aside $10 million for a Netlify Jamstack Innovation […]
Kyndryl Aligns with Microsoft in the Cloud
Following its spinout from IBM, Kyndryl has allied with Microsoft to increase the scope of IT services it provides on the Azure public cloud. Stephen Leonard, leader of global alliances and partnerships for Kyndryl, said that as part of this initiative, Kyndryl will be expanding the scope of the services it provides to both organizations […]
Cortex Expands Microservices Catalog to Improve Collaboration
Cortex, a provider of a catalog for tracking the ownership of microservices, today announced it has added a service creation capability that enables developers to use templates to scaffold new services in five minutes. In addition, the company has added a Cortex Teams offering that improves collaboration across teams of developers working on interdependent microservices. […]
Mastering the Shared Responsibility Model
It’s no secret that cloud-native application development is growing exponentially, with Agile development, IaaS and PaaS from providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, enabling innovation at a pace that is challenging for security to keep up with. A global pandemic and the resulting remote work mandates have only accelerated this movement. And with this change […]
Plutora Enhances VSM Platform with Release Insights
Plutora has enhanced its value stream management (VSM) platform to provide dashboards that enable DevOps teams to better optimize application delivery. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said dashboards added to the platform will make it possible for application release managers to leverage predictive analytics to manage application delivery in […]
Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues
Nobl9 today unveiled a Hydrogen platform that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to identify technical debt issues as they manage service level objectives (SLOs) as code. Hydrogen enables DevOps teams to define SLOs using a simple wizard or by embedding code within their application as part of a DevOps workflow. That code is then […]
Stopping Mobile Fraud With Automation and DevSecOps
Mobile fraud is a multibillion-dollar problem that’s only getting worse. One study showed that mobile click fraud alone rose 64% during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, during the pandemic, about one in five mobile ad clicks were fraudulent. And that’s just one form of mobile fraud. Weaponized botnets, mobile malware, […]
Building on Terraform: Evolution, not Revolution
Terraform is widely adopted among both enterprises and service providers who embrace infrastructure-as-code (IaC) as their model for infrastructure provisioning automation in DevOps environments. And while the technology has limitations, innovations seeking to unseat Terraform are highly fragmented and have seen tepid adoption. This points to a market that’s settling on a de-facto standard, so […]
Successful Software Development in a Hybrid Environment
The desire to work from home or from anywhere has only increased as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. Employees cite a number of reasons why they prefer to skip the office, including cutting commuting times, being more productive, caring for family members and exploring new locations. People are increasingly comfortable with remote interactions and the new […]
Building and Leading Product Teams in Uncertain Times
The world seems to be changing faster than ever, and there’s no reason to believe it will slow down anytime soon. The pandemic has compounded this sense of constant flux, with customer priorities shifting overnight. Against this backdrop, product teams need to constantly evolve their development work without losing focus or feeling they need to […]
Prioritizing Scalability, Reliability and Security in Engineering
As digital products and services are more deeply embedded in critical industries and infrastructure and the implications of problems grow in scope, engineering organizations are renewing their focus on building platforms that are scalable, reliable and secure. More importantly, they are recognizing that this isn’t the responsibility of an SRE or CSO, it’s an ethos […]
Akamai Brings Web Application and API Security Together
Akamai Technologies, Inc. this week launched a service that consolidates the process of securing both web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs). Amol Mathur, vice president of product management and strategy for Akamai, said with the launch of App & API Protector the managed security services provider is making it easier for IT teams to […]
Data Theorem Adds Runtime Protection Enabled by Observability
Data Theorem, Inc. this week added an Active Protection offering to its portfolio of application security services that makes it possible for DevOps teams to embed observability and runtime defenses in their applications via a software development kit (SDK). The Data Theorem cloud services are based on Trustkit, an open source framework the company created […]
Observability Matters. But Are You Observing the Right Things?
It’s like clockwork. Every few months, a new buzzword descends on the tech industry, and soon it’s on everyone’s lips. Take your pick from the graveyard of buzzwords past: “Big data,” “internet of everything,” “hacktivism,” “gamification.” It’s not that these terms are meaningless—just that they go from relatively obscure to ubiquitous seemingly overnight. We can […]