8 Security Considerations for CI/CD
In the software development enterprise, CI/CD refers to the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment. CI/CD enables organizations to bridge the gap between development, operation activities and teams by the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications. How do you maintain quality and security with frequent deployments? […]
Big Gains Are Made In The ‘Last Mile’ of DevOps
A new study by mabl found a correlation between complete, fully automated test coverage and a significant increase in customer happiness and DevOps maturity. In contrast, those with moderate DevOps maturity and nearly automated testing coverage tend to experience a sharp decline in end-user satisfaction. Mabl recently released its 2021 State of Testing in DevOps […]
Bringing Continuous Testing Into the Software Delivery Pipeline
For any highly competitive industry that relies on a smooth and stable user experience, it is vital that their development teams accelerate release cycles, lower operating costs and ultimately reduce risks. Continuous testing is one way companies can achieve these objectives. As a subset of software testing, continuous testing (CT) is valuable because it uncovers […]
Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. The survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin (82%). Only 11% […]
The State of Continuous Delivery in 2021
One of the hallmarks of DevOps is to improve the delivery of software. Therefore, mature DevOps systems employ continuous delivery (CD), the process of releasing bite-sized software changes on a regular basis. Amid high demand for digital innovation, streamlining this release pipeline is becoming more and more crucial for enabling overall software fluidity. So, what […]
What Chaos Engineering Is (and Isn’t)
The birth of chaos engineering happened somewhat accidentally in 2008 when Netflix moved from the data center to the cloud. The move didn’t go as planned. The thinking at the time was that the data center locked Netflix into an architecture of single points of failure, like large databases and vertically scaled components. Moving to […]
Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021
Software bugs are vexing. Code reviews and error finding aren’t a particularly fun part of a developer’s job description. Finding bugs is tedious, time-consuming and hard on your eyes. Bugs not only wreak havoc on your code, they wreak havoc on your day. But what if bashing bugs could earn you a payoff greater than […]
SREs Say AIOps Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype
What can you expect when investing in artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)? Real-time visibility across huge volumes of information. Lightning-fast event correlation and anomaly detection. Automated remediation and self-healing, without Ops personnel having to lift a finger. It all sounds amazing—at least, if you believe the marketing hype. But do those kinds of AIOps […]
Plutora Dives Deeper into Value Stream Analytics Data
Plutora announced today it has extended the capabilities of its value stream management (VSM) platform to include a common object data model that more efficiently normalizes data collected from multiple DevOps tools and platforms. Jeff Keyes, vice president of product marketing and strategy for Plutora, said the goal is to expand the level of scale […]
GitLab Updates Approach to Integrating DevOps Workflows
GitLab today took the wraps off a major update to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that embeds analytics tools in workflows to identify the root cause of inefficiencies, among other additional capabilities. David DeSanto, senior director for product management at GitLab, said that capability is part of an ongoing effort to include value stream […]
How Containers Simplify DevOps Workflows and CI/CD Pipelines
DevOps enables organizations to capitalize on the flexibility of cloud resources in real-time, which is a huge game changer. Just as the adoption of Agile methodology can make a development team more responsive, DevOps revolutionizes implementation of IT objectives from end to end, from a waterfall-style process gating company productivity to a dynamic process that […]
Report: The State of Cloud-Native Application Security
The cloud brings tremendous capabilities in terms of increased deployment fluidity and automation. Along with cloud adoption has come the use of cloud-native tools built specifically for developing applications for this domain. However, cloud-native tools carry some nuanced security concerns, such as misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and leaked secrets. As such, 83% of organizations recognize security […]
Linux Foundation Makes Available Software Manifest Tool
The Linux Foundation is making available a set of free tools for building software bills of material (SBOMs) based on the software data package exchange (SPDX) file format it curates. Backed by more than 20 organizations, SPDX is an effort to standardize the way metadata describing the contents of a software package is described. The […]
Google Proposes SLSA Framework to Secure Software Supply Chains
Google is proposing organizations adopt a framework for securing the integrity of software artifacts across a software supply chain. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) is based on an internal framework, known as binary authorization for Borg, that the company […]
Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging
App stability is a fundamental part of every app experience. Broadly speaking, app stability is a measurement of the number of total app sessions that are crash-free or the percentage of daily active users who do not experience an error. End users have little patience for apps that crash or fail. Every application, whether it’s […]
Grafana Labs Acquires k6 to Add Open Source Load Testing Tool
During its online GrafanaCONline 2021 conference today, Grafana Labs revealed it has acquired k6, a provider of an open source load testing tool. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said load testing will complement the observability platform Grafana Labs currently provides based on open source Prometheus software. Most of the output of any load testing processes […]
PagerDuty Allies with JFrog to Modernize IT Incident Management
PagerDuty has integrated its IT incident management platform with the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform from JFrog as part of an effort to streamline troubleshooting of application environments. Steve Gross, senior director of strategic business development at PagerDuty, said the overall goal is to make it easier for IT operations teams and developers to collaboratively […]
How Real-Time Debugging Improves Reliability
When designing and building software, service reliability is always at the top of the list of critical focus areas for development teams. Every team that builds software typically has, either directly or indirectly, service level agreements with their customers. These are, essentially, agreed-upon metrics or performance criteria that teams use to measure and ensure the […]
WSO2 Applies AI to API Management
WSO2 today unfurled a Choreo cloud platform through which DevOps teams can create and manage application programming interfaces (APIs) more efficiently by leveraging machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Eric Newcomer, WSO2 CTO, said the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) eliminates all the tasks associated with setting up a platform for and managing […]
Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt
Technologists are always espousing new, trendy development solutions. More robust frameworks, increased delivery, better integration. But rarely do these proponents consider the long-term side effects of introducing new technologies. As a result, technical debt is an all-to-common occurrence in most companies. Nearly a third of IT budgets are dedicated to addressing technical debt. Devoting so […]
Broadcom Adds VSM Platform to DevOps Portfolio
Broadcom Inc. today added a dedicated value stream management (VSM) application to its portfolio of DevOps offerings as part of an effort to make it simpler to prioritize software development initiatives. Serge Lucio, vice president and general manager for the enterprise software division of Broadcom, said that while the company has previously provided VSM capabilities […]
Lightbend Launches Serverless Managed DevOps Service
Lightbend today unfurled a cloud service based on a serverless framework that provides developers with a managed DevOps platform to build applications that dynamically scale resources up and down as required. Brad Murdoch, executive vice president for strategy at Lightbend, said Akka Serverless provides access to its Java development platform environment that runs atop Kubernetes […]
Why API Quality Is Top Priority for Developers
It is no secret that web APIs have become increasingly important to the operation of modern businesses. According to RapidAPI’s Developer Survey and Insights report, 61% of developers used more APIs in 2020 than 2019, with 71% planning to use even more in 2021. We are no longer tied to a small number of monolithic […]