Chicken Soup for the SLO
Since time immemorial, humans have struggled to communicate. From myth to the modern era, our most memorable stories often involve individuals or groups seeking to be understood in order to avoid conflict. Be it the biblical allegory of Babel to the more recent Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of “Darmok,” a deep fascination with […]
GitLab Acquires UnReview to Further AI Ambitions
GitLab announced this week it has acquired UnReview, a provider of a tool that employs machine learning algorithms to identify which expert code reviewers to assign to a project based on both the quality of their previous efforts and current workloads. David DeSanto, senior director for product management at GitLab, said the acquisition of UnReview […]
How Low-Code/No-Code Can Transform Your Organization
For many companies, IT transformation is no small feat. Between the technology, process and organizational changes needed, it can take time to see a return on your IT transformation efforts and investments. So it’s no surprise that low-code/no-code is starting to be seen as a compelling solution for some. With low-code/no-code, you can empower teams […]
Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use case of providing software (take, for example, SpaceX teams using agile, or leadership teams that use scrum practices and have daily stand-up calls). […]
Atlassian Delivers on Forge App Dev Platform Promise
Atlassian this week made available a Forge platform for building applications that complements its existing portfolio. Mike Tria, head of platform engineering for Atlassian, said Forge is intended to provide an application development environment to both IT organizations and third-party partners. It provides developers with access to an integrated Atlassian DevOps toolchain to accelerate testing, […]
Serverless Computing Brings New Security Risks
Attracted by lower costs and less operational overhead, serverless computing is an unmistakable undercurrent in the world of DevOps. Developers are drawn to the innovation because it requires no architecture to manage while offering continuous scaling for anything from a few requests per day to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. More than 50% […]
Digital.ai Deepens Value Stream Management Integration
Digital.ai announced today it has expanded usage of machine learning algorithms within its namesake value stream management (VSM) platform to include modules to optimize flow and improve application quality in addition to enhancing its risk prediction and process optimization modules. In addition, Digital.ai has expanded the number of pre-built integrations it now provides for hundreds […]
JFrog Adds Private Distribution Network for App Binaries
At its online swampUP conference today, JFrog launched a Private Distribution Network (PDN) that makes it simpler and faster to distribute application binaries across an extended enterprise. Yoav Landman, JFrog CTO, said the PDN provides the equivalent of a content delivery network (CDN) designed specifically for distributing application binaries using a peer-to-peer network managed by […]
How to Build a Team That Embraces Metrics
When we talk about metrics in software delivery, a lot of developers think of execution metrics — things like throughput, delivery and number of deploys. But in reality, those metrics don’t motivate anyone — at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. I’ve worked in software for 23 years. I’m a three-time founder […]
IT Ops Takes Center Stage
When people talk about the last 18 months, most will remember it as a disruptive time when nothing felt certain. Yet, for many IT Ops and network operation center (NOC) leaders, it was the year they stepped out of the darkness and into the spotlight. Suddenly, it mattered deeply who was maintaining those services we […]
Three Ways Machine Learning Can Change Incident Management
Incident management for important applications has many connotations, many of them negative. Most are well-deserved. Stress, panic, hurry, urgent, drop-everything, all-hands-on-deck, emergency, to name a few. Typically, there is a critical problem, ranging from complete failure to loss of certain functionality or performance. The problem or outage potentially means loss of revenue, loss of customers, […]
Unqork Extends Automated No-Code SDLC Platform
Unqork today announced it has extended a no-code platform for managing the software development life cycle (SDLC) to include the ability to automatically document changes to application programming interfaces (APIs) and data models in addition to adding a point-in-time rollback capability. Ken Gavranovic, head of strategy and engineering for Unqork, said Unqork 2021.5 also adds […]
Implementing an On-Demand Feature Environment
Not long ago, developers at LeanTaas implemented an on-demand feature environment. It came about as the result of a collaborative effort to support a faster go-to-market strategy. Moving to an on-demand feature environment resulted in greater agility, effectiveness, quality and a better bottom line for the organization. With careful implementation, any development team can benefit […]
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web application developed using JavaScript and leave comments for developers. Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, said Netlify will embed that collaboration capability in the […]
ZenHub Brings More Science to Sprint Planning
ZenHub today revealed it has added a Planning Poker capability to its platform for managing software development projects that is designed to make it possible to prioritize sprints based on feedback collected from members of the application development team. That capability extends a sprint planning capability the company added this year to a project management […]
Nobl9 Makes SLO Specification Open Source
During an online SLOconf event today, Nobl9 revealed that the platform it created to enable IT teams to achieve service level objectives (SLOs) is now available under an open source Apache license. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said the goal is to make a YAML specification format for defining SLOs that includes a […]
Why QA and Monitoring Need to Merge
Customer expectations for speed and reliability have upended the software development life cycle. Whereas developers used to develop a product and send it to quality assurance engineers for testing before widespread release, customers now demand new versions and features on a quicker timeline. In an era with little available time to run QA in the […]
Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs
When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […]
The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […]
Appian Extends Low-Code Approach to Aggregating Data
At an online Appian World conference, Appian today unveiled an update to its low-code platform that adds a set of visual tools that enables developers to aggregate data within an application with the help of a database administrator (DBA) or data engineering team. Malcolm Ross, vice president of product at Appian, said one of the […]
CircleCI Acquires Vamp to Apply AI to CD
CircleCI today announced it has acquired Vamp, a provider of an orchestration platform for automating application releases. CircleCI at the same time revealed it has garnered an additional $100 million in financing to attain a $1.7 billion valuation. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said Vamp will play a significant role in advancing the capabilities of the […]
Linux Foundation Embraces Lightweight API Gateway
The Linux Foundation announced today that an open source application programming interface (API) gateway known as KrakenD has become the latest project it will oversee. Rechristened the Lura Project, the lightweight stateless API gateway was originally developed by KrakenD, which plans to continue to offer an enterprise edition of the platform. KrakenD CEO Albert Lombarte […]
ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […]