How to Seamlessly Transition to DevSecOps
In the last few months, the cybersecurity world has been taken by storm following the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability. The zero-day had the potential to put much of the connected world at risk and left security teams scrambling to quickly apply security patches to software just before Christmas 2021. As a result of the […]
Testing Challenges in 2022 – Techstrong TV
Stephen and Alan discuss the biggest testing challenges in 2022, along with the tools and methods needed to solve them. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recording: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hey everyone. Welcome to another Techstrong […]
Best Practices to Improve your Engineering Sprints
What is the purpose of sprints? We break work into sprints so we can more easily monitor, estimate and predict what we want to ship and when. Over the years, engineering teams have gotten used to moving quickly from one sprint to the next, but I think it’s important to be more thoughtful in how […]
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI provides a familiar construct for DevOps teams using the open source DevOps automation platform to provision infrastructure-as-code (IaC). The module enables DevOps professionals […]
The Benefits of Crowdsourced Testing
Charlene O’Hanlon and Rob Mason from Applause talk about how crowdsourced testing is a highly effective method for testing applications and its benefits to DevOps teams. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. O’Hanlon: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TechStrong TV. I’m O’Hanlon, and I’m here now with Mason with Applause. […]
Dependability is Crucial for Real-Time Experiences
Millions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, also went down for some users. And in the last few weeks of 2021, Amazon’s AWS caused considerable global chaos after significant networking […]
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer financial services provider expects to make Talon Polly available as an open source project next year. Written in the Rust programming language, Pounder […]
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
In this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO.
The Evolution of Incident Management
Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that you never take time to step back and reflect on the evolution of your role and your responsibilities. And that’s a shame because […]
Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, because while hardware diversity is wonderful for price and innovation, it can lead to spiraling software complexity on the back end. So many […]
Taking a DevSecOps Approach to API Security
An application programming interface (API) is a data transfer approach that enables services within an application to talk to other applications (or other services within a system). Essentially, it enables Service A to talk to Service B in a uniform way. Companies benefit from APIs on a daily basis without even thinking about them. APIs […]
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they expected to produce or consume them in 2022. SBOMs have become a bigger area of focus in the wake of a series of […]
Continuous Security: The Next Evolution of CI/CD
Following a wave of high-profile cyberattacks and the White House’s release of the executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity, how to build a successful cybersecurity program has never been so hotly debated as it is now. From SolarWinds to the Colonial Pipeline attacks, these events demonstrate that defensive measures alone cannot mitigate cybersecurity risk, […]
Improving Software Security in 2022
The recent Log4j vulnerability showed just how quickly a security bug could disrupt not just an industry, but the entire world. Organizations, especially federal agencies, will always find themselves at some level of risk, but they can also do more to mitigate those challenges. In November 2021, the Biden administration issued a directive through the […]
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Comes of Age in 2022
The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is still gathering steam across organizations. In January 2022, LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st job with the highest global demand throughout the past five years. That’s pretty high for such a specific tech role. And, looking to the future, it appears the SRE practice will only continue to […]
DevOps for Salesforce: CI/CD Challenges
DevOps encompasses a wide variety of technical and social practices for improving the development, delivery and operation of IT systems. Salesforce has become more than a CRM system; it evolved into a full-featured ecosystem and a low-code platform that made development far simpler and more approachable than traditional code-based platforms. Cross-functional teams build on Salesforce […]
Embracing Security by Design in Development
The number of data breaches publicly reported in 2021 far exceeded the total for 2020, making 2021 a record year. With cyberattacks on the rise and bad actors and ransomware gangs demanding millions in ransom, cybersecurity has taken on new urgency. In addition to more sophisticated hacking techniques, the rapid pace of tech adoption during […]
CircleCI Adds Free Unlimited Access Tier to CI/CD Service
CircleCI has added a free unlimited access tier to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said in contrast to other ‘freemium’ offerings, CircleCI’s free tier provides developers and DevOps teams with frictionless access to all the premium capabilities of the platform. Those capabilities include up to 6,000 build minutes per month, […]
Securing Software with Intelligent Pipelines
One of the biggest cybersecurity risks involves vulnerabilities in the application layer. After all, the best firewall is useless if the web application itself is vulnerable. Many companies have worked to mitigate these risks by investing in their AppSec programs. According to a recent whitepaper written by ESG (commissioned by Synopsys), 71% of companies surveyed now use […]
Harness CD Platform Now Available via Source-Available License
Harness today announced a free community edition of its continuous delivery (CD) platform is now available under a source-available license rather than a more traditional open source license. Scott Sanchez, chief marketing officer for Harness, said the goal is to make CD as accessible to developers and DevOps teams as their current CI platform. Harness […]
Testlio Adds Fused Testing to Automate Testing Platform
Testlio announced today it is adding fused testing capability to its application testing platform; Testlio is used by IT organizations to manage application testing teams consisting of internal employees and external contractors vetted by Testlio. Fused testing describes the combination of automated and manual testing IT organizations use to improve overall productivity. Fused testing strikes […]
How Test Automation Can Help Drive DevOps Success
Testing can be one of the more time-consuming aspects of the DevOps process. It can be exhaustive, frustrating, requires a lot of hands-on labor hours and people seldom enjoy it. But testing is vital, and no developer should simply skip it. Recently, a strong trend has emerged wherein DevOps experts encouraged developers to automate their […]