3 Pillars of Autonomous IT Ops
Imagine a future where human IT operators and intelligent systems work together in a virtual operations room; the systems do the heavy lifting while the humans supervise. This may seem like science fiction, but the truth is we are already on the way to that future with AIOps. While actual AI-augmented teams are still quite […]
Do’s and Don’ts of Phased Rollouts Software Delivery
When it comes to app stability and user experience, the “move fast and break things” approach is a recipe for disaster. To protect brand reputation and to stay ahead of evolving needs and customer expectations, leading Silicon Valley companies’ software engineering teams have adopted phased rollouts, a software development method that involves the gradual implementation […]
Accelerating Software Testing
Yves Junqueira is the CEO of YourBase, a software testing accelerator for large codebases. He talks with Alan Shimel about the company, accelerating software testing and the impact on developer productivity. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation. Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us here on another segment for […]
SRE’s Guide to Pragmatic Incident Response
In my past experience as an SRE, I learned some valuable lessons about how to respond to and learn from incidents. If you want the TL;DR, I’ll summarize them here: Declare and run retros for the small incidents. It’s less stressful, and action items become much more actionable. Decrease the time it takes to analyze an […]
The Key Benefits of Observability for SREs
In today’s technology landscape, organizations strive to champion innovative ideas, techniques and technologies to achieve success and outshine their competitors. For this reason, site reliability engineering (SRE) has become one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and a set of organizational practices for fast and reliable software delivery. SREs use various tools and practices at their […]
CircleCI Bets on Webhooks to Streamline DevOps Integrations
CircleCI today announced CircleCI webhooks, a feature that enables software engineering teams to build integrations that react to CircleCI job and workflow status notifications in near-real-time. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development at CircleCI, said this latest iteration of the company’s implementation of webhooks, which send messages any time an event occurs, will become […]
How DevOps Can Address CX Challenges
Delivering a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for companies undergoing digital transformation initiatives, as 85% of buyers are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. However, customers aren’t only willing to pay more for a positive experience–they’ll go elsewhere if their experience isn’t positive. In fact, 33% of customers […]
The Pace of Change Requires Better Testing
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 created a pressing need to give people additional ways to do their jobs and handle the tasks of day-to-day life via mobile devices and forced the growth of app innovation at a never-before-seen rate. Thanks to new application development technologies and agile processes along with open source and embedded libraries, […]
Micronaut Taps Moderne to Automate Java Framework Updates
Micronaut, a provider of a framework for building applications based on microservices and serverless computing platforms, today revealed it is allying with Moderne, a provider of a tool for refactoring code, to create a “recipe” that will automatically update the Micronaut framework. Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider said the open source OpenRewrite refactoring tool for code, […]
5 Ways to Embed Accessibility in Your SDLC
Developing an accessible software development life cycle (SDLC) requires a commitment to inclusion from everyone at the beginning of every project. By committing to developing accessible products, you will avoid costly and timely remediation prior to deployment at the end of your product roadmap. Creating An Accessible Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) An accessible SDLC […]
Measuring Value Streams by Analyzing Flow Metrics
There is increasing pressure and demand for IT administrators to bring software to market quickly and cost-effectively. To achieve that goal, IT departments frequently compile various metrics that measure specific development processes. Data and metrics are important tools, but administrators sometimes don’t think to look at projects through a wider lens—by measuring total production workflows. […]
How Third-Party Security Assurance Enhances DevSecOps
Enterprises are constantly trying to do more with less today, and do it faster to gain competitive advantages and grow revenue. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in their internal software development processes. The movement to third-party or external sources of code is a natural reaction to “faster” release cycles. However, this need for speed […]
Real-Life BDD: Getting the Best Out of Dev Teams
If we want our software to have value, we need to improve it every day, rather than wait three months for the next release. If someone finds a bug and we know how to fix it, we want to deliver the fix that day. The challenge is deploying to production many times a day. If […]
Google Unveils Tool to Better Secure GitHub Repos
Google today launched a GitHub app that provides automated continuous enforcement of security best practices for GitHub projects. Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for open source software security at Google, said the Allstar application enables IT teams to assess any project on GitHub to check for security policy adherence. In addition, Allstar sets desired enforcement […]
DataOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
There is a mindboggling amount of data today; to even measure it requires using a byte measurement called a zettabyte, which is one sextillion bytes (that’s 21 zeros). Currently, because such a ridiculous amount of data exists, there is a growing urgency to end wasteful data processes. From this environment, DataOps was born. Similar to […]
EP 16: How DevOps has Changed Testing Forever
DevOps has changed the game in almost every aspect of testing: who, what, when, where and even why. What’s working, what needs to change immediately, and what challenges—and opportunities—lie ahead?
EP 15: Why Testing is so Frustrating
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Adam Kalsey of Tricentis, Brian Dawson of the Linux Foundation and Caroline Wong of Cobalt to discuss why testing is considered the most frustrating bottleneck for developers and engineers. Panelists will explain the benefits of testing early on in the SDLC and how to accelerate the feedback cycle with automated and continuous testing, as well the pros and cons of testing, the value of shift-left testing and how to effectively balance quality and speed. The video is below, followed by a transcript.
EP 13: Observability and Performance Testing
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel is joined by Christine Yen of Honeycomb, Paul Bruce of Tricentis and Mitch Ashley from ASG/MediaOps to discuss how to effectively test the performance of your applications and how bringing observability into testing environments helps DevOps teams identify and resolve issues early in the SDLC. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation.
12 Ways to Bake Security Into a DevOps Transformation
Security has become an integral part of any DevOps transformation. According to the Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report, DevSecOps achieved a must-have percentage vote of 56% in the automation tool category. Security not only protects the business and its customers, but it enables companies to enforce internal and external policies. While considering how to […]
EP 10: Observability & Continuous Improvement
Observability at enterprise scale brings with it additional application life cycle management requirements. Success requires knowing which changes result in improvements and which don’t produce positive results and how that information must make it back to the DevOps team through feedback loops. In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley talk with Kurt Chase, senior director, global release management at Tricentis, Charity Majors, co-founder at Honeycomb and Ravyn Manuel, senior application manager at the Smithsonian as they discuss observability and continuous improvement.
WhiteSource Tool Automatically Fixes Code Vulnerabilities
WhiteSource today announced that it has developed the first-ever tool that automatically remediates vulnerabilities discovered in custom code. Rami Sass, WhiteSource CEO, said WhiteSource Cure surfaces recommendations for fixing security vulnerabilities in code that developers can then apply with a click of a button. WhiteSource has a long history of providing tools that discover vulnerabilities […]
Redefining Continuous Security for DevSecOps
In the mobile app development world, security often takes a backseat to developing features and delivering the app. In fact, the 2021 Verizon Mobile Security Index found that 45% of organizations sacrificed mobile security in order to “get the job done.” It really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Certainly, it seems counterintuitive that mobile app […]
Shoreline Platform Automates Repetitive IT Tasks
Shoreline emerged from stealth today to make available a namesake incident automation platform that eliminates the need to manually perform the same repetitive tasks. Anurag Gupta, Shoreline CEO, said the platform is based on domain-specific language, dubbed Op, that provides a simple pipe delimited syntax to integrate real-time resources and metrics in a way that […]