Puppet Survey Suggests DevOps Adoption is Stagnant
Puppet today published an annual State of DevOps report that suggests overall adoption of DevOps practices has stagnated. The survey of 2,650 IT, development and information security professionals finds 83% are implementing DevOps practices, to a degree. However, only 18% of respondents are working for organizations that have highly evolved, automated DevOps processes in place. […]
Why IT Should Focus on Quality Over Velocity
Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pandemic, with extreme pressure for businesses to digitally transform quickly, it’s a discipline at risk of being dismissed by organizations and tech leaders as a […]
Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR
The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and shorter incident response times must be better, we think. You might already be familiar with the common metrics associated with these goals, including […]
Aqua Security Acquires tfsec to Advance DevSecOps
Aqua Security today announced it has acquired tfsec, an open source project that provides a static analysis scanner for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) that is designed to be integrated within a DevOps workflow. Amer Jerbi, Aqua Security CTO, said tfsec extends the security platform the company already provides in a way that advances adoption of DevSecOps best […]
7 (More) Security Considerations for CI/CD
CI/CD orchestration has become increasingly popular in DevOps practices. It facilitates faster deployment of software and product delivery. Through the use of automation when building, testing and deploying applications, CI/CD bridges the gap between development, operation activities and teams. However, there are many security considerations to keep in mind with frequent deployment. From quality automation […]
Copado Acquires Qentinel to Gain AI Testing Tools
Copado has acquired Qentinel as part of an effort to incorporate AI-infused application testing within a DevOps platform and build applications using low-code tools across multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. The Copado continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was originally created to accelerate the development of low-code applications on top of the Salesforce platform. Now, however, Copado […]
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 […]
Applitools Extends Visual AI Testing to Native Mobile Apps
At its online Future of Testing: Mobile event, Applitools today previewed the ability to apply visual artificial intelligence (AI) to applications that run natively on a mobile computing platform. Accessed via a cloud service that is currently available for free on a limited basis, the Ultrafast Test Cloud for Native Mobile offering will extend the […]
Continuous Testing Practices – Part 3
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help with understanding what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. Given […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Using Chaos Engineering to Build Resilient Systems
Over the past decade, chaos engineering has become one of the most popular approaches in DevOps. It’s uniquely adapted to complex cloud-based systems and has the potential to succeed where more conventional approaches may not. Chaos Engineering Explained Traditionally, DevOps teams worked with systems hosted on single servers. They would analyze logs with a fine-toothed […]
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 […]
Harness Employs ML to Streamline DevOps Workflows
At the online {Unscripted} 2021 conference, Harness today announced an update to its namesake DevOps platform that includes support for feature flags that expose new capabilities to a select number of users for testing purposes along with the ability to prioritize the running of those tests based on the likelihood an application is likely to […]
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 […]
Leveraging AI in DevOps for Non-Linear Scaleup
With technology evolving in leaps and bounds, AI is shaping the future of digital transformation for every business seeking speed, scalability, quality and flexibility. Since DevOps is on the verge of delivering exceptional software development environments, DevOps in AI is undeniably the next breakthrough in technology. We’ve witnessed every industry racing toward the adoption of […]
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 […]