GraphQL Documentation Generators: How They Work and Why They Matter
GraphQL is an open source query language developed by Facebook that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs for fetching and manipulating data over the web. It allows clients to specify the shape and structure of the data they need and receive exactly that, no more and no less. Unlike […]
How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines
The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […]
Four Technologies Transforming Data and Driving Change
Data is getting a facelift in 2023 courtesy of event-driven architecture (EDA). These four technologies are set to transform DevOps and IT operations over the next year–whether it be how companies make use of data or the customer experience they offer. 1. Applied Observability: A Powerful Source of Decision-Making Applied observability has been recognized by […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
Improving the DevOps Process for Mobile App Developers
Development teams—perhaps especially mobile development teams—have heavily invested in systems to automate their processes and accelerate the delivery of mobile apps. From build, test and release to tracking and monitoring, the mobile DevOps team depends on systems like Fastlane, Bitrise, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines and GitLab—and really, that list just scratches the surface. The mobile app […]
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.
Five Tips for Moving IT Ops to DevOps
The era of siloed development and operations functions is rapidly coming to an end. The concept of DevOps has already closed the gap between IT and developers, but as I speak with customers around the globe, one theme continues to arise. Many systems administrators are ill-equipped to handle the shift from IT Ops to DevOps […]
New-Age Tech and Culture Driving Data Democratization
Data democratization has become critical for organizations to leverage data’s true value and fully realize its benefits. Making data available across the organization helps companies to serve customers better and make data-driven decisions that align with their goals and objectives. It essentially means enabling access to a company’s data resources to employees, bound by reasonable […]
How to Achieve Data Mesh With Four Key Principles
Today’s world is becoming increasingly data-driven, which means businesses need to refine their practices and decision-making processes with the use of trustworthy data. However, this has proven challenging as organizations often don’t know what to do with the abundance of data available to them. According to a recent survey from Snow Software, 89% of IT […]
Why You Need to Break the Observability Data Silo
In my role as a developer advocate for Coralogix, I speak with organizations across almost every conceivable industry, and there is a pattern across almost all of them. In the world of observability, the challenge is battling scale. At scale, observability becomes a complex problem to solve. Surprisingly, the most common pattern for handling observability […]
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
How to Modernize a Data Warehouse in Months, Not Years
Modernizing a data warehouse ranks among the worst imaginable tasks for IT. The end result is immensely desirable. The benefits of moving from an on-premises to a cloud data warehouse are well-documented. But database migrations require huge efforts and the stakes are high. What makes it so difficult? All applications, including ETL, BI, analytics and […]
Data Mobility: Why it’s a Must and How to Achieve It
The workplace has undergone a drastic change, and so has the way companies need to move their data. Wondering how those two points are connected? Let’s dig in. It’s clear that remote work is here to stay: Just over a quarter (26%) of U.S. employees are currently working remotely, and a staggering 36.2 million Americans […]
Where Does Observability Stand Today, and Where is it Going Next?
As we move into the second half of 2023, it’s only natural to engage in the annual ‘state of the industry’ reviews and take a general inventory of the past year while looking out into the immediate future. Observability has gained traction among DevOps and platform engineering teams over the past year and is poised […]
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts.
Stream Big, Think Bigger: Analyze Streaming Data at Scale
Data streams are all the rage. Once a niche element of data engineering, streaming data is the new normal—more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted Apache Kafka, the most common streaming platform, and every major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure) has launched its own streaming service. This shift is […]
What’s Ahead for the Future of Data Streaming?
Data is everywhere. It’s being produced by almost everyone and everything around us. For businesses to be competitive, they need to build resilient, scalable systems that can efficiently tap into and react to this ever-increasing volume of data. Companies are meeting this need by moving to real-time data streaming to develop new solutions and improve […]
The Database of the Future: Seven Key Principles
The database of the future will be more than just a database. Instead, it will be a platform that focuses on the user experience and abstracts the technology. Looking at the evolution of application development, an enormous amount of effort has made it easier to build and deploy applications. Similarly, databases need to evolve for […]
Why MLOps Hurts: 3 Pain Points for DevOps Teams
Machine learning operations (MLOps) is a practice that aims to improve the collaboration and communication between data scientists and IT professionals in the development, deployment and maintenance of machine learning models. MLOps aims to streamline the process of building, testing and deploying machine learning models by automating and standardizing the various tasks involved. This includes […]
Why GraphQL Will Reign King
After years of development, GraphQL is set to reign as the go-to API for data fetching. But what is GraphQL? Simply put, it’s a query language that allows you to fetch data from any server, and it’s a noteworthy alternative to the likes of other web service development styles like representational state transfer (REST) and […]
5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve usability, aggregate multiple services and optimize how data is ported from system to system. Yet, GraphQL is also prone to new security concerns. […]
How Embedded Analytics Can Transform Future Businesses
It’s no secret that big tech companies like Google, Amazon and Netflix are not only leveraging data but also delivering embedded analytics and insights as a standard functionality of their software, services, applications and toolkits. The analytics appear to consumers as recommendations, usage habits and other helpful information. Such insights not only help consumers extract […]
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs.