The Future of Continuous Testing in CI/CD
If you ever wonder why continuous testing is so important, think about the following: In the past, software testing was typically done after the code was written and sent to the QA department for independent testing. When bugs were discovered, the code was returned to the developers for correction. While this testing method worked, it […]
What Is a Cloud Operations Engineer?
CloudOps, short for cloud operations, refers to the processes, tools and strategies employed to manage, monitor and optimize the performance, security and availability of cloud-based infrastructure, applications and services. It encompasses a set of best practices and methodologies that ensure the smooth functioning of cloud environments, including resource provisioning, configuration management, automation, deployment, monitoring and […]
Improving DevX Gives Your Business a Boost
As organizations transform and grow, different methodologies and development tools can come together, creating an extra level of complexity for your mainframe application development teams. In a perfect world, developers would be able to focus on delivering solutions without worrying about all the infrastructure necessary to make that happen. Building a better developer experience, or […]
How to Secure C-Suite Buy-In for Your DevOps Efforts
You could be forgiven for assuming DevOps is the modus operandi only for big modern enterprises like Tesla and Uber, but this is not the case. DevOps builds on earlier approaches, such as Agile development and Lean methodology, by emphasizing the importance of collaboration between development and operations teams and the use of automation to […]
What’s the Difference Between DevOps and Platform Engineering?
The DevOps space is buzzing with a new trend—platform engineering. Platform engineering has been gaining steam over the last few years but has really peaked in interest lately. In fact, according to a study conducted by Puppet Labs, 51% of organizations have adopted platform engineering or plan to do so in the next year. But […]
Balance Software Quality, Dev Speed and Cost With CI/CD
In many cases, success in the business world relies on software, be it a compelling mobile app, desktop application suite, interactive website or even an embedded system for the IoT. Because of this need, companies with mature software development processes enjoy a significant competitive advantage over those without. Part of fostering this maturity involves crafting […]
Back to Basics
We here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud do sometimes suffer from The Curse of Knowledge. We write about DevOps regularly for an audience that is doing or managing DevOps. We assume knowledge, but there are still a fair number of people and organizations who are unclear about some of the terminology/technology that we talk about. So if you […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a DevOps Engineer
The economic downturn, pandemic management challenges, supply constraints and the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war have led to layoffs in many industries. While these events also impact the technology industry, it does not necessarily have to mean disaster for DevOps professionals who find themselves looking for a new role. Tech recruiters are looking for candidates with the […]
Developer’s Guide to Fuzz Testing
Fuzz testing continues to grow in popularity among developers within the open source community. Google’s open source security (OSS) team recently reported finding more than 40,000 bugs in 650 open source projects through the use of fuzz testing. But if you have no clue what fuzz testing is (yet), don’t worry. You’ve come to the […]
CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum
A survey of 93 developers conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found more than a quarter (28%) are using WebAssembly (Wasm) in their cloud-native development projects, with another 36% planning to do so during the next six to 12 months. The survey, published this week, is effectively a straw poll that found 42% […]
DevOps Principles, Implementations and Culture
When organizations begin using DevOps for application development, many only reference DevOps as part of their infrastructure and select a subset of DevOps before understanding the cultural and process changes needed for success. Instead, organizations must first determine which ‘Ops’ approach best promotes a DevOps mindset and integrate their workflows into their culture. In doing so, […]
Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA
Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. While there are similarities and both are designed around the concept of services, that’s where the similarities end. Each was created around a different set of principles and intended to address different problems. Microservices architecture […]
The Whats and Hows of APIs: A New Developer’s Guide
For those who are new developers, you may not know a lot about application programming interfaces (APIs). However, it is likely that you’ve used them before as a consumer or an end user, whether purchasing online, using business communication software to reach colleagues or sharing images from a monogram logo maker on social media platforms, […]
5 Reasons to Adopt DevOps
DevOps IT methodologies are taking the development industry by storm. Some call DevOps great for software development. Others find it ideal for pushing out regular software updates and pursuing continuous delivery for clients. If you do not know what DevOps is or why your business should adopt DevOps, read on. We’ll break down five reasons […]
Using Internal Wikis for Web Development Projects
A team-based web development project is always a complex endeavor. It involves different developers with varying levels of experience, different fields of expertise, milestones to accomplish and a timeline to achieve. To facilitate the sharing of information, it’s not always enough to use project management tools like Asana or Jira. Sometimes, a wiki may be […]
How IaC Helps Relieve Development Pain Points
Developers spend much of their day digging into their systems’ guts, allocating storage to an application, connecting the security system to the user interface and tracking which version of the application is where in the development cycle, among other tasks. That’s why a new category of software has emerged, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), that promises to automate […]
MLOps Vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
Machine learning operations, or MLOps for short, is a key aspect of machine learning (ML) engineering that focuses on simplifying and accelerating the process of delivering ML models to production and maintaining and monitoring them. MLOps involves collaboration between different teams including data scientists, DevOps engineers, IT specialists and others. MLOps can help organizations create […]
What Are the Seven Layers of the OSI Model?
Working in the software field, it’s not uncommon for engineers to refer to different “layers.” Perhaps you’re working with protocols at the “networking layer” or evaluating a solution that sits at “Layer 4” or “Layer 7.” Although these concepts are obvious to some, not everyone knows what these layers refer to. To get you up […]
Simplifying DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Let’s face it, tools for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configuration management may be vital, but they’re difficult to use. But what if it’s not so much the tools themselves as it is our understanding of them? What if we looked at provisioning and configuration systems differently and did so using vocabulary that was less confusing and more […]
SBOMs 101: What You Need to Know
Recent security incidents have the industry buzzing about the lack of knowledge about code dependencies, attacks on the software supply chain, software bills of materials (SBOM), digital signatures, provenance, attestation and the like. The fact is, every time a new vulnerability appears a lot of time and effort is required to detect not just when, […]
5 Best Practices for Software Development in the Hybrid Workplace
Over the years, software teams have gradually become more dispersed as technology advancements facilitated hybrid work and allowed teams to collaborate, create and innovate remotely. However, this trend accelerated and became more of a mainstream norm over the last two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring newly dispersed teams to develop a more streamlined hybrid […]