How Can DevOps Evolve? Platform Engineering
Platform engineering bridges the existing gaps between software, hardware and infrastructure that come with adopting DevOps practices.
Survey Surfaces Raft of Enterprise IT Challenges
Less than a third of enterprises are extremely confident that they have the right technology, processes and people in place to execute an effective approach to IT management.
Bionic Extends Application Security Posture Management Platform
Bionic this week added a pair of tools to its application security posture management (ASPM) platform that make it simpler to triage threats based on severity and attach a risk score. Josh Cho, senior director of global systems engineering at Bionic, said the Bionic Signals and Business Risk Scoring tools ingest data from third-party security […]
Survey Sees Value But Limited Understanding of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted 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 is still relatively constrained, so […]
System Initiative Employs Modeling to Reinvent DevOps
System Initiative (SI) released a private beta of a platform to reimagine how DevOps processes are constructed and maintained.
Leaders in Resilience See ROI From Observability
Observability is touted to advance the application monitoring practices of yesteryear, but are investments paying off?
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available roles from Colgate-Palmolive, SAP, Crate & Barrel and more!
The Case For an API-First SCM
Somewhere around a decade ago, about the time DevOps really started to manifest, we began seeing technology companies—including some of the largest ones today—investing heavily in their APIs. API-first companies managed to rapidly gain widespread adoption because of the benefits of being API-driven. Everything from automation and scalability to flexibility, performance, speed and monetization. Once […]
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience
Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […]
Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards
At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]
Avoiding the Pain of a ‘Resume-Driven Architecture’
Successful new technologies follow a predictable arc, from initial innovation to technical gold rush and, ultimately, to mass market adoption. As a consequence, they achieve strong standardization and productization. Being highly attuned to where a specific field lies on the maturity arc is how you yield the greatest benefits to a business. But what happens […]
Leading DevOps Transformations With AI
In my recent article Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of DevOps with AI-Engineered Tools, I explained that AI-engineered tools can help with automating repetitive tasks, improving decision-making with predictive insights and facilitating proactive issue resolution. AI can drive a higher level of quality, security and performance in the software life cycle. Leadership, the first of the […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted 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 is still relatively constrained, so […]
The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?
In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might be for drinks that only recently arrived on the scene. Mixer’s manuals also can be great sources of inspiration for new, yet-to-be-tested recipes […]
Technical Debt is Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It
Eventually, your organization will accumulate technical debt. It doesn’t matter what programming language, software stack, computing style, host, or slick hybrid mix you use. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a waterfall or agile methodology. Ultimately, most technology becomes technical debt one day. “Technical debt is inevitable,” said Insight’s North American chief technology officer, Juan […]
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work.
PagerDuty Signals Commitment to Adding Generative AI Capabilities
PagerDuty has signaled its intention to add generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its cloud platform for managing IT operations via integrations with large language model (LLM) providers that it will disclose at a future date. These capabilities will make it possible to invoke natural language via PagerDuty Operations Cloud to automatically generate status updates, […]
How to Build Successful DevOps Teams
The DevOps sector is still in urgent need of new talent, with 38% of tech companies stating that they struggle to find skilled developers in 2023. These same respondents named DevOps as the number-one area where they are feeling the pinch. Because of this, businesses must ensure they prioritize and nurture the right set of […]
No, Dev Jobs Aren’t Dead: AI Means ‘Everyone’s a Programmer’? ¦ Interesting Intel VPUs
In this week’s #TheLongView: Nvidia’s CEO grabs headlines by saying your career is toast, and Intel is still fighting.
I Guess This is Growing Up: Devs and CISA’s Secure-by-Design Guidelines
With the downward pressure of a global recession, inflation and general post-pandemic turbulence underpinning disruption to multiple facets of life, it seems only fair that we in the IT, software and security industry would eventually feel the winds of change, too. We have rolled with the punches of escalating cybercrime and data breaches; the collective, […]
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 […]