Managing Engineering Teams During Economic Downturns
The tech industry has faced strong economic headwinds over the past year or so. We’ve seen thousands of layoffs at public tech companies, along with weak stock performances and a decline in venture capital funding. Although some analysts see light at the end of the tunnel, the current slump doesn’t seem like it’s quite over […]
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 […]
npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust
In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad.
Debunking Myths About Reliability
“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they […]
New Relic Bets on AI to Advance Observability
New Relic is preparing to extend the capabilities of its observability platform by making use of both additional machine learning algorithms and the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Peter Pezaris, senior vice president for strategy and experience at New Relic, said during an interview on an episode of TechStrong TV that a prototype of […]
The Business Case for DevOps Culture
Culture is nebulous. It encompasses all the behaviors and attitudes of an organization, from overarching business values down to the individual actions of an employee. Because culture is transient, it’s unique to every business, feels difficult to change and is even harder to measure. This can make it frustrating to see DevOps research continuously name […]
How Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Enhances Software Delivery
Developer experience (DX) is in the zeitgeist, and for a good reason. Digital demands are increasing, yet the market faces cautious IT budgeting, workplace burnout, and high resignations. The idea is that quality developer experience can help keep the remaining talent happy and increase productivity. And organizations are considering many strategies for increasing DX, such […]
The Power of Observability: Performance and Reliability
Observability has become an essential aspect of modern IT, and its importance is only expected to increase in the years to come. The ability to monitor and understand the behavior of systems in real-time provides organizations with a wealth of information that can help them improve the performance, reliability, and overall health of their networks […]
Don’t Make Big Tech’s Mistakes: Build Leaner IT Teams Instead
One of the biggest narratives in the U.S. concerning the current wave of tech layoffs is the fact that ‘traditional’ sectors have a prime opportunity to snap up new tech teams and IT talent. This has always been a significant challenge for sectors such as banks, insurance and manufacturing that compete with big tech for […]
How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams
With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why there’s never been a more important time to maximize the productivity and impact of your teams, but the question is how to identify […]
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 […]
What DevOps Leadership Should Look Like
Implementing DevOps has become a major focus, but the practice’s attempt to provide organizational support and streamline production systems simultaneously leaves developers with no clear hierarchical structure. We know we need DevOps and we know it helps, but we also know that without proper leadership or structure, it can be misunderstood and undervalued. To build […]
Why Observability is Important for Development Teams
Observability, which allows development teams to understand better how their systems behave in production, is critical to successful software delivery. According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied this practice will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes. Observability allows development teams to identify and […]
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 […]
SVB: When Silly Valley Sneezes, DevOps Catches a Cold
In this week’s #TheLongView: Silicon Valley Bank and what it means for DevOps. Your salary is safe, but who’s to blame?
Documentation in Agile: Challenges and Trends in 2023
Agile documentation refers to the creation and maintenance of documentation in an agile software development process. It emphasizes “just enough” documentation that is necessary for the current iteration, preferring documentation that responds to specific needs over extensive upfront documentation. The goal is to provide clear and concise information to support the development team while keeping […]
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 […]
Tools and Strategies to Drive a Developer Culture of Collaboration
Agile methodologies such as DevSecOps have instilled collaborative habits in many development teams. But developers still struggle to work effectively with other stakeholders in the development process. And hybrid work environments have made collaboration that much more challenging. In fact, across departments, employees cite collaboration issues among the chief difficulties of hybrid work, recent research […]
Zenhub Brings Issues Management to Project Management Platform
Zenhub today announced it is adding an issue management module that makes it simpler for stakeholders to collaborate with developers on application development projects without having to log into a GitHub repository. Fresh from raising an additional $10 million in capital, Zenhub co-founder Aaron Upright said Zenhub Issues is a plug-in for a project management […]
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.
DevOps Flow: Accelerating Velocity With Software Factory Best Practices
In the cloud era, senior executives are investing in key capabilities like DevOps with the expectation this will accelerate innovation and bring new digital products to market faster. To deliver on these goals, enterprise organizations seek to deploy high-quality code faster and more frequently, but they face a organizational, process and technology complexity that can […]
Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams
A survey of 2,500 C-level executives published today by Palo Alto Networks found 81% of organizations have embedded cybersecurity professionals within their DevOps teams. Despite the presence of those cybersecurity professionals, however, the survey also suggested there is much work to do in terms of optimizing DevSecOps workflows. A full 90% of organizations cannot detect, […]
The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity
Even in an era of unprecedented tech layoffs, most companies are still eager to find and retain top software developer talent. What’s more, many firms are discovering that they lack direct insight into their development teams’ needs and priorities. As a result, some of them are struggling to keep their developers happy and thus productive. […]