Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com 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 is still relatively […]
6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity
A big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many manual steps within their deployment process, according to an Armory survey. And with the pervasiveness of multi-cloud, developers now face an escalating number […]
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going.
Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize efficiency and employee retention. And when they started digging, companies realized that the developer experience was a major pain point that could be […]
Why Can’t We Be Friends? Improving Developer-Tester Alignment
Sometimes coding can be such an art form that it deserves to be a masterpiece in a museum. Developers are proud of their code—at least until the so-called art critics (aka testers) step in with their critiques. And then the rapport can swiftly become as messy as a painter’s palette. You have probably seen this […]
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 […]
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
Meet the DevOps Dozen² 2022 Honorees
We are proud to announce the DevOps Dozen² 2022 honorees. For the past eight years, the DevOps Dozen Awards have celebrated the most outstanding individuals and companies in the DevOps community and their remarkable contributions to the industry. These honorees have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to our community during the past year. Congratulations to all those nominated […]
Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci.
Why SREs Are Critical to DevOps
Although a relatively new concept, site reliability engineers (SREs) have become crucial for DevOps teams, helping to solve an array of operational problems such as network availability and user experience. However, in previous years, some people have questioned the longevity of such a role. This article will discuss several reasons why site reliability engineering roles […]
DevOps Must Embrace Automation in 2023
A survey of 500 engineering and software development professionals in the U.S. suggests more DevOps teams than ever need to resolve to embrace automation at a deeper level in the new year. The survey, sponsored by Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform, found engineers spend, on average, more than 10 hours per week attempting […]
Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com 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 […]
Best of 2022: How DORA Metrics Can Measure and Improve Performance
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. A technology company’s most valuable assets are its people and data, especially data about the organization itself. By knowing what data to track over time, […]
Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.
Best of 2022: 6 Top Technology Trends to Watch
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Technology trends simply cannot be ignored in today’s dynamic environment. As the world enters a post-digital era, organizations are exploring disruptive technology trends. Artificial intelligence, […]
Best of 2022: Making the Move From Developer to Team Lead
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. After working in their role for some time, software developers may wonder what career opportunities await them beyond coding. Certainly, taking the next step is […]
Best of 2022: Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has […]
4 Ways to Build With an Accessibility-First Mindset
Over 1.3 billion people live with some form of disability. This accounts for almost 20% of today’s workforce in the U.S. While great strides have been made in closing the disability inclusion gap in the workforce, more needs to be done. As the popularity of hybrid and remote work continues to grow, workers who live […]
Best of 2022: SRE Vs. Platform Engineering: What’s the Difference?
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Site reliability engineering (SRE) teams and platform engineering teams share similar goals—like maximizing automation and reducing toil—and similar methodologies. But they have different priorities, and […]
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.
A Developer’s Guide to Building Healthy Teams
To build a great software product, teamwork must extend across developers, managers and executives. Everyone needs to understand each role’s value–you can’t have an effective team without a good coach and vice versa. It takes a culture built on empathy, trust and shared responsibility with the right amount of ambition and personal connection to make […]
DevOps 2022: The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We will be wrapping up our DevOps coverage for the year by the end of this week. It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by. The gravitational lensing of COVID-19 makes it hard to see the progression of the last nine years here at DevOps.com. Things seem to get a bit hazy looking back. […]