DevOps Dozen² 2022 Finalists Announced
We are excited to announce the finalists for the DevOps Dozen² Awards 2022, celebrating the greatest innovators and their achievements in the DevOps space. These individuals and companies have taken an active role in the DevOps community, demonstrating their leadership and commitment to the improvement of our industry in the past year. Congratulations to every […]
Visually Staffing Your Developer Teams
Effective collaboration within developer teams is key to creating and improving any product, so who you choose to put on the team—and how it’s structured—can make a huge difference. There are many considerations that go into these decisions, and the challenge is even greater thanks to the widespread movement to a hybrid work environment. To […]
Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement
In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Software is more complex than ever and innovation is exploding across markets. To keep up with constant innovation from your competition in a global marketplace, […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report to highlight career opportunities for DevOps professionals 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 […]
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office.
SRE Survey Reveals Major Technical and Cultural Challenges
Catchpoint, in partnership with Blameless, today published an annual survey of 559 site reliability engineers (SREs) that found 59% of respondents didn’t view tool sprawl to be a major concern. Another 40% said tool sprawl is a moderate (33%) to serious problem (8%). More than half of respondents said they build as much as 30% […]
Standardizing Federal Cybersecurity With DevSecOps
DevSecOps is having a moment in the federal government. With President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and federal agencies’ issuance of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring Security Framework, government organizations are shoring up and standardizing their DevSecOps processes to meet today’s cybersecurity challenges head-on. Integrating security into the development process […]
Developers Continue to Prefer Remote Work
A survey found 83% of developers are working remotely more than half of the time, with more than three-quarters (76%) reporting they have maintained or increased the frequency of remote work in the last year. In fact, three in five respondents (62%) work remotely at least 90% of the time. The survey, published by Netlify, […]
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 […]
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow.
Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering
The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the UK alone, the median salary for the role has increased 13% year-over-year as businesses look to stay ahead of the competition and attract […]
For Engineers, Meetings Waste Time and Money
Meetings can be the lifeblood of any organization, allowing coworkers to check in with one another, exchange ideas and solve problems. But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good. Research from Clockwise recently examined […]
The Dog Ate My DevOps Dozen
As the new Techstrong Group team member, I wasn’t familiar with the DevOps Dozen awards. The basics: It’s a cool program that recognizes excellence across a number of categories in the DevOps world. The winners will be announced during our Predict 23 conference on January 12. I have to tell you that the submission process was […]
One-Third of Developers Seeking New Job
With the relentless pace of enterprise digital transformation efforts, even in this softening economy, developers still face an enviable job market. The number of open job positions in computer occupations is greater than 804,000, according to National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis and, at 326,000 vacancies, software developers have by far the largest number […]
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 […]
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 just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
When Self-Service DevOps Forgets Who it Serves
For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish list: ● Ops teams need to ensure high availability, performance and security ● Dev teams need speed, self-sufficiency and transparency ● Security teams […]
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
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, […]
Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy
In this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed.
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 […]
Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region
In this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region.
How to Prevent Turnover in DevOps Teams
Turnover is all too common in software engineering. The Bureau of Labor Statistics 2021 report found that the average software engineer turnover is 57.3%. It’s a programmer’s market, and these sought-after folks might jump ship for a higher salary, better work-life balance, different team dynamic or perhaps even for a company with a better ESG […]