What Biden’s Cybersecurity EO Means for DevOps Teams
On May 12, 2021 President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, also known as the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This EO covers a lot of ground, and like all executive orders, it instructs agencies of the U.S. Federal Government to perform specific actions. What it doesn’t do is appropriate funding or create industry […]
Chicken Soup for the SLO
Since time immemorial, humans have struggled to communicate. From myth to the modern era, our most memorable stories often involve individuals or groups seeking to be understood in order to avoid conflict. Be it the biblical allegory of Babel to the more recent Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of “Darmok,” a deep fascination with […]
How to Build a People-First Engineering Team
When we think about successful technology teams, there is a tendency to primarily focus on the technology being created rather than the people who are creating it. While both approaches can lead to successful products, a technology-first approach is often the default when software engineers become managers without necessarily having the right tools to manage […]
Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use case of providing software (take, for example, SpaceX teams using agile, or leadership teams that use scrum practices and have daily stand-up calls). […]
10 Actions IT Can Take to Curb Climate Impact
Digital technology is responsible for 3.7% of total CO emissions, according to estimates from The Shift Project. This could increase, as cryptocurrency mining is leaving a massive carbon footprint. With the world’s climate at stake, every percentage point matters. Thankfully, many tech companies have announced significant climate pledges to reduce emissions or offset their carbon […]
How to Build a Team That Embraces Metrics
When we talk about metrics in software delivery, a lot of developers think of execution metrics — things like throughput, delivery and number of deploys. But in reality, those metrics don’t motivate anyone — at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. I’ve worked in software for 23 years. I’m a three-time founder […]
API Security by Design
“APIs are nothing new,” said Secure Code Warrior co-founder and CTO Matias Madou, but they have recently become more widely used. And where they were once a local mechanism, they are increasingly used in a distributed manner, partly because of changes to application architectures. Another reason is that users are increasingly likely to access systems […]
ZenHub Brings More Science to Sprint Planning
ZenHub today revealed it has added a Planning Poker capability to its platform for managing software development projects that is designed to make it possible to prioritize sprints based on feedback collected from members of the application development team. That capability extends a sprint planning capability the company added this year to a project management […]
Best Practices for Building Next-Gen Software Teams
Technology is moving faster than ever before. The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across every organization in every industry. Creating new remote working environments or developing new digital revenue channels has taken place at lightning speed over the past year. At this time of rapid change, software development teams are continuing to help organizations adapt […]
Will App Dev Become a Normal Competency?
With a shortage of available developers, companies are considering low-code methods to meet massive application development needs. As a result, by 2024, citizen developers will be responsible for 65% of applications, Gartner predicted. So, if technical ability rises across the board, will application development become an expected skill set for tomorrow’s digital workers? And if […]
DAOPS Meetup 2021: Software Engineering, DevOps and DevSecOps
DAOPS Foundation—a non-profit organization committed to accelerating global digital transformation through technical standardization—is hosting the first ever DAOPS Meetup on May 18. The virtual meetup will bring together DevOps leaders from Sonatype, DevOps Institute, TARS Foundation and DAOPS Foundation to discuss the latest in software engineering and the latest DAOPS developments. Here are the four […]
Why DevOps Needs Mandatory Vacations
“If a team doesn’t have time for retrospectives, you should hold them twice as often.” It’s 5:00 p.m. on Friday, and you’re just shutting down your computer to kick off the weekend. A message pops up in Slack: “Congratulations, you’ve been selected to take the next week off! We’re cutting off access to all work-related […]
Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs
When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […]
Five Tips For Creating Design Systems
Design systems were all the rage half a decade ago, with an explosion of open source resources made public by Google, Salesforce and Shopify, for example. Not long after, design tools like InVision, Sketch, Adobe XD and Figma featured ways for product teams to maintain design systems within their apps. If you want to build […]
Why Browser and API Testing is Shifting Left
For developers working with cloud-native technologies, software testing and quality assurance is a key part of product development. For most teams, testing has “shifted left,” so the quality of the code can be assessed as it moves through the CI/CD pipeline. This approach to quality assurance reflects the rise of DevOps and other modern development […]
The Evolution of SRE and Developer Roles
As an industry, we’ve seen cultures and roles shift throughout IT teams — specifically, the role of ITOps site reliability engineers (SREs), various developer roles and the culture of DevOps. Most of these roles operated – or still operate – in silos, and didn’t understand (or care to understand) how each other’s role worked. More […]
Developer’s Guide to Open Source Spring Cleaning
Spring is here, and after a year filled with record-setting digital transformation and its associated vulnerabilities, now is the right time to give the open source components in your codebase a refresh. For many development teams, today’s open source operations present a ‘mess’ that’s difficult to clean up; often, no one knows how many libraries, […]
Empowering Developers Through Lean Code
Digital transformation is widely understood as a critical component for increasing user adoption, fueling workplace productivity and innovation, and driving business growth. Software has become increasingly important across countless industries, teams, and functionalities, and as a result, companies are beginning to understand that being an industry leader and gaining competitive advantages starts with software development. […]
DevOps Connect at RSAC 2021: Insightful Talks, Live Q&A, Workshops, Pilates and More
We are excited to announce the return of DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit on May 19, as part of the RSA Conference 2021. This year, internationally recognized speakers will take a deep dive into “Securing the Cloud Native World.” DevOps Connect is a full-day event, featuring four different content tracks, with more than 50 speakers, […]
Lessons in User Engagement From Game Development
Quarantine measures forced most of the world to stay physically distant — a shift that has forever changed consumer behaviors, and especially how humans interact and spend their free time. A clear change over the past year was the rapid boom of gaming, which saw a massive increase in both console and mobile games — […]
Using RPA for DevOps Process Automation
Modern operations teams today are at the cutting edge of automation. DevOps and SRE practices are entirely based on an automation-first philosophy. CI/CD is fully automated and the next generation of automated testing is now being adopted. However, these same teams are still running their human processes based on hastily thrown-together wiki pages. The increase […]
The Time for Collaborative Security Is Now
As Bruce Schneier famously said, “security is a process, not a product.” We commonly see companies pour millions of dollars into cybersecurity products and tools to protect against vulnerabilities and lower risks, and yet, more often than not these ample funds are not enough to defend against attacks. Within the span of two decades, we […]
China’s Open Source Activity Surged in 2020
Activity among China-based open source project contributors and creators surged in 2020, as Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent and other leading Chinese tech companies are playing an increasingly important role in the open source development community worldwide. According to the recently released Open Source Contributor Index (OSCI) ranking, as of March 2021, Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent collectively […]