App Testing Must Evolve Within the DevOps Pipeline
As the practice of DevOps evolves, so do the supporting tasks; hopefully in such a way that they introduce increased efficiency and automation to accelerate development and deployment pipelines. However, one specific process still remains a speed bump on the road to DevOps acceleration: the process—or, more specifically, the chore—of testing. Naturally, testing is an […]
Copado Acquires New Context to Drive DevSecOps Adoption
Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform for building applications deployed on the Salesforce cloud platform, announced today it has acquired New Context as part of an effort to expand the scope of its portfolio into the realm of DevSecOps best practices. Andrew Leigh, chief marketing officer for Copado, said the acquisition brings Copado tools […]
IBM Deepens DevOps Insights on Mainframes
IBM today extended its effort to enable IT organizations that have mainframes to embrace DevOps best practices by updating the analytics tools it provides. Tom McPherson, vice president for IBM Z Software, said a version 6.0 update to the suite of IBM application discovery and delivery intelligence (ADDI) for IBM Z tools surfaces more granular […]
How the Pandemic Renewed Respect for the Agile Mindset
Agile methodologies were introduced to us around 10 years ago. In that time, we have seen technology advance at breakneck speed and faced many new challenges in the way we work; arguably, never more so than in 2020. However, despite the abundance of change we have experienced, the core values of Agile have stood the […]
Despite the Pandemic, DevOps Salaries Rose in 2020
Puppet today published the results of an annual global DevOps survey that found, despite the downturn in the global economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most DevOps professionals saw their salaries rise in 2020. However, for the first time since Puppet started collecting this data, DevOps professionals working in the life sciences, health care […]
IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?
Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed. In […]
Value Stream Management Consortium Makes Debut
A consortium dedicated to advancing the adoption of value stream management best practices is being launched today with backing from Digital.ai, HCL Software, Plutora, ServiceNow and Tasktop. The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC) will create an open community around which organizations that are seeking to expand DevOps workflows and processes across functions and organizations can […]
Could No-Code Enable Everything Ops?
It feels like DevOps principles are permeating every discipline, creating new buzzwords by the minute. DevSecOps. DatabaseOps. SalesOps. FinOps. MarketingOps. This “JargonOps” is clearly encouraged by marketing campaigns (and bloggers, wink, wink). Yet, the phrases do depict a real trend: all industries are getting an efficiency overhaul in the wake of increased automation. As I’ve covered […]
Puppet Adds DevOps Consulting Practice
Puppet has launched a DevOps consulting service that promises to help organizations implement best practices that will ultimately make their IT organizations more efficient. Nigel Kersten, field CTO, Puppet, said the Scaling DevOps Service is especially focused on improving workflows among organizations that have already started down the DevOps path. Most IT organizations that embrace […]
AppDynamics Survey Reveals High IT Stress
A global survey published today by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, suggests the last year took a substantial toll on IT teams at a time when many organizations either launched or accelerated digital business transformation initiatives. The survey, of 1,050 IT professionals in organizations with revenue of more than $500 million, finds organizations, on average, […]
Top 4 Challenges for Developer Teams in 2021
As remote work continues into 2021, developer teams are still navigating the new landscape for working across distributed teams and how this new way of working affects product delivery. In particular, there are several key challenges that every developer must face this year, including adapting to new tools and workflows internally, balancing the prioritization of […]
Amex, Adobe Join GitHub Intern Program
GitHub revealed today that Adobe and American Express have joined its Summer 2021 Fellowship program, a 12-week, hands-on curriculum where interns work alongside developers to contribute to open source projects hosted on the GitHub repository. Vanessa Gennarelli, senior director of education at GitHub, said the overall goal of the program is increase the pool of […]
Survey: Fixing Bugs Stealing Time from Development
A global survey of 950 developers published today finds more than a third (38%) of developers spend up to a quarter of their time fixing software bugs, with slightly more than a quarter (26%) spending up to half their time fixing bugs. Conducted by the market research firm Propeller Insights on behalf of Rollbar, a […]
Future-Proof Your Product Development Life Cycle
In product development, change is vital. In fact, some might say that product development is the embodiment of change. Continuous improvement keeps products from becoming stagnant, which, in turn, keeps companies afloat. While change is important, it’s not always helpful, especially when it involves the management of employee attrition and retention. Over the last year, […]
How the SRE Role Is Evolving
In recent years, site reliability engineering (SRE) has garnered much interest. In 2019, LinkedIn listed site reliability engineer as the second most promising job in the United States. Now, in 2021, the role continues to grow and evolve within many organizations. Initially spearheaded at Google and credited to engineer Ben Treynor, the strategy seeks smarter […]
The Benefits of Open Source Technologies
Over the last 20 years, we have seen the proliferation of open source software and technologies become part of commercial offerings, either as part of the technology stack that powers the product or part of the product itself. Although these two use cases are largely different, both have come to showcase just how useful open […]
Amid COVID-19, Developers Struggle to Keep Pace
It’s been a wild ride for digital innovation. It’s also been a stressful year for developers. At most organizations, the pandemic has increased reliance on digital experiences (and its programmers) exponentially. IT spending is rising, and competition is skyrocketing. More than ever before, the pressure is placed on developers to meet rigorous demands. A recent […]
Using Automation to go All-Digital, Fast
Before the pandemic, digital transformation was a five-year plan for many companies — or in some cases, a distant vision that kept getting kicked down the road. Now, companies in every industry face an urgent imperative to adapt to an increasingly online-first world: If you don’t go digital, fast, you’re simply out of the game. […]
CloudBees Appoints New CEO to Drive Next Level of DevOps Growth
CloudBees announced today the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO, taking over from Sacha Labourey, who will become chief strategy officer. Labrourey said after leading the company for the past 10 years, and after a banner year that saw the company generate more than $100 million in revenue, the time was right to […]
Best Free Virtual DevOps Conferences to Attend in 2021
New year, new beginnings and new conferences. It’s that time of the year again, to review and research upcoming events for 2021. Of course, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll cover only virtual conferences. Here are the top five best DevOps virtual conferences you can attend for free. Just sign up, reserve your seat and […]
Transforming Your Digital Transformation
Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […]
The Chaos Mindset: Teaching Your Code to Cope
Chaos engineering sounds alluring and exciting—it’s fun to experiment, right? But what some misunderstand about this approach is that it’s not about moving fast and breaking things. It’s about designing and introducing disruptions in the software production process that tests the resiliency of the code, much like crash testing in the automotive industry. If you […]
Citizen Development Program: Selecting the Right Use Cases
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us into new ways of working that demanded a truly digital enterprise. Digital enterprises require we deliver applications for our everyday tasks and processes with unprecedented speed. Our traditional development resources – our professional developers – and traditional, professional code development environments simply cannot meet the demands from our lines of […]