Atlassian Embeds Generative AI Across Cloud App Portfolio
At its Team 23 conference today, Atlassian announced it is adding an artificial intelligence (AI) capability to the enterprise editions of its cloud portfolio to automate a wide range of routine tasks. Sherif Mansour, distinguished product manager for Atlassian, said Atlassian Intelligence uses natural language to drive a virtual agent that resolves routine help desk […]
The Rise of NetDevOps and CI/CD Pipeline Solutions
Over time, as organizations, networks and technologies have changed, the way enterprises think about managing networks has shifted as well. Enterprises are continuing to evolve their networking strategies, specifically with regard to how they expand their efforts to adopt infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices. Looking ahead, the industry will continue to see the proliferation of solutions that […]
AI Chatbots: Game Changers for DevOps Transformations
In today’s fast-paced digital world, organizations are constantly looking for ways to accelerate their software development processes and ensure the seamless integration of their development and operations teams. DevOps has emerged as a popular methodology to achieve this goal, but even with its adoption, many companies still face challenges in their transformation journey. AI chatbots […]
Turning Software Testers Into 10xers
How do you make technical processes faster and more scalable? If your answer is simply to automate them, you’re stuck in the 2010s. Today, automation is widespread, and automating processes in a basic sense is no longer enough on its own to maximize efficiency and velocity. Instead, teams who want to excel–who want to become […]
GitKraken App Correlates Activity Across Jira Cloud and Git Repositories
GitKraken today made available a preview of a free application that aggregates activity across Atlassian’s Jira Cloud and any Git repository to provide a unified view across all the activities of a software development team. Adam Wride, general manager for planning solutions of GitKraken, said Team Insights for Jira (TIJ) will make it easier for […]
Pulumi Brings Advanced Analytics and AI to IaC Platform
Pulumi today launched a platform that leverages analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to generate infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from natural language prompts in addition to automating infrastructure management. Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Insights will substantially improve the productivity of DevOps teams in addition to ultimately reducing the total cost of cloud computing. At the core […]
5 Best Practices for Using VMs on Azure Cloud
When beginning a cloud improvement/optimization project, an easy place to start is to focus on the initial low-hanging fruit of your virtual machine (VM) environments. This article takes a closer look at these steps, using a Microsoft Azure VM environment as an example. Here are five best practices that can be easily achieved when using […]
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder.
Declarative Compliance With Policy-as-Code and GitOps
In recent times, the quest for greater agility, faster releases, enhanced scalability, security and performance brought forth the advent of several automation tools, technologies and frameworks. Software development has evolved considerably over the years to mitigate these challenges. Monoliths have been split into microservices for improved scalability, maintenance and faster releases. Since DevOps is adept […]
Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT and DevOps leaders at organizations with more than 3,000 employees. On a positive note, the survey found 57% of respondents were starting to […]
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.
5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023
It’s never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 rolls on, I’ve been thinking about some key performance metrics that help to ensure critical applications and websites perform optimally throughout the year—especially […]
Vega Cloud Commits to Reducing Cloud Costs
Vega Cloud today made a commitment to save customers at least 10% on their cloud infrastructure spending or it won’t charge for its software. Vega Cloud’s software automates cloud infrastructure management. The Vega Cloud platform enables IT teams to connect, automate, manage and optimize new and existing networks, applications and other multi-cloud IT environments from […]
env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure
env0 today announced it has added support for additional infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to its workflow automation and management platform. Fresh from raising an additional $35 million in funding, env0 CEO Ohad Maislish said while Terraform remains the most widely used IaC tool, there are now more organizations using alternatives […]
Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head
A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]
Enfabrica Makes Cloud Networking Performance Advances
Enfabrica Corp. today emerged from stealth at the MemCon conference to launch a class of processors for networking in cloud computing environments that are optimized for moving data between CPUs, graphical processor units (GPUs), accelerators and memory. Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar said the Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) enables scalable, streaming, multi-terabit-per-second movement of data in […]
Tabnine Extends Generative AI Alliance With Google
Tabnine has extended its alliance with Google Cloud to advance the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the writing and testing of code. The generative AI platform provider has already developed its own large language model that is hosted on Google Cloud. Tabnine is now also committing to leveraging the large language model […]
Dylibso Releases Tool for Tracking and Validating Wasm Modules
Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […]
Data APIs: Realizing the Future of Data Warehousing
Data is the currency of business in today’s digital economy, with organizations collecting mountains of data from their customers, products and services. Enterprises are increasingly turning to data warehouses to store this valuable enterprise data and to make it useful and actionable. Data APIs–both GraphQL and REST–are emerging as a tool to power frictionless and […]
How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines
The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […]
Four Technologies Transforming Data and Driving Change
Data is getting a facelift in 2023 courtesy of event-driven architecture (EDA). These four technologies are set to transform DevOps and IT operations over the next year–whether it be how companies make use of data or the customer experience they offer. 1. Applied Observability: A Powerful Source of Decision-Making Applied observability has been recognized by […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
Addressing Software Supply Chain Security
It’s essential for organizations to learn more about the software supply chains they rely on and the steps needed to secure them. In just the past few years, we have seen a major uptick in malicious actors exploiting vulnerabilities in software supply chains to facilitate attacks on organizations. However, it’s important to remember that these […]