Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success
At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead, you treat it as a generic component and lavish your attention on other parts of your IT landscape (or your […]
DevOps Chats: InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Managed Service for Time Series Data
We can’t seem to generate enough data. And as they say, you haven’t seen anything yet! Cloud-based managed services are a natural solution to ingest, store and access large amounts of data from a variety of sources across private and cloud locations. An enterprise solution hosted in the cloud is good, but a developer-friendly, API-based […]
Investing in a Mobile Device Testing Lab
It will likely come as no surprise that app downloads are on the rise, with no signs of slowing down. Today’s consumers use apps for everything from ordering food, to shopping for clothes, to managing money and more. In fact, according to a recent report by App Annie, consumers downloaded a total of 194 billion […]
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]
Serverless and GraphQL: Build and Launch at the Speed of Thought
Websites and apps are now, often, one and the same. Traditional development methods for an online or downloadable app can take months, given the backend development aspects that need to be managed—infrastructure provisioning and management, security, scalability, consistency and more, particularly for companies that have users around the globe and potentially very high usage demands. […]
How Organizations Benefit from AWS App Patterns
As a startup, an organization thrives by breaking rules, challenging the status quo and standing for all that is against the norm. The same rules don’t apply once the same organization grows, matures, becomes popular, gains a long list of clients and expands to a global footprint. With scale and growth comes the need for […]
The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud penetration grew from 24% (in 2014) to 86% of organizations today. Last year, that adoption rate was 81%. Yet, while cloud has helped […]
Crossing the Ecosystem Boundaries: How ServiceNow, Salesforce and Atlassian Work Together
Although these platforms were originally designed to serve different functional roles—Atlassian’s help desk, ServiceNow’s IT service management and Salesforces’ sales and CRM—from the outset, they all addressed the evolving mega-management and leadership issue: collaboration across teams and business units. Independent action, siloed organizations and disconnected thinking was increasingly giving way to more agile, interdependent, collaborative […]
Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land
Tekton is an open source, cloud-native CI/CD pipelines engine. The project has its roots in the Knative project, where about a year ago it started under the name “Knative Pipeline,” with the aim of providing an extension to build Knative’s own “source to image” service. About eight months ago the project was reborn as Tekton […]
The NVMF Boogie: How Kubernetes and NVMF Will Rock
I recently wrote a blog about how Kubernetes creates a global computing grid that delivers unprecedented compute flexibility. Then I wrote a blog about the importance of going fully Kubernetes-native. In today’s blog I would like to drill down into the role that the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF or just NVMF) standard will play in […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
Microsoft Extends Azure Reach to On-Premises IT Environs
Microsoft today at its Ignite 2019 conference previewed an Azure Arc management service that extends the reach of the Microsoft cloud to on-premises IT deployments. Azure Arc will be made available on both local Windows and Linux servers as well as Kubernetes clusters or an instance of Kubernetes that Microsoft is making available on Azure […]
New Relic Bolsters Serverless Monitoring Strategy
New Relic has strengthened its ability to monitor serverless computing frameworks by acquiring IOpipe, a provider of a monitoring tool for the serverless computing framework service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Andrew Tunall, general manager for serverless and emerging cloud services at New Relic, said IOpipe’s monitoring technology will be used to augment the […]
A New Paradigm in Container Security with Service Mesh
Containers have been around for some time, but only recently has the technology become mature enough for large enterprises to adopt it both on-prem and in the cloud. The obvious benefits for developers include the ability to dramatically reduce the time to production and the ability to lower the operational burden. This is further supported […]
CircleCI Achieves SOC 2 Compliance for DevOps Platform
CircleCI has achieved a SOC 2 compliance rating for the DevOps platform it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Tad Whitaker, security manager at CircleCI, said CircleCI is the first provider of a SaaS platform for DevOps that has invested the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to achieve SOC 2 compliance. SOC 2 […]
Data Monoliths Go Cloud-Native with Kubernetes
Breaking monolithic applications into independently scalable services is the core of the cloud-native application model. By making cloud-native apps easy to deploy and manage, Kubernetes has contributed to a big change in IT practices. Initial cloud-native conquests started with stateless services and quickly grew to encompass applications that manage data. Database management systems have long […]
Cloud Native Tracing and Observability: Why You Care
Is observability the new monitoring? Or is observability, and tracing, fundamentally different? Like any IT industry trend, it can be difficult to discern as many jump on the trend bandwagon, appropriately or not. The Splunk .conf 2019 event presented Splunk with the opportunity to bring clarity to the terms and the reasoning behind the acquisitions […]
CNCF Advances CloudEvents Specification
In a move that portends well for future cloud interoperability initiatives, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source CloudEvents specification for describing event data had achieved a version 1.0 milestone. Doug Davis, senior technical staff member of IBM and co-chair of CNCF’s Serverless WG and the CloudEvents project, said CloudEvents […]
From Pets to X-as-Code: Enabling Control and Predictability for ITOps at Scale
Amy Wheelus, vice president of network cloud at AT&T, recently spoke about declarative predictability at the Open Networking Summit in Antwerp. AT&T is the world’s largest telecommunications company providing mission critical communication services where people’s jobs–and lives–can be on the line. As they move away from labor-intensive IT operations toward cloud-native automation, there is a […]
Talend Aligns With Microsoft on DevOps
Talend has made its integration platform natively available on the Microsoft Azure cloud to provide DevOps teams employing Azure DevOps with an easier approach to creating pipelines and integrating data. Vincent Lam, head of cloud product marketing for Talend, said the company is now making available 900 connectors and components to DevOps teams that use […]
Building Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures for Analytics and AI
We are in the early stage of the data revolution. Today’s conventional wisdom states that hybrid latency prevents you from running analytic and machine learning workloads in the cloud with the data on-prem. As a result, most companies either do not burst their workloads into the cloud or have to copy their data into a […]
Kubernetes and Service Mesh With StackRox
DevOps and Kubernetes enable organizations to “go with security,” adding security to the code instead of on top of it. In other words, security is built-in rather than bolted on. This is one of the aspects of security in the DevOps world with a Kubernetes system that Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, explained […]
From Automated Cloud Deployment to Progressive Delivery
Your team is on its agile journey and you can more or less track a deployment from a story, through git commits, to an automated builder, to an artifact repository, into a container and then onto the cloud. Or, in fact, any other of the many valid variants that lead you to believe your deployments […]