Evolution of Toil Identification and Mitigation – A Classic SRE Challenge
Ingo Averdunk, leading architecture and solutions for cloud service management and site reliability engineering for IBM Cloud, contributed to this article. Christine White, architect at IBM Consulting, also contributed to this article. When many people think of operations, they often associate it with manual, labor-intensive work. This is because operations traditionally encompass a wide range […]
How to Navigate App Modernization Strategies for the Cloud
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations continuously seek ways to innovate and enhance customer experiences while optimizing efficiency. One of the most transformative strategies is modernizing applications for the cloud. App modernization isn’t just a technology upgrade. It’s a holistic business transformation. The cloud’s elasticity and scalability present opportunities to create deeper customer engagement, foster […]
Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project
OpenTelemetry has become a ‘boring’ standard for open source data and application performance measurement and observability.
How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges
Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In 2023, however, organizations are finding that the road to adoption is bumpier than expected. Here are seven of the biggest challenges DevOps teams […]
FAQs for Software Testing: All the Background You Need
Here are some top best practices to keep in mind as you build out a software testing practice at your organization.
A Manifesto for a More Sustainable Cloud Future
Benjamin Brial talks about the steps necessary for organizations to create a more sustainable cloud future.
4 Things to Consider When Integrating Generative AI
SaaS companies are integrating generative AI capabilities into their products and services. However, in the race to join the hype, many companies are building first and strategizing later.
What is Just-In-Time (JIT) Permission Management, and Why is it Essential?
Have you ever experienced the frustration of discovering an unexpected charge on your bank statement for a forgotten gym membership? Perhaps you kept it active “just in case” you wanted to exercise someday. Similarly, always-on privileged access, also known as “standing privileges,” can lead to similar challenges. Surprisingly, 77% of organizations provide unrestricted access to […]
Don’t Forget the One-Offs
In the age of DevOps, we have automated the things that happen all the time or are mission-critical (like backups). But we forget about the one-offs.
Maximizing Data Insights: How OLAP Empowers Modern Data Stacks
Besides being cost-effective, especially for cloud implementations, OLAP delivers real performance advantages.
Data Reliability Needs to Shift Left
The challenge for every modern data team is to shift left data reliability as early as possible in the data journey to create optimized pipelines.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Tesla, Johns Hopkins and more!
DevOps and ITIL Integration: Driving Collaborative Agility in ITSM
Businesses face continuous pressure to deliver high-quality IT services efficiently. One emerging integration to meet these goals is between DevOps and IT service management (ITSM), more commonly known as DevOps+. DevOps+ is becoming more than a trend and has emerged as a powerful collaborative approach to meet these challenges. By combining the strengths of DevOps’ […]
Multi-Tenant Database Strategies for Mixed Workloads and Real-Time SLAs
With the rise of SaaS in today’s modern private and public cloud environments, multi-tenancy is now a common and critical function.
How to Build a Data Platform for Self-Service, Ad-Hoc Analytics
To truly fulfill the promise of self-service, ad-hoc data analytics across huge datasets, teams need to work in real-time.
The Growing Impact of Generative AI on Low-Code/No-Code Development
The fusion of generative AI and no-code/low-code platforms empowers users to shape their software’s behavior without delving into intricate technicalities.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Walt Disney Company, Kroger and more!
5 Effective Git Workflows to Streamline Your Development Process
Git workflows are powerful tools that help streamline the software development process. Here are five of the most popular.
4 Mobile Software Testing Use Cases Where Device Clouds Don’t Work
Depending on which types of mobile tests you need to run or how you need to run them, device clouds aren’t always the best solution.
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
The Ultimate Measure of Software Development Effectiveness
There is a famous quote by Peter Drucker that states, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” In our industry, measuring how quickly we can get working software into the hands of our customers has become a mantra for agile development teams, and it’s even being talked about in the boardrooms. Customers measure the value […]
Moving Beyond Legacy API Management Tools and Strategies
Forward-thinking organizations should be looking for ways to overhaul their API management tools and strategies.
GraphQL API Visibility Ensures Enterprises Can Escape Lock-In
Implementing the GraphQL API visibility and actionable intelligence covered here helps ensure that an enterprise has the means to modernize or migrate as necessary to preserve its strategic independence.