Best of 2022: How DORA Metrics Can Measure and Improve Performance
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. A technology company’s most valuable assets are its people and data, especially data about the organization itself. By knowing what data to track over time, […]
Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.
Best of 2022: Environments-as-a-Service: Free Your Devs
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Environments are the bane of a DevOps engineer’s existence and have been since the invention of the server. They can create giant bottlenecks that hamper […]
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs.
The DevOps Workflow is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
While great progress has been made in bridging the gap between developers and operations engineers, fundamental differences in roles and responsibilities, alignment, and access to information hinder further progress. Everyone is familiar with the DevOps infinity loop: This is an ideal workflow where every stage of the software development life cycle feeds into the next. […]
Navigating the MLOps Revolution: Three Missteps to Avoid
With nearly 60% of businesses set to adopt MLOps by 2024, this function has quickly established itself as an indispensable part of the enterprise technology world. And with computing needs rapidly expanding as digital transformation efforts continue, the growth of the MLOps market is unlikely to stop anytime soon. That said, as with any emerging […]
Decidability: SLOs to Measure Quality Attributes
You may be familiar with the “-ilities”–the quality attributes that define a system’s so-called “non-functional” parts. One that isn’t on the list is decidability, which is the ultimate quality attribute because it focuses on what truly matters to your team and your customers. You can’t do it all. Fast, cheap and good? Here in the […]
Why Backups and Compliance Go Hand-in-Hand
It’s hard to run a business. Besides the numerous challenges you have to deal with daily, ensuring the security of your business and customer information is essential for operating smoothly. In order to mitigate information security risks that would affect companies and their users, a number of security regulations have been created, including a set […]
Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency
The operations team receives a page at 2:00 a.m. Something isn’t working correctly. Do they know how to fix it? Perhaps more importantly, do they know whether it matters to customers or how it impacts the business? There are different techniques that companies implement to maximize the quality of their software. We talk about shifting […]
Prioritizing Product Security With DevSecOps
Building software with strong security can no longer be an afterthought for organizations. The need for a reliable cybersecurity posture has proven vital amid the constant attacks we’re seeing across industries, all over the world. Product-specific security is top of mind for most companies, and a successful product security practice requires integrating with the ethos […]
Index Tracks Impressive Growth of API-First Startups
APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and their use continues to grow around the globe. A full 89% of investment into APIs will increase or stay the same over the next 12 months, Postman’s 2022 State of the API report found. And the evolving API-first approach is ushering in many innovations and startups […]
Introduction to Flutter
Flutter is a development tool for creating cross-platform applications. Flutter was created by Google to help developers create frontends that run on almost any operating system, including Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows desktop and the web. Ready to check it out? You’ll first need to install the Flutter software development kit (SDK). Installing Flutter To […]
Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project. DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team. In basic terms, DevOps is the integration of developers and IT operations […]
A History of Distributed Tracing
Organizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]
What Should Business Owners Know About SSDs?
Without a doubt, SSDs have become the latest trend in hardware storage, and you can expect their use to increase over time. Implementing SSDs in your business can improve productivity and make it more efficient by increasing the speed of your PC long enough to extend its useful life. Here is all you need to […]
How to Select the Right Volume Type/Storage for Your Workload
AWS services are at the top of the cloud services food chain, and a hot topic for nearly every business considering migrating to the cloud. Along any cloud migration journey, many hidden traps await the unprepared. The volumes you’ve already provisioned might seem like a perfect match—but are you sure they suit your workload and […]
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren’t many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of the largest and most powerful mechanisms of software propagation. However, open source is in danger. The Two Sides of Open Source Development In […]
Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud
While ransomware has been the leading concern for enterprise security teams over the few past years, software vulnerabilities are nipping at its heels. The boom in cloud-based apps and services and increased digitization of work have been a boon for hackers, who are taking advantage of developers’ and DevOps teams’ attempts to work faster and […]
Blue-Green Deployment: What Are the Options?
Blue-green deployment is a change management strategy for software releases. Blue-green deployments require two identically configured hardware environments. One environment is active and serves end users while the other remains idle. Blue-green deployments are typically used for applications with strict uptime requirements. First, new code is released to staging environments and fully tested. Once the […]
Switching From FluentD to Vector Log Aggregation Tool
Log files are extremely important to the data analysis process as they contain essential information about usage patterns, activities and operations within an operating system, application, server or device. This data is relevant to a number of use cases across an organization from resource management, application troubleshooting, regulation compliance and SIEM and business analytics and […]
Avoiding Developer Burnout With Clean Code Best Practices
Employee burnout is common in the tech industry, especially for developers. In fact, 83% of software developers feel burnt out from their work and of those, nearly half of them feel overworked. Often, this is because the processes currently in place at their companies are not effective and too much time is spent doing mundane […]
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.
5 Tips for Securing DevOps: What You Wish You Knew Sooner
Foundations and frameworks, concrete and steel—not exciting. But that’s the foundation and framing of pretty much every modern building. Everything else that is part of a building–flooring, wiring, lighting, room placement and so on—is made possible by the foundation and the framework. If you want DevOps to succeed in your organization, you have to start […]