Resolving CI/CD Permissions Issues to Address Delivery Needs
Security concerns and DevOps process issues can stall CI/CD operations. DevOps teams are familiar with the frustrations plaguing their pipelines, whether regulatory or process-based. Operational hurdles are all too common in DevOps pipelines, leading to miscommunication between team members and the broader organization. One of the leading operational issues DevOps teams encounter is permission issues. […]
How Automated Testing Closes the Development and Delivery Gap
For the past two years, companies have leaned into digital transformation projects to keep their digital offerings at pace with their in-person operations. Rather than become a stopgap, this digital approach became the new standard for the modern employee and customer experience. It also creates friction between a company’s development team and its user base. […]
Connections Matter: Gaining Visibility Into APIs
Digital transformation is at the center of modern enterprise. Yet, as cloud initiatives take shape and the complexity of connecting systems and applications multiplies, the need to tie everything together and automate processes grows. APIs, otherwise known as application programming interfaces, fuel this automation. These small pieces of code—which connect and interconnect clouds, containers, microservices […]
Clinical Trials: Programming for Scale, Speed and Success
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the median cost of bringing a new drug to market is $985 million and the average cost is $1.3 billion. However, those in health care hoping to harness promising new treatments, and patients facing steep prescription costs, see this as progress. After all, previous studies […]
Developer’s Guide to Web Application Security
When it comes to security, there are many vulnerabilities that can leave your website or web app open to attack. In this article, we’ll go over 15 common web application security vulnerabilities and how you can prevent them. 1. Insufficient Cryptography Cryptography is a critical security measure that is used to protect data in transit […]
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports.
Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
In this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer.
What SREs Can Learn From the Atlassian Outage of 2022
What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive site reliability engineering turns out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question teams at about 400 businesses presumably asked themselves in the wake of a major outage in Atlassian Cloud. The incident offers a number of insights for […]
How to Get the Supply Chain Back to (Better than) Normal
If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, today’s supply chain is in dire straits. A recent infographic from The New York Times shows all too clearly that the international supply chain is in upheaval, due directly or indirectly to the outbreak of COVID-19. At the same time, reams of data generated […]
Why Over-Permissive CI/CD Pipelines are an Unnecessary Evil
Balancing the speed of innovation with security is an age-old problem in software development. This is no different in modern DevOps. Development teams want a frictionless path to deploy new code but often struggle with access permissions that are linked to services. The CI/CD pipeline makes it easier for developers to quickly introduce new features […]
How Waterfall Methodologies Stifle Enterprise Agility
In this age of sweeping digital transformation and accelerated change, organizations are recognizing that depending solely upon the drawn-out process of waterfall methodology is no longer sustainable if they are to remain competitive and relevant. Enterprise infrastructure must incrementally embrace evolution from monolithic architectures in response to the escalating pace of technological innovation, ever-changing consumer […]
How to Secure CI/CD Pipelines With DevSecOps
Many companies are adopting a DevOps approach in their workflows as IT moves toward a more automated and cloud-native world—but for some industries, this migration isn’t easy. Many of these companies—in finance, health care, government—are obligated to meet compliance requirements. For these organizations, DevSecOps adds necessary security focus to the DevOps methodology. Compliance means adhering […]
Jamstack Will Revolutionize How Websites Are Built
Today, every organization wants a website that loads quickly and looks sharp. The reasons go much deeper than cosmetic motivations, though—even a slight delay in loading can cause users to exit a page prematurely and site performance plays an important role in search engine rankings. Meanwhile, threats like ransomware and phishing are everywhere and are […]
This is Not Just a Test: DevOps and the Need to Automate
Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and quality control. DevOps has further accelerated development by combining software and operations in unified, self-improving teams. With automation taking care of rote tasks, […]
Defining the Next Cycle of Technology
We’re in the middle of what we at ScyllaDB dubbed The Next Tech Cycle. Not “The World of Tomorrow” nor “The Shape of Things to Come” nor “The Wave of the Future”—because it’s already here today. We’re right in the middle of it. It’s a wave that’s carrying us forward, but it began with trends […]
Russian Dev Exodus | Puppet IPO FAIL | Intel 18A Ahead of Sched.
In this week’s The Long View: More than 100,000 tech workers leave Russia, Perforce buys Puppet, and Intel moves faster than planned.
Why MTTR is a Vital Metric for DevOps Teams
In DevOps, every second counts. System failures mean your engineers lose valuable time improving software and developing new features. So how do you effectively detect and manage these issues? Mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) can provide insight into how effectively your DevOps team responds to incidents and how reliable your software is. It’s difficult to know how your […]
Agile Development at 20: Can it Thrive in the Hybrid Work Era?
The Agile Manifesto turns 20 this year, and while many of the core tenets are still applicable, the world has changed considerably in the last two decades. What would the Agile Manifesto look like if it was written today and took into consideration our new reality of hybrid working environments? Changes are most definitely needed, […]
DevSecOps in Azure
DevSecOps is everywhere, and chances are your organization is shifting toward this convergence of development, security and operations. In an on-premises environment, you build your own DevSecOps process by mixing and matching existing and new tools. However, in the cloud, much of the environment is determined by your cloud provider. Microsoft’s Azure cloud is known […]
Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight
In this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable.
Bringing Development Environments Into the Modern Age
It’s time to rethink how we deliver distributed access to software development environments. We know how to write code. And there are plenty of well-established tools, techniques and processes for doing so. We know what kind of code to write: Functional, scalable and efficient code that’s inherently secure and that we can readily modify whenever and however […]
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
In this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again.
TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300.