Gitpod Allies with GitLab to Automate Setting Up Dev Environments
Gitpod announced today that its open source tool for automating the setup of development environments is now integrated to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. The Gitpod platform treats a version control system as the canonical source of truth from which it then automates everything a developer needs to start coding, including the integrated […]
Maintaining Progressive Delivery Quality With Feature Flags
How does Netflix know exactly what you want to watch? How do social networks ensure major software updates are smoothly deployed across millions of users? The answer, in part, lies in progressive delivery. Progressive delivery, the incremental introduction of new features, has become key to rolling out new features. By testing unproven features on a […]
COBOL Is Taking Heat, but These Other Legacy Languages Could Burn You
COBOL is under fire, and as states such as New Jersey make headlines following vital system crashes that its citizens depend on—such as unemployment benefits—organizations are pointing fingers at the programming language as the source of their technological woes. However, while COBOL is a 50+-year-old programming language, there are still many use cases for it […]
SOFIHUB Relies on DevOps to Support Independent Seniors
How DevOps is helping one company ensure an active older population can remain independent SOFIHUB home is designed to support older people who wish to live as independently as possible. However, its sensor-based system needed an upgrade to improve the user experience. The SOFIHUB technology connects wirelessly to sensors placed around the home and learns […]
OverOps Taps Into Git Repos to Accelerate Code Reviews
OverOps this week announced it has added support for a git blame and automated source attach capability to its namesake platform for analyzing code that surfaces both root cause data for every error as well as the identity of the developer who owns that code. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering at OverOps, said […]
The Role of AI, ML-Powered DevOps in Digital Transformation
Global businesses are in the midst of an enormous digital transformation wave. As we step into the realm of industry 4.0, exponential technologies are becoming a fundamental segment of traditional business settings. Despite having access to transformative technologies, however, many organizations fail to embrace disruption and harness their potential to stay ahead of the curve. […]
GitLab Extends Scope, Reach of CI/CD Platform
The latest update to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform adds a bevy of additional capabilities spanning multiple capabilities, from being able to manage application development and deployment projects in smaller chunks to allowing remote teams to work more efficiently. Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist for GitLab, said a Minimal Viable Change (MVC) capability […]
Survey Finds SRE Role Remains Largely Aspirational
Monitoring tools provider Catchpoint, in collaboration with the DevOps Institute, has published a survey that finds there is a significant gap between the tasks and duties that define the role of what a site reliability engineer (SRE) should be versus what is actually occurring within IT organizations that have hired SREs. Based on a survey […]
Code Quality Doesn’t Have to Be Like the Weather
Sometimes code quality feels like the weather: everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything. Of course, that’s not from a lack of good will; most folks would love to have a week or two set aside to just clean things up. Unfortunately, that’s not how the world works. The best course of […]
Upcoming Event: Time Series Virtual Summit
The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT. This virtual event will focus on the impact of time […]
Participate in the Checkmarx 2020 Survey
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development, and devopsy.kinsta.cloud are conducting a survey about the implementation of DevOps and related automation and security tools. The purpose of the survey is to help organizations evaluate their DevOps maturity, find out what are the most used DevOps tools and the most […]
Pega Low-Code Platform on Display at PegaWorld iNspire
Low code enables developers to create applications using visual tools and models. Developers looking for resources to improve their productivity might find Pega’s low-code platform quite helpful. Jennifer Gill, senior director of technical product marketing at Pega, joined ASG’s Mitch Ashley for an interview on the benefits of low-code in designing applications. During the pandemic, […]
6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in June 2020
Conferences and events make up to a trillion-dollar industry and have been playing a major role in connecting people from different parts of the world and exchange ideas. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the first major tech conference that got canceled due to health and safety concerns was the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual […]
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Function as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its introduction has changed the way developers think about infrastructure and application development. While at the same time, it has also driven evolution in […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
How to Scale Microservices CI/CD Pipelines
As opposed to a traditional monolith, microservices architecture can theoretically bring many benefits. Microservices decouple software elements, enable reusable components and allow independent development cycles. However, in practice, microservices are prone to many issues. For example, teams accustomed to a traditional monolithic build process may find it difficult to reshape their established practices. Furthermore, as […]
Decoding the Self-Healing Kubernetes
A business application that fails to operate 24/7 would be considered inefficient in the market. The idea is that applications run uninterrupted, irrespective of a technical glitch, feature update or a natural disaster. In today’s heterogeneous environment where infrastructure is intricately layered, a continuous workflow of application is possible via self-healing. Kubernetes, which is a […]
5 Capabilities Network Infrastructure Must Have to Support DevOps
According to the Accelerate 2019 State of DevOps report, high-performing DevOps organizations achieve over 200 times more frequent deployments and over 2,600 times faster recovery times than low performers. These outcomes have been realized by both forward-leaning organizations such as Amazon, which deploys code every 11.6 seconds, and more traditional enterprises that have been in […]
Top iOS Security Gotchas
Ensuring the security of user data within your app is critical to building trust in your business and contributing to the online safety of customers. Here’s a list of the top 10 essential security mechanisms that Apple offers to up the security posture of your iOS applications. Adopting these technologies and APIs within your products […]
Practical Advice on How to Use Lead Time
Many ALM tools and Value Stream Management platforms graph lead time, but few really tell you what to do about it, how to use it and why you shouldn’t use the average. In fact, so much of what is written on this subject is rather vague and hand wavy. Part of the reason is that […]
GitHub Makes Private Repositories Free for Unlimited Users
GitHub this week announced is making available private repositories for an unlimited number of collaborators available to all GitHub accounts for free. Kelly Stirman, vice president of product strategy and marketing, said that subsidiary of Microsoft could make this move because it is now generating enough revenue from the enterprise edition of its platform to […]
Defining the Database Requirements of Dynamic JAMstack Applications
Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to the mix and deploy our statically generated pages to a content delivery network (CDN), we get something highly desired with minimal effort: distributed […]
Universal Code Search Combinations
More potential searches than there are stars in the universe. Source code search is not like searching for text on the web—it is more complex and has many more nuances. When we set out to create a Universal Code Search engine, we knew there were many permutations that we had to account for—so many. So […]