How to Secure Your Kubernetes Cluster on GKE
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is easy to get going with, but requires additional security controls. The documentation is hard to grasp as there are many features and changes that tie to specific Kubernetes versions that will require using beta feature enablement, as well as some out of date documentation that can catch people out. There […]
How to Upgrade Critical IT Infrastructure with Zero Impact
Modern problems require modern solutions. A problem might come up that your software isn’t equipped to handle. This is why enterprises around the globe are spending billions of dollars more today than they did a decade ago. It’s never a good idea to leave anything to chance, especially if we’re talking about essential software. Keeping […]
How Integration Can Keep Up with Digital Demands
Integration holds the key to accelerating innovation, but in many organizations, business systems and application integrations haven’t kept up with the demands of digital. Data still exists in a siloed blend of on-premises systems and unconnected cloud applications, and IoT has added another layer of complexity into the mix. Understanding the three trends below, and […]
Developing Apps for IOS 13: Things to Consider
Authors of numerous articles and videos have covered all the bells and whistles built into iOS 13, the latest major iteration of Apple’s mobile operating system. Rather than diving into all of these perks, though, I will focus on the changes for app developers. As it often happens, Apple introduced many proprietary applications that successfully […]
Earning an AWS Developer Associate Certification
Studying for an AWS Certification may seem like an arduous task, especially if one isn’t expecting to take any more tests now that college is finally over. However, the certification doesn’t have to be long and tedious—it can be accomplished in as little as three months or less. I had started working in the middle […]
Five Technology Trends to Shape Future Investments
Humans invented technology to introduce innovative products in the market. Technology’s relentless cycle of innovation has now touched humanity, redefining what it means to be a human, a meaningful change that is impacting business priorities and is expected to do so in the future. The most important tech investment for C-level executives relates to digital […]
Launchable Aims To Improve Delivery Velocity, With Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh
A new company, Launchable, aims to improve your delivery velocity by helping you be much smarter about which tests you run and when. By applying machine learning (ML) and better use of the data output by your software development work, the two co-founders think they can make a meaningful impact on development efforts. Sure, you […]
The Acceleration of Data and Data Storage Trends
There’s never been a more exciting time for data. Increasing demands for size, speed, performance and reliance have propelled the data market forward at a faster rate than could have ever been anticipated, and new technologies are making some dreams for data a reality. From open source adoption in place of legacy databases to cloud-native […]
The Difference Between Capacity and Scalability Planning
Not only does the tech industry love terms, we love to make them super nuanced. For example SecOps versus DevSecOps, continuous delivery versus continuous deployment, hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud, etc. These terms may seem similar on the surface, but when you dig in they are quite different. Here are two more: capacity planning versus scalability […]
SauceCon 2020 Speaker Profile: Hélène Doumenc and Jonathan Chacón
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2020. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 27-29 in Austin, Texas, and […]
How the Nuts and Bolts of the Internet Are Evolving to Change the Way You Code
2019 was a big year for internet infrastructure, programming languages and platform development. In the last 12 months, we saw things like new connectivity in the sky and the sea and greater security of those connections with the growth of TLS 1.3 and certificate transparency. But three trends in particular stood out as having some […]
Predictions 2020: 7 DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year. Customer Experience […]
The Benefits of Test-Driven Design
At John Hancock, we use Test-Driven Design (TDD) for all our new initiatives. TDD has three simple steps: Before you write functional code, write a test that proves if the implementation works or fails. Write the code and watch the test pass. Check if the added functionality changes your holistic approach and if you want […]
Predictions 2020: The Future of the Mobile Industry
The mobile device industry continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Statistics show that, today, over 5 billion people have mobile devices and there are over 9.2 billion mobile connections worldwide. Add to these statistics the fact that the number of consumers who shop and bank online continues to grow as well–presenting hackers with increasing […]
The Role of DevOps in Custom Software Development
Hundreds of tech giants and big retail companies such as Etsy, Netflix, Amazon and Target have adopted an ecosystem called DevOps. It establishes a good collaboration between cross-functional teams such as development and operations which simplifies the processes. DevOps has calibrated a new standard for building custom applications. Do you know any predefined technique to […]
Predictions 2020: Ushering in 2020 Data Predictions
2019 brought us more data organizations running more advanced analytics, AI and ML workloads than ever before. 2020 is the year where we’ll see a spike in both the number of technologies and data teams that support these types of workloads internally. We’ll see AI and analytics teams merge into one as the new foundation […]
The Automated Data Center Emerges
Hyperscale and automation seem to go hand-in-hand, at least when it comes to the data center. Synergy Research reported that, at the end of 2017, there were 390 web-scale data centers worldwide, up from 300 a year earlier. IDC identified that hyperscale data centers “have a minimum of 5,000 servers and are at least 10,000 […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 1: Why Is It so Critical Today?
Apps are making the world a simpler, faster place. Mortgages can be verified in minutes. Food shows up at doorsteps with a few clicks. A safe ride is just a pin-drop away. For consumers, having a smooth, flawless and enjoyable app experience is the status quo. However, what goes on behind the scenes to make […]
How Combining DevOps and Agile Can Ease Black Friday Pressure
Every year, seasonal peaks such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring a higher volume and faster pace of work, as well as a considerable amount of pressure. This comes with a number of challenges, including managing traffic influx, ensuring top-notch digital experience, rebuilding catalog infrastructure and carrying out load and performance testing. Development teams […]
5 Best Practices for Feature Flagging
Feature flags, also known as the feature toggles, are important concepts in the field of DevOps. They have been around for a long time and have been used continually by developers for their convenience. As software development services providers are striving for higher agility, practices such as feature flagging are becoming increasingly relevant. If you […]
The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts
Skip the whole “starting a podcast is easy, all you need is a computer and a mic” pitch. The truth is podcasting is hard and it takes considerable work to create something special. The low barrier of entry intrigue is a double-edged sword, making it harder for good podcasts to get noticed in the incessant […]
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 […]
Load Balancing: Round Robin May Not Be the Right Choice
Based on our experience, we believe Round Robin may not be an effective load balancing algorithm, because it doesn’t equally distribute traffic among all nodes. You might wonder, how is this possible? How Does Round Robin Algorithm Work? Round Robin algorithm sends requests among nodes in the order that requests are received. Here is a […]