Survey: IT Teams Spend About a Third of Time Responding to Disruptions
A global survey of 1,700 IT professionals finds on average teams are grappling with 280 hours of median annual downtime a year, which at 12 hours of a 40-hour work week equates to about 30% of their time. Conducted by Enterprise Technology Research (ETR) on behalf of New Relic, the most common causes of downtime […]
GitHub Extends Reach and Scope of Generative AI Ambitions
GitHub today revealed it is adding support for both the Claude Sonnet 3.5 large language model (LLM) from Anthropic and the Gemini Pro 1.5 LLM from Google to its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for writing code.
DevOps for Both Discontinuous and Continuous Improvements
According to Dr. Russell Ackoff, pioneer of systems design theory. “Discontinuous improvements are more important than continuous improvements” because creativity is a disruptive process. True quality focuses on value not efficiency. And to achieve quality it is essential to engineer a system as a whole, and not only improve its parts. This viewpoint is different […]
Survey Surfaces Spike in Observability Investments Among DevOps Teams
A survey of 504 DevOps practitioners finds 63% working for organizations that will be making additional investments in observability over the next two years, with 21% describing those investments as significant.
Zencoder Emerges From Stealth to Unveil AI Coding Platform
Zencoder today emerged from stealth to make generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that in addition to generating code is also able to repair code, create tests and optimize code in real time using built-in static analysis capabilities.
Learning From SpaceX: How the Space Industry’s Transformation can Inspire DevOps in Software Development
In recent years, the space industry, much like software development, has experienced rapid transformation. SpaceX has revolutionized space launches with its use of reusable rockets and innovative suppliers.
Finding the Right AI Coding Assistant for Your Team
A recent survey by StackOverflow showed that 76% of professional developers are already using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools for development this year. If you haven’t yet evaluated and chosen an AI coding assistant for your team, you may quickly find yourself in the minority.
Mitigating Risk in a World of AI-Generated Code
Tools and processes to stress test the code and reduce risk with software deployments are critical for achieving success in AI coding.
Postman Survey Surfaces Accelerated Rate of API Development
A global survey of 5,600 developers finds nearly two-thirds can now produce an application programming interface (API) in less than a week but only a third (33%) can deploy an API in less than a week.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted, as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Mastering the Art of Troubleshooting Large-Scale Distributed Systems
As distributed systems continue to evolve and grow in complexity, the ability to troubleshoot effectively will remain a critical skill for engineers and system administrators.
Why is Code Quality Crucial for Successful Software Development?
Code quality is vital for the fruitful execution of any program. It is the main KPI to gauge the handiness and viability of the software project.
Apollo GraphQL Previews Toolkit to Unify Queries Spanning LLMs and REST APIs
Apollo GraphQL today previewed a toolkit that makes it possible to use a generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt to launch a GraphQL query against REST application programming interfaces (API) that returns results in the form of a natural language output created by a large language model (LLM).
From the Trough of GenAI Disillusionment – a Bright Spot?
The “trial and error” phase for genAI is over; we need to verify whether the investments are paying off. Experiment, measure, adjust, repeat.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Five great DevOps job opportunities for your perusal this week, including senior DevOps engineer roles at JFrog, UST Global and PayQuicker.
Elevating DevOps Security: Why Integrating Threat Modeling Transforms Pentesting
Do not stop at compliance — embrace threat-driven pentesting and build a security posture that is ready for the real-world threats your organization faces.
Why GitOps Might Be the Future of DevOps: Trends and Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
This article delves into why GitOps might be the future of DevOps, backed by trends, predictions and industry insights for 2025 and beyond.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Are you considering a change? This week we highlight some great DevOps job opportunities including positions at CapitalOne and NVIDIA.
Optimizing ETL Testing for Enhanced Data Quality and Reliability
This blog highlights the best practices, common challenges and innovative solutions for optimizing ETL testing, helping you safeguard the integrity of your data and make decisions with confidence.
System Initiative Makes SaaS Platform for Modeling DevOps Workflows Generally Available
System Initiative today made generally available an automation platform that creates a programmable model of an IT environment to provide an abstraction layer that enables software engineering to employ reactive code to manage IT infrastructure.
OpenTelemetry Isn’t the Hero We Need: Here’s Why it’s Failing our Stack
OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory. When I compare it to deeper tracing technologies such as eBPF, OpenTelemetry feels bloated, inefficient, […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Automating Web Application Security Testing to Combat Cyber Threats
Despite the hundreds of exposed web applications and APIs in our attack surfaces, many assets remain dangerously untested and vulnerable to cyberattacks.