5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying bottlenecks in the support process. It’s also something executives like to show higher-ups when sharing a snapshot of overall platform performance. However, focusing […]
Moving From Lift-and-Shift to Cloud-Native
Analyst firm Forrester recently predicted that 2022 “will see big organizations move decisively away from lift-and-shift approaches to the cloud, embracing cloud-native technologies instead.” According to Gartner, more than 85% of enterprises “will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute on their digital strategies without the use of […]
Common RDS Misconfigurations DevSecOps Teams Should Know
Relational databases have become the option of choice for organizations wishing to streamline and scale the use, storage and retrieval of data. Many organizations choose AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) to forego the resource-intensive tasks related to database administration including management and continuous oversight. RDS is a fully managed service that simplifies and automates these […]
Creating Career Opportunities in Quality Engineering
Software testing is the thread that connects code to customers, ensuring that the code created by development teams works for users and supports customer loyalty. But as the demands of software development are transformed by DevOps and customer expectations rise, the career and role of the software tester is evolving rapidly. Customer expectations have made […]
Opportunities and Challenges of Observability
Observability platforms that unify metrics, logs and traces across applications and IT infrastructure are transforming how IT is managed. Most DevOps teams today are able to continuously monitor IT environments using tools that track a set of pre-defined metrics; observability platforms make it possible to aggregate data so that DevOps teams can launch queries that […]
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane?
Scream if you want to go faster! When it comes to a dual hybrid-cloud-and-DevOps rollout, most organizations would admit they’re eager to get going a little bit faster. But what started so enthusiastically can turn to frustration (and a different kind of screaming starts) when they’ve accelerated into this major transformation without considering all the […]
What is DevSecOps?
While traditional development practices have long separated security and compliance, DevSecOps as a series of best practices integrates security into every phase of the DevOps software development life cycle. DevSecOps introduces and automates security in the earlier phases of the software development life cycle rather than bolting it on at the end. The approach saves […]
How to Seamlessly Transition to DevSecOps
In the last few months, the cybersecurity world has been taken by storm following the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability. The zero-day had the potential to put much of the connected world at risk and left security teams scrambling to quickly apply security patches to software just before Christmas 2021. As a result of the […]
Service Level Objectives – Techstrong TV
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are being more widely discussed as they provide a clear path to delivering exceptional results by defining clear reliability goals. Kit provides updates on the community, use cases and best practices. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. Recording: This is […]
Source Code Management Best Practices
Source code is, of course, the foundation of any software development practice. Managing that source code is the first task tackled by modern software development pipelines, with all subsequent stages of the pipeline dependent on the source code for their success and functionality. Thus, it is critical that source code is properly managed without introducing […]
Log4j: Is There Such a Thing as ‘Too Much’ Open Source?
The Log4j vulnerability got me thinking: Is there such a thing as too much open source? Before anyone immediately fires off a flaming email, rage tweet or scathing blog post, hear me out for a moment. If you know me, you know that I am an open source fanatic. I’ve been asked many times, “Should […]
Open Source is the Engine for Observability at Scale – Observability at Scale TV EP 2
As today’s organizations seek advanced monitoring and observability to ensure the performance of their microservices and cloud native systems, issues of cost, complexity and tool sprawl have emerged as pervasive challenges. Join our hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley along with panelists Dotan Horovits (Logz) and Constance Caramanolis (Splunk) as they dive into the challenges […]
What Does Observability Mean to You and How Does it Scale? – Observability at Scale TV EP 1
Observability is evolving quickly as a concept and practice, but what does observability really mean to you and your organization? For many DevOps teams it’s all about speeding MTTR across complex infrastructure and applications. For others, the notion of observability-driven development is being embraced as a strategic business initiative tied to customer success. Where does […]
Why Distributed Cloud Is the Future of Cloud Computing
A distributed cloud is a public cloud service that allows you to run public cloud infrastructure in multiple physical locations while being centrally managed for performance and compliance. The most innovative companies are moving all their assets to a distributed cloud structure. It is safe to say that distributed cloud is the future of cloud […]
5 App Modernization Best Practices
An organization’s digital transformation is ineffectual if it doesn’t bring out the best from its applications. This is a near-universal concern since most enterprises still have core applications that are architected primarily to work in legacy IT landscapes in an on-premises dedicated environment, slowing down IT and business performance, stymieing innovation and increasing vulnerability to […]
DevSecOps Practices Gap Assessment
DevSecOps practices are essential to deliver software safely and securely withinDevOps value streams. To get the maximum security protection from DevSecOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s practices for DevSecOps and determine a strategy for […]
Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?
There’s no getting around the fact that security is one of the most essential factors in day-to-day operations for most software developers. From proprietary code to sensitive customer data and everything in between, there are hundreds – if not thousands – of crisis scenarios that can result from gaps in security. Data security is an […]
The Benefits of Open Source Technologies
Over the last 20 years, we have seen the proliferation of open source software and technologies become part of commercial offerings, either as part of the technology stack that powers the product or part of the product itself. Although these two use cases are largely different, both have come to showcase just how useful open […]
Deploying into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
This article demonstrates how to deploy an application into Azure App Service using Azure DevOps (VSTS) continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. In this article, you’ll create a sample environment to: New build based on code commit to your Azure DevOps Repo. Automatically deploy your app into Azure. Prerequisites: Azure Portal Account, Azure subscription and Azure […]