Quali Update Strengthens Infrastructure Security
Quali today announced enhancements to its Torque automated infrastructure platform to add support for security scans and Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OPA enables organizations to implement cybersecurity policies as code. The challenge many organizations have encountered is that not many developers have […]
Organizations Prioritizing Java Application Modernization
A survey found that modernizing existing Java applications is a higher priority than other projects for 87% of respondents, with more than 80% of these applications expected to be re-engineered over the next five years. The survey polled 450 IT professionals working in organizations in the U.S. and United Kingdom that have more than 500 […]
DevOps Done Right: How to Succeed in DevOps From Day One
Whether you are diving into DevOps for the first time or trying to do it right this time, DevOps Onramp provides all the information you need for a successful DevOps journey. Join us on May 4, 2023, to learn how to get started with DevOps—and how to do it right. You’ll learn: DevOps best practices, […]
Lineaje Unfurls Platform for Creating and Managing SBOMs
Lineaje this week unfurled a platform for creating and managing the software bills of materials (SBOMs) that are increasingly mandated by enterprise IT organizations and government agencies. Fresh from raising $7 million in seed funding, Lineaje CEO Javed Hasan said the SBOM360 platform provides a simpler way to manage all the SBOMs that will soon […]
flox Unveils More Accessible Instance of Nix Framework
This week, flox launched a more opinionated implementation of the open source Nix framework that programmatically automates package management and system configuration. Fresh from raising an additional $16.5 million in funding, flox CEO Ron Efroni said the company will also make an enterprise edition of its namesake flox framework available later this year. The Nix […]
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas.
Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability
Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […]
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts.
Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023
The onset of COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD, giving long-delayed projects the budget and staffing they needed to build momentum. After almost three years of increased investment and accelerating progress, CTOs and software development teams are navigating how to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience that […]
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed.
What DevOps Needs to Know About ChatGPT
OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) bring powerful AI language models to every IT community. Within the past few months, ChatGPT has become an incredibly popular derivative of GPT. GPT also has the potential to shake up the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. This article will provide an overview of GPT, its history, current status and future […]
A DevSecOps Process for Node.js Projects
Node.js is an open source development platform for running JavaScript code on the server side. Node is useful for developing applications that require a persistent browser-server connection and is often used for real-time applications such as chat, social applications, or news feeds. DevSecOps is a way for development, security, and operations teams to work together […]
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going.
Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize efficiency and employee retention. And when they started digging, companies realized that the developer experience was a major pain point that could be […]
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
Predict 2023: Stand and Deliver
It’s that time of year again—the New Year’s ritual: Time to predict the big trends in your world for the new year. By now you have probably seen dozens of headlines, articles, videos and interviews telling you what big trends will shape the coming year. Here at Techstrong Group, our Predict virtual event is built […]
5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve usability, aggregate multiple services and optimize how data is ported from system to system. Yet, GraphQL is also prone to new security concerns. […]
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 easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […]
Survey Sheds Light On Cloud, API Expertise Skills Gap
Enterprise IT faces a three-pronged onslaught: Digital transformation, open APIs and security threats. First, most organizations are still navigating ongoing digital transformations and cloud migrations. Second, development teams continue to increase their use of open APIs, leading to sprawl concerns. And third, we’ve witnessed a slew of cybersecurity threats that appear to be growing in […]
Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.
Best of 2022: Three Cloud Trends to Watch in 2022
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Many developers and startups view cloud services as simply “compute”, “storage” and “networking.” The cloud has matured to the point where customers often don’t think […]
Best of 2022: 6 Top Technology Trends to Watch
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Technology trends simply cannot be ignored in today’s dynamic environment. As the world enters a post-digital era, organizations are exploring disruptive technology trends. Artificial intelligence, […]
Best of 2022: Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has […]