How DevOps Can Create Smarter, More Agile 5G Telecom Networks
There is no doubt DevOps revolutionized software development with its introduction of lean and agile techniques. By applying continuous deployment and continuous integration methodologies into software development, enterprises can build, test and deploy applications and release new services more rapidly. In this article, we will see how the DevOps approach is being utilized in 5G […]
Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms
Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to “DevOps.” With this, transition to DevOps has become one of the key points of discussion across many IT firms. This article gives you an overview of the demand and […]
Malicious Intent: Open Source Developers, Please Protect Your Users
For the second time in just a few weeks we’re seeing the fallout of missteps taken by publishers of open source components. It was just recently that I wrote about the GitHub id of go-bindata being highjacked. We don’t know for certain if the intentions were malicious, but the risk was obvious. Even more recently we find […]
DevOps Chat: Concurrent DevOps with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
In this DevOps Chat we speak with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. Sid has guided GitLab as a co-founder to the heights of the DevOps market. Joining Sid and me is Ashish Kuthiala, who recently joined GitLab. I have always been impressed with the completeness of GitLabs’ vision of the DevOps toolchain and what the company […]
HashiCorp Adds Terraform Workflow Tools for IT Ops
HashiCorp this week moved to templatize automating IT operations by making it easier to share Terraform configuration files which make it simpler to programmatically invoke infrastructure that exposes application programming interfaces (APIs) without knowing how to code. Available in an on-premises edition or as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise is intended for use […]
Subtree Rises to Microservices Data Management Challenge
Fresh off raising $10 million in funding, Subtree has emerged from stealth to launch a service based on the dotmesh open source utility for microservices to enable DevOps teams to capture the entire state of applications. Dotmesh captures application state as a series of units known as datadots, and captures and tracks all versions of all […]
Should You Migrate to Git? Part 1
There are many factors to consider when making the decision whether to migrate your source code. Is it appropriate for the project? Will it work? How might it impact the quality and performance of the finished product? Git can help make the decision easier. Git is an open source version control system for tracking changes […]
NodeSource Increases Metrics in Node.js Development Platform
As reliance on Node.js to build applications in the enterprise has skyrocketed in recent years, the challenges with managing these applications have been manifold, because most existing tools don’t provide much visibility into Node.js applications. To help address that issue, NodeSource has revamped a development framework based on Node.js to make it easier to manage […]
LinkedIn Open-Sources Fossor Log Mining Tool
Over the years there has been a steady flow of technologies developed by web-scale companies that have benefited the larger IT community by becoming open source projects. The latest two examples of this trend are Fossor, a tool for investigating broken hosts and services, and Ascii Etch, a Python library designed to complement Fossor that […]
The Value of Commercial Open Source
Adhering to the open source definition enables a large, passionate community to collaborate and share their work, insights and innovations on a given OSS project. Companies working in commercial open source add to that value by turning what may look to enterprises like “raw material” into whole product. These combined efforts serve to improve products, […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good devopsy.kinsta.cloud story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community wondered where Chef was going with Habitat. It was a really ambitious vision, but could it meet its lofty goals? Habitat is now […]
CA Technologies Extends DevOps Push
At its CA World 2017 conference this week, CA Technologies moved to tighten the integration between the various elements of its DevOps portfolio acquired over the last year and unveiled CA Digital Experience Insights, an analytics-infused monitoring tool delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The company also announced an instance of the CA Microservices Gateway […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 4
IoT platforms and their solution development have crossed different maturity levels. At first, devices were primitive, isolated and working with limited functions before slowly evolving to communicate and connect with other devices using lightweight communication protocols, and then stepping into advanced level with remote management of devices, harvesting the data from devices and smart decisioning […]
MongoDB Addresses Host of DevOps Issues
At its MongoDB Europe conference this week, MongoDB updated its open-source document database with the addition of MongoDB Ops Manager to simplify management of distributed instances of version 3.6 of its database. In addition, the company has added a capability that enables all updates to the database to be automatically reflected in the application in […]
Nutanix Extends DevOps Ambitions
Nutanix at its .NEXT Europe conference has signalled its ambitions now extend into the realm of DevOps. The company announced it will make available an Acropolis Compute Cloud (AC2) and an Acropolis Object Storage Service on top of its Enterprise Cloud OS software that creates an instance of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform that can […]
Node.js Foundation Embraces HTTP/2
The latest version of Node.js will significantly increase the DevOps challenges surrounding the most widely used version of JavaScript in the enterprise. Node.js 8 adds the ability to support HTTP/2, a major revision of the core internet protocol that, in addition to being significantly faster, enables developers to make multiple requests over a single connection […]
Platform9 Brings Workflows to Serverless Computing
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as needed using a programming construct known as functions. But DevOps teams are challenged in finding a way to orchestrate all those functions in […]
8 Advantages of Using MySQL
MySQL is a free-to-use, open-source database that facilitates effective management of databases by connecting them to the software. It is a stable, reliable and powerful solution with advanced features including: Data Security MySQL is globally renowned for being the most secure and reliable database management system used in popular web applications including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, […]
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word “legacy” evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver stable and reliable applications into production. Business stakeholders who may not know the intricacies of the technology often take a view of, “Why […]
Will Blockchain Move Past Hype to Reality?
Blockchain has hit peak “hype,” according to Gartner’s recently published “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.” The financial world has been very optimistic about blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)—the underlying technology behind bitcoin—and the impending disruption it can bring to the way the financial system works. Although the initial buzz around bitcoin has gradually died […]
Migrating to GitHub
In recent months, Newt Global Consulting migrated multiple source code repositories to GitHub. The repositories are anywhere from 10MB to few Gigabytes of source code. This blog is to share our experiences in migrating source code from SVN and AccuRev to GitHub. Most of the material below should be valid for any Git repositories. We […]
Government Asks: What’s in Your Software?
Multiple agencies across the U.S. government are paying closer attention to the software they are buying. More specifically, they want to know what open-source and third-party components were used to build the software applications. For example: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to know what open-source components are being used in medical devices. U.S. […]
Native Docker for Windows Arrives: Are Containers Finally Serverless?
Is Docker finally ready for the age of serverless computing? That’s the message from the announcement this week of native Docker container support for Windows Server 2016. If you’ve been following Docker for a while, you know that Docker containers originally supported only Linux operating systems. Then, Docker made its platform available for Windows users, […]