The Role of Bots in DevOps
DevOps has evolved from its infancy into a mainstream focus area for a majority of CIOs. DevOps has become a main focus and has been shaping the world of software and infrastructure engineering and operations for the last few years. Some of the key DevOps trends include: DevOps assembly lines automation. Smart, actionable alerts from […]
The State of Low-Code Development
As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based […]
Kubernetes Adoption: Are You Ready?
Enterprises are rapidly embracing a cloud-first strategy and microservices play a pivotal role in this journey. But enterprises are achieving various levels of success, measured by many factors includingmaturity of DevOps in the enterprise, ability to identify the right candidates for microservices, selecting the appropriate container management platform, adequate tooling and, finally, cultural shift in […]
The Bug in Production: What You Don’t Know Can – and Will – Harm You
Despite the risk of unplanned downtime, many organizations that develop software and services push them live without adequately testing for bugs that will manifest against production traffic. This is a huge gamble: Those bugs could lead to errors that bring down the service altogether. Pushing live without sufficient testing can be detrimental to your business. […]
Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date
Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers. The reason is simple: In time- and resource-constrained companies trying to stay technologically competitive, it doesn’t make sense anymore to try to reinvent a wheel that’s already been battle-tested. However, having made the […]
The Terrain of DevOps is Strewn with Pitfalls
As Gene Kim, one of the leading thinkers in DevOps, once said, “DevOps is not about what you do, but what your outcomes are.” What he’s telling us is that DevOps is about enabling a rapid flow of work that transitions from development to testing to operations, but the bottom line is that it’s about […]
3 Steps to Building Data Science Models
Have you ever considered supplementing your development skills with some data science? Expand your range and follow this quick tutorial on how to build your own predictive models using open datasets, Jupyter notebooks and Sequential models. Pick Your Data Game Your first step in learning data science is to find a dataset that fits your […]
7 Big Digital Transformation Trends
As enterprises continue their rush to digitally transform their organizations, they’re investing big in retooling their software development pipelines, new artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) technologies and low-code development platforms, as well as putting considerable money into customer engagement software. Yet, the extent of success following these investments remains unclear and varies […]
DevOps: What Do Governments Need to Know?
How the government can successfully implement and enforce DevOps practices The speed at which technology is being produced it outstripping the pace at which better development tools are being introduced, which makes secure development even more challenging. Unfortunately, the negligence of organizations and authorities is intensifying the issue. For this reason, organizations are adopting DevOps. […]
5 Ways Wireless Technology Will Evolve in 2019
2019 will be a transformative year for the wireless world, with landmark developments in 5G, cloud computing and hardware. From stadiums and retail buildings to airports and even street corners, there’s no place that won’t be affected by the rapid evolution of wireless technology. And if you’re not up on the edge, you’re sleeping on […]
Autonomous Networks: The Future We Need Now
Automation has become a necessity for managing systems in today’s age of dynamic and agile cloud-based environments. Operators are looking to optimize with efficiency and minimalism—to do more with less—as the goal. This same line of thinking should be applied to managing the network or system infrastructure. While network operators face the same challenges as […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: Deploying Code Out of Step
‘Everything as code’ can create opportunities for misadventure for DevOps teams DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops […]
Application Monitoring Using Stagemonitor
This article covers important steps to monitor a typical Java application using Stagemonitor tool, Kibana as a dashboard viewing tool and Elasticsearch as a data processing engine. Stagemonitor is an open source Java application performance monitoring (APM) tool that provides everything you need in development, quality assurance and production to monitor the performance of your […]
Best Practices for DevOps in the Cloud
DevOps is commonly defined as a methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten a system’s development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) […]
Combining the Best of Agile, Waterfall and DevOps Techniques
The spotlight currently may be firmly trained on agile and DevOps techniques, but large banks around the world still maintain core systems where traditional waterfall development techniques are used to upgrade and maintain software. So, which development techniques work best in an environment dominated by legacy systems but where innovation is fundamental to future success? […]
How DevOps Can Help Speed Go to Market
With continuous evolution of IT systems, speed and flexibility have become of paramount importance for businesses. This requirement has caused a massive shift in the IT delivery system. Now, building and releasing a better product in the market is not enough for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. Organizations need an agile approach to […]
Mainframes: The Cloud Before the Cloud
Here’s something to think about: Despite the fact that IBM stopped manufacturing personal computers in 2005, deciding instead to focus on higher margin business services, the company continues to produce mainframes and by all estimates will continue manufacturing them well into the future. The question is, why? The answer: because there is still significant demand […]
Embedding Accessibility into the DevOps Process
Calls for accessibility and inclusion are a defining characteristic of current times. Persons with disabilities (PwD), including vision, hearing, cognitive and physical impairments and others, are demanding equal access to virtually all public services and forums they interact with, from transportation to banking and self-service terminals in airports—and increasingly, digital (web and mobile) services. Ensuring […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: Unforeseen Lock-Outs
DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. Following is a discussion submitted by Carlos Sanchez, principal […]
Keeping NoOps From Going Rogue
“We’re NoOps—everything is in the cloud and we have no infrastructure to manage.” Before running that victory lap and shifting everyone to the dev side, consider several NoOps risks carefully. I’m really thinking about teams using all-SaaS stacks, especially in martech, edtech and other areas. However, the rise in microservices and serverless means more teams […]
Different Organizations, Different DevOps Outcomes
The main motivation behind inventing DevOps platform was to help close collaboration between developers and IT operations. Basically, DevOps emerged as a great platform to bring closer together developers and beneficiaries of the app development process. DevOps initiates a cross-disciplinary practice spanning across development and operations. The ultimate benefit of the DevOps approach is removing […]
The Key to Multi-Cloud Success
In the era of cloud-based architectures, companies have implemented multiple cloud platforms but have yet to reap the full benefits. Whether it’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure—or some combination thereof—a recent Forrester study found that nearly 86% of enterprises have incorporated a multi-cloud strategy. Not only does this strategy take companies […]
How to Improve DevOps Visibility
DevOps, by design, works quickly and accomplishes deadline-driven projects rapidly. With a high amount of project turnover, visibility into key operational data is easy to mismanage and can lead to simple mistakes, lack of optimization and organizational misalignment. To examine the effect of DevOps visibility, SmartDraw commissioned the “2019 DevOps Visibility Report.” The results were […]