Embrace Adds Support for OpenTelemetry to Instrument Mobile Applications
Embrace revealed today it is adding support for open source OpenTelemetry agent software to its software development kits (SDKs) that enable observability of iOS and Android applications. Andrew Tunall, head of product for Embrace, said that as more DevOps teams standardize on OpenTelemetry to collect telemetry data from applications, there is a growing requirement for […]
AIOps Success Requires Synthetic Internet Telemetry Data
The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed.
Five Great DevOps Jobs Opportunities
Looking for a DevOps job? Look at these openings at NBC Universal, BAE, UBS, and other companies with three-letter abbreviations.
Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork.
GitLab Adds AI Chat Interface to Increase DevOps Productivity
GitLab Duo Chat is a natural language interface which helps generate code, create tests and access code summarizations.
Exploring Low/No-Code Platforms, GenAI, Copilots and Code Generators
The emergence of low/no-code platforms is challenging traditional notions of coding expertise. Gone are the days when coding was an exclusive skill set reserved for a knowledgeable few. Low/no-code platforms have democratized software development. They empower individuals from non-IT or technical backgrounds to translate their business ideas into applications without the need to master complex […]
CDF Survey Surfaces DevOps Progress and Challenges
Most developers are using some form of DevOps practices, reports the CDF survey. Adopting STANDARD DevOps practices? Not so much.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Northrup Grumman, GovCIO, Northwestern Mutual, and more.
Securing Open Source Software, the Cyber Resilience Act Way
The Eclipse Foundation is spearheading an effort to create a unified framework for secure software development.
Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly
Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers.
Your AI Might be Lying to You
Simple tests can demonstrate whether a code generator is actually doing what you ask.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities this week at Maxar, General Motors, Ascendion and more.
Modular Makes a Case for Mojo Programming Language, Based on Python
Modular created Mojo to provide Python developers with a programming language that uses the same familiar syntax to build high-performance applications.
Modern Application Management Requires Deeper Internet Visibility
Most IT teams regularly employ a range of tools to monitor application performance. But in an era where applications are running everywhere from the cloud to the network edge, the visibility being provided is limited. The metrics and analysis being surfaced are roughly akin to only being able to see a few yards ahead when […]
Why GraphQL is a Better Choice for Building Microservices
There’s been a long debate about whether it’s better to use REST or GraphQL for building microservices. Both technologies have their proponents and critics, but when it comes to the specific needs of microservices architectures, GraphQL emerges as the clear front-runner. Here’s why. Understanding the RESTful Concerns While REST has been the go-to API style […]
Hasura Adds “Supergraph” to Platform for Managing APIs
Hasura, whose product helps compose GraphQL APIs backed by databases and services, today made available in beta an update to its platform. The company is adding a graph modeling framework that makes it simpler to manage application programming interfaces (APIs) at scale. The goal is to make it easier for IT teams to declaratively create […]
The Ruby on Rails Resurgence
Ruby combines functional and imperative programming to create an easy-to-use, powerful language where everything is an object. Introduced in 1995, the open source programming language became popular in the 2000s during the dot-com era, when developers at startups and established companies were under pressure to rapidly launch new web applications. Ruby on Rails, released in […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals are highlighted. 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 available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps […]
How Live Team Coaching Can Solve Tech’s Skills Problem
Tech has a skills issue – and it’s one that’s not going away in 2024. Live team coaching can be an important part of the solution.
Survey Sees AI Playing Larger Role in Test Automation
A Tricentis survey found organizations could see massive costs savings by fully automating mobile application testing.
A Brief History of DevOps and the Link to Cloud Development Environments
The history of DevOps is worth reading about, and “The Phoenix Project,” self-characterized as “a novel of IT and DevOps,” is often mentioned as a must-read. Yet for practitioners like myself, a more hands-on account is “The DevOps Handbook” (by the same author, Gene Kim, and others), which recounts some of the watershed moments around […]
To Devin or Not to Devin?
Cognition Labs’ Devin is creating a lot of buzz in the industry, but John Willis urges organizations to proceed with caution.
Survey Surfaces Substantial Platform Engineering Gains
While most app developers work for organizations that have platform teams, there isn’t much consistency regarding where that team reports.