What Google’s ‘Digital Wellbeing’ Means for Every App Developer
One of the big themes to emerge from Google’s recent I/O conference was Digital Wellbeing—the notion that technology should be a positive force in our lives, and that we need ways to disconnect from apps when they suck up too much time or distract us in other ways. Google is taking the idea seriously, and […]
Scrutiny of the Bug Bounty
Tips on building an internal bug bounty program As a programmer, have you ever felt pressured to ship a release with lots of new features, while you knew that there was still a technical debt stability improvements and bug fixes that you wanted to address but didn’t have the time or scope to address? This […]
Attaining Continuous Testing in DevOps through a Templated Approach
The continuous demand market for flawless applications is being addressed through advanced software development techniques along with continuous delivery. As such, many organizations adopted the shift-left approach and agile best practices—which suggests the motto, “test early, test often,”—through which they get to imbibe QA practices and testing early in the software development pipeline. That also […]
New to DevOps? Resources to Help You ‘Get With the Program’
Resources to help put you on the right DevOps career path The demand for DevOps solutions is set to achieve an annual compound growth rate of 16.5 percent in North America for the 2017-2023 period, according to KBV Research. Globally, the DevOps market size is expected to reach nearly $9 billion in five years. That […]
DevOps is Old News. DevProd is the Future
DevOps has been widely embraced and isn’t going away. However, there’s a new software movement emerging that deserves headlines of its own. Let’s call it DevProd. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, “Agile at Scale,” the authors point out that “conditions are ripe for agile teams in any situation where problems are complex, solutions are […]
How DevOps Helped One Firm Get GDPR Right
There has been a lot of press about how many, if not most, enterprises are still unprepared to comply with the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just days before it takes effect. However, executives from Cybric, a security platform provider, said their company has been ready for some time—and they thank DevOps for […]
The Role of DevOps in the Financial Services Industry
We are living in a fast-changing environment where unexpected technological, economic and political changes can be expected and where it is necessary to adapt quickly to these changes. This statement is especially true in the financial services sector, where there is a greater need to exceed the expectations of customers and provide uninterrupted service. From […]
As Business Speeds Up, Testers Must Adapt
It should be no surprise to anyone working in software today that delivery speed is the name of the game. Irrespective of business sectors or B2B/B2C focus, global competition in application development and delivery has flooded the market. Due to the increased number of options in the marketplace, users expect an excellent experience from your […]
Reducing Risk in Applications Using Docker Containers
Docker. It seems like in this day and age you are either using Docker containers or you are going to use Docker containers. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, check out a previous article, “Docker: The New Ordinary.” If you are on the wagon or are thinking about it but have concerns about […]
Code Delivery: Pipeline Automation for the Speed to Innovate
Many developers steeped in the world of agile startups view continuous delivery pipelines as an accepted standard requirement for software development. Yet many companies, particularly large enterprises with traditional infrastructure, still struggle to make this approach a standard part of their development process. Whether your company is an enterprise looking to make continuous delivery pipelines […]
200 Billion Downloads Can’t Be Wrong
Laurie Voss, COO and co-founder at npm (@seldo), tweeted recently that JavaScript packages downloaded from their repository has topped 4 billion. On an annual basis, that would be more than 200 billion downloads. Wow. Just as open source software turns 20 years old this year, these numbers are a testament to the incredible magic that happens when […]
Bridge the DevSecOps Experience Divide with Cross-Functional Teams
Last week’s DevOps Connect event at RSA Conference offered up a ton of wisdom and real-world examples of the power of DevSecOps. With its best-ever attendance after several years and impressive participation levels, this year’s event stands as a good harbinger for the growing interest that the security community has in vesting itself in the […]
Trust and Safety in the Age of Automation
“As with any new technology, it’s really important that we be thinking now about how to do [it] ethically and responsibly.” —Robert High, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Here’s something to think about: According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, more than 30 countries have defensive weapons run by automation. […]
DevOps Transformation: Leave No Ops Behind
In adopting DevOps, it’s easy to forget what you know Have you ever found yourself struggling to explain something that you know how to do without a moment’s thought? I’m not talking about the amygdala, the part of our brain that initiates the automatic “fight or flight” response. No, I’m referring more to the muscle […]
How Python is Transforming the DevOps Landscape
DevOps is the combination of operations and software development which reduces or almost eliminates the disconnect between systems administrators who run the infrastructure and software developers who develop applications. During software development, when the Agile methodology is utilized properly, a bottleneck often occurs during the frequent operations and deployment phases. New fixes and updates are […]
Monitoring Your Data Center Like a Google SRE
Back in the early ’00s, when Google was beginning to expand its portfolio of services beyond search, it encountered a combination of challenges. Some of these emerged from familiar, classic disconnects between developers and operations folks or between IT services and line-of-business owners. Others were brand new, never-before-seen failure modes that arose from providing services […]
Agile and DevOps: Where the Rubber (Literally) Meets the Road
Do Agile and DevOps methodologies apply outside of technology? More specifically, can we apply them to sport? I decided to answer these questions by analyzing the application of Agile and DevOps principles within my road-cycling team. For those of you who don’t know, cycling is a very data-driven sport. While we are training and racing, […]
Google Analytics Adapts to GDPR, But Questions Remain
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have an effect on how Google Analytics collects and processes data and how DevOps uses the tool—at least, that is what is known for sure at this time. These changes also should almost certainly impact DevOps for any organization that relies on the tool to collect and analyze user […]
Why NoSQL is the New Database Darling of DevOps
If developers are from Mars and testers are from Venus, your database administrator is stuck in Saturn. By nature, the database—and specifically the data it carries—has to remain stable even as the application code on top of it is changing faster than Donald Trump’s staff. When it comes to the speed of your release cycle, […]
Time to Rethink Infrastructure Operations in Enterprises
“Business is technology and technology is business” seems to be the new mantra as the rules of corporate strategy are being rewritten across industries. According to IDC’s survey in 2017, “Two-thirds of global CEOs will have digital transformation as part of their corporate strategy.” That’s CEOs—not CIOs—who will have digital transformation as part of their corporate […]
NoSQL Databases: Lessons Learned Growing a Globally Focused Startup
Startups deploying NoSQL databases and global citizens learning new languages actually share something in common: Both want to remove the limitations on how they access information and express themselves. In launching and growing a platform that enables anyone around the world to connect and speak with native English-speaking tutors on-demand, we’ve had the fortune of […]
A Unified Route to Bring Mainframes to DevOps Speed
Most businesses have mainframes where their key applications and data reside. In today’s digital environment, customer-facing mobile and web systems retrieve critical data from back-end mainframe systems. It is critical to adapt mainframe applications and data to today’s rapidly changing market demands if businesses want to remain competitive. This is the question IT and businesses […]
DevOps: Role Clarity is Important
Those who talk a lot about DevOps, particularly those who talk a lot about culture change, sometimes gloss over or “think it is obvious” that some roles change more than others when moving from Dev and Ops to DevOps. I was having a lighthearted chat with a friend who works for Compuware and realized that, […]