Low-Hanging Fruit, 2023 Edition: Part One
We’ve been cranking it out, haven’t we? Generating cool new toys for the business, creating new infrastructure to host those new toys and trying our best to secure all this new stuff while maintaining both our sanity and our cadence. And we’re doing it. Kind of. One thing we’re naturally lagging behind on is security. […]
DevOps Guide to the Salesforce Summer 2023 Release
The second installment of Salesforce’s 2023 releases provides some great eye candy for DevOps pros. From new admin features to user enhancements and the anticipated Flow updates, a lot is covered in the nearly 700-page Salesforce Summer ‘23 release. Let’s break down the highlights of some appealing features, why these updates will save all Salesforce […]
4 Salesforce DevOps Adoption Challenges
To overcome the challenge of siloed development and operations teams in Salesforce DevOps, organizations must foster a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility.
Tricentis Adds Device Cloud Service to Scale Mobile App Testing
The Tricentis Device Cloud (TDC) eliminates the need for organizations to acquire multiple physical devices to test mobile apps at scale.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities!
How New Tech Elevates Release Management’s Quality Standards
Release management is a critical discipline within software development and IT operations that focuses on the planning, scheduling, coordination and deployment of software releases. It includes the procedures, plans and methods employed to guarantee that software updates or items are sent to customers in a secure and effective way. Release management’s main objective is to […]
Low-Code/No-Code Testing: Prioritizing AI-Enhanced Test Automation
As organizations strive for faster application delivery and uncompromising software quality, traditional approaches to test automation fall short. With the emergence of low-code/no-code powered by Agile methodology and AI-enhanced tools, a new era of efficient and effective QA automation services has dawned. The expectations of the modern digital landscape require test automation services to undergo […]
How to Prevent Zombie APIs
There is a growing reliance on web APIs. A full 92% of organizations plan to increase their investments into APIs over the next year, the 2023 Postman State of the API Report found. APIs are powering everything from internal microservices strategies to partner strategies and fully-fledged products. Yet, this newfound API sprawl has consequences; a […]
Datadog Adds Additional Generative AI Capabilities to Platform
Datadog Bits uses generative AI to provide real-time recommendations to resolve issues surfaced by the company’s observability platform.
2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas.
Agile Planning With Generative AI
Generative AI will eventually impact the entire DevOps life cycle from plan to operate. I started as a developer but have been a product manager for most of my career; for me, the ‘Holy Grail of DevOps’ would be one where product managers (PMs) and business analysts (BAs) were able to define a future state […]
Using AI to Shift Production Wisdom Left
Shifting the wisdom of production left is all about bringing production considerations into the development process as early as possible.
Digital.ai Embraces Multiple AI Classes to Advance DevSecOps
Digital.ai has committed to adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and additional machine learning capabilities to its namesake platform for managing DevSecOps workflows.
The DevOps Pendulum: Agility Vs. Control
Engineering, like everything else in life, is all about balance. In DevOps, the balance is between control and agility.
4 Things Engineering Leaders are Thinking About Right Now
Spiderman and engineering leaders have something in common: They both have great power and great responsibility. Engineering leadership is more critical than ever, with more than 4.4 million software developers in the United States building our experiences daily. Leaders do more than just manage the day-to-day. They are called to influence, empower and motivate their […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted 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 is still relatively constrained, so […]
Snyk Survey: AI Generating More Vulnerabilities in Code
A Snyk survey finds the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write code is creating a software security paradox.
Extending the GitOps Pipeline: DevSecOps and Trusted Application Delivery
The fusion of DevSecOps and trusted application delivery can extend the GitOps pipeline and add business value.
Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators.
Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Generative AI for Developers
Many organizations are experiencing deficits in technical skills and gaps in productivity that ultimately harm their bottom line. To overcome those obstacles and drive growth, businesses can use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to handle large volumes of data and increase the speed and output of basic tasks without draining valuable human capital. […]
Upgrade SRE Performance Management With AI
In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could analyze application and infrastructure performance data to identify optimization opportunities and predict capacity requirements. In this blog, I explain in more detail how AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the pillar that I call performance management […]
New Relic Adds App Security Testing Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic made available a public preview of an application security testing tool that will be integrated into its observability platform.
Automation or Concatenation?
We’ve been in a period of mergers and acquisitions for a while in the DevOps and DevSecOps spaces, and it seems to be heating up even more. Combined with products expanding to cover a more broad segment of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and strategic partnerships to cover more of the SDLC, it is […]