Pulumi Brings Advanced Analytics and AI to IaC Platform
Pulumi today launched a platform that leverages analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to generate infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from natural language prompts in addition to automating infrastructure management. Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Insights will substantially improve the productivity of DevOps teams in addition to ultimately reducing the total cost of cloud computing. At the core […]
Can ChatGPT Fix Bugs? ‘Wolverine’ Dev Says YES
In this week’s #TheLongView: Instead of AI aids for programming, what about for debugging? The pseudonymous “BioBootloader” says he’s persuaded GPT-4 to make his code self heal.
Predicting, Preventing and Resolving Incidents With AIOps
IT operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs) and service providers are on a mission to scale across geographies, expand their digital services and create new experiences for customers. Amid this drive, their backend IT systems are getting more complex. This hinders visibility into applications and makes monitoring and troubleshooting cumbersome. With heightened competition in the […]
Fiberplane Adds Open Source Libraries to Automatically Collect Metrics
Fiberplane today added an ability to automatically collect metrics in real-time and make them accessible either via its namesake notebook software for debugging infrastructure or an open source Grafana dashboard. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said Autometrics is an open source set of libraries the company created to make it simpler for developers to […]
Harnessing the Power of AI Chatbots for Continuous Testing
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we develop and test software, especially with the advent of AI chatbots. These intelligent agents have the potential to streamline and automate continuous testing while improving software quality. However, software and QA managers must understand the urgency, opportunities, pitfalls and best practices associated with integrating AI chatbots into […]
The Now and Next of Automation
Today’s never-ending flood of data has many of us drowning in noise. And while humans are still essential for thoughtful analysis and driving action, it’s no longer possible for a human to parse gigabytes of data alone. How do you begin to filter out the noise and then understand what to do with it? How […]
Automation Relation
One thing that is absolutely true: This latest iteration of IT improvement is about automation. Whether making DevOps more automated, working on any of the various “X-as-code” movements or implementing AI, the idea is to create what one vendor portrayed as a “human-free zone.” A space where automation does everything that needs doing. And the […]
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 […]
CircleCI Report Surfaces DevOps Productivity Gains
An analysis of more than 14 million workflows from thousands of organizations conducted by CircleCI, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, revealed the mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) decreased by about 13% year-over-year. Half of CI workflows (50%) recovered from a failed run in 64 minutes or less. That compares to 73 minutes or more […]
Declarative Compliance With Policy-as-Code and GitOps
In recent times, the quest for greater agility, faster releases, enhanced scalability, security and performance brought forth the advent of several automation tools, technologies and frameworks. Software development has evolved considerably over the years to mitigate these challenges. Monoliths have been split into microservices for improved scalability, maintenance and faster releases. Since DevOps is adept […]
Synopsys Preps Extensions to Polaris SaaS Platform
Synopsys plans to extend the capabilities of its Polaris Software Integrity Platform for securing application development environments by adding dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools along with the ability to scan code used to provision infrastructure. As a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, the Polaris Software Integrity Platform was created by combining the static application security testing […]
How To Keep Engineers Happy and Reduce Burnout
Software development can be a mentally taxing profession. It requires intense mental focus, often under heavy workloads, with unclear job expectations and a lack of control. And with recent labor shortages due to layoffs and resignations, teams may also be understaffed, making matters more complicated. These issues can compound and lead to prolonged excessive stress—that’s […]
Creating a Growth Loop for Your Open Source Project
Every open source project hopes to achieve escape velocity, attracting enough users and contributors to become a successful, sustainable project that expands over time. But how do you attract developers and create the cycle of adoption that can lead to a thriving ecosystem? It obviously starts with building a great product that developers love to […]
Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Two: Skills Are Less Relevant
This is perhaps the toughest issue for all of us to acknowledge: The longer you are in the space, the more skills you have filled out on LinkedIn (or wherever you are tracking your career for HR reps to look at) but the skills you possess today are, by definition, a subset of the skills […]
CodeSee Extends Reach of Code Visualization Platform
CodeSee updated its code visibility platform to enable instant mapping of application services, directories, file dependencies and code changes. CodeSee CEO Shanea Leven said CodeSee Enterprise 2.0 should extend the appeal of the platform beyond developers to include software engineers managing DevOps workflows. CodeSee Enterprise 2.0 provides real-time visibility across multiple repositories regardless of whether […]
Database Virtualization – Driving the Next Big Transformation
Data is both the most important asset and the biggest challenge for most corporations. It impacts every aspect of the business from financial considerations to AI/ML training. Data is used by development and DevOps teams, engineering teams, quality assurance, business intelligence teams and database administrators. Despite its central role in operations, traditional forms of database […]
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 […]
npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust
In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad.
Debunking Myths About Reliability
“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they […]
New Relic Bets on AI to Advance Observability
New Relic is preparing to extend the capabilities of its observability platform by making use of both additional machine learning algorithms and the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Peter Pezaris, senior vice president for strategy and experience at New Relic, said during an interview on an episode of TechStrong TV that a prototype of […]
How Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Enhances Software Delivery
Developer experience (DX) is in the zeitgeist, and for a good reason. Digital demands are increasing, yet the market faces cautious IT budgeting, workplace burnout, and high resignations. The idea is that quality developer experience can help keep the remaining talent happy and increase productivity. And organizations are considering many strategies for increasing DX, such […]
Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head
A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]
The Power of Observability: Performance and Reliability
Observability has become an essential aspect of modern IT, and its importance is only expected to increase in the years to come. The ability to monitor and understand the behavior of systems in real-time provides organizations with a wealth of information that can help them improve the performance, reliability, and overall health of their networks […]