Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort 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 […]
Checkly Adds Monitoring-as-Code to Testing Platform
Checkly this week added a monitoring-as-code (MaC) workflow capability to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that is used to create synthetic tests for applications. The Checkly platform spins up browsers to test and can now monitor how applications are performing at both the user interface and application programming interface (API) level. That capability, currently available in […]
LinkedIn Job Scams: Out of Hand ¦ 4-Day Workweek: Let’s Get Serious
In this week’s #TheLongView: Don’t get scammed looking for a job, and momentum grows for the 32-hour working week.
How GitHub Actions Simplifies Your CI/CD Workflow
In today’s fast-paced world, being able to deploy applications quickly is essential for success. However, setting up a CI/CD pipeline can be a tedious and time-consuming task. Fortunately, GitHub Actions can help simplify and automate your workflow, making it easier than ever to get your applications up and running in no time. In this blog […]
Despite Tech Layoffs, Developer Shortage Continues
Well over one-third (37%) of respondents to a recent industry survey reported that recruiting developers with the needed skills would continue to be a challenge through 2023. More than 2,000 developers and IT professionals participated in the Infragistics survey from December 2022 to January 2023. The survey also found developers and IT professionals are just […]
Why You Need to Break the Observability Data Silo
In my role as a developer advocate for Coralogix, I speak with organizations across almost every conceivable industry, and there is a pattern across almost all of them. In the world of observability, the challenge is battling scale. At scale, observability becomes a complex problem to solve. Surprisingly, the most common pattern for handling observability […]
In DevOps, Chatbots are a People Problem
By now, you are undoubtedly aware that you can call up a chatbot or install an AI assistant into your IDE and generate entry-level code and deployment scripts. Indeed, if you just go to a site like ChatGPT and enter “generate Python code to do X” where X is something you need to be done–or […]
Vercel Adds Observability Tools to Web Application Framework
Vercel today announced it has added a suite of observability tools to its platform for building web applications using Next.js, an instance of the open source React framework based on a JavaScript library. Vercel CTO Malte Ubl said the Vercel Monitoring tools make it simpler for developers to troubleshoot applications without relying on a DevOps […]
The Economic Downturn and DevOps Hiring Trends
An analysis of more than 494,000 interview requests for software engineers coupled with a survey of more than 1,300 software engineers and 120 hiring professionals found a lot more employers prefer to hire DevOps professionals who work in the office—but resistance to working in an office (rather than working remotely) remains high. The survey also […]
Day in the Life of a Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO)
Developer experience (DX) has become essential to modern enterprise software development. As more companies become software companies, more are opening up their software both for internal reuse and externalized consumption. As part of this process, making developer-facing tools consumable and friction-free becomes more necessary to both perform well and stand out in the market. To […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort 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 […]
Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023
DevOps, or the automation of application development and hand-off to operations, is more prevalent than ever on the mainframe. As we begin 2023, below are six predictions for what the coming year will bring. The composite themes will undoubtedly be speed, alignment and experience. 1. Enterprise DevOps Will Break Down Silos Across Core Systems DevOps […]
DevOps Use Cases for AI-Assisted Kubernetes
As indicated in my prior blogs Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Kubernetes and Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator is needed to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This blog describes DevOps-specific use cases for an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator. The blog also describes a roadmap […]
WTH? WFH is 6× Pre-Covid ¦ Plus: Agile Sucks (Redux)
In this week’s #TheLongView: Working from home is here to stay, and Agile is still a failure.
Strategies To Consider When Adopting Platform Engineering
Platform engineering helps centralize the responsibilities associated with maintaining internal infrastructure. And it continues to be an emerging discipline—according to the 2023 State of DevOps Report, 51% of organizations have already adopted platform engineering within the last three years, and 93% said it’s a step in the right direction. I recently met with Hope Lynch, […]
Tabnine Extends Generative AI Platform Reach to Testing
Tabnine today announced it extended its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables developers to write code faster to now include the ability to automatically generate tests for that code. Available in beta, this capability promises to make it easier for developers to test code at the time it is being developed. That approach should […]
Nobl9 Adds Service Level Analyzer to SLO Management Platform
Nobl9 today added a free tool for analyzing service level objectives (SLOs) to its platform to enable DevOps team to more accurately set reliability goals. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said Service Level Analyzer collects metrics and observability data from more than 24 DevOps tools and platforms that can then be used to […]
Benefits and Challenges of DevSecOps for Business
Almost every day, there is a new tactic or technique discovered that hackers can use to disrupt a company’s systems, obtain critical data and information or steal money. Often attackers look to exploit vulnerabilities in code to carry out their attacks. Ironically, it’s usually a small piece of code that helps a business perform very […]
Tricentis Extends Mobile Testing Reach
Tricentis has added the ability to test native iOS and Android applications to its Testim software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Previously, the Testim platform was designed to test web applications, but is now being extended as organizations build and deploy more native mobile applications. Capabilities of the Testim Mobile platform include codeless authoring of mobile tests to […]
Platforming the Developer Experience
This article is part three of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in supporting a streamlined, positive developer experience. In a perfect world, the developer experience would be on that is completely free of obstacles. In the previous articles in this series, I argued that supporting and improving the developer experience […]
How Will Low-Code and AI Coexist?
Over the last few years, low-code solutions have become important to help organizations widen programming accessibility to a broader base of users and help fill development gaps. And these technologies are still gathering steam—Gartner estimated the market for low-code development technologies would grow to a total of $26.9 billion in 2023 and that 65% of […]
How to Rethink Your Website Uptime
COVID-19 rapidly accelerated e-commerce, almost shutting down in-person shopping during the lockdown. Ordering from Amazon became second nature. The online giant accounted for approximately 33% growth—50 million new Amazon Prime members. While there are concerns that consumer spending will fall short this year, according to Adobe’s 2022 holiday shopping predictions, online discounts are already playing […]
Logz.io Integrates ChatGPT With Observability Platform
Logz.io has integrated the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform with its Open 360 observability platform to extend its automated recommendation capabilities to reduce mean-time-to-remediation. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is based on a large language model that Logz.io uses to enrich crowdsourced data. That approach enables ChatGPT to surface links to related information and best […]