Where Does Observability Stand Today, and Where is it Going Next?
As we move into the second half of 2023, it’s only natural to engage in the annual ‘state of the industry’ reviews and take a general inventory of the past year while looking out into the immediate future. Observability has gained traction among DevOps and platform engineering teams over the past year and is poised […]
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 […]
Azure Migration Strategy: Tools, Costs and Best Practices
Azure migration refers to the process of moving applications, data and other resources from on-premises or other cloud environments to Microsoft Azure, which is a cloud computing platform and service offered by Microsoft. Azure migration can include migrating virtual machines, databases and storage to Azure, as well as re-architecting applications to take advantage of Azure […]
Blameless Integrates Incident Management Platform With Opsgenie
Blameless this week announced it has integrated its namesake incident management solution with the Opsgenie alerting platform from Atlassian. Aaron Lober, director of product marketing for Blameless, said the Blameless platform is now integrated with both Opsgenie and PagerDuty, the two most widely used platforms for managing alerts. Blameless provides an incident management platform that […]
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
In this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts.
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Google Cloud
Red Hat today announced that the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Google Cloud to simplify the management of yet another cloud platform. Using the Ansible Automation Platform, it’s now possible for IT teams that invoke Google Cloud to access pre-integrated services such as Google Virtual Private Cloud, security groups, load balancers […]
Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023
The onset of COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD, giving long-delayed projects the budget and staffing they needed to build momentum. After almost three years of increased investment and accelerating progress, CTOs and software development teams are navigating how to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience that […]
Automation Challenges Holding DevOps Back
A survey of 500 IT and engineering leaders in the U.S. published today finds organizations build an average of 6.7 internal applications per year themselves in addition to investing in 7.7 separate platforms to build applications. Commissioned by Internal, a provider of platforms for building application development environments, the survey also found organizations are spending […]
Cisco AppDynamics Survey Surfaces DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of 1,150 large enterprise IT professionals from the AppDynamics unit of Cisco suggested application security progress is being made slowly and steadily as organizations continue to embrace DevSecOps best practices. The survey finds that while more than three-quarters of respondents (76%) believe that DevSecOps is essential for organizations to effectively protect against a […]
Jellyfish Adds Tool to Visualize Software Development Workflows
Jellyfish today unveiled a tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes using data the company collects via Git repositories and project management software from Atlassian. Krishna Kannan, head of product for Jellyfish, said Life Cycle Explorer provides managers with a tool that makes it simpler to identify the root cause of a process breakdown. […]
3 Performance Challenges as Chatbot Adoption Grows
Today, many organizations are starting to use voice or text-enabled chatbots for the first time or already have chatbot systems in place. In fact, Gartner said 25% of organizations are predicted to make chatbots their primary customer communication channel by 2027. This is because consumer behavior has shifted to primarily digital interactions and away from […]
Looking Ahead, 2023 Edition
DevOps is in a perpetual state of change that keeps all of us engaged and busy, but makes a mess of things overall. Do you cloud-first? Are your APIs GraphQL yet? Are you doing SDN to connect to the VPN so you can put files on the CDN and build closer to the market? Sorry, […]
How To Build Anti-Fragile Software Ecosystems
Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across an entire organism, causing it to break. As such, increasing the resiliency of a software ecosystem is something engineers continually strive for. But […]
Let the Machines Do It: AI-Directed Mobile App Testing
AI has been in the news a lot lately. We’ve all heard a lot about ChatGPT and you’ve no doubt encountered the end result of a variety of other advances in AI technology of late, such as Lensa. But there’s also a much quieter and less visible shift happening behind the scenes during the development […]
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 is […]
The Strategic Product Backlog: Lead, Follow, Watch and Explore
The economic outlook for 2023 suggests many organizations will be leading through a period of resource scarcity as IT budgets are scrutinized and organizational priorities are re-evaluated. For the product manager, smaller budgets and fewer resources place even greater emphasis on ensuring alignment between enterprise priorities and the product backlog. Many tools are available to […]
Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach
Atlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it’s now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within the company’s Jira project management application. At the same time, it’s now possible to automatically generate feature flags from within Jira through integration […]
Software Supply Chain Security Debt is Increasing: Here’s How To Pay It Off
Last year, the world woke up to the software supply chain dilemma. We saw a spike in attacks as hackers sought to exploit known and unknown vulnerabilities within dependencies. There is also the chance of typosquatting, and malicious code commits to consider. Such supply chain attacks have increased by a shocking 742% over the past […]
GitLab Strengthens Remote DevOps Management
GitLab this week moved to provide remote developers with access to a more secure continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform while at the same time adding a dashboard that makes it simpler to track the overall status of application development projects. David DeSanto, chief product officer for GitLab, said GitLab Remote Development takes advantage of an […]
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
All of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed.
Don’t Hire for Product Expertise
We all know the jokes about talent recruitment that “requires a century of experience in AI/ML.” With the number of layoffs, no doubt this type of approach will get worse. But that is not generally a tech problem; it is an HR problem–the problem of having people hire in tech that aren’t active in or […]
What DevOps Needs to Know About ChatGPT
OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) bring powerful AI language models to every IT community. Within the past few months, ChatGPT has become an incredibly popular derivative of GPT. GPT also has the potential to shake up the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. This article will provide an overview of GPT, its history, current status and future […]
Dynatrace Survey Surfaces State of DevOps in the Enterprise
A global survey of 1,300 CIOs and DevOps managers working for organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds more than three-quarters of respondents work for organizations (78%) that deploy software updates into production every 12 hours or less, with more than half (54%) say they do so at least once every two hours. […]