A DevSecOps Process for Node.js Projects
Node.js is an open source development platform for running JavaScript code on the server side. Node is useful for developing applications that require a persistent browser-server connection and is often used for real-time applications such as chat, social applications, or news feeds. DevSecOps is a way for development, security, and operations teams to work together […]
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 still relatively […]
6 Ways To Empower Developers and Increase Productivity
A big goal of DevOps is to increase productivity. Yet many organizations still struggle with the efficiency of their software release processes. In fact, 54% of engineers stated they have too many manual steps within their deployment process, according to an Armory survey. And with the pervasiveness of multi-cloud, developers now face an escalating number […]
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going.
Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize efficiency and employee retention. And when they started digging, companies realized that the developer experience was a major pain point that could be […]
Complexity is Still With Us
We have come a long way and had a lot of improvements over the years, but we still struggle with the ability to simplify things faster than we create complexity. It isn’t enough that each new wave of Really Important Bits™ comes with its own issues and layers and complexity; we also haven’t been cleaning […]
State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized platform engineering in its 2023 State of DevOps Report. A whopping 94% of respondents agreed that platform engineering is helping their organizations better […]
Okta Makes No-Code Integration Tool for Identity Platform Available
Okta today made generally available an Actions Integration capability that makes it possible to integrate third-party tools without having to write any code. Shiven Ramji, chief product officer for Okta, said this no-code integration capability for the Okta Customer Identity Cloud extends a simpler approach for managing secrets that is invoked via an application programming […]
The API Economy: Increasing Potential to Monetize Public APIs
API-first strategies are becoming more commonplace throughout today’s digital strata. APIs connect microservices architectures, power new digital transformations and help development teams avoid reinventing the wheel for common functions. And although most are built to connect internal components, studies indicate a movement toward more externalization and monetization of public APIs. Over three-fourths of developers now […]
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 […]
Why MLOps Hurts: 3 Pain Points for DevOps Teams
Machine learning operations (MLOps) is a practice that aims to improve the collaboration and communication between data scientists and IT professionals in the development, deployment and maintenance of machine learning models. MLOps aims to streamline the process of building, testing and deploying machine learning models by automating and standardizing the various tasks involved. This includes […]
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
AppSec in the Cloud: What DevOps Teams Should Know
Cloud application security refers to the measures and controls that are put in place to protect cloud-based applications and data from cyberthreats, unauthorized access and data breaches. These measures can include technical controls such as encryption, access controls and secure networks, as well as operational controls like policies and procedures for managing and securing data […]
Are We Delivering?
I had an interesting conversation today where I was told, “We do great with CI but terrible at the CD part.” My immediate reaction was to point at all the great CD activity going on in vendor space right now. But as I stopped to ponder, I realized that we’re doing all of that great […]
Why GraphQL Will Reign King
After years of development, GraphQL is set to reign as the go-to API for data fetching. But what is GraphQL? Simply put, it’s a query language that allows you to fetch data from any server, and it’s a noteworthy alternative to the likes of other web service development styles like representational state transfer (REST) and […]
5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve usability, aggregate multiple services and optimize how data is ported from system to system. Yet, GraphQL is also prone to new security concerns. […]
No-Code Automated Software Solves a Host of Problems
There’s a huge disconnect in corporate America, and it’s costing companies big time. The disconnect involves software testing, or, more precisely, the lack of it. More than nine out of 10 CEOs are confident that their company’s software is tested regularly, yet roughly eight out of 10 product testers reported that up to 40% of […]
The Time for Automated Testing is Now
Skilled software testers continue to be in high demand, and it appears that trend won’t change any time soon. The current labor shortage and a looming recession is giving software development leaders good cause to think about how to attract and keep qualified personnel and, more importantly, enable them to work as efficiently as possible. […]
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 […]
How DevOps Helps Banks Optimize Their Services
A world-renowned bank’s CEO was recently quoted as saying that while there are thousands of manual banks now, the future will see only a handful of digital banks. Along with the rest of the world’s critical business sectors, an overwhelming number of banks are also shifting to virtual platforms. This migration is being orchestrated by […]
Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back
Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci.
Intel Expands Scope of oneAPI Initiative
Intel has expanded its effort to drive adoption of a set of open compilers, libraries, analysis and porting tools and frameworks for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, collectively made available via a oneAPI initiative, to include support for its latest generation of processors. The oneAPI initiative was launched more than three years ago to create a […]
Why SREs Are Critical to DevOps
Although a relatively new concept, site reliability engineers (SREs) have become crucial for DevOps teams, helping to solve an array of operational problems such as network availability and user experience. However, in previous years, some people have questioned the longevity of such a role. This article will discuss several reasons why site reliability engineering roles […]