Best of 2022: Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why
In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture.
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 […]
Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.
Best of 2022: Three Cloud Trends to Watch in 2022
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Many developers and startups view cloud services as simply “compute”, “storage” and “networking.” The cloud has matured to the point where customers often don’t think […]
Best of 2022: Using Event-Driven Architecture With Microservices
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Microservices architecture is on the rise, already forming a key part of several current transformation projects, breaking down traditionally monolithic applications into self-contained, independently deployed […]
Best of 2022: 6 Top Technology Trends to Watch
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Technology trends simply cannot be ignored in today’s dynamic environment. As the world enters a post-digital era, organizations are exploring disruptive technology trends. Artificial intelligence, […]
Best of 2022: Environments-as-a-Service: Free Your Devs
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Environments are the bane of a DevOps engineer’s existence and have been since the invention of the server. They can create giant bottlenecks that hamper […]
4 Ways to Build With an Accessibility-First Mindset
Over 1.3 billion people live with some form of disability. This accounts for almost 20% of today’s workforce in the U.S. While great strides have been made in closing the disability inclusion gap in the workforce, more needs to be done. As the popularity of hybrid and remote work continues to grow, workers who live […]
Best of 2022: SRE Vs. Platform Engineering: What’s the Difference?
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Site reliability engineering (SRE) teams and platform engineering teams share similar goals—like maximizing automation and reducing toil—and similar methodologies. But they have different priorities, and […]
Best of 2022: Trends in Blockchain for 2022
As we close out 2022, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Blockchain is hot right now. The industry has a staggering CAGR rate of over 69% between 2019 to 2025. Blockchain is no longer only relevant […]
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs.
It’s a Toolchain!
I was talking with some friends the other day, and we got to discussing how inaccurate the word “toolchain” is. We pundits–and even a lot of marketers–use the word toolchain regularly and, while it’s not a terrible encapsulation of what we’re doing, it is, at best, a hasty generalization. There are a lot of reasons […]
The DevOps Workflow is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
While great progress has been made in bridging the gap between developers and operations engineers, fundamental differences in roles and responsibilities, alignment, and access to information hinder further progress. Everyone is familiar with the DevOps infinity loop: This is an ideal workflow where every stage of the software development life cycle feeds into the next. […]
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 […]
How Enterprise Software Architects can Design for Sustainability
Organizations of all sizes are feeling the pressure to introduce more aggressive sustainability measures to combat climate change. For example, most cloud service providers have announced significant climate pledges to either reduce or offset their carbon emissions. But these initiatives can only go far to move the needle—it’s up to individual companies and departments to […]
Decidability: SLOs to Measure Quality Attributes
You may be familiar with the “-ilities”–the quality attributes that define a system’s so-called “non-functional” parts. One that isn’t on the list is decidability, which is the ultimate quality attribute because it focuses on what truly matters to your team and your customers. You can’t do it all. Fast, cheap and good? Here in the […]
Salesforce Launches Low-Code DevOps Platform
Salesforce made generally available today a low-code DevOps Center service on its infrastructure through which developers are provided an opinionated platform for building custom applications. The Salesforce DevOps Center service is based on the same object model Salesforce uses to construct its own applications. Karen Fidelak, senior director of product management at Salesforce, said after […]
EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work.
Why Backups and Compliance Go Hand-in-Hand
It’s hard to run a business. Besides the numerous challenges you have to deal with daily, ensuring the security of your business and customer information is essential for operating smoothly. In order to mitigate information security risks that would affect companies and their users, a number of security regulations have been created, including a set […]
Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency
The operations team receives a page at 2:00 a.m. Something isn’t working correctly. Do they know how to fix it? Perhaps more importantly, do they know whether it matters to customers or how it impacts the business? There are different techniques that companies implement to maximize the quality of their software. We talk about shifting […]
From Frontend to Full Stack: How I Leveraged Modern Dev Tools to Make the Leap
A few years ago, I had an idea about how to make publishing recipes on the internet more accessible and profitable. As a front-end engineer-turned-product manager, I could write code as long as it involved JavaScript. But I needed someone who could handle the whole stack, especially the back end—you can’t build a platform with […]
Prioritizing Product Security With DevSecOps
Building software with strong security can no longer be an afterthought for organizations. The need for a reliable cybersecurity posture has proven vital amid the constant attacks we’re seeing across industries, all over the world. Product-specific security is top of mind for most companies, and a successful product security practice requires integrating with the ethos […]
CloudBees Survey Sees VSM Driving Digital Transformation
A global survey of 600 senior executives conducted by CloudBees suggested a high correlation between investments made in value stream management (VSM) and digital business transformation success. The survey found 90% of respondents agreed that organizations that committed to VSM are likely to be further ahead in terms of achieving their digital business transformation goals, […]