Shift That [bleep] Left
Seriously. The more you can shift things like security and test to the left, the more responsive the DevOps process will be. Some things are better shifted right … But only while solving the problem with shifted-left work. A good example is blocking zero-day attacks proactively while the development process fixes the code to stop […]
Fiberplane Notebook Tool Fosters DevOps Collaboration
Fiberplane today announced it is making available a public beta of a namesake real-time collaboration notebook specifically designed for DevOps teams that need to quickly debug IT infrastructure. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that the structure of DevOps teams has permanently changed now that […]
Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement
In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Software is more complex than ever and innovation is exploding across markets. To keep up with constant innovation from your competition in a global marketplace, […]
Codenotary Automates SBOM Creation
Codenotary today launched a tool that enables an application to automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) by adding a single line to its source code. Codenotary CEO Moshe Bar said TrueSBOM makes it possible to self-report the components used to construct applications to any organization that uses them for the first time. In […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report to highlight career opportunities for DevOps professionals 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 […]
Aqua Security Claims Compliance With Biden’s Executive Order
Aqua Security this week claimed it is the first software supply chain security platform provider to meet the attestation requirements as defined by an executive order issued to federal agencies last year by the Biden administration. A supplementary memo issued by the Biden administration required federal agencies to collect compliance attestation letters for all software […]
Open Banking Shouldn’t Be Open Season on Your APIs
Open banking has become the latest technological advancement for financial services applications that’s modernizing the industry. For instance, Mastercard recently began its Start Path Open Banking program, which provides select startups the opportunity to use Mastercard’s expertise while learning how to apply open banking to their own business. Open banking is creating new opportunities for […]
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office.
Building Higher-Quality Software With Open Source CD
Business is accelerating, and experience– for customers, partners and employees–is everything. This means nearly all applications need to be enhanced with new features, security updates and bug fixes on ever-shorter cycles. But isn’t rushing new code into production, especially in cloud environments, a recipe for mistakes, security vulnerabilities and user frustration? Not if the right […]
GitHub Previews Free CI/CD Migration Tool Due in 2023
At its GitHub Universe event, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates to its cloud service, including a forthcoming set of migration tools. The tools will automate migrations from legacy continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions Importer is already being used by a small group of enterprise IT organizations to migrate […]
Cribl Simplifies Telemetry Data Analytics
Cribl today announced general availability of a search capability that makes it simpler to query observability data where it resides without having to first collect and centrally store it. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy for Cribl, said Cribl Search makes it possible to analyze telemetry data at its point of origin or when […]
OutSystems Acquires Ionic to Further Automate App Development
OutSystems this week revealed it has acquired Ionic, a provider of an open source framework that provides developers with a higher level of abstraction for building and deploying mobile and desktop applications. OutSystems CTO Patrick Jean said Ionic will accelerate the company’s ongoing efforts to extend the reach of its platform for building low-code applications […]
SRE Survey Reveals Major Technical and Cultural Challenges
Catchpoint, in partnership with Blameless, today published an annual survey of 559 site reliability engineers (SREs) that found 59% of respondents didn’t view tool sprawl to be a major concern. Another 40% said tool sprawl is a moderate (33%) to serious problem (8%). More than half of respondents said they build as much as 30% […]
Snowflake Makes Case for Building and Deploying Apps on Platform
During a Snowday 2022 event, Snowflake this week moved to make it simpler to build applications on top of its cloud platform for managing data in addition to enhancing the overall security of the platform. The company has made generally available Snowpark, a framework for building Java, Scala, SQL or Python applications. Snowflake also committed […]
Developer’s Guide to Fuzz Testing
Fuzz testing continues to grow in popularity among developers within the open source community. Google’s open source security (OSS) team recently reported finding more than 40,000 bugs in 650 open source projects through the use of fuzz testing. But if you have no clue what fuzz testing is (yet), don’t worry. You’ve come to the […]
Developers Continue to Prefer Remote Work
A survey found 83% of developers are working remotely more than half of the time, with more than three-quarters (76%) reporting they have maintained or increased the frequency of remote work in the last year. In fact, three in five respondents (62%) work remotely at least 90% of the time. The survey, published by Netlify, […]
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 […]
Introduction to SPIFFE/SPIRE
For a long time, people have been logging into the apps they use via passwords or password managers. And many open standards and identity providers on the market continue to evolve how users authenticate and authorize with websites and applications. The issue is that the same problem exists for software services—when applications talk to applications, […]
Cloud Disaster Recovery Best Practices
It’s increasingly common for companies in all sectors to use the cloud to store their data. The cloud provides scalability, security and flexibility that was often inaccessible to businesses only a few years ago. But just like any other technology, it has its limits. What happens if a severe thunderstorm knocks out power to a […]
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow.
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, as the previous co-CEO, Sven Efftinge, becomes the company’s first technical fellow. Fresh from raising an additional $25 million in funding, Gitpod’s Landgraf […]
Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering
The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the UK alone, the median salary for the role has increased 13% year-over-year as businesses look to stay ahead of the competition and attract […]
Tanium Uses SBOMs to Automate Vulnerability Remediation
Tanium this week added the ability to detect libraries and software packages with known vulnerabilities within a software bill of materials (SBOM) manifest that can then be used to automate remediation of endpoints running vulnerable code. Pete Constantine, senior vice president of product management for Tanium, said the Tanium Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) module […]